Show A SEAPORT FOR ROME The Italians arc making a seaport at Ostia fifteen miles below Rome Home near the mouth of the Tiber The country between there and Rome is mostly swamp or sandy sanely plains and it is proposed to connect the port and cit city cily with electric lines and und have a n great summer resort near the tIle sea Great expectations are arc entertained enter- enter tamed of how splendid a success th the enterprise will willbe willbe be both in iii the thea a way of business and the making of an outing place for the rich and poor o of Rome Yedo We Ye Wedo Wedo do not know the tile altitude of Rome but have often wondered that a ship Silil canal has not been constructed to lo make Rome herself a seaport The Tiber is the second second largest river of Italy HaIr It is miles long and there mu must t be many places along its course where reservoirs Ls L's might be constructed Perhaps a ship ca canal ml would not pa pay par an any interest on its cost but we think it would Few ew ships would pass without going up UI to the eternal city The emigrants would nearly nearly near near- ly lv all be shipped from there Rome nome was the iron nation but hut would woul there not be a stirring in ill the old graves there were fir first class steamer to sail up under the shadow of her seven hills 1 Rome has been a to the world rOLe for twenty five centuries |