Show Rome to Which All Roads Lead I I Cradle CradIc of Civilization Now the Mecca of Pilgrims and Tourists Washington To To the Holy Year pilgrims pilgrims pil pil- grims as well as to many thousands of American tourists all roads again lead to Rome nOIre the eternal city which Is the subject of a bulletin from the thle Wash Wash- headquarters of the National Geographic society Rome nome the cradle of ot our civilization tITers fliers more to the sightseer the re re- devotee the archeologist the or the aesthete than any other ther city and perhaps more than allf all f them together the bulletin states Like Its Inception Rome nome cannot be seen or learned In a day The remark remark remark re re- re- re mark of or the French historian Ampere who said ald that a n superficial knowledge of Df Rome nome could be acquired In a ten years years' visit gives an Idea of the vast number and variety of Its attractions Even the casual or hurried tourists and pilgrims Ims however cd cannot fall faU to tobe tobe tobe be Impressed with what little they see seeor see seeor rt or learn f of of the A mr f mother AT cut v t nl of o u r L y 1 VA vu language e la laws Vs religions and many of our customs Rome links us with all other cities In Its prime the long arms arms' of ot the empire stretched far tar to the east and and west and brought the highest civilization of the time to the rude tribes beyond the Alps and the Mediterranean But the Rome of ot today Is not thi Rome nome At first It Is very ing with Its conventional smoot pa e paved sunny streets houses trolley cars electric lights a an au hotels all of or them very much li 1 those of other modern cities There It little trace of the famed seven hills Ir r the temples and ruins of the hIst history 1 books I This Is because the visitor enters the city it tt its newest side A great graft gr busy modern cIt city has bas been built per pera er rera ern a n greater ancient one and the l latter ter Is only In a few places To get a romantic picture of Rome nome one must walk valk by the Colosseum In the or loiter on the Brid Bridge e of ot Ange Angel when the star reflections damp the sullen Tiber or sit by a fountin In a n scented rose-scented garden when the nightingales arc are singing Seven Hills Shaved Off primps the most vivid hand first-hand Im impassions of no Rome e today are of tho the of its hotels and business ho houses hoes es the number of Its churches am ant the beauty of Its many fountains The rhe seven hills bills are still sUll there bl butth but t th Intervening centuries have greatly I codified them The modern city li is for the ancient hilltops have hn hen ben largely shaved off and the vals valUs val Its U's filled In to suit the tho exigencies of ot ofte otte te to trolley car and automobile Palatine hill hlll with its ruins and press trees Is visible as Is the CapI line hill hlll which rises somewhat 1 abruptly from the center of ot the city owned with churches and other buildings t and the Monte lIonte QuIrInal Its royal palace and the Trajan olumn Tint nut the MIP Monte Cello or Cael n u t us s which was ti never high h has as hardly rny my ray slope and would be bo Indistinguishable able but for the church of San Giovanni Giovanni GiovannI Gio Gio- vanni In Laterno The Esquiline hill shows the two domes of Santa Maria Maggiore the hill the home of the opposition since Remus nemus fled there from his brother drops off oft rather rath rath- er sharply toward the river but is smooth and rolling rolling- In the other There Is nothing today to distinguIsh distinguish dis dis- distinguish the Monte l near the railroad station It Is only In the Roman noman and Trajan forums and In such Isolated buildings as the tho Castle of St. St Angelo which Trajan's successor Hadrian erected as a n suitable mausoleum for himself the Colosseum the Baths of Caracalla Caracal Caracal- la etc mutilated defaced robbed and scorned that one Is able to get some conception of the grandeur of Rome nome In Inthe Inthe inthe the days das when the will of Its ruler was waslaw waslaw law for the known world Rome nome today Is a city of or people and the capital of or united Italy But nut a united Italy is such a comparatively comparatively comparatively recent phenomenon that In to the minds of most people the city still stands for two things things the the remains of ot antiquity and the seat sent of Catholicism In St. St Peters Peter's and the adjoining Vatican Vatican Vati Vati- can Rome Home has the largest continuous series of buildings in the world The Tho Vatican residence of ot the pope contains contains contains con con- some rooms though some say 20 0 courts and more than staircases But nut aside from the railroad teri terminal terminal ter ter- minal and several se to date hotels Rome nome today has hns only a 11 single contribution contribution contri contrI- to Its former glory the glory the massive massIve massive mas mas- sive monument to Victor Emmanuel IT of modern Italy Before It Is the tomb of Italy's Unknown Soldier However in Its Palazzo delle Finance the tr treasury of the country modern Rome nome has a building covering square yards the largest treasury In Europe |