The Jersey City news., 1901-12-28
SWITZERLAND.
Mr.. John A. Walker Lee
lures at the Free Pub
lie Library.

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A stereopticon lecture was given at the
Free Public Library last night by Mr..
JON A. Walker A wei known resident
OF this city under the auspices Of the
Education Department of the Woman >
Club. rhe subject of the lecture wac
Switzerland.
Mr.. Walker has travelled through
Switzerland as well as extensively in
lsurope. He had been in nearly every
pace mat was, shown on the canvas.
He started his lecture with Venice. He
told of the city. its streets of water and
its beautiful buildings, He had very
fine picture of the Doge's Palace also
one of st. Mark Square, where there are
hundreds of pigeons and alltso tame that
/ when you hold Your arms out they Will
light on them He said It was quite fad
! to have your picture taken when you
were almost covered with these pigeons
Then he told the story Of how some
pigeons came there hundreds of years
ago in time of war and warned the
people of an attack TO be made upon
them. The Dose then ordered that for
a. time the pigeons be allowed to stay
there and that nobody must harm them
The Academy of Design in New York IS
built like. tho Doge' = Palace Mr.. Walker
next told Of the building where Da Vind
1 panied tae picture ~ 'iis '''s.'
on the val.
Ihen MI Nather wen, on - 'liAf''l 's,se
described tne peautilui eatneaaisn anu -,
Areade- me people go 10 .he Aiet'os
alter the BUSINESS " the uas = s.'N
walk arouho apa nS'eh - '"e
pahe-
Lake tomo was the hsNt p4etuie w..
I MT. WaliRer sa'a }nsre "sls o'iis o'es -
az picturesque ~ the Moe.u al.u e'l'a' We
Lake &c efse IN New : ofA' ! nsis !"
moohnshN view OF l.ahe -,
NdihSr sSso INIT pF't'ie "i.s'i - =
now piue me wafer looAeu = pis'uts1
thought i was sexasseratea. Dut y resaitS
was'n {. On inns fake was lne iioii,s - z
great eAeclrlelah. Il WIS desefos - IS, ,s'9i,'e
tlme ago ana an his papers ana pooAs
Win y.
view OF Lake Massiofe was insn
sbown. rms picture was almost az iiie
as that OF Lake como Wnlen mao oeeii
ronndiy appianded-
Nr. Walker tnen took ms aualehee 70
Swllzeriana; ne showed lne seas g si'''s
4 TOOK tne people up me ihonhta.n. ny
are drawn py slN horses- ne ofiVer sfss
on top "llh the psopse Nho afs y -.
4 tunate as 20 ger shefe iiis', ne iss' 81
Inside ne stase tAAeS thsih " 'i'e
/ sanpton fasS ms p'sss7 = cissse -
monens OF tne year py SNOW, ihe uas
MT. Malker went 'hs pass MaS ops''eo
Ior lhe hrst' tti'ie- F1ss'is pVus We -
/ slaa 70 see the peopie aiio se' tfe inai'
''fief pe''is sa'ue ~ - & .os
gave .ahe dfiNsr oser ~ sions 'ile -
ana "neh ne nau sone q s''oi mas -.
| Waiher ssaia ehe aiiNsi wsss' - s'ie sooss.
sas, luz S'i''n's tis
reckless ana IN one place they oiiiy
| escaped a fall Of hundreds of feet by two
j, ti,ree inches The scenery along this,
r.s..,s,.. - s; .,,,rs,sa s,a
pass Is nagniheeut lt y russed anu
terribly startling Some of The most beau-
Nc, sr.4,x. ~, .,,s,,.,a ra on s1oro-
eiiea "aes' l...ss - snS 49, 4
the route. Mr. walker s'nowee the hlSh-
est point in the pass which was 1900 feet
ahore he revel of tbe sea. Further on
Apose s'ue ~ - = s'.e t1,s..51. II
there were Dig gaiieries aug 10 proiect
the people from falling snow. Even in
summer the snow Is very aesp
There are nine refugees where belate''
! travellers may pass the night. They are
,:t4 e+s. ,1,a ,,1an ~ tba St t2arnard
buiit atter ehe plah " 'iie o. i'sa''s' :
! relpges.
Mr.. Walker showed a pictures of the
4 1shoae slacipr The theory is thar these
glaciers move one foot every year Their
he showed 4 picture Of the entrance tc
tl,e ice grotto. He said that a party from
Brooklyn was there ana one OF iiieM "a7
/ Killed by q piece of falling ice. The path
,3,sea Il tbree hnndred feet hieE. Next
tieie - M W g .s,s' II
was shown the Aflecne glacier, the ldrg-