Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
HOTEL Pennsylvania
PUBLISHES LOCAL LEADER

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The Hotel Pennsylvania in New
York, with its over two thousand rooms
is city within itself. 1t is operated
as startler hotel. guarantee of the
best service. amid the most pleasant
surroundings. Here the motto is 1.-THE
guest is always right" when COM
lplaint is made, and courtesy is the
Icriterion OF service. A daily news
spaper is feature of the hotel and in
the issue of March Is the following
appears as front page news:
Picture caverns of marvellous
beauty, glittering walls and columns
lowered with stalactite and stalagmite
formations, scintillating crystalline pill
liars and cascades of rainbow colors!
The speaker, Mr.. Hunter B. Chapman
lof Woodstock, Virginia, recently
Iguest at HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA was de-
lscribing to us the beauties of Shenan
Idoah Caverns of which he is par
lowner.
| 1.-THE origin of this grotto is profile
fmatical," continued Mr.. Chapman
"Geologists grope in the uncertainties
Iof bygone ages to account for its be
Iginning. However, they are certain
THAT this wonder of the new world
Iantedates the seven wonders of the ole
lby many centuries.
"When tell you that ii takes ovel
1.-TWO hundred years for nature to form
lone cubic inch of these stalactite for
mations, the finite mind becomes
staggered endeavoring to grasp the
Ispan oftime in which this subterranean
wonderland was in the process # max
ling.
"Our earliest knowledge of tn,
shenandoah Caverns first came from
traditional lore handed down from tn
Indians.
SIT is certain, however, that tn
: Delaware and other Indian tribes VIII
2 Iroyed through the Shenandoah Valle
knew of the existence of these caverns
land historians fix this knowledge il
.episodes of the earlier days.
at is probable that the Caverns wer
fused by these Indian tribes as hidin
/, places of refuge during their period
E of warfare. In fact there is ever
: evidence that such was fact.
However, it was not until 1884 ths
the caverns were explored by whit
persons. The intrepid explorers VIII
v injured into the Stygian depth G
these uncharted underground passage
> brought back such tales of marvel an
beauty that they became the Mecca c
lothers who came and were enchante
by their wonders.
al In October, 1921, the caverns wer
bought by Mr.. James D. Manor an
myself, and we Immediately starte
work developing them and maxim
them more accessible to tourists. Las
yIyear more than eighteen thousan
visited the Shenandoah Caverns.
1.-THE beauty of the Shenandoah
t ICaverns is well nigh indescribable
: Here is to be seen the Diamond Ca
: Icade, translucent cataract, many fet
thigh, set with millions of crystal.
+ whose facets glow and sparkle in tn
!. Hight like spillway of diamonds.
u Rainbow lake, as its name woul
! indicate, gets its designation frol
the color scheme of the formations
Looking over the crystal pool which RI
fleets unnumbered stalactites that han
from the everything strata one catche
a vision of gorgeous colors which
a almost indescribable.
at is a subterranean journey ami
shapes of mosques, with dome an
minaret so like those on the shores {
the Bosphorus that one can almo.
fancy that he hears the cry of tn
Muzzein as he calls the faithful t
prayer.
Probably no section of America
more rich in historical lore than tn,
shenandoah Valley. From the tim,
when Governor Spottswood and hi
knights of the Golden Horseshoe frs
saw its slopes from a Blue Ridg
Mountain peak, until the sons of tn,
lhardy folks who carved this Virgins
Eden from its native forests went GU
to die in the Forests of Argonne, the
shenandoah Valley has been theme
for the historian and an inspiration FOL
the roma ufiricf ,,