| Show WOULD SAVE SWISS SCENERY league asks the government not to grant concessions for any more alpine railways the swiss scenery preservation society has presented to the government a memorial urgently calling upon it not to grant concessions for or a any ny more alpine railways of 0 late a strong feeling has arisen among the more thoughtful and intelligent swiss that their country has already been sufficiently exploited many beautiful passes and minor summits have been disfigured by overhead electric railways or besmirched by smoking engines yet concessions for fresh moun tain railways do not cease to be demanded quite recently as many as fourteen were before the government at one time what has now aroused the swiss scenery preservation society to energetic protest Is the demand recently addressed to the government for a concession for a cogwheel line from bror heton with ti branch line from brochet to gaux this proposal odal they combat on the ground that another cogwheel use lime already exists la in the neighborhood glion de da naye that the now new line would hopelessly disfigure a beautiful piece of alpine scenery and that it la 13 not justified by the circumstances cum curn stances of the surrounding district |
