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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
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HOTELS AND summer resorts, hotels AND SU"ME« resorts, hotels and summer resorts, hotels and summer RESORTS. HOTELS and summer resorts, hotels and summer resorts.
Why fret and fume by many cares oppressed,
Within the hot-house of a city’s walls?
Fly forth and be by nature's beauty blessed,
And choose her favorite haunt—
TALLULAH FALLS.
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Beautiful Tallulah Falls
“The Niagara of the South in the Switzerland of America.”
From Babbling Brooks to Thundering Torrents.
A MOUNTAIN stream rising high up on the southern slope of
the nine Ridge in northeast (leorgia tumbles down the moun
tain side mid gathering force from a hundred tributary brooks
and rills flows calmly on a broad aud noble river between green
banks and past fertile valley farms through miles of wooded
wilderness until at last sweeping out from the shadow of the
everlasting hills it enters the narrow gateway of the Qrand
( linsni a thousand feet deeper than Ningara—the brown and
serried heights of which towering in majestic grandeur fur up
among the clouds stand like grim sentinels silent and serene
above the imprisoned tossing torrent, no longer the bnbbling
brook, no longer the peribeful river* .but a mountain of moving
maddened water irresistible in force, sublime in its. wild gran
deur, nfwul in its thunder as it hurls its augry tide through the
walled gorge against the unyielding sides over mighty hidden
boulders, down with sullen thundering roar over tho awful suc-
ceasive steps veiling their profundity in clouds of snowy mist.
On, still on, dashing, leaping, breaking into countless cascades
in its ceaseless struggle through the depths of the fearful
chasm until at last the troubled waters find rest in the lower
levels more thnn a thousand feet below tho nigged heights.
Here the grandest, wildest scenery on earth defies the artist's
brush or poet's fancy.
I’ve stood upon the ocean’s strand and heard its mad waves roar
In wild triumphant glee against the all-enduring shore j
And yet such grandeur pales before these grander, wilder
mounts.
And ocean’s waves less glorious seem than these eternal founts.
Summer at Tallulah.
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D URIXO the summer months beginning in early June, the
cliffs, from their summits down to the wnter, n distnneo of
500 to 1,000 feet, are almost tropical in the luxuriance and
richness of beautiful flowers, (flowing in sunset splendor,
strenked with all the hues of the rainbow, it is a sight of
peerless grandeur and beauty.
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Notes of a Tourist.
A MOUNTAINEER, some forty'years of age. stood looking
down into the grand chasm at Tallulah, speechless with
amazement. He maintained silence for some moments after
I addressed him, and then said in suppressed tones:
“I reckon you won’t wnnt’er b’lieve it, but I was raised in
twenty miloR of here, an’ all my life I been bearin’ tell of this
place, an’ this is the first time I ever came up! I thought the
falls •was jes’ some water tumblin’ over tho rocks—but—gee-
miny! I didn’t have no idea cr whole river wns failin’ off a
mount'll an’ outer sight with a noise like forty thousan’ freight
trnins!” It wns hard'to believe, sure enough, but I am satis
fied ly spoke tho truth. Not ima per cent, of the people of Geor
gia hi .1 ever seen Tallnlah Kails though within a few hours’
ride of them, and it is not likely that one per cent, of the peoplo
of tfio United States havo over .hoard of them. They hnve been
too busy disproving advertisements of lesser attractions at
home nnd abroad.
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Moat Beautiful Waterfalls in America.
A FTER shooting Indian Arrow rapids the Tallulah river falls
six hundred and fifty feet in the first mile of its descent
l through the Grand Chasm, plunging down a succession of
gigantic steyps, the most prominent of which have been appro
priately named as follows:
L’eau D’or (often incorrectly spelled Tiodore, from its sim
ilarity In sound to the subjeet of Southey’s famons poem) is a
French name signifying ‘‘Water of Gold.” L’enu D’or is first
below the rapids and has a fall of forty-six feet.
Tempests, named from the fnneied resemblance of its tur
bulent wnters to the bilious of the ocean, lashed into fury by the
tempest, ts next to Hawthorne l’ool and has n fall of eighty-
two feet.
Hurrirniie, whose name suggests, its character, is next to
Tempesta. Through a narrow iluine, sharply defined by perpen
dicular cliffs, the tempestuous river surges with a frightful ve
locity and plunging over tho rugged briuk with a roar like an
approaching hurricane, falls a distance of ninety-one feet.
Oceana, following Hurricane, tosses nnd tumbles, like the
white capped wnvea of the ocean, over the ribbed surface of a
broad anil gently inclined ledge of roek for some fifty feet, nnd
beteo..ie*
Uridnl Veil, the last of the falls, twenty-eight feet
in height, and Is just nbovn where the river forms the fnmmis
horse-shoe bcim. This fall tubes its name from its remarkable
resemblance to the snowy ripples and falry-Iike folds of a bride’s
most modest adornment.
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
Tallulah Lodge
Improving in the beauty of it?
colonial architecture, thoroughly
equipped with all improvements"
aud appliances of an up-to-date
hotel. Noted for its excellent ser
vice. J. C. 8. Timbcrlake, Mgr.
The Cliff House
A modern hotel with every con
venience and the service’the best.
Nearest tho Falls and most con
venient to railroad station. Wat
son & Son, Mgrs.
Hotel Willard
An up-to-date summer family
hotel run on strictly first class
plan. Mrs. W. D. Youug, Propri
etress, is an experienced in-keep
er.
Thomas Villa
The Villa receives a largo share
of tho hotol patronage nt Tallulah
each summer. It is 'couvcnient
aud is noted for its superior table
sendee. Mrs. Hannicutt, Propri-
etrcsc.
Oakhaven
Mrs. L. M. Moody has conducted
the Onklmvcu on such u high
plane that it has become very pop-
popular with visitors to Tallulah
Falls.
THE TALLULAH FALLS RAILWAY
- PENETRATES THE HEART OF THE
HH| Blue Ridge Mountains
A SUMMER RESORT COUNTRY t( PAR EXCELLENCE”
You Can Reach the following Named Resorts on This Line:
DEMOREST, CLARKESVILLE, TURNERVILLE, TALLULAH LODGE, TIGER,
TALLULAH PALLS, CLAYTON, PASSOVER, RABUN GAP, DILLARDS,
ERANKLIN and HIGHLANDS, N. C.
CLARKESVILLE.
A beautiful little mountain hainlct nest
ling in thp heart of the Blue Ridge—one
of the oldest and most popular resorts iu
Georgia.
PASSOVER—
Poised rest fully at a magnificent alti
tude—the highest railroad point in the
entire state—the tracks of the Tallulah
Falls railway at Passover are 2,300 feet
above sea level.
RABUN GAP-
Celebrated in oratory as the extreme
northern point of the Empire State—a
picturesque hamlet surrounded by the
(lumpliug farms of the Tennessee valley.
DILLARDS
A twin sister of Rahim Gap endowed
with all the charms that nature could be
stow upon it.
TIGER—
Taking its name from the Tiger Moun
tains in whose shadow it rests—famous
for its mineral springs, its splendid air
and its other natural attractions.
CLAYTON—
A second AsheVille, reposing in the nest
of high mountains, inviting for the pu
rity of the air and water and for all the
beauty of landscape that the eye could de
sire.
HIGHLANDS, N. C„
Is only 16 miles from Dillards on this
picturesque rnilway. The hack fare
from Dillards is only one-fourth that of
any other route. The next nearest rail
road point is 35 miles distant.
FRANKLIN—
Another hamlet offering manifold attrac
tions to the tourist is only 14 miles from
Dillards, and long before the season is
over there will he a railroad station.
DEMOREST—
Is a College town dotted with beautiful
homes, boasting a splendid lake with
boats, bathing, fishing and other attrac
tions. The Atlanta and Athens Y. M. C.
A. have selected this beautiful little
Georgia town as their camping ground
for the season.
For full descriptive and illustrated literature, address
W.
S. ERWIN, Manager, Cornelia, 6a.
