Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16

And now you will see why the book
became so famous.
Naturally. the Gymnaze people stood up
for their hero.
There is fourth quarter of the
world their introduction began, on
page so. (which America Vespucci has
discovered and which for this reason we
call 'America'-the land Of Americ."
Farther on it continued:
I'VE do not see, why the name or the
man of genius, Amerigo. who has dis
covered them, should not be given to
these landslide more so as Asia and
Europe bear the names CT women;
At Chicago's exposition in the hail re-
served to St. Die a copy OF the BOOK
was exposed in a glass case. open at
page 30. where the name America
first appears. Ard Henry Flsnaud tens
me that Henry Bardy. then president of
the Vosgian Philomathic Society c.Lov-
ers of Iearning). was July 4. 1879, in
vited to the first international congress
of Americanists. as representing 81. Die.
The anniversary Of the books publication.
April 25. 1907. is the America day. which
the mayor of st. Die believes to be our
second Fourth Of July. But April Is too
early for the climate of Lorraine, ana
Ringmann having died June 3. 1311, his
fourth centennial comes in the glory o.
this pine mountain climate.
Bury me in sight of the blue line OF
the Vosges!' were the last words OF
another great son of st. Die, Jules Ferry.
i
profile Of the Vosges, exactly what tie
song means:
BY the blue Alsatan mountains
Came stranger, in the spring:
And he fingered ny the fountains
Well, it must have been an earlttr
spring that year than this Today st. Die
is dampis! and chill, but as we automo-
billed out of the town that delicious after
noon in July and began to climb up 10
the pass called ''the Ceiling" the per
TUNED breeze of the dark pine forest
struck us like benediction.
It is never hot in those primeval arches
round Gerardmer. Everybody takes the
service autos afternoons out to a re
vine where a torrent crashes far dow
out of sight. They are the biggest pines
ever saw and the healthiest. The NAL
adv" appeared in far corner OF the lake
five years ago. and they not only chopped
down every sick tree. but isolated the
section by a physical fire line and a
legal taboo line-not a stick to be taken
out or brought in but by the tree doc
tors.
The tide of Americans will fluX in st.
Die June and begin to ebb June 6. in
accordance with the program which M.
Peccatte is sending to the newspapers of
the United States. No one expects other
wise but all this summer the American
movement will continue flowing tran
gully through st. Die. to mount. as Is
but natural. to the terrestrial paradise of
pines.
Up there! Up there is Gerardmer, with
its delicious automobile mountain climb
ing--beside dizzy rrecipices, archina. tun
neIirg through live granite. beside natural
parapets and artificial, in and out the
black pines, soothing and mysterious. by
little lakes Of green and blue. up, up to
the pass OF the Schlucht-and then to
roll down. down. down, winding through
q shady park into Germany.
What a military shock you get there
rival pickets, rival uniforms and loaded
rifles in sight of each other. The cold
consign: Halt! The green turf masking
cannon swathed in oilcloth! The red
boards and spectacles of strange German
who make out your papers!
They are the most elegant mountains Of
the world. They are not high. You osS-