Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1890 — A NOVEL ROAD. [ARTICLE]

A NOVEL ROAD.

Switzerland Proposes a Hang Inc Highway Over the Mountains. The cantonal authorities of the districts around Mount Pilatus have under consideration a proposal for the con* atruction of a novel kind of road which has been submitted to them by M. Leonardo Torres of Santander through the central government at Berne. This road would connect the so-called Ober* haupt, or highest point of Pilatus, with the Klimenshorn. The object would be to make the ascent of the mountain easier on the northern side and to shorten the ascent for tourists coming from HergiswyL The difference in level between the two points is set down at 194 meters; the distance between them at 465 meters. The road apparatus (for such it must be called) woe,id consist of six wire cables, quite indt*pendent of one another, on which six light pulley wheels will move, and from these wheels a small omnibus capable of carrying eight persons will hang. The omnibus will be drawn by a rope attached to a steam engine to 1 e placed on the Oberhaupt, near ths Bellevue hotel.