Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-08 | Page 17 | Poor of Naples in Pitiable Condition

POOR OF NAPLES IN PITIABLE CONDITION Thousands Live Underground, or. Homeless, Home-less, Herd With Boasts. Special Cablo to Tho Tribune. 'RdMlD," March 7. In the course of a lively debate in the chamber of deputies depu-ties on the high rents in Naples, the renowned re-nowned sociologist. Deputy ColaJannI, stated that tho misery In that city was frightfuj. With Its threo-quartcra of a million Inhabitants. It had as many outcasts out-casts as London. It Is estimated that thoro arc' about 100,000 persons without fixed dwellings. Many etlll herd in cellars cel-lars or live In the companionship of beusts. Thor,o.has bcen.o. gradual rise in rents for somo years past, but lately the landlords land-lords have put on 30 or 40 per cent in crease at a bound During tho past twenty-five years the population has been Increased by 200,000, for whom no provision provi-sion has beon made. Sixty thousand of these have taken refuge in underground, airless and wlndowloss hovels, with an average of six porsons to each cellar. The problem is a complex ono. There Is very llttlo private building. Enter- Erleo Is hindered by the heavy taxes on ulldlng materials.