In the Alps.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 94, 14 April 1914, Page 5

In the Alps.

THE DOGS OF ST. BERNARD SNOW ROUND THE HOSPICE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times and Sydney Sun Services. Berne, April 11. A solid wall of snow fifteeen feet high surrounds the hospice of' St. Bernard. The dogs are doing extra duty, patrolling each side of the Pass day and night for lost travellers.

[ The dogs of St. Bernard are known, probably, to every school boy and ■school girl. At the Great St. Bernard [Pass in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland there is a monastery, built by .Bernard de Menthon, a Savoyard I nobleman in 962 for the benefit of pilgrims to Rome, at an elevation of [B,lsoft above sea level. This is tb<» line of perpetual snow and is the highest habitation in Europe. Its inmateg are monks of the Order of St. Augustine, who have long enjoyed a great celebrity for their humane efforts in saving and assisting lost travellers in the mountains. The hospice is a substantial stone building large enough to give shelter to over 300 persons. The"dogs of St. Bernard are famed for their sagacity in assisting the monks in tracking out those who have been lost in the snow. It is said that one dog saved over forty lives. Th» Pass is noted for bavin"; been traveled by Napoleon with 30,000 troops ia 1800*