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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0809 Enlarge and print image (2M) |
| *9**-^te\£ *.+ •& SNOWCLAD MOUNTAIN PEAK TOWERING SKYWARD.—What Mount Rainier looks lik when covered with its fleecy coat at a temperature of 2% degrees below zero. In summer it can be climbed, but in winter it wraps itself in solitary grandeur and seclusion and defies, the presumptuous efforts of man to place foot on its summit. International WHERE EVEN BABIES SKATE. Winter scene at Volendam, Holland, where the advent of snow is. the signal for young and old of both sexes to turn out and indulge in the pastimes characteristic of that country, where the cold comes early and stays late. International SKIING IN THE BRACING AIR OF SWITZERLAND.—The great skiing slope at Klosters, in the Swiss Alps, where the season is now in full swing. Thousands of spectators gather here to witness the un canny skill of the skiing enthusiasts, whose daring feats stir the blood and bring gasps from the admiring multitudes. international SNOW BROUGHT IN CARLOADS FROM THE ADIRONDACKS.—Sportsmanlike grit was shown by the management of tlie Briarcliff Lodge Club, who, not to be cheated when snow refused to fall, brought hundreds of carloads from upper New York and made an artificial skiing course, down which Le Moine Batson of Eau Claire, Wis., one of the contestants in the. forthcoming Olympic games, is making one of his flying leaps. Wide Wond Photos ai GIRLS PITCH IN AND HELP to make the skiing course at Briarcliff Lodge by spreading over it some of the 10,-000 tons of snow brought by rail to furnish a runway for the exhibition of their skill by the quartet of ski-jumpers ho are to represent the United States at the Olympic games at Chamonix, France. international |