The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-14
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1t would seem on the surface OF
| things as IL streets ought to be pretty
much alike the world over; But they
iare not. oil the same. There would
Ing ii,s ,h h S There are, il fact, great
.diversitios Of operation In doing SO.
Some are straight, some are Ms crooked
ms a rams horn. Some are wide, some
arc open to the sky. SOnie are paved
Il Tin dozens OF different way sian
blocks, asphalt. macadnm. shelly. tan a,n.
bark pebblss) some are re- t s..li pao ,ne
that traverse them, they IRE like n the
buildings that line them on either
side-all different and all most inter
ssting 70 ints11lisent peers;
q each .is called "a street" by those wh9
use 1t, aud the history OF the World
might be complied FROM ,. stnay on 81
buff. ana II they could tell gil they
know OF pageants. traffic. war, em-
/ cessions, tumuits, riots and marriage,
civic or death rites, we wou1a ~ S.op
Ito listen. quite chained TO the Spot.
/ Not only ali the history, but the trag
I ordinary days and ways In every age,
/; OF every nation. they represent Tor
ever. to the eyes OF our itnagi " A.
80 that we can still see them as they
once were; still hear the cries uttered =,
almost jostle against the people VINO
filled them then, as they 90 now, ana q, y.
will. for ages TO come savei n the eaties
edness. a street is a wonderful thing
when you come to think about IT. ISM
A Trojan street.
Suppose yourself in II omers Troy,
schliemann's Troy lburied for thirty
Of an Aryan Troy, as y was sitself sue
tcseded by several others !, walkang
that leads through tho double screen
gate. to 1llium's great tower ano
Priam's Palace. on The Day ayss when f,s :
1000 oxen to the Ilian Athena, and the
people shouted themselves shoarso. and
\ fhe magi poured libations to the inles
of the heroes. You woutd h avs, p p'sse 81
\ mean. wind owless, wooden ana pr !Ss !
1huts: you would have followed In the
4 train Of great general, a. barbaric
karmy, an excited Trojan peopie, aug :. Us rs
princes and priests; you would nave
}steadily mounted up and up the hill
i Of Hissarlik, with yellow buttercups
8lpeeping everywhere at the great spec
8itacle, TIL. after glance at the mag.
Ida Mount Athos, the Island OF Inn
went on until y sPood faW mho te
jgreat walls would have seemed to you YOU
built for eternity, seyenty.nine reef ee
ling on into the limits Of the great
flower, you would have taken part IN
1.-The great ceremony Of the day. Such
twas a street in Illium $50 years be.
|fore the Christi
/ In Babylon.
or suppose yourself in one OF tn
,streets OF this mighty city In Neb
Iuchadnezznr's tirne-the greates,-t !
city wall eighty-seyen feet broad.
1850 feet high, and giving room 70
six chariots abreast, Herodotus tell
nus and extending for sixty miles
There was street for you. built o
l'granite and blue bricks. cementet
with white mortar. strengthened wit
$50 strong square towers at distance
Of about 200 feet; filed with Baby
lonians OF every class built 5000 year
ago. in what was then the. most beau
tiful and richest city in the world. fo
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS had lavished untol
wealth uponft. twas not the only mas
nincent street in the city. There wa
many another. $50 feet wide. Their
were 676 great squares.
There was the Tower of Babel. wit