New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-03

ern IN its household comforts as any contfn-ut,a
city Its development In the last thirty wear,
suggests that Of an American manufacturers,
town There are several large manufacturing
establishments The wen known whitehead
torpedo Is made there, and the HUNGARIAN r,u.
eminent operates a factory for the ranufactrrr.
of cigars. cigarettes and tobacco IN other forus
which employs four thousand hands.
Had not the records OF the city been burned
by the Venetians IN the sixteenth century. tn
ancient history would not be shrouded IN the
mystery which envelops it. The PhoeDic,ans
have the credit of having first settled on those
shores In the "far or time OF 1000 3. G
F1ume Is supposed to occupy the site Of the
ancient Thurman town Tersatica, destroyed By
Charlemagne IN 100 A D. The oIt ChibeIine
family OF the Frangipani once had a seat on
Veglia. one OF the two large Islands which lie
In the mouth os the bay. A hundred years ago
the French occupied the town Until within
a few years there lived in Fiume an old woman
Of noble family. who used to tell how she pre-
vented the English from bomba-dlng and de-
strOying the town at this time.
I was about twenty years old at the time.
she would say My cheeks are wrinkled now,
but then they were rosy. can laugh and say
It now with good grace. No one viii accuse
me Of vanity. They used 70 tell ne that was
beautiful. However that may be- one morning
four British frigates lay only a short distance
from the town They began firing at US and
We were all afraid they would destroy our
homes. I thought IL I went out to the adj
miraTs ship and. on my knees, begged him not
TO shoot at the town. perhaps he would not
found some one who was willing to row ne
to the admirars ship. said nothing 70 my peo-
IL
were still firing when I reached the towering
side OF the ship. had a handkerchief tied &c
a stick which 1 held up in the boat The adj
uliral and his sailors saw it. and think he
ordered them to fasten my boat When !
reached the deck where the admiral stood I got
down on my knees as I had planned and be-
sought him to go away. What I said I never
could remember. l think he took pity on me,
for the admiral ordered the ships 20 cease fir
ing, and the town was spared"
One OF the questions which the traveller. en-
tering the harbOr for the first time, asks IS
Why are the hills behind Fiume as devoid Of
vegetation as the poll OF a French wigmakers
model is Of hair?' In Ffume. if one desires
garden one must blast il out Of the limestone
rock of the HILL and. following the example OF
the Capuchin monks at Rome. when they
planned their grewsore burial plot. bring the
soil from some distant point. Docs one desire
a tree to shade ones house. a hole must De
blasted to receive it and the earth from which
it is to gather it's nOurishment-
Al certain season OF the year. the latter
part of the winter. the vehement gusts OF the
bora sweep down from the northeast with
violence that overturns vehicles and makes it
necessary to erect barriers at exposed places
along the railroad to prevent the cars from
meeting the same fate. The gusts tear me
surface Of the bay into mist and rob the hl-3
exposed to their fury Of all vegetable life
Fiume is a gateway to a land fun Of hospital
ity and OF beautiful women The MAgyars, Win
their orientally gay costumes, seem not to reckon
the passage Of time as does the American they
are never In a hurry. and speeding the parting
guest they never could understand They are
offended if the guest indicates after visit Oh
a few days duration that he must be on his
way.
The true Hungarians live on the great has-
lands Many OF them are rich from their vaS
grain fields. They are born story teerS and VIZ