Show BEGIn REBUILDING OF ITALIAN CITIES i RUINED BY QUAKE QA I Government Officials Lay Corner Stone of Messina Public Buildings j MESSINA Sicily Jan 16 The The re rebuilding rebuilding re- re building buDding of Messina In durable masonry was Inaugurated today when the corner cornerstone cornerstone cornerstone stone of or the group of oC public buildings to be bo erected erected by the municipality was laid b by Signor Signer minister of ot public works Signor Signer minister or f posts I and tel telegraph graph and other members of or orth tho th government The ceremony was witnessed by a great assemblage and aroused much en enthusiasm enthusiasm en- en and n new w hope for tho the future I The temperature was as spring like the sun was bright and ani the city was more gay than It had bee been since Ince It was devastated dc b by tho the earthquake tar of or December 1993 1998 The ministers visited tho the temporary wooden structures that were put up for fot the the- housing housing- of or the tho homeless thousands following following- the tho c. c calamity and were especially cape espe daily pleas pleased d to o note ho how well the buildings erected by subscription from America had been preserved The now city hall bali will bo built of or stono atone and nd con con- crete The ministers go from tram here hore to ne Reg- Reg glo gie where there thero will be a similar ceremony cere core mon mony formally opening the work of or re re- re construction |