The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-09-30

c. c. ROUSE, 3O5-3O7 Main St.,
BEL AIR, MD.

modern city and it was really relief
to see one again. The Cathedral is so
we'll known that it is not worth while to
say anything more here excepting that it
SurpaSSeS any idea that can be formed of
it.
Nowl was ready for some more noun
tain scenery, but | did no Justice to Swift
zerand while there and l can likewise do
none here. | came from Milan to Como,
where | spent the night and had a fine
walk part way up the mountain over
looking the lake. Next morning had
but short distance before lie to Lake
LuSano. Then a sail on the lake and an
hours ride brought me to Lake Maggi-
ore, which is by many considered the
most beautiful lake in Europe owing to
the precipitous mountains around it. |
was now on the St. Gotthard road ready
to pass the Alps. This road is one of the
greatest pieces of engineering in the
world. The mountains are assembled and
descended partly by means of loop tun-
nels i'll which the track will cross itself
from 15 to 100 feet above where it enters
the tunnel. The highest point is reached
i'll the St. Gotthard tunnel, 81 miles long,
which it required 1l2 years to dig, al
though on an average $500 men were
employed daily. Our train passed
through this in twenty minutes We
passed Alldorf, where William Tell is
claimed to have shot the apple from his
sons head. and soon arrived in Luzern,
which vies with the most picturesqe loca-
tiOns, situated as it is in the midst of
mountains and lakes. One day only
could be taken to see lnterlaken, but the
crowding of SO much into one day makes
- Ia
were crossed by cogwheel railway. and
long ride on Lake Brienz, passing in full
view of the Gessbach, where Il go0d.sized
stream descends the mountain in seven
falls partly obscured by foliage, relieved
any possible monotony of the way. Not
to mention the beauty of the close sur
roundings of Interlaken. it is worth the
trip thither to get the view of the lung
frau as its snowcappen summit rises di-
rectly down the valley cleft in the nearer
mountains. In this valley is the Castle of
Unspunnen. which is familiar to all of us
through the account OF Bluebeard
| returned to LuZern and then pushed
on to- Zurich and Schoil'hauScn, ON the
border of Switzerland. | was obliged to
hurry through Germany and will like
wise hurry my account OF the trip. At
Heidelberg | visited the old castle and
the university; at Frankfurt on the
Main, the birthplace of the German poet,
Goethe. Frankfurt is very modern in ap-
pearance and claims to have one of the
finest depots in the world. Wiesbaden
lay next i'll my somewhat cyclonic
course, and some of its public buildings
and small public squares are the most
beautiful have ever seen. From here an
hours ride on a trolley brought me to
the Rhine at Mainz, where the people
were enjoying holiday, and although it
was Sunday evening, things put on every
appearance of a miniature st. Louis
Pike" The next days sail on the Rhine
was one long to be rene mbcred. Here
only did get fair idea of the old ruined
castles. Bingen, Cobenz and Boun each
had their attractions, but all i'll vain.
Late in the evening we reached Cologne
Here the Cathedral is the great sight |
This visited early i'll the morning, but
very soon took a train for Bremen, where
sailed on the North German Lloyd |
steamer Cassel for Baltimore and arrived
August 30. No very exciting incidents
occurred during the voyage. The first !
day, on the North Sea, was little rough, |
and several days were quite cold, but The
ocean was generally very smooth. Nat
urally have seen much on my trip, but |
nothing more beautiful than the first
American flag we met in the Chesapeake
Raw THnS L. PYLE