Show U nc 14 8 diets 4 of nature in old rips home N Y if rip van winkle had taken his little snooze in the hudson highlands lately latefy instead of during the revolution he would have had real occasion occa felon to rub hl his eyes on awakening man alan lias has I 1 lately been prodding at nature in van winkles old neighborhood unearthing secrets at which rip could only make superstitious guesses what would rip think for instance of oc eloc electric trig elevators descending through a concrete shaft 1 CG feet into the earth into nto underground cli chambers ambers where a myriad of electric lights play on the nilles miles of stalactites and stalagmites mites this Is the eu engineering fent feat recently completed for tile the pleasure of TOO mo tor tourists at howe caverns here iloe caverns remained unexplored until recently because of the extreme inaccessibility Tn increase cF of motor travel in ili the neighborhood ha has led iq to the construction ot off toads loads which place the entrance to tile the caverns cavern ir on the main big highway hway forty miles west og 0 albany ond and thirty miles southwest of schenectady |