University Graduate Who Will Attempt To Climb The Highest Summit Of The Alps In Switzerland

Miss Annie S. Peck, a plucky American girl and a gradúate of University of Michigan, will soon ascend the Matterhorn, one of the highest of the Alps in Switzerland. Miss Peck, now a resident of Providence, R. I., is a scholar of uniisuiil erudition and a lecturer of considerable note. She was graduated from the university of Michigan in 1878, spent some time in study in Germany and attended tlie American school of archaeology in Athens. While studing in Athens in 1885 and 1886 she ascended Hymettus and Pentelicus, and tlie experience was so fascinating that slie lias since become an ardent devotee of the healthgiving and instructive pastime of mountain climbing. After her return from Europe Miss Peck was professor of Latin in Smith college for a time, and tlien began lecturing on the art and archaelogy of ancient and modern Greece. She lias spoken before the National Geograpïtical society, the American Geographical society and many colleges institutes, clubs and schools. In 1888, during a trip to California, she added to her fame as a niountain climber by clambering to the very summit of Mount Shasta, a distance of 18,000 feet. Slie is said to have been the flrst woman to accomplish the imdertaking, She has done considerable other mountain cliinbing, is possessed of excellent health, strength and courage, and believes slie will succeed in her ambition to stand on tlie summit of the miglity Matterhorn. The Matterhorn is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, betvveen Switzerland and Italy, and is 14,835 feet high. It is one of the grandest peaks in the world and the most difficult to elimb. On July 14, 1865, Edwaid Whymper, the famous mountain climber, after eight cesstul attempts, at last won the liouor of first masteriug the precipitous sides of the Matterhoru. In descending Hadow, who went with him, lost liis nerve and liis footing, and Hudson, Croz and Douglas, otlier friends, who were fastened to the same rope, were dragged with him. Whymper and two otlier guides clung desperately to the rocks and safely withstood the shock of the tightening rope, but the rope broke, and Hudson, Hadow, Croz and DougIas feil 4,000 feet down the precipice and