Show MAMMOTH CAVE LONG FAMOUS FAMOUS' Ha Has Been Acknowledged One of the Worlds World's Wonders Practically Since the Year 1809 The most famous cavern In America Is I Mammoth cave In Kentucky writes In the Chicago Dan Dally Daily News Mammoth cave cae was an nn old Indian refuge refuge refuge ref ref- uge and the story of red redskin adventures adren- adren tures Is written plain in the skeletons skeleton tomahawks and reed torches that have been heen found In the cavern depths Then In 1800 a white man a pioneer hunter followed a wounded bear Into the mouth of the great cave and from that time on Mammoth cave ve became In American estimation the eighth wonder of the world Almost as soon as the white man discovered the cavern he began to tomake tomake tomake make practical use of It Long before the era of ot Indian possession bats had Inhabited the cavern halls and In th the course of time their skeletons had accumulated ac DC- cumulated on the floor noor especially near the entrance These skeletons containing nitrate played an important Important important tant part in the war of 1812 for nitrate so needed for making explosives explosives explosives was scarce In the colonies and the Mammoth cave became the maln mall l source of supply U J When the country settled down to toa ton ton n a period of ot comfortable prosperity Mammoth cave became even more than it is today a great show place of America The caves cave's history Is told toM In the names of the various rooms and galleries Jenny Lind and other artists visited the cave cae and sang or played the airs that had made them famous in Ole Bulls Bull's Concert Hall or other cavern corridors In a room since named Booths Amphitheater Edwin Booth was inspired to declaim some BOrne of the lines of Hamlet before a small and select audience |