Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-11-14

OF lefty mountain nights to dwarf IN
tervening distances. 1t was several
miles across the lake which the boat
repeatedly crossed, but it seemed
hardly half mile, SO high were the
mountains on either side. Our ride
the following day up the Gruidelvald
and Lauter brunnen valleys was a
never to be forgotten experience.
The valleys of the Wahsatch back OF
Ogden and Salt Lake seemed to the
writer profoundly impressive, but
they cannot be compared with these
Alpine valleys in rugged grandeur
nor are they in full view Of snow-clad
submits. We reveled in the beauty
| of the scene, ate our lunch at the
foot OF the upper Grindelvald glacier,
saw an avalanche slide down It's icy
face, looked up through the mists of
the Staubbach fall which leaps $50
feet down the mountain side, and
heard again and again the blast OF
the Alpine horn, with its echoing
lreply from every side. So accurate.
ly is the movement OF the glaciers
known that when, over thirty years
since, a daring mountain climber
slipped and was lost in the creyices
OF the upper Grindelwald glacier,
according to prediction, his body
appeared at the loot about thirty
years afterwards. On the following
day we journeyed by Lake Brienz
and the Brunig Pass to Lucerne and
Vitznau, where several of the party
lstaid while others ascended the Regi.
| A few minutes run from Interlaken
brought us to the boat which carried
lus from end to end OF Lake Brienz,
after which the railway took us to
Meiringen, where the rack and pin
ion railway carried us 1000 feet up
the mountain side in three miles to
| the summit OF Brunig Pass, whence
/ a similar device decends the other
side toward Lucerne. None of the
party viii ever forget Lake Lungeon
which we passed on the descent with
Its narvelously perfect reflection II
/ the opposite mountain side in its
transparent depths. In our brief
Istop in Lucerne, most of the party
isaw the Cathedral Church built 10
lI633, the Lion of Lucerne, and the
Dance Of Death Bridge. Thorwald-
tsen's lion was hewn in 1921 in the
natural rock OF the mountain side.
1t is twenty eight feet long and
transfixed by lance, and it shelters
the Bourbon lily in its paw, in mem
ory of the soldiers OF the Swiss
Guard who perished in the sacking
and destruction Of the Tuilieries,
August 10, 1892. The Dance Of
Death Bridge is a quaint, medieval
wooden structure whose roof is
adorned with series OF paintings o.
Iwar, food, violence, and other
Iagencies by which men meet death.
One Of the pleasures of the hour
in Lucerne was a chance meeting
with Hon. John T. Keen, of Woon-
socket, on the Schweizerhot Quay,
"a broad avenue lined with chestnuts
that fronts the Lake OF Lucerne with
its encompassing mountains. He
had sailed by the southern route to
Naples, and was seeing Europe in
AN order the reverse of that followed
by our party. We also met there a
Mr.. Hoffman, formerly a resident 0.
Sioux Falls, now in charge of the
Deering Harvester Depot at Zurich.
His pleasure was so great In seeing
a group Of Dakotans some of whom
were old acquaintances that he ac.
companied us to the Italian border
the next day, and met us again in
Geneva. Under the Swiss system,
which permits the purchase of q
ticket at surprisingly low figures,
good on any or all of the railways o.
Switzerland for given period, he
was able to do this without extra ex-
lpense- since his business called fol
good deal OF travel and made such a
ticket an economy. Forltwenty-twc
dollars you can ride first class day
and night all you like all over Swift
i ,ar1and for . r,,o,,fh and one hupd