New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-11
THE COMING HAGUE CONFERENCE.

The last named city Possesses especial inter
est this season by reason of the assembling
there next month of the delegates to the second,
Peace Congress, whose sessions are likely to
continue for several weeks at least While the
idea Of a formal pilgrimage thither while the
Peace Congress is in session OF a formal dele
CATION from the great countries of the world has
not met with any extended favor. the number
OF informal pilgrimages TO the worlds peace
capital the coming summer will be many and
the accommodations for visitors likely TO
be overtaxed- Besides the cities in the Low
Countries, there is much in the novel scenery
and the devices by which the Dutch have re-
claimed Holland from the sea TO reward the
tourist who misses the picturesque variety CT
scenery 10 be found in mountainous regions
The many varieties Of individual types lend a
diversity 10 the people encountered which pre-
vents any monOtony the Inhabitants OF one
small province differing widely from those OF
an adjacent one, the natural differences being
insufficient TO account for the difference in type
The canals of Holland are the especial feature
OF Dutch landscape. Waterways in summer IN
winter they become ice roads. and practical
the entire population may be sound on skan
pursuing their way from one point TO another
the weather being sufficiently cold TO keep the
ice in good condition and yet so little snow fall
ing that the use Of the ice is seldom interrupted
II the visitor 10 Central Europe has any time
after seeing Germany, Switzerland, Belgium the
Netherlands and perhaps a little of Austria, the
next thing 10 do is 10 go further north and pass
ms through Schleswig-HOlstein from Germany
10 Denmark and after visit TO COPENHAGEN to
so on To Sweden and Norway now no longer
united under q single sovereign. The peculiar
characteristics Of the Scandinavian peninsula
AFFORD much TO charm and interest the visitor
from over the sea If time affords the trip can
be extended 10 the famous North Cape or Cape
O he SIM -hara
in midsummer the sun does not set the most
interesting and novel experience 10 be secured
by a European trip. This northernmOst point in
Europe is a promOntOry in the Arctic Ocean on
the extremity or the island Of AIagerO. which is
separated from the mainland of Norway by a
narrow channel of water. Should curiosity i'm
pei and time and means allow. private yacht
might proceed from this point TO the uninhabited
Islands OF Nova ZenlbIa, north OF Russia, whence
Walter Wellman purposes TO make his de-
paTture the coming season in the effort to reach
the North Pole by airShip, and where the
preparations, which were not carried forward
sufficiently last year TO warrant q start are
now under way so that the experiment can
be fairly tried of making under rigorous Arctic,
conditions a more extended voyage in the air
than has yet been successfully conducted in
temperate climate under the most favorab bic cir
cumstances.
There is a vast variety of scenery and surround
ings TO be found in the region of Europe that
lie out OF the beaten paths OF travel and por-
lions of Russia, Turkey. Rumania, Greece AL
profitably explored by those whose fnclinations
draw them thither. But the disturbed con-
ditOnS existing in many regions and the an
noyances caused by the necessity of being
one sort or another sure 10 be encountered are
sufficient 10 deter all save the most adventurous
persons from esSaying trip beyond the bor-
ders of the lands in which travellers are always