The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-18
$ GiVenin War Geography Bull,
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WASHINGTON, Dec. ia striking
picture OF street life In Saloniki,
sf ce. ia given in q war geography
bulletin OF the National Geographic
Society, compiled from a communities
ton to the society from II. @. Dwight
Somebody had told me that Saloniki
was rather like Genoa. writes ar.
Dwight, Ny first impression. there
fore, was OF a disappointing fatness.
not in the least comparable to the lofty
air-the piled, Fashioned, heaVen-scaI-
ing air-of the Italian city. Yet Sa-
loniki scales heaven, too. In Its more
discreet manner.
Family italian.
And there is even. sonnet thing family
Italian about ii. This is most palpable
on the broad quay Of the water front.
especially when a yerttable row OF
fishermen from the AdrIatic are drying
nets ors sails under the sea wall, JUST as
they do in Venice. The crescent of
white buildings facing the blue bay
would not look foreign in any Rinini
or Spezzia-
conspicuous of them. might perfectly
have been the work OF an italian
prince Indeed. q Doge of Venice is
said to have built the flrst ed ton OF IT.
and suleiman the. Magnificent em-
ployed Vonetians for his own.
Splendid Palace.
sA Splendid palace opens ford
gates OF hosp itality there. a skating
rink and a cfnenlatograph offer their
own more exotic entertai nnlentss to the
pasBer-by. Cafes abound, overf1owing
onto the awntnge sidewalk ElectrIs
trans clang back and forth IN proud
CONSCIOUSNESS of the fact that icy
existed when imperial Constantinoplc
was vet Innocent of such modernittes.
These cars take you around the
eastern horn Of the bay TO the trim
white suburb Of Kalamarta,w Where con-
sIls and other notables OF Saloniki
live. and whore Sultan -AbduE -Hamid
I1spent nearly four bitter years in the
Italian villa Allattinf. looking ont at
the provincial capital which he and
Nero embellishe in their day. I'm
the opposite horn OF the crescent IS the
Latin enough park Of Besh Chinar
Five Plane Trees where It is good to
E3sip cofee and listen to music In the
cool OF Ethesday
Rather Odd Sights.
And if-you did mot know that great
ser prize and ornament of Salonfkt for
| Olympus, ~ the true Thessa1 ian Olympus
of Greek legend, you might easily
imagine it to be some white Alp or
IsAppennine looming magnifcently
across the bay. MI " ias
Look "a little closer. however. and
lsthis italian appearing town has un-
famtHar details. The white campanlli
that everywhere prick up above the
roofs of3weathe red arc too slender
land too pointed for true bell towers.
Then, as you land at the quay you
lperceive that the electric cars are
labelled IN strange alphabets. The
cafes do not look quite as they should,
.either. sI.;
The People.
/ as for the people IN them. q good
many would pass without question.
Just such slight and trim young men
In Italy would sit at 4 title tables on
the sidewalk Just such young women,
4 ratherA pale and powdered as to- com
4 ip1exiun; rather husky a. 20 eyes and
hair would sit beside them And4fyou
lshear good deal of 8Ita Ian. But you
hear more of otner and less fam liar