Show MAMMOTH CAVE LONG FAMOUS Has Hu Been Acknowledged One of th the Worlds World's Wonders Practically Since the Year 1809 if l' IS t I tA S A S The most famous cavern in America is iI Mammoth cave In io Kentucky writes' writes in in the Chicago Dally Daily News Mammoth cave was an old Indian ref ref- ref ref-j uge age and the story of redskin adventures adventures adventures tures is written plain In the skeletons tomahawks and reed torches that have hav been found In the cavern depths Then Thee In 1809 a white man a pioneer hunter huner foIl followed owed a wounded bear Into the mouth of the great cave and from that time on Mammoth cave became In American estimation the eighth wonder of the world Almost as soon as the white man discovered the cavern he began bean to tomake tomake tomake make practical use of It Long before the era of Indian possession bats had Inhabited the cavern halls haIls and In the course of or time their skeletons had accumulated accumulated accumulated ac ac- ac- ac cumulated on the floor especially near the entrance These skeletons containing nitrate played an Important important important tant part in the war of ot 1812 fo for nitrate so needed for making explosives Elves alves was scarce In the colonies and the Mammoth cave became the main mala source of supply When the country settled down to a n period of comfortable prosperity Mammoth cave became even more than It Is today a great show place of ot America The caves cave's history Is told In the names of the various rooms and galleries Jenny Lind and other artists vI visited ted the cave and sang sani or played the airs that h had d made them famous In Ole e Bulls Bull's Concert Hall or other othe cavern corridors In a room since named Booths Amphitheater Edwin Booth was inspired to declaim declaim some someI of the lines of Hamlet before a small I and select audience |