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Show Trip Prom Italy to Greece j ' Suggestive of Archaeology j Rather Than Commercialism j 'Journey Over Adriatic and Aegean Seas Fraught With Historical Recollections; Is Now Made Only in Warship; Ship From Brindisi. Fy WILLI AM T. ELLIS. Ilera'.J Ci.v.p.tny (Copyright, by th Now York 11 or. a'd OonpAny-All Ki.'.is Reserved. (?psvul to Tho Salt 1 ;iUo Tribune- and Now York Herald.) X Tin". AYUN SKA. Ap-ll :- OYYom Ua'.y to O.eee. aoros the j A,!r:.i:u a p. a the Av;o.u. Is more suites: :ve of history av.il archaeology archae-ology nd trael than o Uvjrn.il-1 Uvjrn.il-1 5 ; i pursuit of the near east and us j yroNems. Ne erthe.ess. the problems and ihelr manifestations are- hero, as com-: com-: mingled ds the flora, of Italy, which eom-: eom-: bines at the- same time ripe oranges and : olive's growing akvigstde of apple blos-: blos-: ov.s and bloomim; laurel. Is this the ffV-nvg'.iir.e or toe Muaivi of these : scer.e oi c'a!Ml Hmto.mty? That is a : question w.V.ch enter deeply mto the very : iou"d2.'.:on of the new order of world eo-: eo-: p c.eYv tha; ts being la u1 m Pa -is. ; Militarv and iuj! rule Mill prevail In ; ;.:s part" of the voi'.-, so one takes sh'p j : no; from FrLiid'.s:. as m the olden days ; of easy tr.e!. but from the great Italian : rival 'base- at 'Paramo, which may bo ; entered only by spec'.al permt s:on. Ta-: Ta-: ran:o :s a wonderful harbor, spacious and entireiy lard looked, the entrance bem; ; through a narrow pssae uhi.-'u separau"s s the old tow I r:n t . n e w. Krom S to $ and from S to 4 o'clock every day the bridge is oen to permit shirs to pass. Y :!..: :i lie at anchor re;reenta- t:ve.s of all the allied navies. I Navy's Pride I Sunken Wreck. I Feepin above the surface of this per- fect-v sa:e h.arbor are the side plates of the bride of the Italian fleet, the dread- rough t Leonardo di Vinci, sunk nearly two years ago by German spies. There had been festivities aboard one night and ar.torg the guests were two German wo:n- e n a 1 after the pa r t y was over i h e ship blew up ard- str.k. with considerable loss o: life. T.ie German women never were seen after. vard. Not wrecks or battleships first strike the strai.ger s eye in Tarar.to harbor. It H ;s rather a giea: array, in several r a ; c h e s . of w h a ; i o o k like c h e v a u d e s friers curiously crossed poles sticking out oi the water. Naval men use language over the amount of sp.ce these cover and ; h e li i r. d ra v. - e the y are to s n: a 1 1 boats, I u: . ''fy re"rest nt an imniemor.ai us.ige ai rig.it 3 r. 1 vested interest. For tnese a.-? musse: res. w aich have been ma:n- -.air.ed f r. m Romnn days. Fossi .-'y r u I saw th s e when he passed t h r o u ? h Taranto on his way to Rome- Not only were '.he mussels used then, as now. as a staple article o: fooi. but from their s .tells was exiractei the famous Ronun tiuriie d:e. lii the clc town of Tanp.to !s d : splay the ery limit of t.urouean p.-verty. ;ui:alor and dimnatlon the sort of thing tho pe?'j? CT'erence intends to wipe jut. Orly the ton h can cure this- plague -pot, ad I was tempted to wish th;-t the , hre which was consuming a big tanker at :he dc-k rr ight sweep t :ie tcw.i u: ;cr 1 in'rle w:t: i::g to evtrytor.y. New Y-rk has oi'tt n reproached 1 1 -v f h for Us (en.-nie-ats w hich, i-'f coine. :r o oni' a borrow bor-row od cld-wi-rld I'iu hion ln'l tho worst lo bo found on the ti:-l .suU- i ep:i-.- nts swft-tin'sH and liiilit an I f mitauon a-i cotni a"d with old Tarar.to. On iill fi fi'ct widt, somet itut'f archei! oxer, wt-uld! bo bi iK houses of four and fivo s.ionev j it would seetn rea on;i ble to sa that most of th dwcllii-s in thtN old. o il rlty mer v--t ,d o :i Mix le imv of miiiIi-lit. f oours,'. ihe chaldron, poor, w r;t?., ,ed little tat tei dci iMlit n-', be: t m in tin ftr-'it;uers. ftr-'it;uers. :i.d qui. My ii-o vcd to ';if a lu x to the tirt oy tir v with even a meriMirnbly clean t.u-t. I still h:ivo that part K-u'ar lira1. The- I am tl never meant that luuivu beings should dw rll In suoiv ! ilih and mlsi ry nd J lessness. I low lore xv ill it taUo for tho moiventoun decisions de-cisions of the Tarts conference to rcfleh down into the old part of l ha low a v( Taranto nnd all the other black spots of the earth? Briton and Yank Work Together. Then aro no puMio passenger steam-sK!js steam-sK!js running from Tavanto; one goes a t ho guest of some goxvrmmnt, paying J only for his meah-. aboard a tiar.no.'t or ' other naval vessel. H- ve w o f .ml how ; I'r.tish and Americans have come to woi K ' together. A quiet, etikuent 'M. l. O ." ; ay the mihtar' landing oft'eer Is calied ; in a world x here names are reduced to j initials, accepts Americans in un'forn; as; if thev xfc'ero British, und peeda tiuiu : eastward. - j This your. ier cantaiti represents thd new j typo of tiritish officer rever effusixo, but , always courteous; r.ot gixen to wees but i his 'Right, oh I" covering the quick doing ' of the tiling. The xvar has produced the ' type. Th old insularity and apparent ar- i rogance whicn mado er.emien e.-yw hre ! for Great Frltain doutlts cor.c-.al d n true heart, but tho person xxhc t:ne into j contact with it could not be expected to tarry for a surgical operation upon every Hriton he met, nor xet for a medu-al liiag-r.o;s- Aboard the transport which was. to s.0 to Athens end Salor.ihi there wa-; the atmosphere at-mosphere of good x'.ill and of that t-s-n'.oroi;t nism which is found at its beM in a ship sail hug Near Ha? tern sea, and in a British mess anvwliere "east of Sue;," cap'.y.in ard pmssetarers know by name nt of the personalities ot this Interesting In-teresting world where east nr.d west t lupine lu-pine e. Table ta k range f re m JnHah t Kt--ac':i. trom F-Tt tfairi to Alexandi . tta ui-.d Constantinople Arabiun N'.u'.'.s Incl-d-Tts crop un most ratfrnlly. The iur-lain iur-lain is lifted from the strange scenes enacted out here durn s tho war. Another Type of Traveler. The skipper's tales are r-rt -hole glimpses of Inxv the F'tih dcilt v.ith Arabs and Afr.eans and ol ui repor'.cd tpi- i soit s of how th A nglo-Saxon "nt-t the Teuton and t' o "urk. T.ic colon. I tei': ; how. with only 5- 0 men. e.-ch v ;th ten rounds cf aininuii.ticu. Ins M' !'Ib"-- "nn ( li.lonairly took i.oss;on of ror.etan-tinorV, ror.etan-tinorV, in th f. , oi tnjf-.n.ds of i- ow.- inc German and Ottrm. in tro-; s. and th.-'i went forth, "armed to th t-v-ih with l.lit i walking sti' V.r," to se 'he town Among the passe-r.cers on board th ; transport Is f;.ptaln J. Wo."tnn of Soulh Af rh-a, tlii ect .:ig tho Iirlt h nlr m;.-.on In Greece. w!io, althujrh he hat b:en In f-ur wars, wears 1:1 bars or rrdals. from certain ti. 11 w-r.it c .'r:pl .. He ta the man who is to make the r.rst C.itu-to-C:-.pe-Tjw:i flight, in recognition of h. s thirly ywrs of devotion to aero- i. aul;c. A ( alloonist before tho airplane w .13 in van 'Hi. a;. ;n aci "Tkiih u;tl r.t;i-n-er, he neverii.r mil Hi , a niak the experiir.'-r.tiil f.';hts h'. m.lf . He .n , nioro nit trestrjd 111 ;i n - und - the- worl ! a-itonivibile tr.t with h. famly. aftT dc- , niobil zation, than i:i war stor.es. As f'r bis gume huntitif? in A fncu we'.!, t hat was so long hs ine.ir.3 oi livelihood tli;t he Fmiles indulp'-n'.ly over those who beast of a lion k.Iled, for the lion Ih ft cowardly beast, and even the elephant e simple quarry, when hunted from horse-bark horse-bark in tho open. Most widely traveled of all the transport's trans-port's pa-sscnerr, and himself far more interestinc th;in any tales he could teil is the "KirKs M.-senger." a civilian wearing ar. ins km: a from wfjlch hangs a e;'er greyho-.n, i, badve of service that was of h.iKhesi importance before the advent of the telegraph and the cable, w-hen diplomatic messages aDi dcu-monta dcu-monta were transported by hand. Now, the heavy packs which accompany the messenger Irom capita. to capital are likelier to contain b.lls and boors for the attaches, and finery for their wives, than dispatches upon affairs of Mate. Dick pus would have done well with this "King's Messenger," fr.r he is a picturesque survival o: a day which the world thinks dead. All his comments and expletives are thnse of the sta e representation of the Englishman. He wrinkles his nose and forehead and snorts for alt theworid like a Pekinese poodle. His chief concern, to judge from his conversation, is how to get through the morning until it is time to take the first drink for as a Briton of the old school he keeps the c-de of the clock. The mighty events amid which he moves, or the possible contents of his ba ss, concern him no more than his numerous numer-ous telegrams interest a Wall street messenger boy. His idea of chaos is a dtTnrgnu-r.t of the eating and drinking J sclu dul.-. . 1 X -: ; h r r B"'.l; cvhn n r P.- u s . a n m 1 ar u.s?-. his ire as t!ie hp-::ac!e vf Air.T ." .I Hii l i".t:i nl.i g"r.t dry; ar.d he thank.- h'-.ivm thai h-' d- i:-t h;t e to carry r-ou.-ne! th thr. "Most f xtrardir.iiry '." 3 his OTiUint cmimfiit. 11 .3 s.ipu nt com r. but lo-i to the temperance qiit-st !n Is that lifjmr Flwmld be made very k,jJ :i:1 Vt-ry p.ifrMVD, thus i-rving t he .two-fold purrmve rf grain yimj Die cultivated culti-vated tas;e f g tub-men j :id making dr;nk inacc- Mbio to the lower ci;s-s But w tin ho hi m .-'If bus d ruiik t'-o mu'-h wh.cn is not Infrequently, and d iii'tlefM due to the Inferior pjai:ty of h:s iot.it t ms while travtiirg the "King's Messenger" would srve as a ery effective "exhibit A" for Billy tun-day tun-day n booze bcrnion. American Pride Quite Justified. , Out amid these fftnrled chores for It was hereabouts that "Homer twanged his blooming lyre" one meets the human factors in the solution of the near eastern east-ern problems. An American feels justifiable justifi-able pride in the men who wear the uniform uni-form of his own country- They are fit f r the task. The best qualities of their nation come to flower amid these new responsibilities. I have seen them in action, ac-tion, and in their efficiency is a prophecy of the near day when the 1'nitcd States, las a mandatory of the league of nations, I will have assumed a large share of the white man's burden amid the peoples of the near east. Such men as Lwuiams Holmes and Gray and Jenna and Monjot, of the army, on special service east of France, and Captain Train. Lieutenant Bradley and Ensign Capser of the navy, are of the breed that makes a nation both noble and great. In these mine-strewn waters are a number of American submarine chasers, manned by boys, but doing stunts undreamed un-dreamed of by the gods of the older days, who dwelt upon high Olympus yonder and. by the way, snow-covered Olympus is very beautiful today. One incident must stand for a bonk full of experience. experi-ence. When the Austrian fleet at the head of the Adriatic surrendered, Amer-j Amer-j ica was represented only by these saucy j little craft which defy tho devil and the deep sea. So it befell that two Austrian battleships of the first class, the Radet-zky Radet-zky and the Zyrinl. with all their huge I mament, and two destroyers, surren-i surren-i d'rcd to the impudent little chasers, w ho might instead have been lifted bodily 011 to the decks of the bigger craft, Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Commander E. E. Spat" ford was In charge at the time 6f the ceremony, and, from what his junior officers say. he is a king among men. fit to receive the surrender sur-render of all the central powers. But he slipped a cog on this occasion. Instead of receipting for tho Austrian fleet in the name of the allied powers, he receipted for it in the name of the United Stales of America so technically the ships now belong to Uncle Sam. j When Lieutenant Faced Admiral. One of the youngsters who commands a submarine chaser number 24S, to be exact is Junior Lieutenant Thomas M. Conruy, U. S. N. U. F.. aged 22, and looking look-ing lc--s. This lad was put in command of the surrendered fleet for a week, and of the Kadetzky for a month, with a hundred and fifty American gobs, a nd t wo hundred and fifty Jugo-Slavs under htm on board the Radetzky. The wine of liberty worked so ebulliently in the Jugo-Slavs that Conroy sent them ashore after two days. While this veteran American tar of 22 strode the quarter deck of the battleship, the Italian fleet, under Admiral Milo. appeared and undertook to land troops. "Nothing doing." or naval lingo to that cf.ect, said Junior Lieutenant Conrov. The admiral, with slathers of gold braid to his uniform, came aboard to overawe this presumptuous Yankee child. Now it seems that the American nan-has nan-has been inoculated against being overawed over-awed by anybody, and since what the admiral ad-miral wanted was not according to latest Paris edition of Hoyle. ho could not have it, and he was so Informed, with all deference, def-erence, and his troops were not landed. If the luster of the admirals gold braid . , j 1 was a bit dimmed by the episode, there waj no complaint made to Washington, and On'V finis Jlht-'hartedly as i r with ;h An-.erir.in K-d Cro-s girls wli'-n hi- dir-y little boat puts in at Ath-e:.s Ath-e:.s or Salomki. Such are th mn who are bringirg succor, suc-cor, serenity and safety to the troubled nearest. Another feature by Dr. Ellts Tuesday, April S.) |