Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-21

him standing on q cloud fianked on
one side by the planet Mars, and on
the other side by his Juvisy obser-
vatory. A region on the moon has
been named after him, but in whis-
pering this fact to an interviewer
recently M. Flammarion hoped it
would not be published. 1.-THE Bud
get Commission, he added humor-
ously, may want to tax it as being
landed property"
undermining Rome.
From the Boston Transcript
The traveller who wishes to see
Rome-the old Rome that dwels like
sacred picture in the minds of all
civilized men-would do well not to
postpone his journey too long, or he
bids fair to be disappointed. At the
present moment the famous city is
busily keeping up its reputation of
being eternal" new town is in
course of construction, and is rapidly
springing up. with a healthy disre-
gard of historic associations and
characteristic absence of all tact and
taste, beside the great monuments
of the past. dating back as they do
to the times of the Roman republic.
With the eighteenth century Rome
that is to say, as far as all fresh
building enterprise was concerned.
The nineteenth century brought with
it the laying-out of a park on the
Monte Pincio and other kindred i'm
provements; then for sixty years no
great change took place until, as the
capital of New Italy, a great period
of change ensued, which developed
into a perfect fever of new enter
prise of all kinds, only to be brought
to a sudden termination by severe
financial crisis.
Now that a more prosperous period
has ensued and that Italy is enjoying
a financial and economic boom. the
old city is once more going ahead.
New buildings are arising on every
side; the great Palace of Justice is
finished; the Chamber of Deputies is
to be enlarged by the construction
of a new wing in the heart of the
town; a new hospital of vast dimen-
sions has obtruded itself into the soil
tudes of the Caelius; vast business
premises are rearing their heads on
every side, even along the old Corso,
that street of historical palaces,
where now, on the Largo Goldini, the
new Unione Militaire. the Roman
equivalent of the army and navy
stores in London, has sprung up. The
increase of population is causing the
town to expand in every direction;
the Pratt di CASTILLO at the foot of
the vatican are built over. and a
quite new quarter has developed in
the neighborhood of the Pariolic
hills; on the other side of the Porta
Pia, where half a century ago the
famous Villa Albani stood with its
magnificent view after the noun
tains. there now stand rows of fine
villas, and, on the other side of the
town on the slope of the Gianicolo.
more villas are to be found.
That much has been done of late to
bring the old city UP to the level of
q modern metropolis cannot be de-
MED. The tunnel under the Quirinal,
for instance. has greatly improved the
traffic conditions, and the wretched
novels along the banks of the Tiber
have given way to handsome modern
quays. A fine municipal park has
been laid out on the viaduct crossing
the valley that divides the Monte
Pincio from the park of the Villa
Borghese (now Umberto ID. 1t is only
to be regretted that all these varied
should have been i'm
paired by phenomenal display of
bad taste that was quite unneces-
sary.