St'll Use Dogs In Alps. Although the tunnels which now connect Switzerland with Italy have greatly decreased the importance of the St. Bernard and other passes, especially es-pecially during the e'ght months of snow, It is still deemed advisable to employ St. Bernard dogs. It Is no-longer no-longer customary, however, to send nut the dogs alone with baskets of food and drink: n man always accompanies accom-panies them. These dogs are not really real-ly of the famous old St. Bernard breed. That originated in the fourteenth four-teenth century, through a cross between be-tween a shepherd dog from Wales and a Scandinavian dog whose par- - -' ents were a Great Dane and a Py-renei Py-renei n mastiff. The last pure descendant descend-ant of this tribe was buried under an avalanche in 1810. Fortunate'y. there' were found subsequently at Martigny and on the Simplon pass a few dogs which by crossing with mates from Wales yle'ded the modern St. Bernard dog, which Is physically even stronger than his medieval namesake, and shares most of his traits.