The Green Forest tribune., 1916-09-08
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 the space which they occu- pied was converted into promenadeS ] Tor the prosperous citizens of this modern Galician capital of 100000 in- habitants, it was doubtless assumed l by many that, having suffered the sling and arrows of outrageous for tune" for the five centuries of it's municipal existence fate would allot It surcease from siege and capture, says the bulletin of the National Geo. graphic society.
 Lying 50 miles almost due east of Przemysl, and more than 450 miles northeast of Vienna, Lemberg is sit uated on the banks of the Peltew river. an ailluent of the Bug. It nestles in a small valley which opens to the north, and is surrounded by bills, the most picturesque being the well-wood- ed Franz-Josef Berg to the northeast. To the east, distance of miles, is Tarnopol, near the Russian border, one of the first points of attack when the Muscovites pushed beyond the 1dllclan IfOntler.
 A description of the modern city of Lemberg as 1t existed in August, 1914, requires many notifications today, for the scars of war are to be found in it's many handsome homes; it's broad, we'll paved streets; it's Roman Catholic cathedral, handsome gothic structure completed in 14S0; it's Greek cathedral, completed In 1779; its Armenian cathedral in the Byzantine style. dat Ing back to 1437, and it's magnificent monuments to such Polish patriots as King John III Sobieski who, after having saved Lemberg from the Turks a few years previously, in 1883 saved all Europe from Mohammedan inva- st8n by r0lltiag i;4Rl a9ins2alg Of 33tgn(4l1 3g Turks encamped about Vienna, his own force numbering only 70,000
 Nearly 700 Years Old.
 Called Lwow in the Polish tongue and Leopolis in Latin Lemberg was founded by Ruthenian prince in l259. Nearly a hundred years later 1t was added to the domain of Casimir the Great, who bestowed upon the city the charter and privileges widely known during the middle ages as the Magdeburg Right.
 Following the fall of Constantinople, Lemberg enjoyed a revival of trade with the East, but it was caught in the of rebellion and pillage which swept over the Ukraine and q part of Poland during the last half of the seventeenth century, when the Cos sack hetman, Chmielnicka was direct ing the infamies of the 'serfs' fury
 Lemberg was one of the Polish cities to fall before the arms of Charles Xii of Sweden when the ill-advised Au- gustus II was drawn into the Great Northern war which devastated cen tral Europe for the first 20 years of the century. In 1772. upon the first partition of Poland, Lemberg be- came an Austrian possession, and IF years after this event Joseph II es- .ablished the University of Lemherg , which, at the time of the outbreak of | he present war, had more than 1000 | 
 One of the most attractive parks of | 1emberg, and a favorite promenade, | ,ears the name of the Polish patriot, Ian Kilinski, humble little shoe maker, who fought bravely in 1796, vas captured and taken to St. Peters urg. After his release he returned 0 his shoemaker's bench and in his asure hours wrote his recollectionS, aluable record of this period of his history.
 Since the establishment of the Ga elan diet in 1861 Lemberg has en- )yed increasing prosperity. It's manu- lctures include machinery and iron are, matches, candles, liqueurs, locOlate, leather, bricks and tiles. nile it's commerce is largely in linen, aX, hemp, wool and oil. In 1907 two interesting finds were ade in the vicinity of this city by o~-~~~~~~-~-~-~~~-~~~ o-~-~-~-~~0~0~~-~-o~0-~--~