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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. oATrnnAV. jc.vk a. is*-* 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. J 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. 0= 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. A 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. r\ 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.