Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-09

seemed the first, for we did not cease t.
De struck anew with the same amaze.
| ment at the whlteness and grandeur OF
the mountain which we had experienced
the first time we saw his dazzling shouI-
ders emerging from the mist. So, dur
| ing this drive toward the Tete Noire. VS.
| gazed back at the
! MOUNTAIN MONARCH
| as If we had never seen him before; aid
| we had not seen him in this way, with
| the shining white peaks framed in near
| pine trees. For miles that great assem-
bly, of peaks and domes and high-shoot-
ing needles of red and of creamy rock
formed the BACKGROUND for vistas of hills
| and woods and lesser mountains. 1t is
not possible 10 put in words the keen de-
light Of such a drive as that was on such
day! The Tete Noire pass is consider cred
one of the most beautiful and grand, if
not one of the widest passes in Switzer-
land. In country where the features
of landscape are SO immense, il Is
not on every eight hours drive that
so great a variety of scenery is to be
found as on that road. 1t was like a
succession of panoramic pictures; rush.
ing streams in deep gOrges, overhauging
preciplces, spirit-like cascades, great
round, tree-covered mountains, green
valleys and miniature farms, with snow
peaks now closing in this narrow defiie,
now peering down al US through the dark
pinErees, now in front and now behind.
At the last we reached the top of q very
LONG, STEEP HILL,
"a mountain anywhere else but here)
and saw beneath US the broad Rhone
valley in the shadow, stretching across
the end of which, like a celestial vision,
stood the white range of the Bernise
Overland still shining with the sunset, as
if from radiance of its own.
The next day We were on the new rail-
road that now runs up hill and down
hill, over chasms and through tunnels,
half way through the wild, narrow pass
from the Rhone railway to the little
village of Zermatt. 1t just began run
ming this AuRusr, aud they say the rails
will have to he taken up for the winter
or they would never be found again.
Think of wiutering a railway! Putting
1t up like a croquet set till next
season! To be sure, this Is only twelve
miles long, but next summer it
will be extended twelve miles more into
Zermatt. We are so used by this time to
being pulled up the sides Of mountains
and things into all sorts of impossible
places that We have ceased to wonder at
it, and expect to make the ascent on the
inside of the Jungfrau, when she has
been followed out IS is proposed, as |
calmly as we step
INTO THE HOTEL ELEVATOR.
Still We were slightly interested at the |
leafs performed by this Zermatt road;
Tor railway that does not pretend to do
remarkable, only to ascend
lew miles on cogs. 1t is quite interesting.
one has only passed through
,ere on foot or mule. We noticed that,
a places, the path had been washed
way entirely from the mountain side
~ the recent deluge Of rain. We were
cry glad OF the railway, still 1t does
,rieve us to think that now the charac-
er of Zermatt will BE- changed; now
everybody will rush in there and rush
ut just as We have done, and 1t will be-
ONE ono vast hotel like the rest of
Formerly It has been
0 shut of from the ordinary
quite of travel, so difficult of
ccess, that only the real mountain {
'ver cared to penetrate into it.
ut where the railway goes, there |
rown, Smith and Jones 60, and table
'hote DINNERS and city iuxuries must / |