The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-04-12
TYRO[ MAY
HEAR TRAMP
Of ARMIES
STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN
ITALY AND AUSTRIA BRING
THIS SECTION INTO THE LIME.
LIGHT.

aShlngton, April ll.-Austrlan ~ |
rol, which at present is in the pub
lie eye because of the strained re
lations between Italy and Austria
forms the subject of today's lesson
on war geography issued by the Ma
tional Geographic society. 1t says
Austrian Tyrol is one of Europe's
healthiest provinces. In the northern
parts the air drifts pure and cool
from the haunts of the glacier and
pungent with fir and pine, and in the
south it is soft with Mediterranean
sunshine and fragrant with orange
and lemon. This land of wonder
fully close woven texture of noun
tains, valleys and rock needles is
claiming the worlds interest during
these days of rumors of war as
possible addition to the already vast
areas serving as theaters of war.
Though Tyrol is a land all deserv-
ing of the artist, the sportsman, the
vacationist and the mentally or ply
sically ailing; though it is a country
where nature has been over lavish
with beauty, where the timbered
mountain shoulders are filled with
game, where dangerous ascents may
be made without number, where the
choicest of tours are to be enjoyed
at far lower cost than can be
accomplished amid the more thor
oughly commercialized scenery of
Switzerland, and where there are
more than $50 registered health re.
sorts, it, nevertheless, has been COM
paratiyely neglected, more especially
by Americans.
An Effective Barrier.
Austrian Tyrol forms consider
able part of the forbidding and diff
ficult boundary that runs between
Italy and Austria, 1t is a barrier
more effective than the Vosges bar
rier between Germany and France,
or than the CaIpathian barrier be
tween Hungary and Galicia Austrian
Tyrol is 10,305 square miles of Alp
inc mountains, etched with wonder
full and intricate design of valleys.
While there are fewer lakes in Tyrol
than in Switzerland, and while the
highest Tyrolese summit, 1890 feet
above the sea level, falls far behind
the monarchs of the Swiss Alps, yet
the Austrian crown land yields moth
ing in charm by comparison with its
neighbor.
Among the rock strewn gullies of
Tyrol Dante found the materials for
his pictures of the entrance to hell.
The main chain of the Alps crosses
this region from east to west, and
around it on all sides is a wild
chaos of rock masses. Tyrol, though
small, has more sorts of climate
within its borders than any other
part of EHope. There are parts OF
the crown land where the winters
are those of northeast Siberia and
the summers are those of Franz Jo'
seph Land. There are other parts
more southern, where an Andalusian
languor is hardly freshened by re-
curing winter
Primarily Pasture Land.
"Tyrol is primarily pasture land
There is little farming within the
sheltered valleys, and some lumber
ing, but for the most part the popu-
lation depends for support upon its
1ocks and herds. Yodelling and AL
pine bells may be heard to an even
greater advantage in this country
than in Switzerland. Moreover there
is a goats milk cheese prepared by
the peasants of Tyrol that equals in
its mellow, fragrant beauty any pro-
duct made of milk, whether from AL
tenburg, Timber, Brie, Neufchatel or
Roquefort.
Famous for their devotion to the
Roman Catholic religion and for their
fervent loyalty to the house of Aus
tria, the Tyrolese are one of the
sturdiest peoples on the continent.
They are renowned as marksmen and
as mountaneers, and the Tyrolese
mountain batteries form one of the
most favorably known military organ
izations in the world. The popula-
tion of the crown land numbers
about 100000, more than half of
whom are German speaking. There is
large Italian speaking population
in the valleys of the SOUTH