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pendture OF labor, finished an inclined
tunnel 225 feet in length, of the same
gradient as the road. A gorge in the
side of the mountain where small
stream, the Schnurtobel, had cut itself
a passage also hindered their way, and
was crossed by bridge Of lattice girder
work in three spans, eighty-tiye feet
long The entire road-bed from be-
ginning to end was cat in the solid
rock. A channel was chiseled out to
admit the central beam, which contains
the co2s fitting the driving-wheel of the
locomotive TIE encine is in the rear
of the train, and presents the exceed
ing,y curious feature of a boi er greatly
inclined, in order that at the steeper
gradients if may remain most perpen-
dicular. The coal and water are con-
tanned IN boxes over the driv ng-whee S,
so that all the weight Of the engine is
really cOncentra ed on the cogs-a pre-
caution to prevent their slipping. The
cost of the read, incl ding three of theSn
fangeiy constructed locomotives three
passenger coac; es and three open wag
OnS. was S2G0, coo, and it Is a gOOd-pay
ing investm mt. The fare demanded f +
the trip up the noun ain is five francs,
white half thai sum is required for the
Q0WnWdlU passage, anu Gde lOdu -
annually traversed by from $4,000
to $4,000 passengers. Curious sem
sations are produced by ride
up this remarkable line. The seats
of the cars are inclined like the boiler of
the locomotive. and SO long as the cars
are on level the seats tilt at an angle
which renders it almost impossible to
use them. But when the start IS made
the frightful tilt places the body in an
upr: ght position, and with the engine in
the rear, the train starts off up the hill
with an easy, gliding motion, passing up
the ascent, somewhat sleeper than the
roof of a house, without the slightest
apparent effort. But if the going up
excites tremor, much more peculiar are
the feelings aroused on the down grade.
The trip begins with a gentle descent,
and all at once the traveller looking
ahead sees the road apparently come to
an end On a nearer approach he is I'M
deceived, and observes before him a
long decline which appears too steep
even to walk down. Involuntari y
he catches at the seats, expecting
q great acceleration of speed. Very
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practica bilty Of such road. The
credit OF the design is due to d German
engineer named Reggenbach, who,
about the year 1851, DIES gned the idea
of a mountain road, and drew up plans
not only for the bel but also for the
engine and cars. The scheme dragged
Capitalists were slow to invest their
money in what they deemed wild and
impract cal undertaking, and even own
ers of land on the kig were reluctant
for such an eXper ment to be tried But
Reggenbach perSevered, and toward the
close of he decade, the inhabitants Of
Wit nau, at the base of the Rigi, were
astonishcd to see gangs of laborerS be-
gin the work of making q clearing
through the forest on the mountain
slope. They inquired what it meant,
and were told that road up the Rigi
was to be made Tho Vitznauers were
delighted, tor they had no roads and there
was not wheeled vehicle in the town
nor highway by which it could be
brought thither. The idea Of railroad
in their dcsolate mountain region, and
above all, a raj read up the Rigi never
entered their heads. and report which
some time after obtained currency in the
town, that the labo ers were beginning
the construction OF a railroad was
greeted with a shout of derson. Never
the!ess that was the beginning Of the
Ri3i line, and in May, 1871, the road
was opened for traffic 1t begins at
Vitznau, on Lake Lucerne, and ex-
tends to the border Of the canton and
almost to the top of the mountain. 1t is
10000 feet long, and during that dis
tances rises 4 200 feet atan average grade
of one foot in four. Though steep,
it is by no means so much so
as the Mount Washington road,
which rises 1886 feet above the sea an
average Of one foot in three. There are
stretches of the Rigi road at which the
grade is about one foot in two and one
half, which il believed to be the steepest
in the world. The Rigi road has several
special features aside from its terrific
slopes, which entit,e it to be considered
a triumph Of the engineers skill. About
midway up the mountain the builders
came to solid mass Of rock, which pre-
sented a barrier that to a surface road
was impossible. I'hcy~ determined to
tunnel it, and, after an enormous eX-
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Up the Alps and Andes.


IF George Stephenson, when he p acct
the first locomotive on the track ana
guaranteed it speed of six miles an
hour, co I'D have foreseen that in less
than eighty Years the successors of his
rude machine would be climbing the
sides of mounta n ranges, pferc ng
gOrges hitherto. deemed inaccessible,
cross ng ravines on bridges higher than
the dome of ST. Paul's, and traversing
the bowe,s of the earth by means of
tunnels, no doubt his big blue eyes would
have stood out with wonder and amaze
ment. But he foresaw nothing of the
kind; the only problem presented to his
mind was how 10 get goods from the
sea ports in Western Eng and to Lon
don as easily and chcapy as poss be,
and to do tn he substituted for horses,
which bad for $50 years being drawing
cars along wooden or ION track, the
Wond rfuj machine which has revOlu-
tioniZed the freight and passenger traffic
of the word. 1t was indeed impos >ibe
for any one to fOresee the triumphs Of
engineering which have accompanied the
advances III transportation. To the
engineer Of tie present day there
are no impJsSibilities. The engineer
is a wizard at whose command space
and matter are annihi lated. The
highest mountain, the deepest valley,
has no tcrrors for him; he can bridge
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these every year assembled the volcano.
even when forced to contend with all
the difficulties Of the way. Many, how
ever, desiring to ascend, but being I'M
able or unwilling to walk up, a chair
service was established, u peculiar chair
being slung on poles and borne by por-
ters In course Of time the chair ser
vice proved inadequate for the numbers
who desired to make the accent, and the
time was deemed fit for the establish
ment Of a more speedy communication.
Notwithstanding the necessity, the pro-
rosal to establish railroad met with
general derision, but the scheme was
soon shown to be perfectly practicable,
and beginning was made in 1879. The
road is what is known as a cable lOad,
there being single sleeper with three
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nervous are his feelings as the train
approaches this terrible slope, but on
coming to the incline the engine dips
and goes on not whit faster than be-
fore, and not more rapidly on the down
than on the up grade. Many people are
made sick by the sensation OF falling ex-
perienced on the down run. Some
faint, and few years ago one traveller.
supposed to be afflicted with heart
d :sease, died of fright when the train
was going over the Schnurtobel bridge.
The danger is really very slight, there
not having been serious accident since
the road was opened The attendants
are watchful, the brakes are strong,
but, even with all these safeguards, men
of the steadieSt nerves cannot help
wondering what would become of them
in case ythug went wrong. Bold as
was the project Of railroad on the
Rigi. still holder scheme was preached
ten years later, when a daring genius
proposed q railroad up Mount Nesuvius.
A railroad I'D the side of an ordinary
noun tain seemed hazardous enough, but
to build line on the slope of a volcano,
which in its eruptions had buried
cities and every few years was subject
to d violent SpaSm, seemed as ha .ardous
as to trust the rails of an ordinary line
to the rotten river ice in spEingtime.
The proposal was not, however, so i'm
pra t,cable as it looked. While the
summit Of Nesuvus changes from time
TO time from tho frequent eruptions,
and it varies in height and in the size
of tho crater the general slope and con-
tour of the mountain are about the same
to-day as when Nesuyius, a wooded hill.
I1r,. Iolz Tow IF
it's Gu;escent crater, served as the strong
hold Of SpartacuS and his rebel gladia-
tors There have been scores OF erup-
tons since that in which Herculaneum
and tompeii were oVerthrown, but the
sides of the mountain have never been
seriously disturbed. A road on Nesu-
vius gave promise of good speculation.
Maple; and the other re orts Of
the neighb2rhood annually attract
ed many thousands of visitors,
and a con, iderable number of
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rails, one on the top, which really bore
the weight, and one on each SIDE near
the bottom, which supported the wheels,
which, coming out from the axle at a
sharp angle, prevented the vehicle
from being overturned. The road covers
the last, 1900 feet Of the ascent,
and the power house is at the bot
tom, a steel cable running UP, pass
ing round wheel at the top and return
ing to the engine in the power house.
The ascent to the lower terminus of the
road is made on mules or donkeyS: then
in a comfortable car the traveller is car
ried to a point not far from the crater.
The car is combined grip and passen-
ger car, similar in some points to the
grip car Of the present day, while the
seats of the passenger portion are in
clined as in the cars on the Rigi road.
But the angle Of the road being from
thirty-three to fortvfv degrees, makes
both ascent and descent seem fearfully
perilous Every prccaution, however,
is taken to insure the safety of passen-
gers; each car is provided with several
strong and independent brakes, and thus
far no accident worth recording has Oc-
Cured. The road was opened in June,
1880, and although there have been sew
u Gll COIlStbCI dDLC Cl JUlOuo llCc jIlut
date none OF them did any damage to the
line but what was repaired in few
hours. The fashion thus set will no
doubt be followed in many other quar-
tiers, Whe ever there is sufficient travel
to pay working expenses and profit on
steep grade mountain road, it will
probably be built. Already there is talk
Of a road on Mont Blanc, of another
up the Yungfrau, and several have been
projected in the Schwartz and Hartz
fountains. A route on Ben Nevis, in
Scotland, is already surveyed, and it is
said surveys have also been made up
Snowden, with view to the establish
ment of road to the summit of the
highest WEIGH peak. Sufficient travel
is all that is needed, and when that is
guaranteed, whenever mountain pos
sesses sufficient interest to induce peo-
pie to make its ascent in considerable
numbers, means of transportation safe
and speedy will soon be provided. The
modern engineer is able, willing, and
ready to build road to the top of Mount
Everest in the Himalayas, if he is paid
for doing So
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OF a road will be incurred without
prospect of remuneration. Hence the
need of railroad communication has
caused lines to be constructed through
districts where only few years ago the
thing would have been deemed imposSi-
BILE The Pacific roads Of this country,
says the Globe Democrat, were
necessity long before their con-
struction, and in face Of difficult
ties almost insuperable were carried
to successful completion. So also of
the railroads in the Andes Of South
America. The famous road from Callao
through the heart of Peru is one of the
highest mountain roads in the world, as
well as of the most difficult construc-
ton. The grades arc often 800 feet and
more to the mile, and when the noun
tains were reached so great We're the
difficulties the engineers were forced to
confront that in some places labOrers
were lowered from cliffs by ropes, in or
der that, with toll and difficulty, they
might carve foothold in order TO begin
the cutting for the roadway. In some
sections tunnels are more numerous
than open cuts, and so far as the road
has gone SiXty-One tunnels, great and
small, have been constructed, aggregat-
ing over 10000 feet in length The
road attains a height of Is, 900 feet
above the level of the sea, and at the
highest point of the track, about as
high as the topmost peak of Mont Blanc,
it pierces the range above it by a tunnel
3,S4T feet long The stern necessities
of business compelled the construction
of this road, otherwise it never
would have been begun. The tun-
nels of the Andes, however, do not
bear comparison with the tunnels,
bridges and snow sheds Of the Union
Pacific, nor do even these compare with
the vast undertakings in the Alps, the
three great tunnels of nine to e'even
miles in length which have been pre-
pared for the trans t of trave, erS and
freight. The necessities of busine s
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way of inventors, who found
that an ordinary locomotive was
able to climb much sleeper grade
than was commonly supposed. The
first railroads were laid almost level,
but it was soon discovered that a grade
of few feet to the mile was no impedi-
ment to progress, and gradually the
grade was steepened. The inventors of
mountain railroad transportation might
have been discouraged by this discovery,
but it is a characteristic Of an inventor
that he is not set back by opposition,
which, in fact, only serves to stimulate
his zeal The projectors of inclined
roads and mountain engines. kept stead
lily on, and in France, German, England
and the United States many expert
mental roads were constructed, each Of
a few hundred yards in length, and loco
motive models were butt and put i'll
motion to the amazement Of the general
public, who ieered alike at the con-
trivances and the cOntrivers, deem
ing the former impracticab,e and
the latter crazy. But the idea
of building q road up the side of
a hill was not to be dismissed. There
was money in it for the successful man,
so the cranky inventors kept on at work
in spite Of the jeerS of the rabble and
the discouragements of capitalists ]oath
TO invest their money in an uncertain
scheme. TO the energy and persever-
ance of railroad inventors the success of
the mountain railroad is due, as also is
the construction of the Various noun
tain roads of which the road up Mount
Washington, finished in 1868, was the
first, and the road up Pixies Peak, COM
pleted the other day, was the last OF
all the mountain roads which have been
constructed since the one up Mount
Washington was finished, tho best known
is that which ascends the world-fa>nOus
Rigi. With the exception Of Mont
Blanc, Rigi is perhaps the best known Of
any peak in the Alps, though it is by no
means the highest its summit being but
5,905 feet above the level of the sea. AL
though scarcely more than a third the
height of some other mountains i'll the
Alps, it seems much higher because of
its isolated position. Standing as it does
between lakes Lucerne, Tug, and Low
err, it commands series of fine views
in every direction, and he who looks
from the summit of Rigi, if he does no
other travelling in Switzerland, can gain
fair idea Of the Swiss mountain
scenery. Many of the most noted peaks
are in sight, and from the Rlgt can be
seen the three lakes beneath, the vii
lagos which here and there dot their
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the latter and cnc!rcle or tunnel the
former. The only requisites which he
demands are that something in his line
be needed, and that the money is forth
coming to defray the expense, and the
thing will be done. But the railroad he
is asked to construct must be neces-
Sary, and the necessity must be plainly
shown, or no funds will Ee advanced;
and, although the theory does not in
variably hold good, especially when a
craze for railroad building is raging, as
a rule no expense for the construction
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necess,tated the piercing of the Alps,
and as soon as the necess ty was shown
funds in abundance were forthcoming
for the enterprise. But tunneling
mountain is a different thing from
climbing it. Many years ago the atten-
ton of inventors was directed to the
practicability of constructing railroad
up the side of a mountain on grades
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save where The trees have been cut
away to clear the land for pas
lures The ease of it's ascent by the six
or eight mule paths which have been
made, the gradual and almost regular
slope, the throngs or travellers who re-
sorted to it, made it a favorable place
for an experiment. and to Rigi went the
the engineers in order to ascertain the
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Philosophy from HilItown.

Jagson says there may be mysteries
in religion, but he will cheerfllly accept
them all till Col. IngersoIl proves that
because an immovable gas fixture in
dark room is 1856 times harder to find
before the gas fixture is located.-H
mira Gazette.
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which to an ordinary engine were quite
Impossible. The Improvements in loco
motives twenty-five and thirty years
ago rendered them capable of climbing
grades which in the early days of rail-
road engineering were deemed out of the
question. These improvements proved
a serious umbling block in the
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MOUNTAIN RAILROADS.
HOW THE NIMBLE LOCOMOTIVE
CAN CLIMB.

Wonderful Progress of Rai1roading Since
the Days of George Stephenson and the
"Roclxet"-The Famous Road Up the Itfgi
and the Gable Road to the Summit of
Eesuvius,
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shores, and further On the mighty masses
of the Alps, with their glaciers and
eternal snow. Many years ago a hotel
was built on the summit of the Rigi for
the benefit of the tourists who daily
tiocked to this remarkable peak to enjoy
the benefit of its wonderful scenery.
The mountain is densely wooded