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T THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 5, 1912 MR. DABNEY WRITES OF TRIP ABROAD (Continued from lnnt wwkl Esperanto Congress Held. Antwerp has many beautiful cathe dra's. S.. Jacques was the most rieh- lv inlomeil of any catheilral previously MMted, and in it lie the remains of 1Mb. ns. not far distant stands his old j house While In the city 1 learned that j the International Congress of I.an-1 mates was in session and spent some I time with them. There were over 1 1 i' i delt pates. representing 3'i lanffiiaces. I The I'nited States was represented by ' three men from Hoston. The object of the conpress was for the adoption of the Ksperanto lanpiiase by which people of different toneues can understand 1 and converse with one another. From what 1 could learn and understand, ij think that it w ill never become of j universal usage, but it might be of greit benefit to those traveling in for eign countries and tilling public places. ; and 1 don't know but if the under-1 standing or the language be made one of the qualifications for those who are1 tilling public places it might be of ' great benefit. Although the language! was invented more than twenty years, a'o. there was but little interest taken j in it until within the last seven years,, and now there are schools where it i is taught, and much of the literature brine circulated. Our next stop was at Rotterdam. ll is an old-fahioned Dutch city with j 4ihi.(iiiii people, and seems to be full of life and everybody busy doing some thing. It has good shipping facilities and does a good commercial business. The city is greatly cut up with canals, with many bridges across them, most ly operated by the women. The Hague Attracts. The Hague is a beautiful city of 23o.OoO tveople. It has some pretty parka and floral gardens. The house in the wood is out nearly two miles from the central part of the city. It is where the lirst peace congress was held in N!H. It has mnny tine rooms with good furnishings, but has been abandoned by the royalty. The Queen's city palace is a three-story plain struc ture but the inside finish and furnish ings of two hundred rooms are very elalorate. From here we went to the old Spanish prison, a few blocgs away, and in the different rooms we saw contrivances of every kind and nature for punishing human beings, and the blood-stained walls of the martyrs of long years ago. Scheveningen is about three miles from the city on the North Sea beach and is the most beautiful and fash ionable seaside resort in Holland, and it is quite interesting to saunter along the sandy beach and see the costumes of the Dutch Hollanders. Our next stop was at Amsterdam, which lies at the continence of the Arnstel with an arm of Zuiderzee. The city has GOn.noo population and covers !M islands, which are connected by nearly three hun dred bridges. It has been said that it is a city sitting on the tops of trees, for every building foundation is laid on piling driven deep into the sand, consequently a great many of the older buildings are twisted, warped and leaning, and one will see a great mini- I MAKE and REPAIR HARNESS Don't neglect them until too late waiting until to morrow may cause an accident today. When I Re pair Harness you can feel Safe with them in driving. Harness Repairing does not mean simply patching and stitching. It must be done right, and that means Experience and Skill. I look after every job myself, and when I am through you can feel safe with the old Harness V. E. Fosberg & Co. PHONE 21 HOOD RIVER, OREGON JOHNSON BROS. & HALE GENERAL MERCHANDISE I I Groceries, Furnishings, Shoes, Hardware, Etc. I Agents for Bane Wagons, Racine Hacks, Buggies and Farm Implements Phone 20J2-M Pine Grove Orange Building VanHorn Station o jife r PORTLAND BIDS YOU TO HER R.ose Festival June 10-15 Tickets uill be 01 sale from all stations on the O-W. R. & N. JUNE 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 1912 O ONE and ONE-THIRD FARE for the ROUND TRIP A Program has been prepared which will surpass my former. Arrange to spend I week Id Portland, and a week it NORTH BEACH on the Pacific. REDliCID MRU will be In ettect Iroin Portland, and the O-W. R. & N'a Eicurslon Steamers will be making dally runs. J. H. FRCDRICY, Agent o LOW UOUND TRIPS ISA 1ST On the dates given Deiow, rouna trip iickcis win be sold to the points in the East shown below, and many .others, at greatly reduced lares quoted: Through Trains East I.N CONNECTION WITH NORTHERN PACIFIC and 6REAT NORTHERN RAILWAYS Waipaw Atlantic City Sill Omaha I 00 Hhilwivlphia J Ml I'lttaburg 91 .VI Kt. Ixm.w 70 110 8t. Paul . Toronto l Ml Wuhinirton 1U7.M l-tmtt I KIM flaltimora 107. VI iJuluth 60 Intnn lloon KunauHty W) 00 Hultalu HI M) Milwaukee 72. SO DiM-airo Tl. Ml M innaolii mm Colorado Spruwa . .. K HO Montreal im.oil iKtivrr 66.WI Hrw York Km hi IMILS Of- SAl.H May 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, II, 17, H, 24, 29, 1912 June I, ft, 7, K, 13, 14, 15, 17, 1, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 1912 July 2, 3, 6, 7, II, 12. 15, 16, 20, 22, 23, 26, 29, 30, 31, 1912 Auguht 1, 2. 3, 6, 7, 12, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29,30,31, 1912 September 4, 5, 6, 7, S, II, 12, 30, 1912 Stopovers and choice of routes allowed In each direction. I inal return limit October 31,1912 lto-taila of arhadulca. far, etc., will b furnished on miumt. W. K (XIVtAN, K. A. OILUKI'T. Airr-nt. Cm'l r-rht and I'aaa. Art.. Portland. Or. White Salmon, Wanh. jber with props, sometimes there are props evtfiiii injf across narrow streets to keep the buililini; from settling to gether. Notwithstanding this, there are thousands of strong, beautiful buiWIiiiKs with ornamental Kubles I fronting the well paved streets, and here we saw more artistic and better (display windows in the stores and shops- than in tiny other city that we have visited. Amsterdam is a Bteat ' commercial city and much manufac I Hiring is done there, it is the great est diamond cutting and polishing city in Knrope, if not in the world. With 7 factories employing 1 2.000 people. There are about Cn.ooo Jews, mostly from Kastern Knipire, who occupy a good portion of the old part of the city. They have ten synagogues, the largest one belonging to the Portu gese Jews, who number about 4.000, iiiul their synagogue is said to be an imitation of Solomon's Teniae. The zoological garden and museum Is well worth a visit. Here more than ever before, we see the animals, etc., apparently in their natural habitat; caves, glens, rocky ledges and craigy places, with petrilled trees, limbs, etc., and the imitations are so perfect in every way that one can hardly be lieve but that he is in the midst of a rocky and petrified forest. Harlam Not New York. Harlam is one of ti.e prettiest little cities in Holland with sixty or seven ty thousand people. It is noted for its immense business in horticulture, and it sends bulbs, nead from an upstairs window; it just tipped the back of my derby enough to throw it into the street, and the one throwing it immediately disappeared and a little further along our driver had to use his whip to keep the chil dnen and some of the older people from molesting us. I'pon making in quiry we were informed by our guide that-those people thought that we were Knglish, for whom they have no love. We fouml Strnnnlurt to lie llteni ly city t storks. The birds are always welcome guests in the city, and none are more pleased than the occupants of a place where a stork builds a nest on their chimney, for they believe that it will bring them good luck. The Strass burg Cathedral stands on the highest point of an old Roman fort, and is considered one of the finest medieval architectures in Germany. Its con struction Is of the red sand stone, brought from the Vosges Mountains through the Hreusch canal, which was mostly built for that purpose. The cathedral is richly adorned; It contains many beautiful sculptures. The spire is higher than the great pyramid and one may ascend nearly to its top by means of 6t!0 steps. The Astronomical clock in the rear of the building dates back to 1352, and is one of the wonders of the world. After its construction it run for more than loo years without repair, and since its last repair it has run con stantly for 70 years. It tells the minutes, hours, days and the year. The four seasons, each represented by childhood, youth, middle and old age, md as a little angel with a hammer (located above the dial) strikes the time of day. The figures representing first season also represents the first quarter of the hour, and so on. When the clock strikes the Twelve Apostles come out and bow before the Savior, who raises his hand and blesses them, and then the cock apiears and flaps his wings and crows three times. The clock also shows the sun, moon and other planets in different parts of the world; the changes of the moon, eclipses, etc. The clock is M feet high and 15 feet wide. Strassburg maintains one of the finest parks in Europe. Our next stop was at the quiet old city of FYie burg. located at the edge of the lilark Forest, and from the city one can see the "filue Alsatian Mountains," which loom up against the distant sky. The Frieburg Minster is very fine and Interesting. There are many old Roman bindings scattered through the city, with their procrastinations. The lilark Forest museum contains many antiquities In furniture made from the forest. The country between Frieburg and Zurich is mostly in small farms, mead ows, etc., and the meadows dotted over with scattering fruit trees. At Basel we crossed into Switzerland and al most at onre could see a difference in the habits of tne people and style of architecture in their buildings. Here nearly every house is painted white or light color, with red roof and green window shutters. Zurich lies near where I.ennet emerges from Iake Zu rich and Is one of the most thriving and progressive cities we have seen. Zurich is the gateway between the Rhine country and scenic Switzerland, and In going from there to Lucerne, one passes through a very picturesque mountainous country. Lucerne, with its 10.000 people. Is located at the lower end of Iike Lu cerne, and on both sides of the River Reims. The lake is 2:i miles in length and one-ftalf to two miles wide, with arms extending out to the right and left, and is surrounded by mountains perpendicular rock walls extend from the rliir, blue water up two or three thousand feet, while in other plares there are plateaus and sloping moun tains dotted over with pretty Swiss cottages and scattering fruit trees. Hotels on Mountains. On top of some of the mountains of five and six thousand feet elevation here are hotels that cost three or four hundred thousand dollars, and are reached by cog-wheeled railways, anil from the hotel loeat.ion over a vast rountry of scenic beauty that will never be forgotten. The water In the lake Is as blue as that of the ocean and where there Is room, Its borders are lined with pretty villages and driveways. Lucerne is strictly a tour ist city, built on the site of a fishing ramp 2,wo years ago. and some lnt r esting walls and towers are the remi niscence of long ago. There are two peculiar wooden foot bridges diagonally Across the river. They were constructed six hundred years ago. and are still used. They are each about twelve feet wide, and the roof is supported by massive arches, twelve feet apart, and near the top of each there is a painting repre senting some historical scenes of Switzerland. There are many things to see In Lucerne of much Interest. The Swiss Monument, (ilaclal (iardens, the great amount of all kinds of wood carv IngB, the Panorama of Napoleon Cross ing the Alps, and cathedrals, are all well worth a visit. Ilrlenz, Interlacken, Berne, are all Interesting places, hut for the want of time and space will pass on through many tunnels and over rugged moun tains, by means of cog-wheel roads, etc., until we have reached the king of the Swiss Kikes, "Geneva." And are now at Montseau, near the upper end of the lake. It has a population of 20,000 and extends around the wind ing shore for nearly three miles and is built on terraces on the Bide of the mountain, and from its resting place looks down on the peaceful blue wa ters and the great gray mountains be yond. The Chillon Castle, which is located on a small, rocky islet and covers an acre of space, Is connected with the mainland by a draw bridge. The date of Its first construction Is obscure, but there have been addi tions made from time to time since the eleventt century. It Is near the road and the old gateway from Italy to the St. Cothard Pass, and it was to this castle that all who passed over the trail or road had to pay toll. There are many interesting rooms In It, and in going through we were shown the cell where Bonivard was '.eft chained to a stone pillar for six long' years. The chain Is six feet long and Is still attached to the pillar, and as I look at it I feel that it is full of the tor tures, miseries and sadness of its long departed companion. Sees Execution Room. The execution room is 15x20 feet in size and the gibbet is still In place; in front of it there is a large double window which swings on hinges, and after the execution the wludow was swung open and the lifeless bodies were cast Into the waters below, more than 30o feet deep. Adjoining the ex ecution there Is the torture room, and from it, there is a winding stairway leading down to the dungeons below, and from them the prisoners were brought and placed on the rough, flat rocks (that lie on an angle of 4." de grees) the night before the execution. And there Is no telling how many poor human beings have slept their last sleep while the quiet waters below waited for their lifeless bodies. After leaving Montseau our boat see-sawed across the lake, back and forth from one interesting town to an other, and we finally land at Geneva, the queen of the lake, which lies on both sides of the River Rhone, where it leaves the lake. Geneva has many pretty parks and promenades border ing on the lake. (To be continued) Furnished Apartments We have furnished apartments to rent over Reed and Henderson's oitice, $30 a month, Including light, water and fuel. Inquire Reed and Henderson, Inc. 1-lf Pickers' and Packers' Tickets We print them, and If you are k Ing to need some order now by card or phone and we will print them promptly. Hood River News, phone Fine Tooth Cultivators Brown Misto Sprayers Orchard Discs Kimballs Made entirely of steel.including handles Galvanized best ever 1 6-inch 8 disc. 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