Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-11-01
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE. JR.

(Ch1b6blNSS' fdSSenseI VESSELS
seldom visit st. Helena. Ma.
~ poleon's island prison, which lies
LOO miles west of the coast of
Angola, Africa. The long one-story
building in which he lived at Longwood
remains; in fact, 1t recently has been
rehabilitated. There is also q bell
station, called into play whenever the
dethroned emperor strayed too far in
his walks about the countryside. The
plot in which he was buried originally
is surrounded by an iron fence. Oddly
enough, the islands improvements are
financed largely from the sale Of postal
stamps. the chief revenue of the dot
of land. About $4,000 worth are
mailed to stamp collectors the world
over each month. The postmaster
used to work on a commission basis
but his income grew so large that he
was put on salary and the profits
earmarked for the island.
Hamilton. Bermuda, is the worlds
smallest city, yet as a port it leads
Philadelphia, Montreal and Rio de
Janerio.
Dressed in evening clothes and COM
fortably seated in leather upholstered
chairs, visitors in Atlantic City watch
foot ball games played within the
mammoth Convention Hall. There are
$4,000 seats. Only two games are
scheduled this season. November Z,
when Pennsylvania Military College
will meet the University of Delaware,
and Armistice day. when P. M. c. will
play La Sale College. Then the grid
turf will be taken away and the hall
prepared for the ice hockey season,
opening November q.
7 Usually, tourists are routed In
foreign cities so as to avoid their
coming in contact with squalor and
poverty. In Montevideo, one Of the
most beautiful capitals in the West
ern Hemisphere, this is unnecessary,
as the city of practically 100000 souls
has no slums. The gay metropolis is
famed for its walks of inlaid mosaics
and lovely parks, wherein flourish
some 800 varieties Of roses and thou
sands of eucalyptus trees. Monte
videos resort season is at its height
in February and March, when it is
warm.
Supplementing its ban on tipping
in hotels, restaurants and trains in
| an effort to make the country pleas
ant one in which to travel, Hungary
has introduced another novelty. Used
to suspicious treatment and exacting
customs officials, Americans crossing
into Hungary say, when uniformed
guards board the train, We'll. here
they come again" But they are off,
GERS of the government tourist de-
partment, and approach to ease the
path of the traveller through passport
and customs formalities. Speaking
several languages. including English,
they invite thousand and one ques-
lions on the tip of the strangers
tongue and act as portable informa-
ton booths on coinage, places to see
and 999 other things.
The largest bell in the world Is "the
Gar Kolokol" in Moscow. but it has
never rung. It weighs 200 tons and is
81 feet in circumference. Shortly
after it was cast the shed in which it
temporarily was housed burned and
cracked 1t beyond repair.
Among the many legends that flow
through the Danube country is the
one about Satan being bested by a
cock when the devil said he would
dam the river between sunset and
the ROSTERS crow and flood the cas-
tie at Schwallenbach, Austria. The
cock, it seems. heard of the scheme,
crowed an hour early and left the
devil with his job incomplete. At
low water the ridge Of rock is pointed
out to tourists as the Devils Bridge.