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Show ROAD TO CLIMB THE ALPS. Electric Railway Up the Jungfrau Is Rapidly Nearlng Completion. An electric railway which, when flnlshod, will be tlu highest In P.u-ropo, P.u-ropo, is now nearlng completion up tho Jungfrau In tho Swiss Alps. It will bo seven and a halt miles long, nnd Its terminal station will bo at an olovatlon of 13,080 feet. It is for tha most part constructed through tunnels, tun-nels, and the last station will be connected con-nected with the summit of the Jungfrau Jung-frau by a lift ot 242 toct In height and a winding staircase. Tho power for producing tho electric current will be dcrlvod from waterfalls on the mountain. moun-tain. Tha starting nolnt ot tho lino Is at tho Scholdegg station, at an altitude alti-tude ot 6,180 foot, on the Wengern Alp system, and tho first station is the Klger glaclor, 7,645 feet high. A doctor doc-tor will be In attendance at a certain altitude In order to attond to passengers passen-gers and advise them or not according accord-ing to tho Btate of their health as to the safety of their journeying to the summit. Tho ascent will occupy about ono and throe-quarter hours, and the stations aro to bo luxuriously fitted up, so that passengers who may feel any ill effects from tho rarifled air will be able to rost In comfort before proceeding on tho journey. |