The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-12-16
TRIP TO EUROPE.
From Rome Through Switzerland,
fseventh Tetter1

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through the great simplon tunnel, a rid
of % minutes. the train running at
speed Of about 40 miles an hour. w
stayed over night at Genoa, the only i'm
portant sightseeing being the statue 0
Columbus. Another days travel ant
we reached Geneva, the Swiss city ia
nous for its watch works The traiI
had taken us along side the beautifu
Lake Geneva and on Aug. IS we tool
the handsome and commodious steamer
for trip over its charming waters t.
Vevey, ride Of four hours to the othei
end Of the lake.
1 At Veyey we stopped over from Satur.
day, Aug. 10, to Monday, Aug. 10, al
the native home Of Rev. G. Nussbaum,
whom many Of my readers know as the
pastor of the St. Louis New Church.
What charming situation for a home.
Lying on the side OF the mountains, with
the waters of Geneva lake in view, and
beyond the snow-clad mountains rising
into the clouds! We were favored with
most lovely weather and SO Mount Blanc
was kind enough to show her white peak
both mornings.
On Aug Is we took the electric line
and train at Vevey (the mountains, hills,
and valleys of Switzerland are covered
with electric and steam railroads) for
Spiez and from there to Interlaken by
boat. On this journey we were carried
up very high by the putting engine that
climbs by means of the cog-system,
giving us views Of the enhancing valleys
of this wonderful country and also
giving us splendid views of the Jungfrau
and the neighboring heights clad in
their eternal white garments. We took
days outing per cab on Aug. Is from
Interlaken, one of the delightful summer
resorts of this land of many tourists, to
Gruendelwald where we visited an ice
grotto We saw on this trip the noted
Alpine horn and heard its melodious
sounds as they rolled around the noun
tains. Wepassed place where we were
given to see that that the Swiss people
are utilizing their white coal' by run
ming large pipes up the mountains and
turning the water of the melted SHOWS
into the power that runs their roads and
lights their cities and homes. Our cab
also took us to Lauterbrunnen past the
wonderful Staubbachfall DustbrookfalD
and to Truemmelbach, where the water
falls from the inside of the mountain
down a great height and roars and car
ries on dreadfully.
Our next stop was at Lucerne, the
greatest resort of the many in the Swiss
country, where we arrived Aug. II. We
enjoyed boat ride around the historic
Observation-Disclosures (Fourforestcities-
lake,, visited the famous Lion of
Lucerne"-the huge lion, cut out of
massive rock by Thorwaldsen, with a
spear in his side and his face in awful
pain representing the Swiss guards who
fell in the French battle Near by is a
very interesting glacier garden showing
how the glaciers and the action Of the
waters followed out places and formed
large boulders.
Having learned on our way through
Sarnen, which is near Lucerne, of a !
place called La1denberg, went there
on Aug. Is to learn what could. 1t
was found that where the three buildings
now stand, on what is now called Land
enberg, formerly stood a castle. When
| got to Zurich several days after a work |
was discovered in the public library
which gives the history of the House of
with documentary evil
Hence. | purchased a work, as they
were to be had at booksellers in Zurich,
where it was gotten out by local minis
.er, and found that the whole work of
365 pages treats of the Landenberg
'aA nily, and who were formerly feudal
or,ls of Switzerland.
0)n the way home over the ocean |
lad time to read the book and learned,
lmdng other things, that one of the
ian ,denberg's was bishop of the Catho-
ic hierarchy for 80 years and that one
Il them sent letter to Zwingli, the
,wisS reformer, expressing his interest
n THE Reformation. The reply of
,winIgl to Albrecht Won Landenberg is
iven in the work. These feudal lords
rere rich and powerful, some ruled with
benlignant hand, while others we're ty-
ami Ica. They owned many castles,
nostI of them were ruined when the
WISH gained their independence, but
,mb Of them still remain, one having