Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-11-29

WdltHtu luI dNdluilcNtS anu iuNVSINtS,
and at every crossing stands bare
headed girl, with a red flag, to warn
all that the train is coming. At every
station you find from dozen to a
score OF hotel porters. in livery, eacn
bearing the name of his hotel on his
cap,
Up THE RIGl by RAIL.
These notes are written at Luzern,
under the shadow OF the Pillar.
us and the Rigi | went across
tho lake to Vltsnau the other
day and took a ride TO the top Of Mount
Rigl on one Of the first OF Swltzer-
lands mountain lines II is built on the
same principle as that up Pixies Peak.
The cars are open. and they are pushed
by a little engine behind
The views are magnificent There are
no sides 70 the ears, and you rise slow
W above Lake Luzern. which flows in
and out like n mighty river through
the mountains you are climbing. Now
the viwe Is hidden by trees. tail, lean
naples wall the sides OF the tracks and
the banks are covered with dandelons,
daisies and red clover.
Higher up the lake view widens.
mountainous islands rise out Of the
water like green monsters rearing their
heads, Mount Pilatus comes into view.
Its sides are gray ana hoary and the
snow in its crevices marks the wrin-
kes In its wlthered old face You
crawl along ravlnes with precipiees
hundreds Of feet below you.
THE VIEW FROM RIGG
The snowy range Of the Alps broad
ems as you go upward, and at last you
reach the top. with one Of the most
beautiful views of the world spread out
before you. Just below Is the Lake Of
the Four Cantors. with a score Of Swiss
cities and villages dottlng its shores
and Oh about you, wallng the horizon,
are the mighty Alps, giving you a
view OF the mountain grandeur at least
100 miles long The peaks of the Alps
are coy cred with snow and the snow
lies IN drifts and masses IN the rocks
In places II has formed mighty glaci-
ers, great rivers Of ice, which are slow
~ but imporceptlbly flowing toward the
valleys below. You are 40 high that
everything IS dwarfcd. The steamers
upon the lakes look like toy boats the
barns and houses of the peasants have
dwlndled to the Noah's arks Of the toy
stores. and the great hotels are dwarfed
into cottages.
What a place for meditation, The
grandeur OF .he mountains Is lndcscrih-
able. and you can appreciate the feel
ing Of the cowboy who, coming into
Switzerland at night, awoke 60 find
himself surrounded by these mighty
hills He gazed and gaged with tears
In his eyes, and at last threw up his
hat and In stcntorian tones cried out,
"Hurrah for Cod"
WHAT THE ALPS DO FOR EUROPE.
The Alps have a beauty OF their own
which IN many respects SURPRISES that
of the Himalayas or the Andes although
the latter ranges are more stupendOus
in their grandeur, II IL only the tops
OF the Alps that are bleak and bare.
The valleys arc covered with yerdure.
and there are nests everywhere in The
hills good Tor pastures and gardens.
These mountains are of incalculable
value 90 Europe Bleak and bare as
the tops look, it IL this very cold cyl
denced by the SNOW upon them, which
saueczes the rain from the winds, and
through the Rhine. the Rhone the
Danube and the Po gives Germany,
Austria. France and Italy the water
that makes their lands tillable, il is
the Airs which furnish the water FOR
the great river trade routes OF Europe
and which indirectly have made this