The herald., 1895-07-25


Terminal depot at6:l5 D. m, returning
after the performance in ample time 70
make street car connections to al Par.s
of the city. The delay of last Saturday
night will not be repeated. The Gonce.s
Will be one of the greatest musicai a ;aas .fSaas
of the season. There will be luo voices
and musicians on the platform. iurnish- l
ing a variety of music to SUIT az tha tastes. @
Prof. G. s. Cornell has charge OF tn9 en-
tertainment. The programme Will IN
clude the following pieces: u,vdn
The Heavens are Telling. ,nayoh'
Be With Thee Bliss, Haydn.
o, Italia. Donizetti.
Duet Thou Guilty Deva, Parry
Messrs. Zinck and Connell.
Soo-Mr. Zinck.
Soo-Mr. Hall.
Violin solo-Mr. Krauss.
Duet-Mrs Hall and Mr.. Zinck.
Violin solo-Mr. Krauss.
Solo-Mr. Cornell.
The annual busi5ess meeting OF the
assembly will be held tomorrow afternoon
at o'clock for the purpose OF electng
officers for tho ensuing year and the tran
saction of any other business that may
come before the assembly.
The Ascent of the Matterhorn. the sub
ject Of DR.. Jordan's evening lecture is
story OF his climbing the steep and most
difficult. though not the highest OF the
companIed by DIR. G. II. Gilbert and Pro-
fessor NJ. b. Anderson, now both of the
faculty rf Stanford university, and by
three other young men. The lecture gives
a graphic account of the ascent of the enor-
nous pinnacle of rock. "a creature of the
sun and frost" without yar1 of level
walking, or indeed OF any walking at all
on the last 5000 feet of the ascent. One
could not anywhere take three steps with
out watching each step and making q spe-
cial calculation as to whether his feet
would hold. Each step was sonsthe edge
of q precipice and each step made the
precipice higher. though there is little
difference between falling hundred feet
and falling mile. The boys saw thi and
fell not at all. They clung with fingers
and toes to every projecting rock and
nothing short of an earthquake could
Tn. party was led by the now famous
guide John the Baptist Jean Baptiste
Aymonod of Val Tourneuche. The cour-
age and skill of this young man was the
nainstay of the party. The top of the
mountain is a narrow ridge twenty feet
long and about six inches broad-not
wide enough to stand on. To rise to one 3
feet meant to be blown away over Italy
by the blasts that sweep over the snow OF
the mountain top. 1T was as coll as
midwinter. The wind danced ard howled
and the snow fell thick and fast. |
should hardly say that the snow fell. 1t
is maoe up there. Most of the time We
could see nothing. Once in the while.
through a ritt in the Storm we could look
down the roofs of Vai Tourneuche, two
miles below us; once in a while our near
est mountain neighbor, the Dent blanche,
would show her snow-crowned head. We
wrote our names On a card which we
placed in al empty bottle and anchored
ther2 as q register for visitors. Victor
broke off with his ice axe the top OF the
Matterhorn. which l put in my pocket.
Then we were really to go down"
This top was shown to the audience-a
triangular sharp. edged fragment of green
hornblende, having almost exactly the
shape of the great mountain itself.
The way down was beset with advent
ures. great falling rock struck DR.. i'll.
bert, severely iniuring MIN, and DR.. Jor-
dan remained over night with him in
stone refuge nearly 10000 feet above the
Not much of house-morc like wood
chuck hole. The adventures OF this ce-
! cold night were over at last, and after a
while they reached the bottom in safety.
In Zermatt they became for time the
Every one OF those Americans rush ed
right out into the street and crc wded
around. and l actually expected that
every one of those ladies would kiss the
| professor" But not one of them did.
Ths speaker closed by reading a lette r
wished his American friends many
years full of health and of love for the
! Pennine Alps receive good hand 5bak Q
from him who would long be your SER
want. Aymonod- -Baptiste."
Does it pay? Few of you woula care
to follow us up the great mountain; still
fewer would follow us down. If we had
been wiser we would never have gone.
| After it is over 1t stands out as the one
great thing in our otherwise common
place lives. We have attempted the great
est feat; we have graduated in mountain
climbing. The word Matterhornbe steiger
procures for us respect to this day in ev-
cry town in Switzerland. There is some-
| thing in mountaineering which fasc-
mates, as the good soldier loves the roar
and smoke of battle. One such expert
ence is enough for a life time; the top of
But l am glad to have been there, gl.
for once to put the earth out OF sight. to
see hNw the world looks from the top"
Briefs
Professor ]. W. Parkh;ll of Occidental
college, Los Angeles, and family are
spending month here enjoying an out
ing.
Rev. G. W. Maxson, pastor of the Ri.
vera Presbyterian chucrh, with his wife
and daughters, Alice and Margaret, are
here attending Chautauqua.
| Mrs. Sweet and son, Z. B. Sweet. are
| located at the corner of First and Pine.
| Mr.. Sweet is a student OF the Los Angeles
Medical college, and will have TO spend
part of his time in the city.
Mrs. Book. one of the leading contralto
singers of Los Angeles. assisted Professor
| Cornells chorus Wednesday morning.
The colored quartette from the Bur.
bank theater Of Los Angeles sang num-
Der of their j, b melodies in front of the
Fetterman house last evening.
Miss Mary Stansbury. vice. president oi
the Epworth League circle OF Los Ange-
les. is spending the summer at the Bay
| State cottage.
Miss Vetsa Olmstead of the Whittier
state school is attending the Chautau .ua
| this week.
/. Miss Brainard and Mrs. Calkns OF
| Pasadena, who have been visiting the
| different seaside resorts, came over from
Santa Monica on the Southern Pacific this
morning.
ReA. j. p Green. pastor of Vincent NJ.
| +. church, Los Angeles, is here preparing
| for the cam pmeeting. His daughter. Miss
Bertha, came down Tuesday.
Mrs. Edith Brown Young. Misses Grace
| Whitehorn. Ella Maxson. Maud Went
worth and Letitia Williams are the latest
arrivals from University. They will
enjoy the closing exercises of Chautauqua
and the opening OF the camp meeting.
Miss n. J. Conley of Los Angeles has
teen hero attending the Chautauqua. She
expects to take charge OF school in
Ventura in the fall.
Professor M. l. Seymour OF the Chico
/ uy,fa fpr n