The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-03-21
Correspondent Gives Interesting
Description Of Trip Over
Eternal City.
WONDERFUL SCENE lJNFOLDS
plan 10 Make Aerial Tours of City an
Attractive Feature for Visitors
When Normal Conditions Re-
turn-Trip Is Marvellous
Experience.
BY LLOYD ALLEN.
Western Newspaper Union Staff Cor
respondent

respondent.
downright 1919. by Western Newspaper Union)
Rome.-When you make that long
nromised European trip to see the
great battlefelds of France and Italy
and get to Rome you will undoubtedly
have the opportunity of inspecting the
Eternal City from the deck of Il diri-
gible.
BY the time Europe has set its house
In order and has recovered sufficiently
from war to make 3urists comfortable
Rome will be featuring an aerial tour
of the city which no one will care to
miss. even though the cost of the trip
may be something like $50.
Instead of numbering through the
streets in the old-time rubberneck wag-
ons, or in taxi. you will be able to
lounge comfortably in well padded
seats of an airship and see at fairly
close range the layout of Rome with
its glories of ancient and modern archi-
lecture and ct the same time feel per-
fectly safe, because a dirigible moves
along with even less vibration than a
Pullman sleeper or Am arican parlor
car
have just landed from such an in
spection of Rome. Except for a few
moments uneasiness while the dirigi-
BILE was leaving the ground the trip
was a marvellous experience and al.
most absolutely free from any anxious
moments, even though the big ship
sailed along 1000 feet in the air 1T
times. 1t was a war craft, built for
scout duty, and capable of carrying 80
persons and was nothing like the COM
Portable passenger airships that are
HOW being planned and which will soon
be in actual operation not only in
Rome bur in other European capitals
as we'll
The big factories and the men who
designed these ships are pow turning
their thoughts to the possibilities OF
passenger traffic and they know that
Americans are going to be some OF
their best customers during the days
Of enormous tourist traffic that are to
cone. In Italy, as well as France and
England, it is taken for granted that
the day Of air travel is here
No Chance for Civilians Now.
Just now, of course, civilians find it
impossible to fly over Rome, or even
visit Rome for that matter, unless
they have special business there. All
transportation facilities are being used
TO demobilize sections of the armies
and there is general congestion of rail
ways and hotels. But this reconstruc-
ton period is not expected to last
many months.
AS guests of the Italian government
and armed with q special permit to fly,
our party of American newspaper men,
eight in NUMBER, were taken up at mid
afternoon for one-hour flight in
which our ship did fgure-eight
course over Rome, flying directly above
the magnificent structure of st. Peters,
the Quirinal palace. the Coliseum and
the newer monumental edifice in white
marble and gold that has been erected
10 commemorate the creation of new
Italy, the vast edifice of simple and
severe architecture of the monument
10 Victor Emmanuel ii.
In automobiles we were rushed out
Of Rome through the ancient city
walls, some of which were built during
The days of the old Roman republic,
scross the gardenlike campagna of
green fields end f1ocks of sheep to an
immense airerome in the prairie land.
Nhe whole Of the interior was one
vast room Z. which three dirigibleS
We're moorad safe from rain and storm.