| Show 0 U ra 00 po 41 7 A v w 4 tg I 1 N POZZUOLI T 18 thought by br 1 that paul a detective eyesight may have prevented IT his appreciating natural scenery ece nury however nay rave byln it seems impossible that he be should shot ld not have been impressed by ly the splendid view views that anyone sailing up the coast of sicily through the straits strait of messina blessina and along the south italian shore stoys sJ says rev dr rr r r francis E clar in hie his aerion sari in the footsteps of fit st paul I 1 ih n the christian christi lHer herald aid ho he would have seen at first smiling line wine covered bills and before bo be had bad gooe far gl glorious arlous etna enow snow capped for iauco of the year an ever changing panorama delights the eye until we come to the ancient rhenium ala alas a pitiful sight there greets the tray ler today ales sina sins on one side of the narrow strait and reggio on the other were loth wrecked almost beyond by the disastrous earthquake ut of 1908 on the messina shore one sees great rows of little wooden houses scarcely larger than hen housea houses these are the portable bungalows which were ed ad from Arn Ambr trica lra ready made matte to relieve the sufferings Buffe rings of the holi houseless leas and homeless people thoi th are AM occupied for little has been agne to build up the ruined cil cloea lies between scylla ant one shortly after leaving we P kaaa 6 between scylla and the fabled tabled monsters of antiquity the rock and the whirlpool which have been robbed of all their terrors since steam navigation came to bless the orld and to make the traveler a burdens and dang dangen erp light soon after the active aL anIc dountain of strom boll boli on one of if tho lipari islands Is seen a am ald ld all ts tsi way along the glorious south soa italian shore reveals itself splendid mountains rear their heads in the near distance their sides clothed with vineyards and olive an and d orange orchards far up their slopes As all we a approach the hay day of naples the scenery becomes con bantly more mare entrancing we see the promontory of sorrento across the dav of salerno and eoon soon capri with iff its blue grotto comes conies in sight on the left and towering vesuvius with its constant plume of ihrke on the ris richt ht balling sailing across the vey 0 oj naples part PAU the spot where the notable city of the prodan prod tn nt day Is situated a place which ws i than comparatively insignificant niti ant cant our travelers came to oil olf or Pozzi iK an it Is ia now called at present a decadent suburb of naples tula tats miserable and dirty to tova of some inhabitants Inhabit ans as an it now Is li 14 connected by trolley and steam rail rall way with naples and Is 19 often visited by the modern tourist who wishes to see the remains of the tho indent temple pl amphitheater and the dia mighty might y mole which still toll tell of the ancient glories of rut Put eol nearby too Is me volcanic fald of Solf atara not a mountain but A flat tint plain the crater of a low volcano into which one can thrust hia his ca cane caio io in many platea plat ea es anu ant find smoke and sul out pharous vapor issuing from the hoe hole as he it probably thare are taw more dreary or disreputable plaats in italy than this modern suburb of naples it haj has not tho the ragged pic pie which somewhat redeems tho worst slums of naples but Is a squalid unwholesome town of the worst type wr noted roman resort it Is difficult to realize that it once might have been tailed ailed io liverpool of italy that here was the ll 11 crine lake supplied the pampered romans with their famous oy or store stern and that the whole bay was covered with the beautiful of the fashionable folk who made balac juet just beyond the roost most noted resort as an corrupt as it wae was noted for the in and idler idlers of inome there were famous springs hers which attracted the sick gick from many quarters cu and it Is eald said that the ancient name ram came from the sulphurous sulphur ou crench which they emitted b no loner longer a fashionable watering place but from other u cruba A the same name might be applied to the mod ern pozzuoli yet et here we can look upon many or of the things which st paul aw saw the sea itself fresn fresti and clean as ever the encircling hilo hll no leaa less beautiful in their spring greenery than on that siring day when paul sailed salted within their encircling arms we can even rea the 17 piers of the great molo moto which stretched far out into the bay within athir whose shelter vesicle vessels anchored one the alexandrian Mex andrian grain edip on 1 which paul had arrived today we can see bee the ruins of the temple ot of serapia Sera Ser apts pla or the splendid marketplace as it ie Is now nov thought to ho be which very likely wis in its ita pristine glory when paul landed fens rens of thousands of ot t travelers from many lands sall into the famous barbor of naples every year but comparatively ively few of them realize how near they are to the footsteps of bt st paul and ho hot hov v after a short trolley ridy ride from the city they can cau plant their feet where he trod let ue us take the electric car from largo vittoria where the beautiful park naples famous and rotten row raw begins a ft park that stretches for nearly a mile alone along the water front soon however we get got beyond the fashionable quarters qi Arters and the innumerable hotels the car makes its alow blow way through P a re clon irlon where the air Is to rent with the raucous cries for which noisy nolay naples Is fan fanus sus and the nose ie Is assailed by more than the seventy odors of cologne tunnel under posillipo shortly a tunnel Is reached under the green hills of pos a tunnel almost ai as ancient as naples itself for it wae was dug by tho the romans roman to avoid ovoid the steam climb over the precipitous rocks of seneca we are told grumbled at the dust and darkness and the odor of this tunnel and they have not be n improved since his day the Is deafening deat ening froia from the clatter of horses hooff the pa patter t of herds of goats the grinding torture of the electric car heels and above all the brazen throats of the nc ne i apoll tans who urge on their donkeys with an indescribable noise guttural and grating which seems 1 to c come from frow parts of their anatomy 1 another slum awaits us at the other side of the grotto followed I by vine ards and orange bovea oves and truck farms until after a ride of four or alvo miles the lost just part of which affords glor glorious laus yle views a of the bay and lt 10 islands which never lose their charm we at last find ourselves in an other slum blum moie hopeless bop its ahn any we have yet seen on the a aar and tind find that we have at last reach 1 the old P it eoll and that the electric car leave us but a few tops steps from the spot anere th tha 3 great apostle must have come ashore the immediate surroundings of the great pier where st paul landed are us as filthy as any other part of pozzuoli indescribable old hags leer per at us from the doorway doorways ragged and dirty chil dren wholly unacquainted with the th use of a pocket handkerchief swarm warm around us several squall flailing boats arft are dra drawn wn dp in the adore and a little church called sl paul s chap bap I 1 cl stands immediately behind the ancient mole the modern alf pier r allf over mer the an dent clent mole is a truly irv ay mi 1111 cent one of solid cut whick ru us far out into the awen sweet cipan arfer and by going oui to the 1 far 11 1 end we apt bo be yond the reach ot of the importunate i tout it one can forget the to the pier he can hero here enjo the w n hanting scena ry of sea bea and shore shere ahil his mind la Is stimulated ba b mern orles it fit the mighty past hut but the volcanoes os have bles blessings singa brought as an well as curses for th ash which they pour forth becomes become in a few years yearn a soil of almost ble fertility ty like ilke tl the volcan volcanic lI kofl the yakim yakima soil of 0 f valley 11 caaso on our own pao a |
