The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-13
Happenings in the Old World
and Gossip Heard in Cities
Across the Sea
LANDMARKS IN ROME
ARE BEING DESTROYED
Those of Historic Value TO the
Old World Are Ruthlessly
Torn Down.
BY CLEMENT j. BARRETT.
ecisl Cablo to The Tribune.

opeCisl CdDlc 10 Inc Tribune,
ROME. March l2.-Mayor Nathan OF
Rome. when complaint was made recent
~ by American and English visitors that
The Syndic and municipality were In their
efforts at improving the city ruthlessly
destroying landmarks which arc of his
much heat declared that Rome was COM
petent TO attend To her own affairs with
out advice or consent from outsiders,
Now some of tho leading men OF Rome
itself have been aroused TO the necessity
OF curbinG the ambitious and energetic
mayor; Already he has cut trenches
lat perhaps the most perfect of the few
fragments OF the walls of Scrvius. now
proposes TO better the designs of Michel
Angelo on the Capitol; and TO lay out
o modern boulevard along the Appian
Way. This projected decd Of vandalism
Is not 10 he accomplished without re
sistsncc. Commentator Boni has
signed his place on the commission and
Is engaged with Prince Tcano and others
In forming committee tu invoke the
intervention of the government. These
cultivated Italians. who feel with Dante
tina the stones which are in the walls
OF Rome. and the very ground OF which
IL stands are haowed, arc outraged by
what Signor Nathan has done. and by
what they believe that hc intends to do.
But lie has the power TO act. and. as he
has shown In other instances, lac likes 10
exert it decisively and irreparably be
Tor his hand can DC stayed.
may quay lib i1duu.
lie is at work already. and il the pro
cess of destruction is 10 be arrested In
time. il must be arrested at once. Moth
ing but general and rcsolutc demon
slratior OF italian opinion eau arres, II.
The treasures which Italy guards are
indeed the spiritual heritage OF civilized
mankind. which the Italians hold in trust
for all peoples and all generations. But
1t Is for them 10 administer that inhcf-
itancc as they think best for themselves
and for the world. They arc account
table 10 none Tho privilege OF foreign
erS docs not 30 beyond suggestion. ad-
vice. recommendation. and. in the last
result. Tcmonstrnnce and protest Dcma-
cosucs and vandals seek 10 misrepresent
remonstranCc and protest as foreign die
la ton. but enlightened Italians have vel
coined both in the chief controversies
in which they have been cXcrtcd. because
upon broad and simple questions of this
kind there is but one taste and one judG-
mcnt-the taste aud judgment of Eu-
rope.
Dies in Insane Asylum.
The insane chef. Giovanni Passanantc.
who on November IA. 1915. attempted 10
murder King llumbcrt Of Naples, died
recently in the criminal lunatic asylum
of Momtclupo, near Nolterra. He would.
lister. Benedctto Carroll. the heroic COM
panAon OF Garibaidi who was seated be
side EIumbert had not thrown himself
forward and received in his breast tho
blow that was intended for the soVcr-
eicn Carroll was seriously wounded. ~
that time capital punishment existed in
Italy, and Passanantc was condemned 10
death, but the king commutcd' the SEN
tence 10 lifelong Imprisonment. The ter
rible prison regime in ltaly-comprislng
complete isolation in a ccll-caused him
to lose his reason. which was already un-
stable. He WAS then transferred To
Montelupo. where he passed his time in
filling sheets Of paper with the mad raw
ngs OF his disordcred brain.