Show MAMMOTH CAVE LONG FAMOUS has been acknowledged on of tha worlds wonders practically since the year 1809 the most famous cavern in america Is mammoth cave in kentucky writes in the chicago dally news mammoth cave was an old indian refuge and the story of redskin adventures Is written plain in the skeletons tomahawks and reed torches that have been found in the cavern depths then in 1809 a white man a pioneer hunter followed a wounded bear into the mouth of the great cave and from that time on mammiel tl cave became in american estimation the eighth wonder of the world almost as soon as the white man discovered the cavern be began to make practical use of it long before the era of indian possession bats had inhabited the cavern halls and tn the course of time their skeletons had accumulated on the floor especially near the entrance these skeletons containing nitrate played an important part in the war of 1812 tor so needed for making explosives was scarce in the colonies and the mammoth cave became the main source of supply when the country settled down to a period of comfortable prosperity mammoth cave became even more than it Is today a gnat show place of america the cave history Is told in the names ot the various rooms and galleries gall ertes jenny I 1 and and other artists visited the cave and lang or played the airs that had made them famous in oie bull s concert hall or other cavern corridors in a room since named booths amphitheater booth was to declaim some of the alnes of hamlet before a small and select audience |