Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-20

throw away Actually. the distance is sey-
oral days Journey.
As YOU 60 up. and especially when you
have passed. the I5oO-foot level YOU feel
"a strange sensation. Vision grovs more
acute. Tho air is thin as ether and won
drously nght 10 produces sort OF iu-
toNiCatiuu. a delicious scm.-vcruEo That
is absolutely vuluptuous.
At Pucute del Inca which is sn named
because Of a natural bridge worn n tho
rock by tho torrent the road begins TO
Chamber along up the mountsinsidc 20 the
Cumbrc tunnel
Coming out YOU bid farewell TO grand
horizons You enter a gorge. at he .ot-
tom OF which roars the Aconcagua, "a
stream that runs an foamiug. You fol-
low 81 am the way to Los Andes. The pic
ture has changed completely, though its
altered character is no less thrilling in its
grim severity.
SkirtinR the Gifts.
Here the railway runs along the very
face Of an almost perpendicular cliff and
the slight juttinE ridge that supports the
roadbed is scarcely perceptions, Beneath
you the raging stream is strewn with
enormous slabs Of fallen rock. The train
spins from tunnel to tunnel with a merri-
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you realize what obstacles have been over
come. Here even the steeadest heads go
dizzy. And this sensation only increases
during the descent, when in two hours
you plunge 5000 feet down into the valley.
/ This part OF the road is among those
most difficult 20 build. At Rio Blaucu
| twenty-egh corpses were recovered from
the Aconcagua I'm q single week
From the Porulla station you sec a little
/ lake that CLEANS like an opal This is the
I.aguna del Inca, enclosed as i'm a cup,
within the narrow valley. A little further
I down. the rocks begin to be covered with a
timid vegetation. 1t grows holder Soon IL
| becomes luXuriant. And you see gigantic
"kgcos"-a sort Of cactus peculiar to the
/ Andes-lifting their spiny stems eighteen
| feet in the air and all flaming with scar
! let blossoms. You might believe yourself
racing through some wierd antediuvian
| landscape
/ Then nature grows jolly. Though there
were no birds in those high attitudes, these
are birds in good plenty here. The trees
are alive with them. And villages appear
with primitive carts rumblng slowly
through their streets. In the plain, you
begin to see irrigation canals, evidence OF
the most advanced farming methods. And
now you reach Chile.
! The Glad Hand.
The amiability of the first Chilean Off
Gals you come in contact with makes yoI
fall in love wit hthe country, for those cav
alleros of the customs service have charm
ing manners and welcome travellers mos
graciously. They are studying their roll o
affable hosts which they mean soon {,
play when their beautiful country has be
come a faVorte rendezvous for tourists
For this is Chile's daydream. She aspire
one day to attract the elite OF all the worl'
to her shores and mountains She is get
ting ready to welcome them and to max
travel easy and agreeable. She remembers
not without pride that in 1919 she bull
the first railway in South America. Sine
then, she has tried to keep ahead of al
her neighbors in this respect and now sh
is more than ever determined to lead them
few days before he left his country
never to return, President Mont place