The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-12-16
ROME CHANGED
FOR EXPOSITION
Up-to-Date Boulevard Is
Planned to Traverse His
toric Region.
PALACES BEING RESTORED
Modenists Disregard Cry Of Spoil
Ing the City'-Modernizing Of
Ancient City.
PALACES BEING RESTORED

Rome. Dec 1B.-Rome r. undergo
ing great changes IN preparations for
the exposition OF 1911. The modern
lists are triumphing. They are charged
with spelling the city Behind the
Pincio. on land lying between the villa
Borrhcss and the villa Giulia, a mag
nfncont paiazza is being built. IT viii
De- the nucleus OF the exhibition. sur
rounded by the Davilions Of the for
eign countries. and II will become.
eventually. the modern museum OF THE
Eternal City.
Six grand prizes are 70 be offered.
one competition a. international and
consists % three prizcs-s80, 900, 500
600 and SIC. OO0-for the erection Of
completely equipped houses. giving an
exact and complete idea OF the last
thirty years efforts IN various coun-
tries 20 create. In the spirit OF modern
feeling. types OF houses corresponding
90 the aesthetic aspirations and special
requirements OF the different peoples
Of our times. as regard domestic
architecture. The other competition
is national. and consists OF three
prizes OF $4,000 each. one fourth %
builder. for the creation or three types
81 modern houses corresponding TO
the habits and living conditions Of DIFF
fercnt social classes. The result will
be a whole new quarter built up in
Rome by this time next year.
Squares are being thrown into con-
fusion. streets ripped up. walls brok-
en- through and ancient and historic
buildings torn down. one side OF the
Barberini plaza. with its beautiful
Bernini fountain has been cut away
further 20 develop the approach TO the
broad Vial del Triton. The municipal
council has authorized an amusement
building $50 feet wide and eighty feet
high. abutting prosaically on one end
or the Piazza Colonna. with its Velese
poruco, fountain OF pink marble and
famous column OF Marcus Aurelius
The harmonic proportions given 70 the
Piazza del Capitole by Michael Angelo
are 70 be disturbed by uniting the three
palaces with galleries TO render them
more adapted 90 the exposition recep-
tions and festivals The Palace OF
Justice. which has already cost $1,000
600. is 10 be finished.
Great Bridge for the TIber.
A bridge OF sheathed concrete. pat
termed after the Alexandria bridge
across the Seine az Paris. with a sin
gle span three hundred feet long and
sixty feet wide. is 20 be built across
the Tibcr. The Montecitorio palace is
to be- enlarged and mOdernized at a
cost ~ S2.00O.000. 10 will have a Ia
cado on the park side. hiding its pres
cut classic architecture. one OF the
sides OF the Piazza Navona IS 90 be
opened out Of the Palace or Justice In
Che Plaza Ncnegia the little square
building close by the Venetian palace
g. Geo 1o destroyed. There is. however
Goo rebuilding and no erection
of o.. buildings within the limits
az TIE duci & city. But many OF the
narrow. crooked streets are being
videncd. and many garden walls are
being torn down.
Many OF the famous Roman palaces
have fallen into new hands owing TO
political changes and the demands OF
modern life. The French government
has bought the Farnese palace. The
vatican stl retains the Lateran. the
chancellery and the one n which the
Society for the Propagation OF the
Faith has its headquarters. The Qui-
rinal is nos the royal palace The
ministry OF foreign affairs occupies the
Consulta and the ministry OF the in
terror occupies the Braschi palace.
Plans 20 MOdernize Rome.
The exposition plans include a num-
Der Of ambitious undertakings toward
the mOdernizing or Rome. The tear
ing down OF the buildings az the base
u the colossal monument OF Victor
Emmanuel on Capitol hill will soon
give the monument an overpowerinr
enect. The modernists are seeking 10
convert into an uD-to-date boulevard
the proposed archaeological prone
made TO extend from the san Sebastian
gate on the Appian way past the
Baths Of Caracalla and TO the foot OF
mus.
Commentators Boni has resigned
rom the committee on account OF the
disscnsions. In a general way. the
plan on foot Is 90 recover and har-
monte the greater part OF the ancient
and still partly buried city. The
orchards and vineyards and villa
grounds along the promenade above
described are 20 be given over TO an
excavation. the whole area 20 be
called the "zona monumental" taking
IN the Coelian and Aventine hills. The
gas works on the site OF the Circus
MaNimus are 20 be removed. The
foundations 81 the ruins OF the palace
OF Septimus Severus and OF the arch
or Nespasian and Titus will be eU-
plorcd. as also the foundations OF the
Porta Cupcna. the arch OF Germanicus
and Drusus and the temples Of Venus
Ferticordia and OF Honor and Virtue
special attention IS TO be given 10
the stu unexplOred tombs on either
side of tho Baths Of Caracalla. IN the
nope OF finding earlier ones than those
or me Sciplos, which are now the most
interesting OF relics or the past.
The Roman palace OF John ana
Paul. a. part OF the Coelian and tho
Via San Cregorio. together Win tbe
ruins ~ the Claudium. are 70 be ioine5
10 the Palatino Enclosure. and that win
Dc a garden around the arch OF Con-
stautine and the Colosseum.
one Of the worst slums in Rome. m
the slope Of the CaDitoline Hill. close
- the Forum Trojan. Is being cleared
away. with IT'S narrow streets 60
denselv crowded tenements. At the
exposition models on a large scale OF
the most important OF the ancient
buildings are 20 be shown. with tho
entire ancient city reproduced on a
liked scale As much as possible OF
Ostia. the seaport Of old Rome. lie r.
be excavated.
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