Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-08-30 | Page 32 | Salt Laker Writes from Switzerland

SIT LAKER WRITES FflOMllTZMfl Dr Grace Stratton Airey Recenes Newsy Letter j From Son m Europe Sw tzerland dependent as t is on the mmense tour st traffic during the sum mer months has suffered a complete in dustr al paralys s aa a result of the Eu ropean war despite its abil ty to re ma n neutral so far according to a let ter rece ved here yesterday from War ren W Stratton an Oxford un ers ty student by h s mother Dr Grace Strat ton Airey wr tten from Z, rmatt Sw tz erlandV August 4 Young btratton with a companion was tour ng Luroi e when the wai broke out He wr tes that the r contemplated climb to the top of the Matterhorn had to be abandoned for lack of a guide all the gu des having gone to 30 n the army mob 1 zed on the Sw ss border A port on of h s letter follows Just now in view of the pros poets of 1 Eu opean war this place s m a very abnormal condit on When we first arr ved four days ago the streets were full of people tour sts and guides ow the ?u des are all pone and the tounsts eartul of being shut up by the fa lure of tho ra lways to cont nua runn ng are leav ng by every tra n Bus ness is at an absolute standst 11 Th s morn ng we have tr ed to get a haircut but two of the barbers have gone to -0 n their arm es one a Sw ss and the other a German The only other barber n town is a woman so I s ppose we shall be able to get rd of our surplus wool w thout trouble The hotels usually O'veflowng are almost empty now and the women and the old n en and chil dren stand n groups d seuss ng the s tuat on Of course so far as we 1 now now Sw tzerlan 1 s not m red up m the deal but is only vfnler the necess ty of preserv n neutral lty by keep ng the soil ers out Nevertheless t is a grave hard sh p for these people for t cuts off the r greatest source of revenue at the he ght of the season