The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-01-01


US italy entering the road that leads to indus
trial greatness, to economic power, to leader
ship in the world of business?
Or is she unwittngly turning her footsteps into
path that will inevitably lead to the worlds most
hideous tragedy, not even excepting the Titanic
che Iusitania and the San Francisco quake?
Only time can answer those questions.
The fact is however, that Italy has definitely
expressed herself as wanting to be another New
York City to the, extent at least of having sky.
line second in grandeur to
The announcement has been made that Rome
is to have slyscraper that will make the Wool
worth Building in New York look, in comparison,
like a bungalow
MODERN BABEL
1t will be 100 feet high and will be called the
"Mole Littoria." The Woolworth Building is only
792 feet high. The new Italian building will have
450O rooms, a concert hail. gymnasiums and train
ing space for sports of all kinds.
But this building will be but starter Once
the Italians take a look at their wonderbuildngs
one may rest assured plans for others like 1t will
soon be started And then, in time, Rome will be
remade and its skyline will rise.
And with the coming OF the new day Itay's re-
awakened industrial pride will flourish and pros.
perityy win come-UNLEsS-
The news item reproduced on this page is but
one OF many Of it's kind that filters through the
cables to this country Italy's earthquakes are
becoming frequent enough to be dismissed with
four or five lines in newspapers.
What would happen should a good sized quake
visit that land of many quakes after Italy's sky
line is a fact?
SOLID ROCK UNDER N. Y.
The question often has been asked in this coun-
try with reference to New York's Woolworth Build.
ing and other towering buildings of which Man
haitian is Justly famous. What would happen?
New York is known to be built on solid rock.
Some say there is a fssure through the solid
Should the earth slip New York will wit
ness another Messina and Reggie. This even
tually is considered unlikely by those who under
stand the American metropolis foundation But
in Italy's case it is different. There is a prece
dent established in that country and it is an
Ominous one.
WHo can forget Messina and Reggie?
w From Christmas until Twelfth Night is
a period of joyous feasting among southern Ital-
fans, People come into the towns from surround
ing farms and there is much merrymaking. The
days following the Christmas Of 1908 were no ex.
ceptions. sst SO 80
Thus it was that on Sunday night, Decs27,. 1885,
the cities OF Messina and Reggie and othex towns
in southern Italy both Sides of the Straits of
BIessina were filled with people who made merry
into the late hours. Then they went to bed with
smiles on their faces. little thinking they were
slumbering for the last time in cities that were
roomeu.
Early Monday morning, shortly after O'Clock
and BEFORE the sun had begun to show itself,
xiiere came crash terrible. so eerce.s so de-
structve that it killed $4,000 persons outright and
Iniured 100000 more.
.he late F., Marion Crawford writing at the
time for The Outlook, had this to say about that
awful catastrophe:
"a southwest wind was blowing and the sky
was black when the fatal moment came. but it
was not yet raining Those who were awake and