Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-15
SWITZERLAND.
PLACES OF INTEREST IN THE LAND OF
WILLIAM TELL.
The Falls of the Rhine-Castle of Chiffon
Rosegg -Matterhorn-Lake
of Con stance-Zurich, Lucerne.
lSt. Lonis Globe-Democrat.

| Lake Constance or Buchs from the east,
at Chase from the south, or Basic or &C.
neva from the west, some grand scenery
awaits him. The little republic is only
about one-third as large as Missouri, and
inside of ten hours it can be trayersed from
side to side or end to end. The march OF
Improvement in recent years has made
many changes, but they are to the travel
er's advantage. William Tell could hardly
have imagined a railway leading to the
cloud surrounded scene of his exploits at
Kussnacht and Immense, any more than
Lord Byron, when concentrating Boni-
wards fortitude, could have fancied that
an electric railway would some day be car
rying to the spot of his hero's trials at
ChillGn, or the monks once living around
Pilatus thought of locomotive putting up
into that solitary fastness. Yet all these
things and many more similar have trans
PRED.
A fayorite route into Switzerland for
Americans is from the Lower Rhine, tax
ing the Black Forest road via Offenburg to
Schaffhausen and from the Fails of the
Rhine The plunge of the river beneath
the battlements of Castle Laufen is grand
spectacle, and gives a suggestion of what is
TO follow. Within short distance is the
historical city of Constance, the island of
Mainau, where the ducal family of Baden
pass their summers, and all the other at
tractiye points that skirt the shores of the
beautiful lake of Constance; at Rheineck,
where the Upper Rhine enters the lake,
diligence is taken for the favorite cure re-
sort, Walzenhausen; at Romanshorn, on
peninsula .jutting out into the lake, there
is a pure air, fine scenery and excellent
accommodations. The through line from
Munich via Lindau also enters Switzer-
land at this point; from Rorschach the
narrow-gauge mountain railway ascends to
Holden, the milk-oure resort, situated up
wards of 1900 feet above the sea level.
and commanding an outlook upon the sur
rounding land and water. From Rors-
chach also one takes the train to St. Gal
| len, three-quarters of an hour distant, and
famous for its embroideries and for its
| having been the earlier center of educa-
tional and religious activity in Helvetia.
1t derives its name from an Irish monk, its
founder The Appenzelles-land, pleas
ant resort. can be reached in Two hours
| from st. Gallen. and the invalids' resort,
| Weissbad, is not far beyond.
From Schaffhausen or the lake of Con-
stance strangers turn to Zurich, the COM
mercial city of Switzerland and the an
cient walled Turicum of the Romans
| Here is the Swiss Federal Polytechnic and
the University of Zurich, an educational
system which attracts students of all ma
tionalities, and has for centuries past made
| this city a center for scholars and men of
letters. Tourists interested at home in
instructing the young come in great num-
bers to Zurich to visit its educational in
situations, its libraries, lis wonderful Lake
DWeller collection and its educational
museum. For the fair sex Zurich has an
interest on account of its famous silk in
| dustry and products. Being built as a
wing to an old typical Swiss town, there is
much attractive in quaint hooks, old
fashioned shops and gardens. Inthe city's
environs is Rappersuryl, with a great
Polish museum; the peak of Uetliberg;
| Glarus, with its important manufacturing
interests, its historical memories and its
imposing scenery and surroundings, en-
| bracing the Glaruish mountain, the Heu-
/ boden Alp and the Klen valley; Lintthal,
the Saasberg and Kerpfstock; and, finally:
the much-frequented alkaline-sulphur
baths of Stachelberg, on the left bank Of
| the Linth, are all within half days ride.
| Einsledein, the mountain shrine, is two
hours distant from Zurich, whittier annu-
ally many thousands of pilgrims from all
| over Central Europe come to worship in
the church erected on the site Of the
ancient chapel of St. Meinrad. Baden is
half an hour distant, with its casino, nu-
mefous hotels, thermal baths and Roman
relics-for it was known in Nero's time as
the AquG HelUetie. A bit further on the
same railway is the ancient castle of the
Hapsburghs, near Brugg and, still further
on, Saeckingen on the Rhine. the scene of
Scheffeps famous "Trumpeter" romance.
Winterthur, the city of manufacturing and
educational importance, is one hour east
ward of Zurich.
Returning to Zurich, the route runs d.
rect to the Rigl and Lucerne.
At Gol1ou, where the ascent of the Rigl
begins, there can be seen to this day the
devastating effects Of the enormous land
slide of 1906, when a large piece of the
Rossberg mountain came suddenly down,
engulfng entire villages and nearly 500
souls. The ascent of the Rigl from this
point is interesting. The Klosterli and
Stafiel in turn. are passed and the car
finally comes to a standstill at the summit,
the Kuhn $500 feet above the sea-. The
trip from Zurich to the Kuhn is made In
four hours, and most travellers pass at least
one night on the summit to view the sun
rise. and descend in the morning via the
Kaltbad whence runs a branch line TO the
Scheideek) to Vitznau and thence by boat
to Lucerne. Opposite Lucerne, across the
lake, is Burgenstock. Lucerne is the
northern terminus of the St. Gothard
Railway, begun in 1872, and taking ten
wears to construct. On the main line, l76
kilometers in length, there are fifty-six
tunnels, with an aggregate length of forty
one kilometers, or nearly one quarter Of
the entire distance. The tunnel between
Gesehenen and Airolo is nine miles long
and required nine years labor and LOCO,
600 kilos of dynamite in its construction
Skirting the lake of Lucerne, passing
Sehwyz, Brunnen, Fluelen and the Altdorf
it commences at Erstfeld the ascent of the
mountain, and, via Amsteg and Gurtnel
len, reaches GceSchenen, where the dlll
gence is taken for Andermatt, Hospen
thai, the Gothard Hopiee, Val Tremol;
and the Furka and Oberlap passes. From
Gosehenen the tunnel brings the tours
to Airolo, on the southern or Italian sid,
of the mountain, whence through the val
ley of the Tessin the railway makes al
easy descent to Belllnzona, Locarno, Como
and the resorts on the lakes of Maggiore
Lugano and Como.
The Brunig Pass is the first point ON th'
main line of travel from Lucerne, where
boat runs 10 Alpnach, then rail to Brienz
and boat again to Glessbach and Inter
Iaken. At the last place spread out tn
valleys and mountains so much writer
about. There are the Wetterhorn, tn
.Tungfrau, the Schreckhorn, the Fusteraar
horn and Others with white SUBMITS abov
the clouds. Proceeding by way of the lax
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