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Show Romances of Industry By WINTHROP 0IDDLK . Copyright, IMS (New Torsr Evening World), by Preaa Publishing Co, DIOQINO UP PREHISTORIC ClTICt FOR BUILOINO MATERIAL. The eastern part of Aala Minor, In eluding the ruins of Babylon, of Hush. t'r of the Chaldeea and Assur, contains Inei haust kble deposits of brick, burled under tha accumulating dust of from 3000 to 7000 ysars. Recent Investigation haa ahown Ut the walla of tie. by Ion alon would aupply brick enough to replace every modern building in Asia Minor. These walls are 1 If. fet thick. Of their height It la Impossible to judge; hut Herodotus ta authority for the statement that thsy were mors than 100 feet high. The length of these walls mar be Imagined Im-agined whea It la remembered that some estimates place the population of the i walled city of Babylon at S0.000.0no ! souls. That would make New York or i lxmdon look like a suburb by comparison. compari-son. Out of theae depoalta of brick. Including Includ-ing those of the ruins of a dosen long burled cities like Babylon, enterprising dealer In building materlale In Aala Minor have been making fortunes for centurlee. I The digging, trimming and aala of prehistoric bricks for use In modern structurea la atlll a flourishing business. busi-ness. Hsrgon I tha great legendary hero of Bahvloola, a comparatively modern character, who lived back In 100 B. C. bad plenty of labor, both free and slave- Neither he nor any of the other potentates of hla dim epoch spared flesh, blood or tsara In elty building. Thsjr built ett.es, and especially city walla, to outlast tlms. The bricks made bv thlr vaat swarma of workers ara aa good today as they were the day they were placed In tha walls. And the taskmasters task-masters of those remote days aeem to have known all about the art of baking brtcke so that they would stay baked. Practically every city, village snd cars van sect a of road -Ids In Asia Minor Is made of bricks dug from the rains of ancient works of defenas or monument a of pride. It la not unusual to find In Mesopotamia, Mesopo-tamia, for Instance, bricks In the wells of peasant huts that bear tha Btamp and the name of kings who lived, conquered, oppressed and then went tha way of all flesh and were forgotten aTa ago. loggers for universities, museums and scientific bodies hava carried away t caravan loads and ahtp cargoes of these mute reminders of past passlona. past glories and past aaptratlons. Hut tha greater part of them by far has gnns Into the building of a equalld) present upon the ruins of an amaslng past. |