| Show SECUKTS OF JOJIlEII URIBD CITV NOW NHARLY CUBARED OF TUB DtiUIIIS n Ilnolrel Iirllee iota n erelThe I O e IU Wo 1t tt IIe a 1 rIles r-Iles lice enppwcl fns the 1eoplc atsg 110 h lnpe I iru n T last alter pr I liapn u rintur > of more or It l < iw Inter mlllont work Tom 11 < ifll flue city of > I p atint Roman i l1 pleasure bus helix hi r 1 pine I Icallv cliutel of tho volennlc de r J brls of seventeen If ren iirlr M > s the New York llemld Now for the tint limo slurc thit fatal day vhoe awful lmpwnlnns llulwer IIsllcla so Kraphlenlly and doubtles ao trlllyIn lie famous romance Ilse oriim which Will the central feature 01 the place nod the Hi mil i del SeIKII t rrl the principal suburb tan be rent IZld In their principal relation + The early work of clearing the historic city mrmieil with vigor Under Murit when ho found himself temporarily Initallcd na king of Naples was pet buck from lime to lime by now erupHanii ot Vi euvhute As Into ns 1823 Mils Deny records re-cords In her Jouriml We pet out n largo party for lobo poll The drive of fourteen miles Is I very disagreeable notwllhiitaiidlng the view ot thin bay and the mountains round The cinders nud lava of lie eruptions hart October lS1 have scarcely yet been swept lo each side of the street but urn left on the road Outside of Pompeii It Is I halfway half-way up the horses legs I No such Impediments now await the traveler and a very proxtlc and tile knotty dilatory train deposits him In an unpretentious nnd not very cleanly railway station Except to the highly classical and u tra cnthuiilaMIc eo the first Imprciilons of Pompeii are dliap minting Tho nut place of Interest which Is I paused Is l the clr called lull Ira supposed to hao been iistd no n law court but distinct from the tribu nals which worn at the further side ot tho forum ot which tho umitructlon one not completed when thin city was covered up The most striking feature of this open space Is I Iho ruins of the temple of Venus A main street of > Pompeii leading l from tho station Is I that known nn Htrnili dell Abondanza at tho corner ot which Is I to bo seen Iho chalcldlrum or exchange ono of the mom beautiful buildings ni yet revealed re-vealed Its central hall having been surrounded by columns of Parian mar lile In the Sheet nf Tomb lionuver t wo are upon more solid ground for not n few ot tho monument hear the names and the busts of those to whose memory they were rrcl d l At tho nxtrorao end of the Blrndn Is I tho HO called Villa Dlomede which has altruc dons alike for 1151 lover of fact and fiction for here were found the lilies of soventiui women ami children who had sought refuge undnr Ibe portico nit were nppnrontl sufocited Tho amphitheater Is oven farther away from Ibo center of lilt city than tha Repolcrl and It Is I on this point Hint recent excavations have linen chiefly illrrctrsl o wltli very Important results It must be ramiMnl ered 1 Hill llulwer Iton was qullo ucciirato In deierll Ing the game whch were In progress at Iho time of the fatal eruption of Ve suvius which swallowed up both Iom pHI and Herciilnmum nnd ono of the results of the works rnrrlel 1 out here Is t to show that limo loss of life on that occasion was less than formerly supposed sup-posed The proplo nsrembleil nl the amphitheater had time to make their escape to the open rouniry baynnd Scarcely more than 700 bodies hnvo been discovered and the perfect state In which many of them wero found U I at leist nei Hive ovldcnro that time wi ihl not hive nMiind o hero I to In pilpible dll1 I The mlMtv hW Tfi 01 bc proem l its Ian overnm nl will I not be relaxed until Pompeii list hen tuned to give up all IK Mcrotiii and In the meanwhile It Ie I gluing tip Its tnannrts of marble bronco and gold I and bringing in light among other fools that for colt painting for mural dn oration was pnctlred probably by Greek art I ts for their Unman patrons |
