Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1886 — The Acropolis Plan. [ARTICLE]

The Acropolis Plan.

The coming man, who, according to Dr. W. A. Hammond, will soon be as bald as a Mormon patriarch, ought to take a personal interest in an experiment by which the citizens of Chattanooga, Tenn., are trying to solve the summer problem of the lower latitudes. Not every business man of the sunny South can afford to spend the mosquito season on the Yellowstone River, but cities blessed with the neighborhood of a good-sized hill (and Mohammed might remove to the mountain if the mountain should refuse to move) can build a “stem-winder” road, and find plenty of room higher up, at an hour when tipulary insects begin to crowd the atmosphere of the lower valleys. On the Lookout plateau there is room for a thousand villas, and within a year that plateau will have become the most accessible suburb of Chattanooga. Tramways will land passengers at the foot of the mountain, from where the trip to the clouds will be accomplished in less t me than a foot passenger would need for the ascent of a sixty-foot hillock. The city will then be divided into a night and day town, a health resort and business resort. The sagacious natives of ancient Greece seem to have known the advantages of that plan, for nearly every one of their larger cities had an acropolis, or hill suburb, a local Olympus, offering gods and men a refuge from the plagues of the lower world. A huge derrick-pole fell and severely injured the foot of mechanical engineer E. R. Hoyt at the New Orleans Exposition, and after only three applications of St. Jacobs Oil, all the swelling and pain disappeared.