Norwich bulletin., 1922-03-27


 fresh vegetables and fowls and other feedstuffs but also discioses shoes, and suits, and haberdashery of all sorts. Many ducks are soId.syldenes of the excellent hunting little far ther down the river.
 Approaching the city from Vienna. which is tnirty-fiye miles to the west. one first passes the ruins of the cas- tie erowned promontory where the slow moving March drifts iazily iHtG the faster flowing Danube, seven miles above Pressburg. Come upon ii by rail and you leave. the train far above the city as one does in some ez pur own West Firginian towns and find your way afoot or by tram or along winding carriage road down, into the community of some so.ooe people which huddles at the foot of d hill of historic menpries.
 Atop this spur of the Little Car pathians Hungarian kings were cFoyr- ed until the years toward the close of our Revolutionary War, a very re- cent event In the perspective of Hsg- var history. The ruins of the roys' palace, burned during our War Of 1919 because, one story has it, workner grew tored of carrying supplies ur the 27e-feot climb, still crown the hili Smugglers used these ruins, in the last few years, as signal tover Among the kings that BratisIavs knew was Maria Rex so called be- cause the fierce Masyars of that day, like the Israelites of old, could not ferego the national precedent for i titular king.
 .'Foday there stands near the Dan ube an equestrian statue of Maria ! Eri ha rr ct ssanguinem,' words which recall the occasion when the Empress made to 1 Hungarian nobles hel eloquent plea be- ginning Deserted by my friends, per secuted by my enemies, attacked by my nearest kin, my last resource is ! in your loyalty, your courage, and in my own unshrinkiRg coHstancy. i There the pledge was given, with i drawn swords. and that loyalty was evineed which Pozseny later exhibit ed to make the HsPsburg dynasty se- cure on the Austrian throne Bitter ly one writer describes that loyalty as the eagle lending his plume to wing the arrow that was to drink his own life blood
 .Inevitably linked with Bratislazs | Is Fheben, or Deveny. as the BromoR- tory at the confluence of the March | and the Danube is known. For this magnification of our own Harper e Ferry has been through the ages the military gateway to the region which has hunk it's commercial hinges upon the Bratislava of today. The history of Theben disappears in the mist Of legendary Arpad, King Arthur of Mag ! var annals, who is reputed to have driven the Moravians away from this river peak. German emporers and Fur ! l-f1 f1t, Inc, Ea F~- ss
 1t remained for Napoleon to conquer it a little more than a century ago.
 Hacking any single architectural wonder Bratislava discloses storied
 structures galore. Its town hall. dat : ing from the thirteenth century. has
 a tower which had to be pawned for
 time because the city could not pay
 for it's construction. Among the cu-
 rious carvings on this tower are evil
 dences of a municipal control of stan . dards and measures. There Is a knife . to be a guide to butchers in purcfas-
 ing cleavers and an iron measuring exactly a yard, to be used in ssttilnH disputes over the sale of goods. '-The first superficial impression oi Bratislava is Its flair for the Psri, passion for sidewalk cafes. Older res idents of the city will shog visitors , an ancient house in a marrow streei , where the ghosts of twelve city coun- ] cilmen appear nightly at the strok, . of twelve. They have been condemn. ed to eternal discussion of the town'l business because they were derelict 1T their duties when alive
 "A monument has replaced a slmpli : mound of earth. collected from eacl of the ancient kingdoms four prov ! inces. and to that mound the king
 of Hungary would go immediately
 after their coronation There the , would cut the air four times witi
 their swords-north, east, south an,
 west-to pledge protection to all part of their kingdom.H