The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-14
(BY DANIEL BIDWELL.)

Especial COrrespOndence.)
 Genoa, May 22.-The Dante Ahghori of the Transatlantic Italiana line has come to port. having sailed from Jersey, City, May 6, touched at Cadiz, anchored off Gibraltar for ex- animation by British naval author ities and having made a dash up the coast of Spain and across the Gulf of Lyons to gain Genoa and safety. For a day and a night before her home coming she was in momentary expectation of seeing, bearing or feel ing a shell or a torpedo from an Aus trian submarine. She is Italian and her country is at war with Austria and not with Germany.
 But Venus as we'll as Mars and Nep- . tune was a passenger on the Dante. For the ship had two of the sopra- nos of the Metropolitan Opera House company in her cabin and some 52 of l the nymphs who danced in ''The Pawn" in the same temple of art. And, believe Uncle Dudley, you would have to travel many long and weary moon before finding any other such like section of paradise on earth. There was a lyric soprano, Signorina
 
 Venus to pick up her skirts and leave Olympus. Tese were first line cosy phees who combine and consolidate Hebe and June and Inez Milholland Boissevain. It would take the type writer of Jimmy McGovern to elucid- ate the beauty of the startled nymphs of "The Pawn" And even Jimmy must be at his best.
 From Russ ballet girls to news paper men is a fancy, a descent from heaven to earth; perhaps even far ther! There were three correspon- dents on the ship. They were Fred N. Smith of Bridgeport, Arthur H. Ambrose of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Yours Truly. Smith writes for the Hartford Times and the Providence Journal; Ambrose for the New York Sun and Vestro Vero Amico for papers in Connecticut and Massachu- setts. Smith and Ambrose are going to Athens and to Salonika or some where in the gridiron of Mars in Ser bia. The writer is trying to arrange to get to Udine and out around the Trentino.
 At Cadiz we struck what seems to be more or less new, that Cadiz and, so we are bold. The greater part of Spain is pro-German. The mother of the King is Austrian; the royal fam fly, except the queen, is pro-German and so are the court and the nobles; the wealthy give to the Germans their sympathy; the press is German; the mass of the people are of the same mind, because the emperor of Austria is devout Catholic; business men are of a like mind, because they wish German competition with Eng land after the war is over.A Several of these reasons interlock in the cases of large classes of the population To them you add the fact that the two adjoining nations are republics and that king, royal family, nobles and the rich hate republics. Portugal is considered by many of the Spanish as almost a natural or hereditary enemy.
 It was the kings birthday and Cadiz was observing it in a continent way. Flags were flying and royal por- traits were in some windows. But there were more buttons and badges. of the Kaiser on sale in the shops than of the king.
 We had been desiring to coal at Cadiz The Spanish authorities were loath to sell. The Dante is the first merchantmen which has put into the harbor since Wilson's note of Jan. 19 and authorities held that to sell her coal would be unneutra1. If she was construed as an auxiliary cruiser, as might possibly be done until January 19 note, she might perhaps be liable int arr rY1n O toJr tiV,,n And so her captain sailed hurriedly at midnight out in the teeth of a stiff gale.
 This was at sacrifice, for the price of coal in Cadiz is about s25 or $50 a ton. as against s3O to s35 in Genoa The price of anthracite in Genoa is about $52 to $55 ton.
 Sailing from Gibraltar, the Dante made her sprint up the coast of Spain instead of across the Mediterranean. She kept within the three-mile in ternational limit, thus making her self at least academica1ly immune from a torpedo. Wherever the coast Gaining French waters, she lost the | protection of Spanish neutrality Then | she put on full head of steam and |
  her dash across the Gulf of Lyons. | She swung into the Gulf of Genoa | and at night neared her home It | was Sunday morning when she tied | up at the Ponte Andrea Doria
 Soldiers and-this will thrill Fred Bartlett and Lieut.. Merritt-men of the navy were on the pier or ponte. The soldiers were in a dingy green semi-invisib1e 250 yards away They were Territorial but liable, so we were told, to be sent to the "back of the front" in month or two. Many were of the cavalry. but most were of the artillery.
 The men of the navy were in a uni- form a good deal resembling that of the Third Division, Naval Militia, c. N. C.. Their flat cap was bit smaller but the cap ribbons were like the old and the lettering was similar. The sailor collar was light CT in line, but it had the three stripes in white and the two stars. The blouse was without a pocket The |