Show p i ij ir ii ij t tI r j r i j I II III t I I i I I t F I I iia ii 4 I I r I I I I w I j I f 1 4 d cI I Florence Italy k i f t H i 4 j Ull 1 0 t Ji r Street in Pompeii j N II L LP P 1141 LES Ital March Mach 6 ll ThO Ot N The ot ye re remain main a A they have done tor generAtions and es they ill II probably do for tor to toI I ond the ad adi jent i ruins ot of disInterred nd thUd third liMIt itel It ta Is hard put the th etty third thId In the t so I 11 j ot r f Interest III Ih the seaport II thIM bay Ift which NaIon so Loved I picturesque around h capri where the coraLs come from fromI I cI more than all th the color atmos almo life lite even avon the tremendous ir I ot the city olty liMit Its Ita population ILe s a halt hair a million the overwhelm overwhelmIng Ing I to 10 burrow bulTOw like ul In on th tha hill hili SIdes the they to 10 to toI Ii I about In the sun Iun or a 11 feir pro I It Ion ot them to beg be coppers from ot of tourists which constant coutant constanty Iy y pIllI pase through the th land Jand These are aN i well elI looked After by a chain ot of hotels i 1 high cia class and some ot of them I like p lace overlooking the then n The month Ore re those thoe h hith Idl eio the tide ot of traffic it at attl itI tl I anti and Jut just now southern I I ly Is III all to greet the rush r t AmerIcan n I and 01 sightseers Tile The Neapolitan 11 are In their glory every light laud the witchery ot of vo veto gut gutti lall ti I violins antI and mandolins the air airI I III lI thu tho lights vanish from the window and the th lat last copper ha has 1 i to the below Uy Hy UyI Hythe I th the drives around the tho bay and Ilip view from the huh are ani full ot of en the old pa the kill kIowa and qisen ot of Naples t I 1 I where Nelson first met lAdy Hamilton and where Mural Murat enjoyed lib l f of prin el authority Ir l r Napoleon gift still tads well m The N National Museum on I I f Itay t treasure house ot of art rt where wheN grouped most ot of the rails rl at Pompeii draw thousand of oft t III every month the numer u I watering re resorts hereabouts ea a PC and are busy a II hives hive ot of heel bees entertaining th j thousands RESTLESS lint old which Loomis up black and over th country round around about the same m dIstance from Naples that Enalin peak Pak la a from salt Bait LAke IAk Is the object of oC awe Interest to tourists no matter from what corner ot of the globe the they h hULL flay and night through all the ear the crater ands Modi forth a small h hais ot of moke Just as you ass It Lii In pic pictures tu and at t certain Intervals throughout t tIe age whenever the below feels teel In III the mood the old volcano helch forth its Ita terrors and d death ath vaa and ruin are spread p ad for tor utile around In the valley below helow The rm of Cook Sons Son hs haa now built buill a tram tramway Wit halt way up the th mountain so that the trIp I Is robbed ot of much ot of It Its old time die dle comfort We e pass the p part rt ot of R ft cold and nd rainy day tile the Journ journey and gradually climb up the aIde ide first h by means of a trolley line then by p a oo cog wheel y torn tem till we rome come to a 1101 at the A dense to fo suit the guide tell lell u us It I Is useless to think ot of V liP up to tw the today In intine fin tine weather It Is I poa possible to mk make the trip In an hour our anti and a halts right to the ed edge and to 10 pH gase Into the seething I hi nil abyss blow below Tile famous old mountain now bears but little q I the coni conical cot coteel eel cal form made familiar In tb pictures picture After Arter It last In April prU OO feet feAt ut of the crater neak hk tell fell In collapsed U as It nd the mountain now wears It a sawed wed oK o I look VI very destructive ot of It its symmetry In the three the daya now flow ot of lava that fearful outpour the below and nd even put pin ot of Naples Itaf mist waiting In awe the arrival ot of the deadly mood flood cud and terrible wi Ih the waste It laid wherever It the soil soli The spOt whereon we stand tand t th tel mIna or of Ir rOB road wu was directly In Ih nath of nf lii flood anti nd Ih the n old 10 i tt fret hub was entirely sub Th The chimneys are at visible under ner our f t an th p nt ata lion Ion I Is bodily on top ot of the old on The Th rail ral w also covered lovered to tn a deith ot of many te feet t for a Inn a and the line is III blasted th lake ef lava Iva ex cc exIn In tend fill far down the mountaIn side throb arcen nd fertile ot of and trefOIl trees and nd over t I h i i 0 kt of r O Ot I tit t It ti hd id t r r o j a It ItI I 1 hIt k hard harl britti looking stuff 1 ry I I hui t I time lIP Ia ye n ne ees alOng the sm hort 1111 Li in III or of Idaho but ir it flowed It meant thin V I gaze UI OIl man II a garon It wiped out man many others h It ml missed ed amid others othera nere It topped short hort at th the boundary where re a wall sent Dt It oft off In another III dl Even Een In while Ute the tm stream of lava Iva did not flow that tu far a steady rain ot of ashes descended for tor dae at t the end ot of which time It h lay like so much muth snow to 10 a depth ot of Iwo feet tet on all the streets and 0 of the cIty They hey ions lona ICO ao lost aU all track ot of the number CIt of eruptions Vesuvius has to tit credit since It drat rat ben began biness and while visitor arc rc apt pt to thInk It a most t for tor a grat t and city the aver see seems me to take It as II a matter ot or cow It alwa always Ies he be say Po before It work k azid the who plant ut crops Its it base must take their now stands about feet teet abow eon J level el Its Ita former helt wee 4 M It Is II first lirt mentioned by bV trabe the writer Lii in A D 24 4 who says It had been quiet so n Ion long that Its terrors had bad almost been Hut In 83 81 A D DIt Dit It burst fOrth an anti ami It w was Iii 1 years year later latOr tn in Th A D that Ute the historic amp tine occurred which covered over the cities ot of I end d anti left them In oblivion for tor something like Ilk 1 1700 7 O It waa we at t the del ot of the last named city that the his hla Puny lIny the elder Jo lost t hi his life goIng forth a as a modern reporter mIght to watch the eruption note book iii hi hand h 11 ventured too near and was suffocated ly hy the tum fumes About 80 o out outburst burst were recorded between that and andUn Ad Un 1871 when there was another eruption and then Ihen the mountain wu warn comparatively quiet till the ou k kJ J 1 II lie bout about too I mile I due north ot of in and nd at t tb the recent earthquake there showed some acme ot of activity but little It If any dam re suited II WIe WI an dy to 10 Pompeii where the are still JOla on sad 4 new art 41 vene and curiosities are still be U COV We h the workmen with ape apeS pe S 4 i tid note the all with Ih thy handle their picks aDd show Men pI In III rifting out nut the ashes he which form torm tho to 10 the fated elt city The storm tonn which hurled PompeII w warn first entirely or Rh shei so ao that ev nas 01 l On top or of the uh ash there came rame ii a shower C t f line fine pebbles II nd md It III I through thae two layers lIt ot of stone and then Of ashes WIlle that thi th women have bc to con conduct dud duct theIr eral The depth aver area 11 iii ft feet and nd If Datu had wanted to dI a perfect enit Of embalming material she ho could Jt have e noth Inc lI hotter a a ot of the life lite and household customs ot of the ot of the first century It was Wail WailIn In 1748 that In dina a well wail a peasant ant discovered that I a city III lay under his t and what l O year or of have brought forth to the gale ot Of a O world everyone ia s tam familiar lilaI with Bul Da s of lom Pompeii It ha alvin the place an ImmortAl tam fame awl and nut not the least interesting part ot of our visit vaU was III hi noting th Ih where the JeTt au author u thor thoI pau paused and made the notes In 1116 from rom which h he constructed iii story tOI Of if course Our he be drew largely on ide hili won and a we visit the he baths Uld alid the forum orum where here so much or of hI tory story is fa laid we Incline to the that lit m rea really 11 wrote wIth the ruins of Home In hi his minds eye ee rather ti th m n Ih those of the more mod modest Jom U The lh population ot of the at the tUne ot the destruction by was nearly All the a e about 1000 the th rs the rippled crippled and who were abandoned abandon to theIr fate tte anti ml the 1 feet teet mould left lett by the which long ago crumbled the Lb shapes lit of the bodies being reformed by plan lei Into tile the mould are among mOlt the mt Una ot of aU all the The ot of Italy tal derives a handsome revenue from tu the tee fees tourists a stream ot of whom Ilk ourselves spent the day lIay over vel the Identical pavement Which r messed I by the feet teet ot of the Lb Pont Pom ot of 2000 year ea ago CO GRAND OPERA are Joet ut back fiut our first rt experience with grand nd opera done don In on one of t the homes lIoa ot of imaM grand opera AIds Ald being the bill th the Ian Carlo CIlo theater ot of Naples the opera I house and a first class company the Ibe performers It was nearly 11 1110 31 when th Ih html fill but Wu wI to n t that tte I I n nt that th hp re wa na Ii In lug to I It 4 II net at I Ii lb Iho r f V ballet indeed d J by the die ain her Iter ot or late lat of the th haZes were eno not kd till nearly 10 the ballet wu was the principal attraction wt we did not walt wait to see ItIC It AIr As tar far U as the Ihl performance went ent It w Was line fins but not ut to 10 the standard In ew York at either Olther the tho Metropolitan or hr an batten hattan The ot of O men mentIn tIn tIll t feature tI sang nJ weLl hut but acted with all an and ond simply urh sueh stage atac management would be hn even In hi lAke lAk the wore were all loud good ut th the only 0 one approaching Ih the grade Ie warn Aids A Ida I the h and th the tenor as s usual w warn unsatisfactory factory The Th audience was mu Ii more to Us than the performers On entering the lobb lobby our Pilgrim bend band warn takemi of by II a mob ot of attendants who strip you ot of your our outer wrens umbrellas tits hilt et 1 amid haRe charge you a franc an and anda 1 a halt half for tor the privilege You lOA pay for tor I your ClUI or you sin without on one Oil On entering Ih the great auditorium about larger larser than Ih the Salt Lake lak theater live five tiers ot of bead boxe reah In to Ih the root roM but no what whatever ever v r the seats downstairs ranging from nn one dollar up to t th three In you III ae rk hv ti th the small turnout th hox hO 1 for tor royall who attend no places ot of nt alnee the 1 i disaster I Is throughout the even evenI I lag Then 81 are not 10 O people In alt all I time other tiers and not more than ite 1511 down Many gorgeously uni uniformed formed poll police stand about the aisles Dot th the house houle gradually fills up and lind lindby by iO 10 It I Is fairly full tull The boxes boxell are occupied by the swells well ot of NII who ho by the SiC If but feeble Imitations tiona ot of the and brilliance of S Sk Ne k opera Rut But thy they an II give the New Yorkers ards ard and spuds pud In the matter of noise and chatter I IMn Mn Man ot of them tic 0 not ilance In at th stage 41 at t all 1111 but turn tun their backs back U upon It and proceed to hy have 1 a and vry r audible during th the evening To such an extent extant does doe tho Iho ailee 11 lit fit one Urn Ume that th thu I I peo people le downstairs who follow rollow th the opera with Ith breathless attention alt all look urt up I I toward the offending lad nd unite In III 1 a chorus ot of hl biases This el ci elIn In them for a time At th the end or of I each Mt act 1001 after h nota notable bill solo th the people In the shout Bravo and th the nato ot of tI fit singer with an nth ii I I 41 U ItC at i II II n g time the ha tacit rune up ho hor how vi r a mid th the at I arM are t o t tn I 1 tm h m 1 Id Ii t e 1 mm mr rM ii t I I m lull hulIt hUght mit t quit enthusiastic UI INt ut they are merciless In thI criticism Once the tenor or In attempt Jq a v very high bb note made macre U a p hut but not a very II bad Instantly the tho air was filled ailed with a storm of hl ell as and aed a hum ot of IndIgnant comment like one CIne h hears Ia at al a political meeting where a say ura somethIng that I ja jar on hI his hearers poor fellow the I of our group nt Ut to tim him and we e colod nt at three or tour murderous looking genie On whim wh were W gesticulating over the th off note as a II 5 teZe 1111 them I a aOP I If a W 4 OP Ol OU II A i At least leel Ie I what a young to In In n weight O Doom II yOu yours Ir If list something with It Its d mon It MoM JUl an It will begin at 1 on enc II UI v r h and bowel trout 4 stops Iop loud for kohl babl Pric 2 and O old Iw hi a C CM j M t 1 tru 11 anil III ti II |