Vesuvius v. Thomas Cook & Co. Cook’s cable railway to tbe summit of Vesuvius, which was referred to in last week’s cable as having caught fire during the recent eruption, has been running since 1888, and has carried tens of thousands of travellers up the cone of ashes that forms the summit of Vesuvius; and now the long dusty carriage-drive from Naples to the Funicular Station has been eliminated from the Vesuvius programme by the completion of an electric railway between these points, while the old funicular has been electrified; so it is now possible to travel by electric power from the heart of Naples to the summit of the volcano. The travellers are whizzed upwards in eight minutes to within 250 yards of the crater, and here they are left awhile to ruminate over the valleys and fields of lava, the white houses in the plain far i below, the mounds that mark v the cities that Vesuvius has wiped out of existence,
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Northland Age, 4 October 1904, Page 3
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163Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Northland Age, 4 October 1904, Page 3
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