The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-08
ROME EXCAVATIONS
7. DIRECTED BY QUEEN
Royal Archaeological Has MAIDS
Many Remarkable
Discoveries.
VAST AREA UNCOVERED
Italy to Collect Almost S4,O0o,-
600 Yearly by Movie
Theatre Tax.
VAST AREA UNCOVERED
sssetsi co,vsspoaSs~es 10 Tns sry.

Special cosvssSoa6s~cs 70 THS Sry
Roxe, Feb. 26.-About eight years a.,
the Queen Of italy. while her husoand
hunted the Wild boar along The low
sandy coast still almost entirely cuverea
with wood a. u was In ancient times N
the royal preserves Of Castel Porsaro.
whiled the time away by excavatins ne
| remains OF . Roman villa and made
wonderful discovery. The Queen found
statue which archeoioEists Identified az .
nne replica OF the famous discobolus "
disk, thrower Of Myron. Tho statue, which
! was broken, was pieced together verv
carefully or rather reconstructed. and So
now IN the National Museum OF Rome
| Encouraged by the succese OF her hr.
attempt at excavating. tho Queen became
| so greatly interested In archaeology that
! she decided to undertake q Systematic cx-
| ploratlon OF one OF the most important
sites near Rome. that, namely. where ,hs
frs: Inhabitants OF Italy settled oonsid-
erabiy more than thousand years before
| the birth OF Christ.
The La.!ns appear 20 have Been or!s.
| naily a Pelasgian tribe, who. az a period
long anterior to the foundation - Rofn~
descended into the narrow plain OF the
| riber expelled or subdued the o. ginA IT.
| habitants and settled IN the dst-.,, k-own
Grafton Or league consisting - th'-ty
States and founded several cites '.cuI-
Ing Laurertu:n. where their king. LLt'rJA
| resided. When seven years af.e- ne fall
OF Troy .Eneas came 10 Italy and The King
OF re La:!ns gave him nis dsaga,s-
Lavnia IN marriage another city named
Lav,n'um was built. A!though Rome va
Latin colony. sho became powerful
enough IN the reign o: King TNIaus Eos-
titus 20 make war aga!nst no Latin
towns After long war vi ~ 's-s'ed
until $40 Z. C. the Romans fnaiy l..
featcd the Lat!ns. dissolved their s~sle
and made them subjects OF Rome.
The sites OF mos: OF :he Latin town.
were gradually Loot. the territory w.sr-
they stood became u desert and malaria
drove away the Inhabitants. \ for'f' u
bay trees 1aurus). from which the p,,m-
tive Latin city Laureutum prob n's is-
rived It's name still existed under t', "a.
pire and gave the place "A name 20 ..li-
br.ty. Many ernperors had villas 'H.
neighborhood. the extensive Tu.ss Of NH..
are now marked by sand hills ia o.. r,'
OF sandy shore which stretches Sc ~
break for a distance o. over talev 4.
from the mouth of Tia. Ter 20 90. -,...-
ortory of Autiutn. IL, mod n
Queen Z" Continue Exploration.
: THIS vast area the Queen no, a.e,..
/, TO explore in a scientific maune- j. otI'
, to discover traces OF the ear" i..t'r "-
ilizat.ou. STUDY the 0r'-in 90 t.. g. o..
tants and perhaps lind monuu,-';, ."'-
dence Of the arrival OF I'm 49, 20 fftly
and his connection with the l<.u- Ia..I.
This self-imposed task o. The gu. -
Italy Is OF such vast nagu'uJ, trt' .'-
systematic undertaking would d.s'on- -
anv archeologlst
The Queen set to work Gig -
ago according to plan susgo %. . '..
King. who IL reported TO bc AS good an 40
\ tho-!ty In archaeology as he '- g. rIn
mates. Instead OF attempting eN,a's-
lions On a large scale tho CUr"- u'II0
by Identifying the remains az - I,nt
Roman buildings that could bo found ~
low level
+ The queens work has up 70 tlc r,cs.n'
been kept secret and only a fHw T'l
known professors OF nrcheolos, Ike Lt'-
Giant, Pigorirl and the late prof Vac
lleri. director OF the excavations ~ o-'.t.
were invited 70 see the eNca. alton H.
Sides the villa Nherc she found to t'S
cuoolus In 1906 the Queen discovered 30.
mains OF another villa which T. supposed
10 have belonged To pliny. The remains
; OF Tits villa consist mainly in suhStrlc-
! tons. but the discovery t. important. tiu'"
II enabled the Queen TO locate the ..ic -
village, known as Nicus Augus,d0u'
l.durenttuin, which probably touh -
name from Augustus himself and when.
e according t. rl.uy, was near h!s villa
, OF the ancient f.avinium, consisting II a
! small hill, the original acropolis. which =
T. occupied 10y tho modern castle Of Tor r.
: terno ana traces OF tho city walls. In SUI. ,
l blocks of tho gray green tufa used in me
earliest buildings OF Rome a. wei .-
! ia" streets. She discovered large No.
r Cropolis, whore she found objects OF tie
: first Iron Ase, including "A sword Of I o.
. h.gean type. which seems to confirm, o.
= traditions Of .Encas's visit to italy.
Tho metropolis has not yet been entire
\ explored and many OF the objects fou.
4 such ~ coins. fragments of glazed f.'
= terry, Including Il niece Of Chinese v3r,
u and weapons, have not yet been . .-.
ougAly examined and Identified. Tho e.-
istencc OF q large metropolis prove, ug,r.
c ever, that the district was donse.y .-
e habited
+" Strange TO relate although - 70
e established fac; that malaria was .
- dreadful scourgo IN the dlstr,c' .r
> Middle Ages, the Queen discovrr.d 4
e statue OF Venus and Love, vh.cu n.
executed in the fourteenth ceut4l
hence In way proves that IA, Sig
:. must have been Inhabited even 70
IT time.
The other finds rnadc by tho Quc.r .....
=, slst in fragments of marble. including ''.
u base Of "A large column busts of ct...'
Fl" ors, which must have adorned some o.. ..
villas, and many admirably rf.s-.
y mosaic pavemen,s.
- Zig Revenue From Movies ,n'
!. The proposed stamp tiM oa J.r"..
Il tickets 10 moving picture show .. ''
b. Is expected to yield about i".>uu.n. p
aunum, According ~ - sptc..
purpuse'y made IN order "a dtte"u' .
the new tax could loo applied t....
: ltOo moving plctUr" 'uur'fH-
kingdom and II Is rourhl, Cal.'l.''a .
J. their total profits uNcrag" about :
600 N,ai
Only admission tickets above
viii he taxed. 80 that poor people
g patroni2r movlnE pctur, shows ".
y be affected by the new tax. Wh'
q tended 10 be borne 10y IA" well TO
It pay for reserved seats from :. ....
20 The assessment of ihr nov
e. lac made as follows MANAGE" "
~ iug picture shows are expected
~ clare the number of reserved sr'i'
"A concerns and the number of u'i'"'
IL given each day. Tax collectors SCI. ...
II PLY two-thrds OF IN" number u'
the number of daily r'rfuru''.
" levy the tax ON the result '"
d of the tax varies FROM cont ".
81 costing up to 10 cents to " cents .'