The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-09-06
OLD WORLD PICTURES
Mr.. Alfred Clay Talks Interestingly Of
His Recent Tramp Abroad"
WATERLOO A FIELD OF WHEAT AND OATS
It Has aeen n Prosperous Year for
Merchants I'm Europe-In Glasgow
Some OF Them Don't Want Ameri.
can Trade-In Beautiful switzer.
land-The Cologne Cathedral.

Persuaded by friends to take q little
and Clay. determined with some friends.
who had made up q party. to go
to Europe, and SO on June 18th. left
Norfolk, caught at New York the Furnes-
sia. OF the Anchor Line, bound for Glas-
gov, Scotland. Meeting Mr. Clay yes
terday. The Virginian man asked him
some questions about his trip and found
the story so interesting that he wanted
TO print It. Mr. Clay Is very busy
man. but the man of the pencil managed
to extract from him the following. piece
meal.
Leaving Glasgow by rail the party
spent some days along the Clyde. visit
ing the falls OF the Clyde, Kirkiield Bank
and other points OF interest. Then to
York and the resorts at Scarborough,
then to the manufacturing city OF Brad
ford. From Bradford the party went to
London, then to Harwich, at which town
they took the steamer for Antwerp
which Is one nights sail. At Antwerp
two or three days were spent in the
art galleries and cathedrals there. From
Antwerp by rail the party went to Brus-
sells. often called the second Paris.
Some days were spent there and the
party went to Waterloo. Mr.. Clay said
that he was surprised to find the bat
tie field planted in oats. wheat and rye.
The farm house Of La Haye Sainte in
trying to pronounce whose name many
a school bay has found his Waterloo.
with Its famous gate, Is still standing
There are but three monuments on the
battlefield. One erected by the allies at
| ter the battle is of granite, on which Is
the figure OF lion whose tail the French
in recent years twisted Off.
! From Waterloo to Brussels the party
next returned, there they visited the ia
nous palace OF justice which is SIC, 600 900,
and which Is. Mr.. Clay says. superior to
the public building at Philadelphia.
which cost more than twice that sum.
Cologne, with It's famed cathedral was
next visited. This is 400 feet long and
245 feet wide. built In the form OF q
cross. It Is, the building proper. 160 feet
nigh, while to reach the top of the stee-
pie. $50 steps must be climbed. There
are three bells, Forty-five men are re-
Itwenty-four men are required in ring
Ing the largest one. which alone weighs
Itwenty.seven tons. The shrine in the
| treasury room of the cathedral Is OF sill
| Yer and gold and many relics are there
much venerated. Leaving Cologne by
rail the tourists visited Bonn, the birth
place Of Beethoven.
Up the Rhine then went the party on
! q steamer very similar to the Northamp-
ton Of the Old Dominion Line, but more
powerful. as the current of the Rhine
| is very swift. Bingen, OF which a ia
/ y and explored. Mr. Clay was very
much disappointed in Bingen which he
said was very dirty little town, at
sight of which some pleasant boyish IL
lusions vanished into thin air. To para
phrase the poem, Mr.. Clay was bored lat
Bingen. at Bingen on the Rhine"
| On the castle-covered. grapeg grown
banks Of the Rhine, on Drachenfels.
built in the twelfth cetury, on Stotzen-
fels castle, built in 400, destroyed by
40 Oh, tn, nd tn
the travellers looked with delight and also
on the rocks of the Lorelei about which
cluster legends dear to the German heart.
Soon Mayence. a city OF about fifteen
thousand was reached. Here are cathe-
drals and monuments: here the birth
place of the poet. Schiller, and Gutten-
burg. who made the telling OF this story
| in type possible-the patron saint of the
typo. Mayence is one OF the most strong
| ~ fortified OF all German cities. and It
is strongly garrisoned. Fran Mayence by
| rail to Heidelberg with its students
Scared faced and swash-bucklered. On
then to Baden Baden, once the Monaco
Monte CarlO-now as ever famous for
the baths. though the gambling Is no
more by river Ouse, near Baden Baden,
on hill sixteen hundred feet above the
sea level stands Castle Horn. partly
| built by the Romans and added to by
the Margrave of Baden IN the year HOO
1t was destroyed almost, by the French
In 1859. This castle Is approached by
winding walks of gravel and II took the
party three hours to reach It,
Through the Black Forest by rail the
party travelled. Thirty-eight tunnels and
forty-three bridges were encountered in
the ride of twenty-three miles from Ba-
den Baden to the Falls Of the Rhine.
These falls Mr.. Clay says. though beau
tiful. do not compare with Niagara
Falls.
From the falls the travellers went by
rail to Zurich. then to Luzerne and
| from there by boat on Lake Luzerne to
Vitznau up to Mt. Rigin on Cog"
| railway. 5.905 feet above the sea level
The road winds around the mountain
| Is more than four miles long and the
ascent requires one and a quarter hours
/ From the summit of Mt. Rgi eight
lakes are visible, all within a radius
| OF forty miles. Green these, as the sea,
and In the back ground stand the snow
covered Alps like old men with white
heads who watch centuries pass by.
Returning to Luzerne, where on the
granite lion is carved in relief, and
in whose side is broken spear, thought
to typify the fidelity of the Swiss to
the French Monarchs, the travellers went
to visit the monument of William Tell,
at Altdorp, near Fluelle. next by rail-
and boat to Interlaken, passing en- route
the town OF Sarnen, built on what was
once the bed of a lake. which was drain
| ed by subterranean passage into one
some distance lower down the noun.
Itain from the Victoria at Inter
laken the Junfrau is clearly seen. Two
hundred and fifty persons, many Of whom,
were Americans, sat down TO dinner on
the day Mr.. Clay and friends were there
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