Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-12

Beirut, the ancie-it Syrian city
featured in recent dispatches because
of Moslem opposition to changes in
street naming and police innova-
tions, is described in a bulletin of
the National Geographic Society by
a former resident CT the city as fol-
lows:
picture, nesting at the base of
the Lebanon. a many tinted city
pushed out into the setting sun by
the pressure of a amous mountain
range, which, just east of the city
and robbins it of the early morning
light, towers to $500 feet in a beau
tiful mountain whose snowy heights
form the crystal sc.een upon which
is projected the rose glow of the
worlds most coiorfui sunsets.
The backbone of the city stretch
es 20 the west from a low alluvial
plain which almost makes Beirut
an island. The wharves are to the
north, looking away from the more
famous bu, inferior ports of Tyre
and Sidon to the south and toward
the ether Phoenician ports of Tri-
poll and AieXandretta and Seleucia,
all Of which have old Phoenician
names Ions since forgotten by the in
ha5itants. Berytus was the name of
Beirut.
Curves Like Bay of Naples
The waterfront is commonplace
enough MIST of the year, eve
though just outside the disfiguring;
breakwater there les the bluest,
most nearly perfect curve of bay east
of Naples. 1t bears the name of st.
George and although it is the French
that have improved it, the British
have made it notable on their beau
tiful GOLD coins, now extinct, which
once showed st. George killing a
dragon or rather The dragon. Myth
ology will tell you who st. George
| was and why he killed the dragon
and why the British. put it on their
coins and his cross on their Union
Jack. But here ST George slew the
dragon n threw him down a we'll
nothing harms an Oriental we'll
and if you don't believe it, the well
is still there and if you go there on a
dark nigh. and gaze down into the
inky waters, you will see the drag
on's eyes.
THE streets are narrow and full
of life. Tie buildings are kalsomin-
ed in various hues, ugly near at hand
/ Jul u Qly ~VoJuC liVIi q lac
lance. On one of the highest points
at he eastern enl of the high rib
which the city straddles there is
or was a military barracks. Beirut
has tram lines which run along the
backbone and near the center of the
city there is a small park embroid-
cred with bootblacks with small
shoe-blacking boxes, around w"'ch
the trans turn. Here there is an
other line of trans which uns to
the south to a beautiful grove OF
pines which were planted to save
tie city from drifting sands.
1.-THE western end of the limestone
ridge is called. Ras Beirut, or the
point of Beirut, ana near the extrem-
ity Of this oection there is one of the
lovcliest coi,ege campuses on earth
with more than q score of principal
buildings. Possibly nowhere else on
earth has Americas name been more
revered and so lovely is tho scene
of the deep blue bay and the snowy
mounts in range that there has long
been a standing argument between
this college and the Robert College
at Roumel. Hissar outside Cohstan.
tincple on the Bosphorus, as tc
which has .he lovelier view.
Nature Provides Swimming Pool,
"In from tho west and nortf
sweeps the waves which are eating
away at the limestone cliffs and each
year the shoreline recedes bfore the
fierce battle with the waters upor
which the Phoenician argosies Sc
out in searth of fame and commerce,
At n place the dashing waves have
cut entirely around two towering
masses of rock ana bored a huge
hole through the side of one of then