| Show I V NEW MOUNTAIN HAILWAY AY l' l 1 n hc t Point Joint Will In H t X Nearly mI r r- r f Fourteen Thousand PeN Feet Above o o Abo Sell Sea From Ernst Von H Hesse Js J's To the Peak Peale b by Trolley Troley Intile in tho tile June Century Century Switzerland Is the home homo of mountain railway With an anarea p. p area aren not larger than third one-third of th the thc tate state of New York there may be he f c counted about a hundred railways for fort J t I the iho sole purpose of oC carrying passengers gers to mountain tops varying Int in t f height t from a few thou thousand to six abc or on eight thousand feet The month of August witnessed the opening of oC J n a way carrying tourists even o en far above the these o attu altitudes cs beyond the clouds to feet fee an and when completed Its ILl V. V highest point will reach nearly 1000 c f- f f feet el above e abo the tile sea sea sea-at at the tile top lop of the famous tho queen of the f ri Berner Derner Oberland There are arc other mountain railways o on Oil the globe attaining much higher al alc altitudes al- al c Utu es than even this and on th railway of Peru I myself tra tm- traveled leri le- le ri a a considerable distance over over 16 r. r OO feet but most of these roads were f r built hullt for tho the development of commerce commerce com com- r merce and mining Industries The r 1 Swiss mountain railways however aret are aro t almost exclusively In the tho service of or t. t tourists tourist only nUl nui numbering In Switzerland Switzer land alone not far fal from every year car They he come to admire tho the scenIc scenic seen seen- j ic wonders of the little country countr on the tile roof of Europe or 01 to seek eel sheI shelter she she- I ter against summer heat at tho the many mountain resorts r The majority of these mountain I railways are paying Investments hl Switzerland being a country of mountains moun moun- rj talus taint Is la consequently also a country of or water courses COUI fed fd by the tile inexhaustible inex Inex- t store o of snow and anti Ice lee coverIng cover cover- covel- covel lug Ing Ins many square miles mies of tho chains challIs Alaskan ice fields Ice Ice-felds are bcd bedded in bet veen bet een the peaks right In the h heart of Switzerland anti and although a at t great deal has been een written about the general generl rece recession ion of ot glaciers which In some somo instances amounts to a hun hundred rec b and arid more mOlO feet year car for year Ca such S. 10 losses ses arc are quite insignificant compared r with the enormous extent o of these ice deposits A number of them have havo depths o of several everl ard feet with Ith million of ot tons of or solid hard frozen fold t Ice ico continually supplied from fresh Cresh L snowfalls above The They feed feet Rhine tr and Rhone Po and Danube during tho the dr dry summer months and the many mountain streams of Switzerland j 1 f r forming beautiful cSc cascades an and falls fails fals Ui and anti rapids furnish tho the power which f t. t Crr carry crry tourists tourist In comfortable railway t ir I carriages to tile the very vely tops from from which 4 they themselves come They ar are are- led ft t to turbine pits pUs drive wheels and generators generators gener gener- oJ and aro are thus converted Into electric power Tho The Swiss having no 1 coal conI depo deposits ls of their own have havo become be be- I. I 1 come como acknowledged experts In this branch of or technical engineering fur fur- turbines and electric plants plant for fori forthe forthe the whole world Thus for Instance i tho tine gigantic 1 turbines at Niagara Falls Fals r many of oC which generate forces force of from 4 ton toil to twelve thousand horse power f 0 each ench havo o ha been constructed almost without exception b by Swiss firms |
