New-York tribune., 1907-06-03

Df1LitlOJS GILLIAN CLIMATE.
row countries have such delicious climate as
Chll 1t is seldom too hot and rarely too cold The
antarctic current coos the air along the shore and
the mountain brcczes temper the air a, tho in,
reiior, i, Nothing could be mere charming than this
mountains there is little vegetation in 7''s sif 10" f
d lImG ralniesS season and around the poor little
lre t" ~ lIIS "llch one sometimes sees climb creep
s f ana ana towering vines as though nature was DO
Everywhere the MOI ntains grow from, grand to
SGander: Great white peaks that seem To IeaD
the view In place the train PUSHES tbrop5h
mountain side with bra wing stree eeI oi the soid
ieel noiow. This is called The Soldiers Leap -
gI the republic when hard pressed once took this
] broad jump rs he probably was not endowed with
Is good one, and the tradition adds spice TO The
We are sorry when JuncaI is reached. and we
eFou!" ne sgrrier Still If We knew what was ahead
is a grand rush. helter-sl:cltor, 'cafcb as eaten
wai:ng for me fbe eoae4GT aeI Which are drawn up in line
t6a, its oad Win f 'PbeofB be fBe is f!1 tha tt the first
%l avoid some of the dust Of the other twenty
''32t 4ft VII 1T, race On behind
WTork in practice and the first are often last. and
5hoIe a5e WhoIe party The theory. however. has the
whip Of tie driver and ne 'fIT ~ 'ILgk goes me
- ne lrousnest roads. swinging down steep incline
Hqualy steep pitch at full saop. until our breath
ISS horses: thoroughly wiuded. stop rest, as do
an the train of four times twenty painting horses
making long line halting the mountain side
one Of these mountain vehicles Let not nv read
Cosc,g |%I3taf h up pictures of swinging Concord
d,, OF swiss disences with their comfortable and
is peculiar to the c6untTT and let ms hone fP' it W
never 9c copied but will quietly disappear when
the railway tunnels the mountains and renders it
obs, 96SolGte It is small cramned affair, holding
I"ur w persons when crowded The seats run side
white canvas. like butchers wagon. The cam
keep out the intoerabie dust The springs are
raa3equaie H. indeed there arr any at all, and one
stone and water bar in the long six hours ioIrnry
senecr but the COACHES aPe eaa ,3 b35 bGoR'fy G fac 3
they seem 10 he just alike except that those
linz are painted black and the others yellow. These
companies are deadly rivals. however. and thelr
opportune places as NE found to our cost for our
Qriyer being outdistanced by his rival. attempted
tipped The horses foundered an,o H. NE coach
We saved ourselves from serious sma h-up by all
jumping out and righting the coach and walking
Another coach in our, procession tipped entirely
over but no one was hurt and fatal accidents !
am told. are remarkably rare, considering the fact
that three times a week nearly hundred persons
take this journey.
TO SUMMIT OF PASS.
BY interminable zigzags the coach road asccnds
the mountain. Starting at about 1000 feet above
the sea. it climbs than 1000 feet in some Hr-
teen miles to the summit os the pass. 1876 feet
above the sea Tho top of Mont Blanc is only a
Mount Jefferson Would dwindie INTO foothills a4
seen from this gigantic Andeau range
Many OF the views aye sublime and surh- as can
be seen nowhere else in the world. Rough rugged
barren IN the extreme in the higher ranges nature
has done her best here 10 pic Ossa on Peiio9. ana
10 enable man to mount on them 10 the stars. in
ca! Is April We found the pass warm at midday
and almost entirely free from snow. though ;o1ne-
times it IS absolutely closed travel after The
middle OF April, and even in February tunnels oc-
caslonally have to be dug through snow banks and
mules have to be substituted for the coaches. The
pass Is usually open, however. for travellers from
November until the END of April. and sometimes
into May. but is closed during the winter mont MS
of June. July, August and September.
AS we approach the top the Chian side the
HlgZagS grow more numerous and arduOus until IN
looking back one can count many as twenty
curves over which he has come. The scenery at