The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-21
NOBLE SMUGGLER
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 HELD. AT PRAGUE
Makes New Record For Skiing in Swiss
 Alps.

Geneva. Feb. Acknowledgment of the fine art of smuggling to a new personages detained at Prague pend ing an inquiry into the alleged opera tiona It Is charged that the Count and Countess Gunthor von Konigs- mark. who are of an ancient German family. and who have their head quarters in Zurich, where the manu- facture of zaccharine is permitted. have been making frequent trips across the German and Austrian fTon- tiers accompanied by many servants in livery and baggage containing zac- cIlarine.
 Customs officials generally do not venture to examine all the baggage of the nobility. However, at Prague re- gently, the party encountered inspec- tors who searched their effects and found evidence which prompted an in quiry into the operations.
 It is said that profits from the smuggling of zaccharine into Germany. and Austria would amount to from 100 to 400 per cent.
 A New York man, H. Wirth, has the honor of being the first American to climb the Jungfrau on skis, and in-s cidentally he established a record for guide climbing Accompanied by Herr Stuckey of St Gall and Amat-= ter, the well known guide of Grinde1- waId, the New Yorker made the as cent of the Jungfrau, 13,670 feet, al so ascended the Munch, 13,465 feet, and returned to GrindeIwa1d, his starting point, after crossing the FsIescher glacier and Eismeer glacier, all in forty-e eight hours.
 One night was spent in an Alpine hut on the Jungfrau. The weather WAS fine and the snow in good con- ditfon. A splendid view of the Alps was obtained. but the cold was so in tense that one could stand still only a few moments.
 A remarkable avalanche recently occurred at Au. an Alpine hamlet in the canton of St. Gall. A farmer and his family had just sat down to- fell from the neighboring heights, causing a great and violent displace- n1ent Of air in the naxrow valley.
 This tore doors from their hinges bers of the family were actually blown out of the house through doorless pas sages to the garden considerable dis tance away Curiously none was in-i Jured.
 l A few minutes later the avalanche itself arrved and wrecked the whole farmhouse the walls giving away un- der the onslaught of snow and the rbsf falling in.
 Rome, Feb. 21.-The success of the Greek tragedies given in the antique open air theatre at FIesole, near Flo renee, and their repetition in Rome 1 at the stadium has led to the still more ambitious project of giving I Greek Hellenic representations at the
 Greek theatre at Syracuse, more than | 3, 400 years old.
 y.aa spent his life Stranslating the Greek tragedies into Italian has been en- ! trusted with a new translation for the occasion of Agamemnon, the first part I Of Aeschylus tri1ogy, and the staging I Of 1t. The costumes are all to be ta- l ken from the figures on Greek vases l of the time, and which actually repre- l sent the characters in the tragedy. As for the scenery, little or notI- l ing will have to be done to have the complete illusion of the city of My lcenae. The theatre of Syracuse was the largest, after those of MiIetus and l lMegaIopolfss known to the ancient Il Greeks and was erected some time in the 5th century. B. c. Itwas hewn out of the solid rock and is nearly #I semi circular in form,#46 of the orig inaI 61 tiers of seats still being in ex- istence.
 I Some of the tiers were divided into compartments the Greek inscriptions sI sh owing tile names of their owners being still Iegible, and as many Of si them were feminine, this is indirect T evidence that at Syracuse, at least, the theatre was freduented by women, aI- I though it is denied by most historians .l Nature has always combined to rem I der this theatre a thing of beauty All about it are orange and lemon st groves with their gold and yellow fruits, above is Mount sTenenites, cir E cled by the blue Ionian Sea, while tc i. the south opens the Temple of love Amid such surroundings the lovers o1 ,l Greek art and literature will welcome Hf the return of Aeschy1us to the city o1 sI his adoption this spring.