Show SEEING ROME OME F correspondent gives interesting description of trip over eternal city WONDERFUL irn SCENE UNFOLDS plan to make aerial tours of city an attractive feature for visitors when normal conditions re 14 turn trip Is marvelous experience Exper ence by LLOYD ALLEN western newspaper unon staff correspondent copyright 1910 tr by valon rome home when lou make that long promised european trip to see tile the grent great battlefields of prance france and italy and get to rowe rome you will undoubtedly have the opportunity of 0 inspecting th the e eternal city from the deck of a dirl gible cible by the time europe lias has set its hol house se in order and has recovered sufficiently from war to make jurists comfortable rome kome will be featuring an aerial tour of the city which no one will care to miss even oil though the cost of tile the trip may be something like 20 instead of lumbering through the streets in the old time rubberneck wag ous or in a taxi tax you will be able to plunge comfortably in well padded seats of an airship and at fairly close range the layout of rome with its glories of ancient and modem architecture and at the same time feel perfectly safe because a dirigible moves alon along with even less vibration lb ration than a pullman sleeper or american Ami Amz rican pallor pailor tar car I 1 ibave just landed from such an in home except tor for a few moments uneasiness while the lile ble was leaving the ground the trip trill was vms a marvelous ex experience perlene e and almost absolutely free from any anxious Ino moments even though the big ship sailed along 2000 feet in the air it times fillies it was a war craft built tor for scout duty and capable ot of carrying 30 persons and was mas nothing like the comfortable for table passenger airships that aro now being planned and which will soon lie in actual operation bof not only in rome home but in other european capitals as well tile big factories and the men who inho dp designed signed these chipi fire are now turning their thoughts to the possibilities ot pa pai enger henger traffic and they know that americans are L aing to be some ot their best customers the days of enormous tourist traffic that are to corce in italy as well as france and england it 1 ls 13 3 taken for granted that the day of air travel Is here no chance for civilians now j just now of course civilians find it impossible to ily fly over rome or even visit rome for that matter unless they have special business there all transportation facilities are being used to demobilize sections of the armies an and them is general conge congestion tion of I railways U nud and hotels cut but this reconstruction period is not to last many months As guests of the italian government und armed with a special permit to fly our party of american newspaper men C eight in nu numer num niner nr were mere taken up tit at for a one hour flight in our ship did a figure eight course over rome fening directly above the magnificent structure of st ilsters the quirinal Quirl nal palace the coliseum and the newer monumental edifice in w hite marble and gold that has been erected to commemorate the creation of now liew italy tile vast edifice of simple find and i evere architecture of the monument to victor Ini manucl II if in automo automobiles blIcs we were rushed out of rome items through the ancient city walls some of which were built during the lays days of the old ronlan republic across the caw campagna of green fields find and locks flocks of sheep to an all immense airdrome in the prairie land the whole of the interior was one vast room in which three dirigibles were mooned safe from rain and storm by means of a portable staircase on wheels we climbed into the hie swinging balbot of tile lie dirigible and took places place where we could find them around the three gasoline engines 12 cylinder F fiats fats euch each attached to it a separate pio peller carries crew of seven leather coats lined filled with sheepskin were nvere distributed although the weather on oil tile tho ground was mas seven italian aimy ruen men composed the crew of tile the ship the officers officer used mega phones nt at times to shout orders to the crew and to communicate with tile the small army of soldiers that held tho the guide ropes on the ground the final sand bags were thrown from it a pile on oil deck and the ship started ascending without a tremor unless one looked at the ground the sensation of moving was not noticeable I 1 watched for a few moments the manner in which a gas engine man tuned up one of the three motors aboard and va was startled a few seconds later to find that we had moved skyward about feet the hundred odd helpers on oil the ground had already boon been dwarfed into mere pygmies the roman campagna with the mountains in the distance was unfolding into a vast panorama we continued to ascend to more than 1000 feet moving oil all the time with increased speed toward the city of 0 rome ten tell miles away panorama of rome roma at a speed of 40 to 50 miles till nn lur we sped over farmhouses and ruins of the lie applan way toward the lie city within five minutes the miles ot of arched stone aqueducts that stretch from rome home to the mountains had been passed and we were in the outskirts ot of the town with the river tiber just ahad threading the solidly packed rows ot of houses like it t lull dull blue ribbon they tell you in rome home that tho the most satisfactory blew of the wrecked coliseum where the caesars caesara used to murder achl by iho file hundred and where the gladi tortal combats of the old days were held may be had by moonlight ITo however wever a much abeli better idea of the coliseum and its size can be obtained by viewing it from froin the air from 1000 to 1500 feet above earth you can get a better estimate of its size and as you float by you have to scrutinize cl closely oely to notice the damage time has brou brout brought t to walls and arena near the coliseum the other ruins are less lebs distinguishable they are too small to stand out in tho the panorama the palace of augustus la is a mere pile of bricks the world famous palatine hill near by Is to till all appearances on an irregular strip of brick strewn meadow onland land end lose sall of the grandeur r 1 rid that the fanciful tourist on ilot foot among the ruins ruin is able to reconstruct from his imagination on oil the other hand the quirinal pal nee fice the rome residence of tile the king of italy in pence peace times time s Is notably uninspiring when viewed from the street but r vt seen front from tile lie air the tha ning riff irenee ot of tile the ls Is impressive wonderful scene unrolls to nil appearances we oro barely moving whole sections ot of presented pl themselves smoothly an ana seemingly slowly we had ample time to inspect with considerable care the larger points ot of Ill interest from our van t algo point in fit the steady basket and it MOS w us only after landing that we learned our speed had average 40 miles an hour the distance above the ground was responsible tor for the delusion of slow speed tile the glories ot of st peters from the air are no small part or of tho th joy of flying over rome home it is only fron from a high elevation that one is able to ap pre predate clate the perfect symmetry of de dc sign that represents the best genius 0 architectural thought in r rome tome through gl tour four centuries under the patronage of 0 over a score of popes naturally enough the flaer embellishments ot of st peters are more or less invisible from the air the famous egyptian obelisk brought to rome by one of the old emperors who utilized SOO men inen and horses to perform part of the work and spent a small asdall fortune in gold orthe enterprise Is a alt ot in the landscape the statues are mere blurs the fountains are simply brighter spots in the landscape trip quickly made one of the disappointing disappoint ill features of 0 a first night flight over rome is the quickness with which the trip Is accomplished p shed you have no sooner gotten into the spirit of vi viewing eving ghingo from rom aloft until your machine scoot outside the city over the green field fiel J again gal find and you have groups of country people below gazing skyward for 1 ener interesting sight of an all airship once ended toward the ah drome you will probably worry a bit about aboul biow low efficiently the crew is going to tc ina manage liage the descent and landing you commence to realize what nil all thing abing an airship Is how sensitive it Is 13 to the air currents how much it weighs and above all other things how low far away the ground appears you consider after a bit of thought that after all it was an idiotic idea to lly fly while the airship business Is it in a state ot of compari comparative tive infancy about that time the airdrome its immense root roof find and sides ot of carru gated iron Is in sight the pilots clr cir cle the airdrome and do a sort of 0 figure eguro six in the air on oil the alie ground nearly a battalion of men ire are rushing along to the spot the pilot ha hay 1 picked for the ahe landing sure enous all li just as you feared they aliey are dropping the huge machine just like an elevator the ground suddenly looks very close about that time you get your jour j our first slight jar it is the crew lumping dumping several barrels of water ater ballast to tighten lighten the machine and stop slop the car the j jerk rl k is less than the usual elevator makes when stopping tor for a floor had you not bevil been watching closely you would not have noticed it |