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Show HISTORIC ISLAND When Domitian exiled St. John to the island in 95 A. D., Patmos staked its claim to fame and a place on mariners maps. Of especial interest to pilgrims are the monastery of St John, the cave where guides declare St. John received a heavenly vision and wrote the Apocalypse, and the islands 300 or more churches, some of which are mere huts with domes topped by crosses. COSTLY ROAD MATERIAL Stone from surrounding mountains which has been used for some time on roads in three villages near Miskolcz, Hungary, has been declared by experts to be black marble. high-qualit- . . . Salt Lake Citys fewest Hotel y It is the DOLLARS that circulate among ourselves, in our own community, that in the end . . . HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE build our schools and churches, pave our streets, lay our sidewalks, increase our farm values, attract more people to this section. Buying our merchandise in our local stores means keeping our dollars at home to work for all of us. 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All vehicles are excluded from the river plain, and all efforts concentrated on maintaining order among the multitude of men, women, and children that move about in the dust, slip on the wet clay near the stream banks, and attain merit by bathing in the murky waters. A torrid sun beats down, and to screen its rays little shelters of rushes have been erected on the sands. Under these sit all manner of people wearing a minimum of clothing. Among them are holy men, their bodies smeared with gray coats of ashes. Groups of idols are set up that the faithful may contribute coins. Among the crowds go men carrying water-skinsprinkling the water in an effort to lay the dust that millions of bare feet stir up. Allahabad is old. In the enclosure of the fort is a pillar erected by Asoka, the great Buddhist king, during the Third century B. C. It may have been moved to the spot later, however, so it is not conclusive evidence that a town existed on the site of Allahabad during Asokas reign. The first town than Belgium. known to history on this site was Not the Baghdad of Ali Baba. Prayag, about which a Chinese travelA great wall encircles Baghdad. er wrote in 700 A. D. The Hindus huddled Moorish houses, still call the town Prayag, the It received the many almost windowless and each sur- place of sacrifice. rounding its own open court, are a dis name by which it is now known to tinct feature of the older parts of the the world from its Mohammedan city. On these flat roofs Arabs spend conquerors in 1575. the summer nights with Singapore a Great Free Port. and dancing womflutes, water-pipeSingapore is an island 27 miles long en. Facing the river, removed from by 14 wide and just misses being the the Arab town, are built the imposing southernmost point of the continent of foreign consulates, mercantile offices, Asia by a half mile water channel. It anti the sumptuous homes of rich is at the funnel point of the Strait of Jews, Armenians, Greeks, and Syrians Malacca which extends between the the men who made New Baghdad. Malay peninsula and the island of But the Baghdad of Ali Babas day, Sumatra. with the splendor ,of Aladdins enLittle more than a hundred years ago chanted age, is gone forever. The the island, owned by the sultan of palaces, the mosques, and minarets are Johore on the nearby mainland, was mostly in ruins. Even the tomb of a deserted Jungle save for a little fishlovely Lady Zobeide, favorite wife of ing village. Ships in the China trade is tumbled down and passed it by as they passed many andecayed. It is Into modern monuments other jungle shore; the only ports of to New Baghdad Into roads, bridges, call in that region of the world were Irrigation works, those on the Dutch islands of Supublic buildings, army organization, dredging the Tigris, matra and Java. But these ports took etc. that the prominent citizens put a big toll in fees, and Sir Stamford their money'. Raffles, an official of the East India Modern Baghdad is in safe hands company, began to dream of a free now; no dissipated royalty guards its British port that would facilitate men, drilled trade. In 1819 he obtained the seemgates. Sober, in the best schools of modern Europe, ingly worthless island of Singapore able to hold their own anywhere, ad- for his company for a small fee. Deminister its affairs. As late as 1830 velopments soon proved him a prophthe Tigris overflowed its banks, swept et, for within two years the little tradthrough Baghdad, and drowned 15,000 ing center he established had a popupeople In one night. lation of 10,000. It was 1822 before Allahabad Attracts Millions. the British government consented to Normally, Allahabad, India, is a city take an interest In the place. In the little more than a hundred of 175,000 people. It lies in the region between the Jumna and years since it was founded, the jungle Ganges rivers, at the meeting place of of Singapore has given place to a huge the two streams. It is this location city of close to 400,000 population, carthat draw's huge crowds to the town rying on trade normally valued at a billion dollars annually one of the interannually; and, at twelve-yea- r vals, tremendous hordes. Both the metropolises of the British empire. Jumna and the Ganges are sacred Its quays and anchorages serve thoustreams, and their meeting place is sands of craft of all sorts and sizes, doubly sacred. The mystical Indian from the picturesque, graceful Malay sampans and the stodgy Chinese junks mind finds still a third reason for holi ness: it is believed by the pilgrims to the familiar freighters of the West, that the Saraswati, a river which is and what Kipling asserts are the lady-likliners. They build up Singswallowed up by the sands southwest of the Punjab, emerges at the junction apores shipping to the tremendous total of 17,000,000 tons yearly. , point of fhe Jumna and Ganges. cities of Asia that have prominently in former ' flights will be on the route of the race which will take plat e in October. They are Baghdad, Allahabad and Singapore. Baghdad is near the Persian frontier, bard by the traditional site of old Eden, mans birthplace. Here on the classic soil of Babylon, Nineveh, and Opls once flourished the pick of the human race; here was the center of the worlds wealth, power, and civilization. And back to this ancient region modern men are turning, to reclaim its lost areas, open its mines and oil deposits to restore the Garden of Eden ! From the deck of a Tigris steamer Baghdad looms up boldly, its splendid skyline of domes and minarets reminding one of some midway of Worlds fair memory. 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