. St. Nicholas [serial] . he river andtravels over the road toward Vohwinkel, as thehighway is lined on both sides by fine trees. ioo8 A LITTLE JOURNEV THROUGH THE AIR. When I was a little girl and firmly be- Suspension Railway. The scheme of buildinglieved every word of the Arabian Nights, I it as far as possible over the Wupper probably arose from the desire tohave direct and speedycommunication betweenthe two ends of the sistertowns without going uphill and down dale. Cer-tainly the matter was longand carefully ponderedbefore this form of an ele-vated road, the inventionof an engineer in Co
. St. Nicholas [serial] . he river andtravels over the road toward Vohwinkel, as thehighway is lined on both sides by fine trees. ioo8 A LITTLE JOURNEV THROUGH THE AIR. When I was a little girl and firmly be- Suspension Railway. The scheme of buildinglieved every word of the Arabian Nights, I it as far as possible over the Wupper probably arose from the desire tohave direct and speedycommunication betweenthe two ends of the sistertowns without going uphill and down dale. Cer-tainly the matter was longand carefully ponderedbefore this form of an ele-vated road, the inventionof an engineer in Colognenamed Eugene Langen,was decided upon. Sosuccessful has the experi-ment proved that, as theconductor tells withmuch importance, thereis talk of extending therailway to Cologne. Now the German rail-way man is even less will-ing to answer questionsthan his American mate; and, just as localpride makes this one communicative, the magiccoach comes to a sudden standstill. The Voh-winkel terminus has been reached in eighteen. ABOVE THE CITY STREETS. used to sigh for a magic horse which wouldsoar through the air without spilling me horse, I feel, will never appear; but per-haps a substitute for him might be found in themagic coach in which one seems to float, during minutes after leaving the station in Elberfeld,this part of the route, through a green bower, which lies across the way from the ordinary The illusion is heightened by the noiseless flit-ting-by of cars traveling the other way. Thereis nothing picturesque in the New York elevatedrailway, as all of you who live near that cityknow, excepting sometimes at sunset in thespring when a brightly lighted train, pictured railway station. When, all aglow with the adventures of theday, I sought, on return to the pretty town fromwhich I had gone, to narrate these experiencesto the good Germans who had suggested thetrip, they shook their heads and said: So you against a glowing sky, flies past the opening of really tried it,
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