The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-10-17

eAt'oh eb'u thct oppbiSo oihs " 1the
tourists and has no reference to the
natives TheteIisYa continuous show.
err Of tourists from the mountain peaks
and II. is always :atwlse precaution 20
carry an umbrella when Walking IN
the valley valley "a issY,
Mountain climbing is the greatest OF
out door sports In Switzerland. At
the hotel every tourist wishing to
make climb Is. furnished with an al.
pinestock and "a LITTLE, hat with q
feather in, fohe slges,,The little hat
with the featfSn h ssbsolutely neces,
saryy. forr III MffF;ao tourist could
climb over a sewer excavation in
Switzerland. 'lt-would DO against the
ethics and ethics are very highly re.
garded iniSwltzsEland. most OF them
costing iaS y he ishborhood of s2S
each. III IN Y
The guide goes first and attached
to his waist. Il q stogt rope. At tlis
end of This rope SHE first,tourisS.
Around the first tourists waist an.
Other. rope Is. ATTACHED and at. the end
.lof this rope rs tRe second tourist ana
so on untAsseyen-vr eight;of them are
strung together all in row. This Is
lone so that II Tourist No. Z should
all off a cliff thousands OF feet high
'e would itaketa ll OF the rest OF the
ourists and the guide with him. II
S not at all uncommon to see photo
:raphs Of guide clingingf desperate
y to the edge of a elf! tenor twelve
thousand feet'irom the ground with
en- or twelve tourists dangling from
lhim and swinging in space. How
| hey get out Of predicament of this
hind is never. explained, q
| But 1t Is not necessary to climb tho
mountain to figure in an exploit OIL
his kind. There are, several photo
'raph galleries in Switzerland; arrane
4 nd for this very purpose. A man may
lppear to be hanging by his teeth
rom a mountain vine twenty thous
md feet in the air. but he is not. He
IS only hanging by his teeth in the
| photograph gallery, with his feel
lbout an inch and half from the
aoor. We IRE giving away some sd
;rets, no doubt, but truth Is mighty
md will prevail and We have never
lied In our writings; at least when
we thought anybody would ever find
a It out. Ns.si,-.;
4 We scaled nine mountains before
breakfast this morning and have the
photographs to prove It, but we were
rot more than ten rods"from the no
tel. Scaling a mountain this way Is
no more diincult than scaling a fish
The photographer has more scenic
effects than David Belasco ever dream
cd OF. But there ARE tourists parties
4 who really scale the mountains or as
4 much OF them as Is willing to be
sealed. AS we have mentioned be
fore each Of them is given an alpine
stock? An alplncstock is a wooden
pole with spike at one end and a
fool at the 6ther.
4 The main business OF the alpine,
stock is to get between the tourists
legs and to tangle him up like u cir.
Gus acrobat or a man trying to un.
dress in the uppeflberth of a, Pullman
sleeper. When this happens on the
face Of slippery cliff, the tourist in
question starts back for the hotel i'm.
medlately on his elbows and should,
or blades alta verylhigh fate Of speed
and takes his party with him.
1t always pays to he polite to a
guide and give him a chew Of tobacco
when hc asks for.it. III he becomes
at all peeved during the trip up the
mountain and grows tired Of the com
pany he is in, all that he has to do
Is to reach around behind him with
his 1ackknife and tcut the rope and
the company ,,departs & Immediately
and the guide iss never, bothered by
that particular party again.
The principal EXPORTS of swizer.
land are yodlers, bellsrlhgers, cheese
and moving picture films.
The Swiss yodlet is in, a class by
himself and he can yodle louder and
donger$ than any other. yodler In the
world III he can get enough money