The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-04-12

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on the very top Of the si.e,.... r. q! -!
.ne Older tourists. while 1etj;cr.1 3 h. ~
saeif way up the ice fields "a ~ ~ 49,
IAN q mountains, wouid -! b.
ussamed that engineers wur,lS 81 y
yIing me railway to these 49,.
.ias airty coal would blacken 81 S 49,
sIac'eis OF the Netterhorn "A ~
loSe them OF their rnajestyy
f ~ tnis All. Those ueIlAr s.;
Iiui places. Murren wen,Sc
6rienz Kothorn Belle Ain TsSl
uofncrgrat and many others ~, ~.
..lns OF the railroad mania Ills -.
strangely enough. the capital =; i 81
al tnsse daring enterprises
saosclioeu several times oser. ~
ehslneer mas already received
ce.sioh Iof the construction a ~
railway up the highest OF ~
,nounlains-fne Junefrau--t0uerfS szz
5000 feet high. But even 49, 8 ,(1
all projects has been suns~es1 Z
ago a petition was submItfed - Z "A - y
council 10 authorize the huilJ;,s ~ I. n
wheel road up the most msis~s{.
and most PERCEPTIONS Of ali A. -
tains. the Matterhorn.
Under these conditions fhe !;
be far distant when Cook a. o.
at Paris return tickets to Iunsl-s
Tourists viii be able to trsvss r.:
Portable sleeping car from 49, r.
Jungfrau, arriving on the s,,ss;e sS T. 4 Il
mt III time Tor the sunrise. nrrx-I7 q
the same day on the Grindeirs75
with piece OF Ice taken from ffS
OF the Faslhorn. and retuYnir~ u. l
Parls again the next morninel
1t IS questionable whether - S.
OF the g A. g. tSwiss Alpiue n r..
this intrusion of the iron horS, ~-ZZi .!t
thing ike satisfaction. for " fkS 4
rate of railway building t. sf r!
and ice hatcnct would soon = i
the past. Already the - 1..I..
Simplen and the OberaIp N e1 y -
be girdied by rails. and who - = "a
enterprising spirit is not nfr1Sz s.!Il
ing of a railway line from In7, ri - 4
the Rhone valley over IT, RI 3.
glaciers of Aletsch and the r. :. RI! ,.
why notf Is not the So 8.
Montreal bridged in this e ~!
ter, And are there not 49,!
rest aurants built on the fro ~ ~
Petersburg? A railway ov4 -
gIaee or the Aletsch glacier - S<::;.. =.
tremendous attraction. a
mine. IL would necessarfIx s! -
lowed by sumptgous hotel -
ants on the ice-lelds at an a. r.
$4,000 to 14,000 feet. and thu. 22
be paying investments.
Everything Of that desczir13n
far been fairly successful 49,
Millions and millions a -
already been invested in ma6lf3 ~
class hotels and boarding No. "a
seemingly inaccessible mounf1fS
one wonders how it was pocnl1 e u
the material, stone for stooe ~
brick, up these nearly ~
mountain sides to places sotne r ~
high.sor how to get beds, heayy = F.
furniture or huge loOkine-xi ID
Some of these hotels ere app111l11 ~
danger and difiicutty. even s. p
without any baggage whateref: Il 17
during the short summer Senoc1
provided daily with fuel. eatahf6R y
They are closed for Ten me- -
year. for snow turns up IN Septen
hardly disappears in June, ukil11 f1S r.
August snow may fail foot Dr. = { -
perienced at Zermat last SUM
buildings showed in during tie -
ter. and naturally not inhs}1f ~
and the excess of cold Yet si111
accommodations are very n
mere tribe of $50 to =, rarely r
for room. meals. service and
charged. 1t has always remainGR Z =
to me how, under these most e
conditions. during . short sunni
of hardly two months, tAeap O. Wa
should bring in sufficient 10 ~
est on the invested capital, coS6t 4
expenses and repairs, and Rivo
handsome revenue for the oW1c1s
seaside or on the Riviera, whUo
son is Of equally short duration, RI
correspondingly high. But Svfn
are known to be the cheapeot. &
best. in Europe. Indeed, fkno9 =
comfortable pensions and ulfnG<
around Lucerne. Thun, Lan1nnn1
the prices charged do not feocA N T
even 20 cents day
Ii may readily be admitted 81
creasing travelling facilities Mr. -
many more tourists to SWifDlG11 80
in former times. This. h0wsvcgs o
be more than counteracted b. q
niable fact that tourists. nou-o1
not remain at any plaes = -
they used TO. Then Il requfs1
week to do all the si1h4o
Switzerland; now, as already ~ q
principal points OF intefsgk -
Iucerle, 1nteriaken, the DcRnm
land, the Rhone valley, Gcneva -
mounix. can be taken in quffe G.
bly, within week. One-haH Nh
lean tourists to Switzerland ~ -
they are very important clasB - T.
for hotel keepers.
Take for instance Chamounix
were 5000 tourists in all vj11e
place last summer, among til
English. 1900 French. 100 6esn1
Swiss, 700 Italians, 100 Russians -
Americans. Similarly Zefr1st, -
Eggishorn and other out-Of-the-u11
requiring certain amount 81 coufo
durance and means, show . 20
ancc of Americans, which df
in more accessible placsA -
entirely lost in the great railway
like Berne, Lucerne, Zurich, CO.
the masses Of tourists are mostly c.
Of Germans, English and Freneh.
is thus seen that Americans ~
enterprising OF Swiss tourists LII
the time at their disposal. they r.
where and see everything insteo9
ing in one place. In fact, this
travel seems to gain ground aneoo
pean travellers, and causes the CO.
dicated in this letter.
ERNST yoy HxSaB