Show VESUViUS AS ASI I SEEN BY DADLEY I POMPEII AND ALSO AL I ISO SO ARE VISITED I Cities Th That t Were Burled For Centuries jes ies and Wore Looked Upon as i i 1 Sights 1 Naples Nov 0 4 1909 Editor Ogden I hay have haybut but one me more day In Naples I will devote a portion or of It to giving you OU OUan an outline of some of the things which attract strangers to this Interesting city and Its still more interesting vI vicinity Dr Forbes who accompanied mo me this far on m my trIp is now in Vienna doing postgraduate work in one or of the tho there thore Tomorrow I sail for or SIcily and ox ex expect to spend two or three days each mut at Messina Palermo Catania anti and Syracuse and then theu continuo continue to Greece two days en route nt at the Isle of Crete famed In Greek mth mith elegy as the abode of the GO gods I expect to find Rev Eld broth brother er em in Athens and after a short so soJourn Journ there thore shall go on to Turl Turkey e and Egypt from frow which point my course is indefinite These sea trips are much more mora adaptable for than a atour atour tour on the continent and I hope to furnish you with au an account of some of oC the Interesting things the doctor and I saw In Holland Germany Switzerland SwItz SwItzerland erland and Italy Baedeker ker gives the ordinary tourist three days in which to digest the sights of Naples In my mind that much time can well be spent In the tho mu eum alone although I 1 would ad advise vise Iso some somo of the outside trips first We Ve first climbed Vesuvius taking the limo railway to the foot or of the cone and continuing to the edge on foot The Tho rail trip Ia 13 Interesting aU all the tho way war Climbing a steep grade ade one passes through seY sev several eral miles of ferUle fertile farming country gardens vineyards s etc and crosses I the still bane lava stream of 1858 A Abit AbIt bit farther the great outflow of 18 2 Is reached presenting a most novel sight the molten lava laa having cooled antI and shrunken Into all the tho fantastic shapes of 01 arm an ice jam The cable tram ill the cone cono destroyed b by the tho eruption of 1900 so that ono one still sUll has hasa a considerable climb to the summit J I would say It Is about as high ts aa from to the top or of Observatory Peal leal and the tho last lap lapI lapIs I Is retty bad going the ashes lIke sand and amid gravel yielding under tinder foot and the mountain so steep that the I Verago mortal seeks aid of a sturdy guide or two with their or pulling straps We did not net and were complimented upon our Utah legs Finally reaching the summit the tho acquaintance with a real live volcano Is mighty might interesting al somewhat disappointing to one who anticipated scenes of boilIng lava ava subterranean rumblings etc The crater Is several hundred feet deep two or three tImes limos aa a far across I I I I the tho bottom Is perhaps feet across t P I and l n a flat blot oc gravel Steam I issues In clouds from hundreds or of small vents around the sides or of ortho I the tho cliffs front from the bottom hollom to the top top but there thero a sound to he be heard I The Tho mountain has bas been heen quiet for Il a year or two and looks about as ormId i able as Ben Lamond near Ogden Ogdon would look if a cloud of steam could be seen issuing constantly from Its summit VesuvIus has bad an Important important tant position In the fortunes or rath rathor I or misfortunes of the people of this Ia I Ia vicinity for a right smart as a K Kentuckian said yesterday and is yet Jcl wholesomely respected I It is about feet high and In ancient times according to the geographer geog I Strabo who lived before i Christ It had remained quiet so long I that It Its dangers were entirely forgot forgotten ten In A D 62 the mountain was I convulsed by an earthquake and a few I years ears later broke out with fearful consequences hurling gravel and mol molten mo moten ten lava to enOrmous distances and burying Pompeii PompoU and Herculaneum to depths of from 10 to feel Since Sinco that time some 70 eruptions have havo be been on recorded Including the one three years ago abo in which great masses of were shot hundreds of oC feet Into I Ithe the air lava and gravel were ejected I and settled over the Ule city or of t Naples Kaples suffIciently to necessitate con comi constant stant use of umbrellas and several roofs way under the i tion I IVo We Vo visited Herculaneum which un mm unI like Pompeii was burled buried under mud I and lava Lava flowed into the city cHy cHyI I filled up Ull the basements the tho I Ithe the hOuses and then flowed over ovel the I roofs and C continued until some of oC the city elty were buried to a depth or of feet afterward hardening Into I i rock rocc i In visiting the theater wo we descend descended ed through tortuous tunnels and down staIrways mined out ot of the solid antI and then thon following closely our guide with the candles we thread threaded ed our wa way through the tho corridor of oC the buried edifice examined the mar marble ble seats scats orchestra pit stu stucco ceilings and walls valls much of which has been carefully expo ed once moro more to the admiration of mankInd Some Somo por porI portions I of the tho city have havo been from the surface and arc aro now exposed to daylight The modern city of Resina was built buill upon the UIO m masses of lava which over overlie overlie lie the founders hun dreda or of years ago little dreaming that beneath them lay burled hurle a cRy of wonderful culture and wealth The work or of excavatIon is nt at present dis discontinued continued owing to a lack of funds I At Pompeii time the work Is NUll resting under the watchful eye oyo of the Italian government and ono one cannot within a considerable tile tanco while the tho workmen are aro engaged In labors This Is to guard n against possible corruption or of the la In b by persons who might covet discovered at t treasures liable to lie hc nor any moment Pompeii was buried under an im immense mense deposit of volcanic ash Most or of the Inhabitants were able ablo to escape and some returned and lug dug out their valuables Later Laer erupt ions obliterated n al traces tracos of ef the burled city and for more thau a years It forgotten ll many of the Ida his historians of tue tho day a ridiculIng the Idea as n a myth Since 1860 the e have been beon on at al although though the city was discovered red more than a hundred d years before TIme Tho of art warfare and house hous and personal adornment which have been found and are aro on exhibition in the tho Naples museum show the tho In of Herculaneum anti Pom Pompeii pell to have been heen highly cultured Marble and bronze statues of oC the most mORt excellent workmanship are common furniture of the tho same sarno ml ma was In general use and their utensils resemble ours of today I Isny Isay say a lingo hUJo water valve which Is up l Identical with ours It was wasa a part of the general water o of PompeII and was at al tIme Junction of It a l main and two mains Their TheIl stoves were fe few in mum num numbe be ber and apparently for charcoal fuel although h I saw ono one of bronze three feet reet high which had a grate In the tho bottom bollom it Il was highly decorated with figures etc eLc anti and when whon In use and shining like lIko burnIshed gold must have been an attractive bit of furni furniture Cure ture All the bronze of the tho two cities is of course courso dIscolored now that or of beIng almost black from the beat or of the volcanic material and that thaL of Pompeii being of an oxidized en enI I Saw Innumerable toilet articles antI and cooking utensils han hanging lamps lamp food and aud drink heaters like chafing dishes tables chairs bedsteads cur curr r shears squares compas compasses calipers dice counters flutes mone money chests chest mathematical instruments Ink Inkstands stands mirrors etc or of finely chiseled bronze It was startling to find surgical In Instruments InStruments made 2000 years Jears ago of al almost almost most Identical pattern with tho most or of today todar There Thero were num numerous emus erous Implements of war t P I highly d decorated armor One huge hug helmet which would weigh 30 or 40 10 pounds bears the story of the sack ack of Tro Troy In finely chiseled relief Several bronze bronzo war trumpets describing a cirelo 12 or 13 feet In cir dr circumference attract unusual attention carved caned cameos and amid golden J jewelry of groat value and beauty holds the attention of ladles also numerous loaves of bread potatoes cakes and aud othor carbonized foods The houses from which this vast quantity of oC treasure was obtained can I still be visited The roofs fell with the weight or of the ashes hut but the walls are still In intact tact In most instances and a curious appearance It is In really a city or of streets squares dwell dwellIngs ings shops and public buildings with without out butt roofs doors or windows Every Even trace of the volcanic material has been removed from the tho district al alread already read ready excavated The beautiful mosaic floora are as clean as they were 2000 years ago probably more so The Tho walls wails still show traces of artistic I frescoes although the tho brilliant color Ins big soon soon fades uncovering Two theaters time the spacious forum Or city square the amphitheater and street or of tombs are aro the tho most interest lug Ins although man many ot of the palaces and private dwellings contain much for forthe forthe the visitor Many bodies have hae been or rather mUter cavities In ho deposit where bodies and loft left their Imprint Into those these liquid plaster has been I p poured furnishing an exact I reproduction of the bodies as they lay at In the di distorted pO In which b by suffocation I Iwho who were unable to escape I Iu In a prIson adjoinIng tIme the gladiators ors era barracks several unfortunates were found their ankles hold held b by bythe the tho bronze stocks In the garden or of orthe time the Villa TIll or of a vaulted cel I Ilar mr lar contained the bodies of IS 18 women and children who had safety safet there thero The fine finc ashes and volcanic du dust t had sifted through the small openings in the roof and before they tIle could lie be released had overtaken them hoot The body bely of the sup SUI posed proprietor was found near the thedoor thedoor door with the key still clutched In his right hand Beside him was time the hod hodor body or of a slave with money and amid valuables Th r e casts are arc all now lit in the Porn Pom pellan museum The great salt sail water aquarium of Naples deserves some somo description an and andI I 1 will gIve you jOU something about It II later yours ours Signed A 1 W V HADLEY |