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H SEEING ROME FROM DIRIGIBLE ■I Correspondent Gives Interesting Description of Trip Over Eternal City. WONDERFUL SCENE UNFOLOr Plan to Make Aerial Tours of City an Attractive Feature for Visitors When Normal Cdnditior^s Re turn—^Trip Is Marvelous Experience. By LLOYD ALLEN. Western Newspaper Union Staff Cor respondent. (Copyright, 1919, by Western Newspaper Union.) Rome;—When you make that long ' ®hropeanr tWp to see the great hattleflelds of France and Italy and get to Rome you will undoubtedly have the opportunity of inspecting the Eternal City from the deck of a diri gible. By the time Europe has set its house in order and has recovered sufficiently from war to make tjurists comfortable Rome Mdll be featuring an aerial tour of the city which no one will care to miss, even though the cost of the trip may be something like $20.- Instead of lumbering through the ’ his imagination. with tlie mountains in the distance, was unfolding into a vast panorama. We continued to ast*<^nd to more-than 1.000 feet, moving all the time with increased speed toward the city of Rome, ten miles away. n, Panorama of Romo. At a.speed of 40 to 50 miles an houF we sped oyer farmhouses and ruins of the Appian way toward the city. Wittiin five minutes the miles o£arched stone • aqueducts : that stretch from Rome to the mountains had been passed, and we were in the outskirts of the town with the River Tiber just ahead threading** the solidly packed rows of houses like a dull blue ribbon. They tell you in Rome that the ipost satisfactory view of the wrecked Coli seum, where the Caesars used to mur der Christians*by the hundred and where the'gladitorial combats of the old days were held, may be had by moonlight. However, a much better idea of the Coliseum and its size can be obtained by viewing it from the air. From 1.000 to 1,500 feet above earth you can get a better estimate of its size, and as you float by you have to scrutinize closely to notice the damage time has brought to walls and arena. Near the Coliseum, the other ruins are less distinguishable. They are too small to stand out in the panorama. The palace* of Augustus is a mere pile of bricks. The world-famous Palatine bill near by is to all appearances an irregular strip of brick-strewn raead- owland and loses all of the grandeur that the fanciful tourist, on foot among the ruins, is able to reconstruct from streets in the old-time rubberneck wag ons, or in a taxi, you will be able to lounge comfortably in_ well padded seals of an airship and see at fairly close range the layout of Rome with its glories of ancient and modern archi tecture and at the same time feel pm*-' fectly safe, because a dirigible moves along with even \less vibration than a Pullman sleeper or American parlor caf. I have just landed from such an in spection of Rome. Except for a few moments’ uneasiness while the dirigi ble was leaving the ground the trip was a marvelous experience and al most absolutely free from any anxious moment;, even though the big ship sailed along 2,000 feet in the air at times. It was a war craft, built for scout duty, and capable of carrying 30 persons and was nothing like the com fortable passenger airships that are now being planned and which will soon be in actual operation not on ly in Rome but in o t h e r E u r o p e a n capitals as well. The big factories and the men ^ho designed these ships are now turning their thoughts to the possibilities of passenger traffic and they know that Americans are g o ing to b e som e o± their b e s t cu s to m e r s d u r i n g th e d a y s of en o rm o u s to u r i s t traffic th a t a r e to c'ome. _ In Italy, a s well a s F r a n c e and England, it is taken for granted that the day of a i r travel is here. No C h a n c e fo r C iv ilian s N ova J u s t now , o f eom ’se, civ ilian s find it im p o s s ib le to fly o v e r B o rne, o r even v i s i t R o m e fo r th a t m a t t e r , u n l e s s th e y h a v e sp e c ial business! th e r e . A ll transportation facilities are being used to demobilize sections of the armies and there is general congestion of rail ways and hotels. But this reconstruc tion period is not expetced to last many months. As guests of the Italian government and armed with a special permit to fly, our party of American newspaper men, eight in number, were taken up at mid- afternoon for a ofle-hour flight in which our ship did a figure-eight course over Rome, flying directly above the magnificent stnicture of St. Peter’s, tlie Quirinal palace, the Coliseum and the newer monumental edifice in white marble and gold that has been erected to commemorate the creation of neW Italy, the vast edifice df simple and severe architecture of the monument to Victor Immanuel II. In automobiles we were rushed out of Rome through the ancient city walls, some of which were built during the days of the old Roman republic, across the gardenlike ^campagna of green fields and flocks of sheep to an immense airdrome in the prairie land. The whole- of the Interior \yas one vast room in whmh three dirigibles were moored safe from raid and storm. By means of sP portable staircase on wheels we climbed into the swinging basket of the dirigible and took places where we could find them around the three gasoline engines, 12-cylinder Plats, each attached to a separate , pro peller. Carries Crew of Seven. ' Heather coats lined with sheepskin were distributed, although the weather on the ground was springlike. Seven Italian army men composed the crew of the ship. The officers nsed mega phones at times to shout orders to th'e crew and to communicate with the small army of .soldiers that held the guide ropes on the ground. Once the party was aboard the diri gible waj^ guided out tbrouglj a great pair of rolling doors into a lawnlike meadow. There, with nose pointed to the wind, the engines were started iWith a terrific roar. The final. sand bags were thrown from a pile on deck and the ship start- ed.» ascending without a tremor. Un less x>ne looked at the ground the sensation of moving was not notice able, I watched for a few moments the mannei’ in which a gas engine man tuned' up N>ne of the three motors aboard, and was startled a few seconds later'to find that we had moved sky ward about 300 feet. The hundred odd helpers on the • ground had already been dwarfed into jaaere pygmies. The Roman campagna On the other hand, the Quirinal pal ace, the Rome'residence of the king of Italy in peace timei, is notably unin spiring when viewed from the street. But seen from the air, the magnificence of the Quirinal is impressive. Wonderful Scene Unrolls. To all appearances we were barely- moving. Whole sections of landscape presented themselves smoothly and seemingly slowly. We had. ample time to inspect with considerable care the larger points of interest from our van tage point in the steady basket, and it was only after landing that we learned our speed had averaged 40 miles an hour.^ The distance above the' ground was responsible for the delusion of slow speed. These dirigibles seem utterly una fraid of swooping along a very few feet above the church towers when it is desirable ‘to fly low. • When Presi dent Wilson arrived in Rome several airships flew along the line of m a r c h , k e e p in g so close to the ground! that the faces of the crew were visible from the crowd. ■The glories of St. Peter’s, viewed from the air, are no small part of tho joy of flying over Rome. It is only from a liigh elevation that one is able to ap preciate the perfect sy m m e tr y of de- si.gn' that represents the be.-^t g e n iu s of ai’C 'hitectural thouglit in Rome through four centuries under the patronage of over a score of pope.s. Naturally enough the finer embellish ments of St. P e .ter’s a r e m o re or less in v isib le fro m the a ir . T h e fam o u s E g y p t ia n obelisk, b r o u g h t to R o m e by one of the old em p e r o rs, who utilized 800 men and 140 horses. to ■ perform part of the work and spent a -small for tune in gold on the enterprise, is la dot in the landscape. The. statues are mere blurs, the fountains are simply brighter spots in the landscape. You have, in brief, below you a sort of miniature model of St. Peter’s in color, resembling an architect’s clay model of a building. Trip' Quickly Made. One of the disappointing features of a first flight over Rome is the quick ness with which the trip is accom plished. You have no sooner gotten into the spirit of viewing things from aloft until your machine scoots out side the city over the green fields again and you have, groups of country peo ple below gazing skyward for the ever interesting sight of an airship. ^ Once headed toward the airdrome, yon will probably worry a bit about how efficiently the crew is going to manage the descent and landing. You commence to realize what an unwieldy thing an airship is, how sensitive it is to the air currents, how much it weighs, and, above all other things, how far away the ground appears. Yon con-., sider, after a b it of thought, that after all it was an idiotic id e a to fly while' the airship business is in a state of comparative infancy. About that time the airdrome, with its immense roof and sides of corru gated iron, is in sight. The pilots cir- clLe - the airdrome and do a sort of figure six in the air. On the ground nearly a battalion of men are rustling along to the spot the pilot has picked for the landing. Sure enough, just as you feared they are dropping the huge machine just like an elevator.- The gi*ound suddenly looks very close. About that time you get your first slight j a r ; it is the crew dumping sev eral barrels of water ballast to lighten the machine and stop the ear. The jerk is less than the usual elevator makes when stopping., for a floor. Had you not been- watching closely you ■would not have iioticed it. ' , DOGTOR URGED ' AN MRATION Instead I took Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound and Was Cuired. j Baltimore, Md.— Nearly four years I suffered from organic troubles, ner- ' vousness and head aches' and e v e r y month would have to stay in bed most of the time. f^eat- ments would relieve me for a time but my doctor was al ways Jirging me to i .have an operation. ' .Mysister asked me try Lydia E. Pink- a m’s V e g e tab le Compound b e f o r e consenting t n 'operation. I took y f five bottles of it and , y (fjp 7 it has completely ^ cured me and nrsr, work is a pleasurp. I tell all my friends who have any trouble of thi§ kind what Lydia E. Rinkham’s Yegetable Com pound has done,for m e .\ —N e l l i e B. B rittingham , 609 CalvertonRd., Balti more, Md. It is only natural for any woman' to dread the thought of an operation. So many women have been restored to health by this famous remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham’’s Vegetable Compound, after an operation has been advised that it will pay any woman who suffers from such ailments to consider trying it be fore submitting to such a trying ordeal. NOTICE TO MOTHERS . You can quickly heal baby’s sore, chaLd skin with j Sykes Comfert which contains antiseptic, * h e a ling ingredi ents not found in any other nursery powder. 25c at th e Vinol and other drug stores The Comfort Powder Co., Boston, Mass. | SARGENT & DENNER’S, Tuesday Bargain Days Are weekly, planned to give you the largest values in this f ity. We offer every Week, merchandise that in some instances cost more wholesale. * We have these Sales to make you more acquainted with the high grade of merchandise we sell at NPopular Prices. \ SEEM TO HAVE HIDING PLACE And a Welcome Mat. Detroit.-r-The house of correction here is to be' made hospitable, Mayor Couzens announced. A string band! and orchestra and movies will be intro duced. To coihplete the picture some one suggested the old-fashioned wel come mat at the front door. Jury Couldn't See It. Kansas City, Mo.—^Lawyer pleaded “joke’^ for defense, of two charged with highway robbery. The |u r y ebuldn’t see the joke. Five years' each In the pen was the verdict. J Just Where Do Facts Go That Orre K .iows, T e m p o r a r ily F o r g e ts and A fterw a r d Rem em b ers? One of the odd things about what we call losi-’ of memory is that it is catching. flow often when one person forgets a name well known to him does his coinpanion, to whom it is equally well known, forget it, too. Why is that? ■ T h e o t h e r day 1 hud an ex c e llen t exumx>le of th is odd epidem ic. It—was necessary for ^rlie name of a certiiin actor—not a star, but a versatile repertory actor of much distinction— to he recalled in ordtu* that a letter to him might quickly be dispatched. I had for.golten his nam e , h u t I de- .scrihed him and his m e th o d s w ith .snfiieient aecuiracy fo r every one (th e r e w e r e ajiout six of us) to recog n ize liim. Some of iis could even sfiy in what* pLirts we h a d seen him and CLvmpiire n o tes as to his excellence, and yet h is nam e ab s o lu tely eluded one an d all. W h y ? Wo all knew it; w liy did w e im a n iin o n s ly fail to know it ilien? We parted intent upon obtaining this nec^^ssary information. On meet ing again the next day each of ns had it pat enough, and it had broken upon each, more or less suddenly, during the night. The great mystery to me is, where are the things one forgets, but suddenly will remember again, while one is forgetting them? Where are they lurking? This problem of their whereabouts, their capacity to hide and elude, distresses me far more than my inability to call them from the vasty deep of the brain. Or are they, perhaps, not there at all? Do they pot, perhaps, have evenings out, times off for lunch and so forth, and thus we sometimes miss 'them? Or can there perhaps be some vast extra mural,, territory of the memory from which facts have to be obtained—as, if one would consult I'eference books, one must wait until the volumes can be secured? The fact that they always, or nearly always, reiurn, sooner. or later, rather supp«)i*ts these theories. —^Exchange. C h i ld r e n ’s U n d e r W a ists —— g a r t e r ‘a t t a c h e d , o u r re g u l a r T'Sc k in d , T u e s d a y o n l y .' .......................... 59o O O R S E T S E x t r e m e l o w top, r u b b e r a t w a ist, sizes to 26, w h i t e a n d p i n k , T u e s d a y . .. ....................... $1.39 F a s t C o l o r ' P l a i d a n d S t r i p e G i n g h a m s , a l l n e w s p r i n g p a t - 3 ^ . <5fpailty T o e e d a y o i n l y ................37c a yd JTw o -yard w ide h l e e c h e d .sheeting, e x t r a good q u a lity , T u e s d a y .................. .. 69c yd . W h y go a n d p a y $7.00 a n d $8 fo r a new S p r in g H a t , w h e n y o u c a n b u y th e m of u s fo r $4.95 L a d i e s ’ B l a c k a n d B lu e S e r g e S k irts, a re g u l a r $5.00 v a lu e , T u e s d a y o n ly ....................... $3.49 G R A Y B l iA N I t E T S 46 X 74 size, a re g u l a r $2.25 v a lu e , . ' ■ T u c s d iiy . ............................ $1.69 P a s t color, y a r d w ide. P e r cales, light* c’olors, T u e s d a y .......................... 21c a yd. P i n e q u a li t y W h ite. S a t i h ^ e t - tic o a ts, ' T u e s d a y . . . ------ --------- - . $1.39 . See o u r n e w lin q of S u its fo r lad ies a n d m isses, $10.00 to $45.00 Fancy Stripe Gingham House oirFOTOlr.'Bresses, all sizes,. Tuesday o n ly......................$2.69 Linen Welt tow e ling in brown only^—a big bargain on T u ^ d a y . . .............................. 12c y d W A IS T S , O n e l o t o f soiled fro m h a n d l ing, W a ists, $2.00 kin d , T u e s d a y .........................................$1.00 MUSIilN BRAl^TERS ' E m b r o i d e r y trim m e d , 75c k ind, T u e s d a y ..........................................55o O u r lin e of C a p e s a n d D o l m a n s a r e th e ta l k o f - th e city.* R o m p e r s of p l a i n a n d fan c y G in g h a m s , $T.25 kin d , , T u e s d a y o n l y ............................... 89c ' W h it e T a b le D a m a s k , 64 in . w ide, w a s 90c a y a r d , T u e s d a y ..................................69c y d L a d ies’ H o s e , a lf co lo r s — 3 9c q u a lity , T u e s d a y . ............ .. .................. . . ' 2 3 c $'1.00 M u & lin-G owns, e m b r o i d e r y trim m e d , T u e s d a y ^ ................ .. 79c 'F a n c y S l ip - o v e r S w e a ters, a l l colors, fo r la d i e s a n d c h il d r e n . B o y s ’ W a ists 'o f f a s t , c o lo r P e r c a l e s , . ' T u e s d a y o n l y .................. ............ 89c \ C U R T A IN SO K IM We offer our new Spring line of 5'Oc goods, T u e s d a y . .............................. 39c y d . G o r d o n F i b r e Silk H o s e , a re g u l a r $1.50 hose, T u e s d a y ................................. . . $1.19 SULK V E S T S F L E S H C O L O R T u o s d a y ..^ .......................... . . $1.43 o u r hew liiie of OiirtalQi SARGENT & BENNER 22 FRONT STREET PORT JERVIS, N. Y. 11 ' V /I Dark Problem. There are those -who are flreaflfully intol6rant of ^ignorance about New York. The other day, for instance, a lady, obviously from many hundred miles away, boarded a Broadway bar at Times square. “Does this car go'to Third avenue?” she asked. A look composed of equal parts of pity, rage and disgust spread over the conductor’s face. “Will you please tell me, lady, hovr this car could get onto Third ave nue?” he asked coldly, as soon as he could enunciate. , First , Time Reckoning. Perhaps the first 'reference to at tempts to reck o n time by mechanical means i^ found in Isaiah xxxviii, 8*, written supposedly about 713 B. 0„ “the sun- dial of Ahaz.” ■Pliny says that Anaximander invented, a sun dial about 550 ,B. ,C. The first sun dial at Rome was placed' in the temple of Quirinus, about 298 B. 0„ when time was divided into iiours. The ciep- ’?5ydra, or 'yv’ater clock, was the next time recorder invented. - Llfe'’8 Great Lesson. TJhe lesson .that life dins Into us with,such ceaseless Iteration that 4t. seems Impossible that' any of us could ever fall to hear It Is; To make haste to ba kind.—Rhoda Brqughton. ^ Smallest Bird Is Amerloan; 400 Species of Hummers; Only in Wesl:ern Hemisphere The smallest and most brilliantly col ored of all feathered creatures are the humming birds, and. of the 400 species none is to be found /elsewhere than in this \vestern hemisphere, poles a writ er in tho Arkansas Gazette. The la r g e s t of these ^ bii-d.s are no more than eight and a half inches and the .mallest about two and three- ei.ghths in length. Of these the larg est are never seen far north and the smallest rarely. The ruby-throated Im.nming bird, called by Audubon “a .glitterlngc fra.graent of the rainoow,’' hreed.M from the far. southern state- as far north as Labrador and winters- from southern Florida to Central America, reinalning with us from May to Jctnlier. Its length is about three ‘’11(1 one-quarter inches. ' The uppe' plumage Ls metallic .green, the male having a ruby red gorget, a white col lar on the throat and a deeply forked tail of \'brownish violet. The female is of plainer colorings. The eggs, nev er more than two, are white and about as large n s peas. It is a popular mistake that hum- ir.in.g birds feed only on the honey in flowers. They really for the most part feed on insects, gathered with their barbed and sticky ^tongues from flow ers and leaves. They j are, notwith standing their diminutive size, very pugnacious and will attack birds much larger than themselves, so that the English sparrow, with all his vaunted courage, dare not intrude on their Economy btore 95 flKE STREET Thfee styles Voile Waists, some embroidered, others are selfstriped, at- ..................... .. 98c each Girls’ Plaid Gingham D^esses^ ages to 14, at ...... A, .............. \ . ............. .. .. 98c and $1.69 Game Laws Summed Op by tbe U. S. Government for the Aid of Huntsmen To aid trappers -and hunters, the 'O’n i te d S t a t e s d e p a r t m e n t of a g r i c u l tu r e h a s i s s u e d F a r m e r s ’ Bulletin 1022, “Laws Relating to Fur-Bearing Ani- raalSr” w’Mch 1§ a summary of legisla tion in the United States, Canada and Newfoundland, relating to trapping, open seasons, propagation and boun ties. Untler the stimulus of high prices there is always danger that trappers will deplete, the trapping grounds and I permanently, decrease the number of fur animals, the federal specialists say. Regulations and Seasons should be carefully observed, so that the fur supply of the future shall not be en dangered. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, the foreign trade of the. United States in raw and manufactured fur^ reached the largest total in the his tory of the country. While exports were only $13,903,631, as compared with $15,729,160 for 1917, the Imports were $38,389,372 as compared wifh $21,553,375 for 1917. The total foreign trade in furs increased over 40 jpe.r cent. STRICTLY FIRST CLASS MADE IN PORT JERVIS HAPP^S KREAM KRUST BREAD . OkDER OF YOUR GROCER 1 GEO. HAPP. JR. How the Cricket ^inga. The wings'of . a cricket are folded horizontally and form when closed slender, thread-like tapering points be yond the wing covers. It is supposed to be by friction of the wing covers'* against each other and from a pe culiarity of their structure, that the males produce the sound which makes these injects so well known.—Chris tian Herald. A Sewer Went Forth to Sew. Said the facetious feller, “When a mail tries to seW ^ button on a coat he generally makes it appear as if he were sewing the eoat om the button.” GAZEHE WANT ADS BRING BUSINESS C O U R O IN ' UNIVERSAL SE L F -P R O N O U N C I N G CO NC ISE DICTIONARY iBouhd In genuine flexible French Morocco, l^ t h round corner and red edges. Contains IMO pages, 5 1 7 ^ inched.^ illustrated. 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