The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-25
Mammoth Cave RiValled
 By Vast New Cavern

reached bottom. It large and roOmy down there. Subsequent blasting lowered the entrance until it possible to enter without the use of a rope. It just cave. By way of diversion young Collins went in every and Jhen just a little further each day until day he walked two miles and the family took notice.
 He reported the recesses a Veritable fairy land with snowy incrusted walls and weird ornaments of nature hanging from the cell tngs. The reported find spread to Cave City, ten miles away, and embryo geolosists went to the scene. 4 mile more of galleries were explored, but here where the walls showed the passage of a mighty stream some cata- cIysm of nature had shaken down the arches and blocked the passage way. This seemed the end.
 Undaunted, the father and his two sons. Marshall and Floyd. slowly removed stone after stone. Only a few yards of broken down natural masonry removed, and a wondrous avenue was opened to their vista. One mile further they found an other blocked passage. This has never beel! opened, but in the areaway they found the hole that led to the lower cave. On other wing which they opened up was re- vealed what may alone be classed as one of the wonders of America, "The Grand Sub terranean Canyon" Here the water has cut it's way down sheer perhaps ITO feet
 The walls rise abruptly on each side in sombre and silent beauty. The rays of the strongest calcium light barely penetrate to the smoothly carved roof. Here and there gigantic jagged bouders are ominously poised aloft and seem to sway in the glinting of the lights.
 Right off to the right the guide-one of the Collins boys-leads you to what he in Tnassuming voice calls The Gates of He'll" There one where the river recently perhaps a million years ago--bade adieu to the upper cave and plunged below. A fall of herculean limestone blocks effectually bars man from following in it's wi1fu! course. "a . Fantastic Flower Garden
 Tn the Mineral Kingdom
 Then turning away only a few yards and hidden under overhanging Crags, the guide Gispels the gloom by announcing "one glimpse of heaven" Many have marveIled at the floral creations of the vegetable world but here hidden 300 feet beneath the haunts of men Is a strange fantastic flower garden of the mineral kingdom. Beautiful snowy white lilies of gypsum exude in plentiful array through thin film of onyx. "Ilan Ramsey's Flower Garden" it is named, after the first woman who saw it and went into ecstasies of admiration.
 Passing down the main avenue, walks over floor as smooth as an asphalt thoroughfare. then tramps over sandy spaces, and at other times up and down hill. Everywhere strange beauties unfold them selves. One great white gypsum coated rock is called "The Titanic" and looks singu- -arly like the great ship pIunging head first into the Arctic seas. Most of the beauties unnamed, but such names White Mountains or The Glaciers came in-- stantIY mind when great piles of white encrusted rocks are opened to the panorama of views There is another place where a lantern placed behind thin partition of overhanging gypsum gives an impression Of the setting
 Tncanny freaks have been played here and there by the forces of nature In one spot on dark limestone wall the white gypsum has formed in the shape of a tiger springing for his prey. Many other like nesseS can be pictured in the various forma- tions by those with imagination.
 The writer ventured only part way down the rat hole" but saw enough to convince that another underground series of cEanl5ers underIes the upper tiers. Here and there the limestone floor above gives forth a hollow echoing sound, which means space haneath