Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-10-17

men who ever undertake the labor oil
Its ascent, as they are averse to all
2 such severe exercise. They prefer
looking through their spy-glasses
a5-the English and Germans mount
: ing the walls of the rocks like souir-
! res gong up a tree, to emuIatino
their daring and endurance. Tbe8
are not the men to fight the Germans
now that the latter are united. and
they possess not the muscle, the
steadiness of nerve, nor GOODNESS of
brain, to compete with them in dan
gerouS sports, nor in war-like strug-
giles. They have no longer a Bona
parte, and without one they are not
of much account in war or politics.
Calling the Swiss the park-keep-
ers of this European pleasure and
excursion ground, they
ARE ADMIRABLY. ADAPTED TO THE BU-
sNEss,
and have certainly put the grounds
in most beautiful order. They have
constructed railroads over every
part of the country where it seems
possible to build them, and equipped
them with the American style of
cars. Where railroads cannot be
operated, they have made excellent
turnpikes, regardless of labor or
cost, and supplied them with COM
modious and carefully-managed dill
gences, or public stages. Where
horses cannot haul coaches, they
have hewn out mule-paths; and
where mules cannot go, they have
cut steps in the face of the preci-
pices, fastened iron ladders and
railing over gorges and chasm, and
provided trusted and sure-footed
carriers TO carry delicate ladies on
sedan chairs up activities which
test the strength even ofstrong men;
and they have trained and licensed
guides to direct the feet of tourists
in safety across glaciers filed with
hidden pitfalls, or show the adven-
turous athletic pedestrian the way to
scale nearly perpendicular walls of
rock, to see Nature in her solitudes
and sternest moods.
But this is not all. For the susie
nance and comfort of the tourist,
the Swiss have erected and furnish
ed
THOUSANDS OF HOTELS,
placing them in every conceivable
spot where grand or pleasing views
may be had, or where they can do
most good. Thus the traveller, after
a desperate and fatiguing climb to
some nearly inaccessible pass or ele-
vation, to see the glaciers or ava
lanches, or high mountain domes
and peaks, will be almost sure to find
up there a comfortable inn, well
supplied with meat, drink, and to-
bacco, clean beds, and a reading
room in which are the latest English |
German, French and American dai-
ly papers. When the tourist is
steaming around any of the charm
lug Swiss Lakes, he cannot help
being struck with the number of ell
egant and capaclous looking hotels |
built on beautiful locations along |
the shore sometimes on little jut- |
ting. headland, or in a sheltered |
cove, or on the side of a lovely slOp-
ing lawn. In every instance they |
are surrounded by little park,
planted with ornamental trees,
adorned with foWer-beds and shrub |
berry, and usually having foun-
tain and statuary. One feels at
tempted to go ashore and spend the
remainder of the season in some of
those delightful looking tourists
i,Smes; and
In other cases the hotels will be
placed at the foot of mountain
cascade or high falls, or at the end
of a valley breaking through a
mountain and exposing some famous
snow-clad chain beyond. Wherever
there is a good view of any attrac-
ton or popular object, whether of
rock, or cataract, chasm, glacier,
cone, lake, valley, pass, or whatever
it may be, there you are pretty sure
to find a hotel, or perhaps several
of them, seated in the midst Of
trees, shrubs, and flowers. As a
rule, they are well kept, with good
tables, and supplied with careful,
polite, and honest servants. Swiss
hotels have greatly multiplied with
in late years, and improved as well.
The extension of railroads, and null
duplication of steamers on the lakes,
have rendered travelling SO cheap |
and speedy, that thousands now visit !
Switzerland where hundreds did 20 |
years ago. Hence the necessity for |
more and larger hotels. |
Switzerland is now in a
PROSPEROUS CONDITION.
The people are growing rich quite
fast. The evidence of increasing
wealth appear on all sides. Look at
any eitv7or large town, and you will
find the exterior portions laid off in
wide streets and capaeious squares
and improved quite recently in mod
ern style, while the interior consists
of narrow, crooked streets, closely |
lined with quaint, ancient, shabby |
houses, occupied by the poor and in
digent classes. The beautiful vii
las and ehateaus which abound so |
plentifully appear mostly to be new
structures, and the lawns, parks, and
gardens abeutthe exhibit modern
rural taste-evidently imported
from England, which seems to D9
authority on the Continent in rural
architecture and landscape garden
ing. oo.0 suitz-
erland was a poor country. 1t had
faw ,','' resources and little foreign
oorr eem mnroe The farmers living IN
opelfr ttnl fruitful Valley of the Aare were
.no ooiomfortable circumstances; but
tTov ~ were obliged to sell their pro
dnce & cheap and buy their goods
Ja door lust as farmers do now in the
Western States of America. But
IN Englishman invented the loco
motive and railway track, and an
American the steamboat for river
and lake navigation. The intro
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