The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-07
DANUBE
GIVES R' !. ] 10
MUSIC SCHOOL
Moods 81. This River anslated
into Music by Austrian
Composers.

WAStHINSTON.F Mar. s6.-Wfiting OF
1.-THE Danube river and its relation ta
the present war In Europe and tie
past history of that cont inent, the Ma
ftional Geographic Society says
To the Blue Danube, across
whose broad waters near Belgrade,
tho first echoes sGf the world war
/ aWaoke, belongs the cred III. probably.
fof being the only river IN the void
! to have given rise to a distinct school
Fof music. The Danube is the father
OF the Niennese waltz; TO-. Tie 8 us
trians tell, the great walt1 cempos5
6ers OF the kaiserstadt have merely
translated the moods OF this river m
TO music in which they have gre
served the rhy TIM OF it's flow. Jo.lsn1
/ Strauss, Vienna's waltz king, com
poser OF several hundred waltzes and
a number OF operettas. has made the
melodies of this beautiful stream in
ternat iona l. possessions, and, so the
beat OF the Blue Danube's waves has
Mingled in the veins of happy couples
the earth around. III.
Tie Danube is%one of the mas st illl-
portant OF EUrope;s rivers. The Nolsa
is the only river in Europe which ea-
6ceeds it in length and drainage areZ
and this river falls behind the Ian
nbe in point, Of the volume oil outttow
and in commercial imp rtance His-
ing in picturesque vallsy in tbs
Black forest aud unfolding aIong its
course the most ravfshing paIora tnas
of natural beauty to be found by the.
traveller in any country, the Danube
apursues a course of nearly 1000 miles
through forested mountain borders,
green hills, grain clothed AMI pas
ture land. and finally throu gll low ~
ing country, forest and read swamp
to its delta mouths in the Black sea.
Here. it pours out greater volume
of wafer than that which is brought
down by all the rivers of France.
As the only river of Importance in
Europe with course from east to-
west, the Danube has had unusual
political and commercial significance.
1t has been tine chosen path Of the.
Ayars, Magyars and Turks penetrated
Europe np1its valley course. On the
other hand, Charlemagne's Franks
the more northern Germans, and tn
Crusaders pressed down the Danube
to conflict with the east. The com
mercial value Of the river has not yef\
been realized to its fullest extent. I'll
stretches to near the heart OF indus
trial Europe and leads to the great
distributing centers for western prod
ucts in the Leyant 1t IS connected
with Europe's greatest commercial
river, the Rhine, by Ludwigis canal
Joining the Danube at kelheim With
the Rhine at Mainz. 1t is only in re-,
cent years that the bed of the Da.l.i
ube has been sufficiently improved to.
permit any development OF the shipr
ping upon 1t. !
"a
man projects, experiments, started
concluded and forgotten. Upon it's
banks, races and nations have warredI
and traded, have flushed with success
and faded away, while the blood Of
their soldiers has stained the entire
river course and the memnryaof their,
merchants is now a part of tradition
concerning vanished cities and vii;
lagos ] For a long time the Danube
marked the frontier Of the Roman
empire aud considerable evidence Oft
Roman engineering is still to be found
upon its banks. among which remain /
are traces OF Trajan.s wall near Its !
source Almost every inch of the \
Danube's way is rich in historic sigr
niftcance. In some OF its sections,N
where it cuts its way between henl=i
ming mountains, almost every avail
able height above it is crowned by an
ancient castle.
Like our own AIississi ppi, 1t has re
CURED great sums of money and 8eter7t
nal endeavor to keep the mouths of
the Danube from choking up with slit
The levee and reyetment of The ioweki
have deePened the delta
channels, while guiding walls extend |
ing out into the Black sea have serv-l
ed to increase the scour and to sell
cure the river anchorage against the |
fearful Black sea storms The lower
part OF the river is Administered
was before: the warby an interna-I
tional commission, In whose work
Austria. France, Germany. Russia.
Sardinia, Rounan1a. Turkey and
Great Britain had an equal represent
tative part.
An l1Q1 ate
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