Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-08-23
PORTER WRITES ANOTHER
A Wanderers Diary

Cooks in Milan har no Swiss. money
1 had one ten dollar bill sewed in my
watch pocket. The banker here Of
Tered me 40 Swiss francs roa ten dol
lar Cooks check. / left him, got my
ten dollar note and the girl at the sta
elon gave me 49% Swiss fir. for it:
she would not take Cooks checks.
American dollars go everywhere. To-
DAY wrote Mrs. Anton Lang, Ober-
amergau, for room and ticket to Pas
sion Play, July %, and registered q
nye dollar bill as pay. III be hanged
II III offer those beautiful villagers a
dollar for five splendid meals and bed
two nights, for that is what it means.
as the dollar equalled SIT German
marks few days ago. The Spirit of
the Christ prevades the atmosphere of
Oberamergau and Of the American
colony at Jerusalem One is purely
Catholic, the other all Protestant. but
the same spirit prevades both COM
munlties. Spent the night here; room.
Z lire, 80 cents, good and clean; supper
soup, bread, wine, ''bifstick," 4S cents.
Rained all night.
July l4-Rose at 7,and got ticket to
Interlaken, through worlds two great
tunnels, Simplon double track tunnel.
and Lotschberg; both was told ten or
more kllometers long. THAN 26 min
utes going thru Simplon and 16 min
utes, going faster thru the other. Was
band of American and English Boy
Scouts and their English teacher on
train, dressed for alpine climbing, hob
nails, alpenstocks and all. Nice boys;
Boy Scout movement is mighty fine
one. Saw over 20 parading in Jerusa-
lem one day. Had glorious trip this
afternoon; 81 miles; 1925, or cents
mile; different than riding over italy
for one and quarter cents, but it was
worth 1t; TUNES are expensive. Went
thru Simplon tunnel, then thru dozens
OF short ones high up, two or three
hundred feet above narrow valley
with lovely villages below, small river
narrow road with poplars along it.
little flelds of hay and grain cut and
lying on ground; snow capped noun
tains across valley. Was German Ad-
ventlst preacher or missionary aboard:
ne and got up quite conversation.
He had lived in San Francisco, child:
was drafted into German army, was
gladly taken prisoner near st. Michel
and held by American boys who treat
ed him kindly. At six reached Inter
laken, checked grips, took toilet arti-
Giles, clean shirt and this paper to St
Gotard Hotel; paid lovely Swiss lady
4 Swiss fir. day for fine room facing
the Jungfrau. / am writing at $40
where | can see her base over the fir
trees, the base of the Jungfrau. but
her top is clothed in mist. 1t is Queer
the further | go north, the longer grow
tho DAVIS Az Ta1-1Yco 4
at z; am writing at $40 without art
ificial light. Had lovely supper.
soup, soft bread, a whole big fish with
mayonnaise dressing and pot Of tea
a-la-lnglese and declined the rest.
reel out or place at decent table.
This is good deal like home tonight.
From now on the influence of the Ger
man hausfrau will be felt and the tour
ist going northward will have a great
er variety of food to choose from.
Thank God for the German hausfrau.
July 15-Rained all day. Stayed in
room. Showed toward night lower
down on mountains. This is a lovely
city of beautiful hotels. Most of peo-
pie speak English, French and Ger
man.
July 16, Sunday-At eigth took cars
for Grindewald where changed to cog
wheel electric cars and rode to Schei-
did, up 6771 feet and after lunch
walked to Lauterbrunnen past Weng-
en-Alp and Wengen, down ALL feet
below starting point in three hours.
Three inches of snow up at Scheidegg
where the Jungfrau railroad starts,
and she was clothed in mist, so it did
no good to spend So to make that
rainy trip above Scheidegg. It was
worth the $3.50 / paid and the walk
down gave time to study flora and ge-
ology and scenery along route. No
Eidelweiss to be found, and flowers
all common to our country Daisy
and Snap-dragon and some quack-
grass. Some strata of rocks level in
places but most everywhere tilted up
every way. In Jungfrau tunel they
found first calcareous rock, later
gneiss. | saw neither, but a black
shale and clay slate near Scheidegg.
Cows up high could get no grass be-
cause of snow and men were going
after them. After 61a miles of walk
ing down hill 1870 feet per hour, the
ligamentum patellae of my left limb
got so used up had to massage # ev-
cry few minutes and tax eshort steps.
Could walk up hill all right. Ate a
fve-course diner all right.
July IT At Cooks got nine dollor
bills; and 81 Swiss fir. AZ degrees
this morning. Last day in Milan a
sheet was enough covering for me at
night.
First night in Switzerland the Ger
man feather quilt was very agreeable.
/ hear the English language spoken
everywhere. The Swiss live better
than the French and Italians. Milk
carts are seen in every city drawn by
a man and his dog hauling or z for
ty quart cans. The milk-fed children
are plump strong and active and the
grown people of good stature This is
a lovely country but more expensive
than those around it. Just paid IS
for good meals at Hotel Gotard but
it was wei wort hit. Expenses days,
including rail fare from Italian border
to Zurich only SIS. or $3.50 a day.
Wait in Zurich to get etter from ODER
amergau, then go on to Munich to Ex-
position there. Saw Jungfrau a mo-
ment at breakfast table, clad in recent
snow. The Swiss rave over the su-
blimity Of that peak II is g part Of
their stock in trade, just as Vesuvius
is an attraction to Naples or the
Acropolis to Athens. The waterfalls
hree propel large par tof the rail-
way trains; at noon rode to Zurich Via
Berne. Switzerland is the richest and
most up odate country l have trav-
elled over. In Zurich at night | pot
room in same hotel I STAYED in 10
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