White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-08

the 1nteriof--kity Dear GssocHsS
of Early Italian cuitur-very
Small Proportion Of the Population
Of the City 10 Hungarian.
Data in the records OF the National
Geographical society throw strong
light on the places which figured In
rival territorial claims of Italy and
.JugoSlavia. OF the city most holly
disputed it is said;
"Fiume is another Of those foot
holds on the eastern Adriatic where
Italians chung fast despite the steady
influx of the Slavs in the interior aud
even into Fiume itself. Thus the city
bears evidence of early Italian cul-
ture. Ii figured as a potent Slave
factor In the turmoil Of Balkan poll
tics aud it felt strongly the influence
of Hungary upon its thriving indus
tries and fast growing commerce. II
Trieste was the Bremen of Austria.
Fiume was the Hamburg of the Hun
garian kingdom.
Magyar gerrymandering caused II
TO be annexed to Hungary in 1870 In
spite of the protest of Croatia, TO
which II had belonged since the reyo-
luton of 1913. Consideration for Its
value as a seaport rather than for
its citizens prompted its establish
ment as a royal free town.
Despite the Hungarian interest In
the city its prewar population was DO
Der cent Italian and Slav. with the
Italians slightly predominant. Only
about half the remaining tenth were
Hungarians. The Slays included
| Croats. Serbs aud Sloyenes. As I'M
portant to Hungary as is New York
or Boston to the United States.
Fumes total population Is not much
greater than such suburbs Of those
American ports as East Orange. N. j..
or Brockton. Mass.
Three Harbors at Fiume.
"rfume is situated on the northeast
shores of the Gulf of Quarnero, only
20 miles by rail southeast OF its trade
rival. Trieste. Across the bay Is the
popular summer resort, Abbazia.
famed for its evergreen laurel and
profusion Of roses, TO which tens OF
thousands Of visitors formerly
thronged each summer The older
town. distinctly italian. In built on
the hillside overlooking the gulf. The
newer city lies nearer the water front.
There are three harbors. The largest.
accommodating $50 large vessels, is
protected by a breakwater half a
mile long. The quay is two miles
long.
Before the war Fumes manufac-
turing plants included n government
tobacco factory. the Whitehead tor
pedo works. a rice Smelling factory. a
petroleum factory and many smaller
plants. among which were sawmills
and paper mills. It's fisheries consti-
tuted an important industry. II ex-
ported sugar. grain, flour. horses and
timber.
Originating in Roman times. Fiume
was destroyed by C~harlemagne In 100.
The Franks ruled II for a consider
able period. Then 1t passed to feu-
dal lords until Emperor Frederick III.
made 1t a part Of Austria. This I'M
peror. who as an archduke Of Aus
tria was Frederick ". was the o
OF Ernest, the man Of iron.' and
Cymburga. a Polish woman from
whom the Hapsburgs are thought to
have inherited the protruding lip
which sometimes became a disfigure-
ment. His long and inconsequential
reign is recalled chiefly because he
puzzled photographers by leaving on
his books and pottery and having in
scribed on his tomb the initials "A.
Il. 1. o. o. The most generally &C.
cepted explanation IL that the initials
stood for the Latin. Austria Est In
pernri Orb Universe meaning. All
the earth is subject to Austria This
was a promissory note of future Aus
trian greatness which Frederick did
little to realize.
Proclaimed a Free Pon.
Charles vi. proclaimed Fiume a
free port. Maria Theresa first united
1t with Hungary. Successfully occu-
pied by the French and British. It
reverted to Austria and later was re-
stored to Hungary before 1t was added
to Croatia.
Small wonder hat Dalmatia should
form n Of the most sharply con-
tested regions in the rival Italian and
Jugo-Slnv claims, for this strip OF
sea coast land for eight centuries has
been swept by continuous racial TEN
pests. With an area about equal to
Connecticut. Dalmatia Is 40 elongated
rlat nowhere is II more than - miles
wide and II tapers down to a mile at
Cattaro.
With a climate of extreme tempera-
lures, hot and dry when the sirocco
sweeps over 1t and cold and wet when
the dread bora OF wind of death
m from the sea, peasants find life
A traolo TI.. - "