Show IN ITALY naples N aples resurrection resurrect ion of or r and Ifer culan e 1 of or mount ut Tc sinIus A A peep luto tho the crater S SF F bulletin 1 I fl appl KT naples 1 eg 4 is a abood good 4 pom point to make tb tho art to that of living art fou you no sooner land at naples from a tour through the orient than you arc are made conscious you are in another rea realm bof of art and you feel a kind of sui surprise hiie as if ome power had ad entered into the fragments of columns column sand and capitals and statues and the shattered marbles of tern tem ples grid theaters ap and suddenly re constructed them aej an put them in place and changed d a world of desolation to io ono one of beauty the effect on your feelings of witnessing a chaos and then making waking and finding that the miracle of changing the chaos to tea a world had t taken place aiace d during u your r sleep 1 L I 1 naples is queenly as abbe she its by 1 the rim of tho r e i t b bay and smiles upon the islands at her feet and abd looks with awe at mt aft Ve vesuvio us while he lie throws fireballs fire balls up in tabe air or the faults of Z fluto jtb and sends riv rivers of df fire down toward thea thelea th esea sea her squares and public buildings and general ap appearance pe arance show allow that sho she has taste i in P I 1 her and d her mus museum euni ls is rich in what she baa lids rescued from the ancient world this is the principal seat sent of the antiques found iu in pompeii and ind Heru laneum b by means of winch we are carri carried ed bac back X to the world w orld of dead art but revelations the ahei wonder ful wo lye see the actual cloth in a charred state the real honeycomb the deaves of bread and cake as divided by the baker sp spices ices in in tho the original kernel as well as all sorts of f utensils and articles in domestic uso use or in the shops of the trad tradesmen ea and mechanics and the many frescoes and other ornament ornamentations actions of their buildings the veil is lifted from the bid roman an world of the year of our lord 79 and wo we are permitted to take not merely a peep in but a long iong steady satisfactory factory y look the objects ts in pompeii were buried in iao and add ashes which fell rapidly and lightly and were thus thuu preserved in jn the exact pa position 1 aeton in which the they y wera were those thos se i in Hercula herculaneum were buried with 1 the hot lava which made a vitreous meli b liard bid id to I 1 remove remove and ii was as fatal to delicate tissues and perishable articles exposed to its touch the bronzes taken from herculaneum Hercula are are black blacic those from pompeii green one ig is astonished to see what a lifelike life like resu erection there is of theold the old roman itoman emperors emperor s and other eminent men in fn busts and alku statues k in bronzo bronze and in n in marble arble the rowans of wealth in that period were enthusiastic admirers admirer sf af greek art and adorned their rest residences and grounds with it the arms of rome conquered greece the letters and arts of greece con quere d rome we r have almost Cien seen the very persons s who walked the streets and at in their 6 r on that Tat 1 fatal alday I 1 f idaa 0 J jn nj the acry very attl attitude tudo in which they were when the ma mantle antl of death was wrapped around them the workmen ot of today to day who are gently and tenderly removing the funeral ashes can tell when they come to a mound having a peculiar arched form that within alep Fone Q of f tho the dead the ashes of the volcano arching the space once filled byrbe sleep sleeper tr and remaining in posidio po sitio while the flesh long ain sinco saak away and aud they lia have v ie learned co when they come to one of these sarcophagi to make asdall opening in m it and pour pouf in in a preparation of plaster of paris this runs through the whole pace occupied by tie body lidy and soon hira harden ens p preserving n g tho the a act ct form of the dead so we sec see them on their hands and knees with their heads down or ly lying ingon on and in one an oth ers embrace jual aa as they were when the extinguisher of life closed around them it ls is 1 ver deiy 1 interesting inie 1 l cresting resting to go through the excavated town of Poro letl peU i 1 aco it streeta all paved with largo a 1 ge blocks of irregular shaped stone yet well fitted er and having a regular surf surface in matiy many places there are deep ruta ruti wore 0 by tho da carriage rd ag 6 wheels there are narrow pavements two or three raised about a foot above the and there are arg crossings made by three blocks of stone of the same hight as the sidewalks placed so that 0 one ni could step bioni one to an office adal he ani animals had and carriage wheels pass without hitting them the streets seem arranged not for single horses taut but for spans large tone water atar troughs raised fur for convenience were common in the streets the lower histories js of the bui buildings ldina only were pr preserved m arved the upper stor stories acs ics were turned burned and these lower fewer stories arc are very perfect ernect even to the free froe coine coing and ina crip lions on tho the walls we cco see the bakers oyen intact and the stone mill for grinding tho gran we e ece ce the tanks and urns in tho the ivia wine shops ho s and the oil stores and all t cheso h were the articles in actual use in this very place 1800 years ago you almost expect to meet an old iau round some of these corners and if you do you feel it will bo be a perplex perplexing ink question whether you have gone back to his age or br he dropped down to yours from pompeii three of ua us took horses and a guide to go up tip mt aft vesuvius we easily reached the cairn on the western side where the steep part of the ascent begins and where we left our horses and thrust our own feet in the loose aslies ashes and scoriae for a climb of 1700 feekin a it ver vertical fical hight I 1 soon had bad to employ a real drag drago O man who threw a strap oyer his shoulders and gave me roe the looped end and started forward directing me to follow and get what help I 1 could for along a long distance or a long time rather rat herour our steps seemed to sink back almost as far as they advanced but after a while wo we struck some recent lava bedland bed sand at length one from the eruption of last february aad march this not jonly furni furnis Aed lied a hard bard footing as hard as flint but helped us on by its grotesque gro and unique appearance ear the color was mostly black ack and yet gleaming like glass the vast currents ot thick lava hundreds of effect feet wide and two or three thousand long which came slowly down the mountain si sido id e in in great contortions and undulations 1 bering and sputtering viscid and clinging together going only where tho the pressure behind and gravity overcame their reluctance had hardened into ablack black glassy rock in the exact form which the tho wild billowy reluctant stream had at the moment of its flow and these c cur ur rents coming out continuously for some weeks had bad piled up and ov overshot r one another adding to the barange and grotesque appearance remember that all this turbulence ud reluctance in movement was petrified in continuous forms melting in into one another the forms left were most striking aud and weird tha appearance wag was as if millions of bronze images of lions elephants monkeys serpents fawns horbes ma eagles a ea genii aug angels els griffins demons bad been piled fifteen or twenty feet thick along the mountain side a and nd then these by internal heat had been slowly melted to together gether till only the lorm form of each object wa was is faintly su suggested ested while the bodies had bad been I 1 9 fl fused used into one common mass then you bee see the bil hinted 11 ted furro form but the separate 0 ex axis ls once is fused and ble blended tided with tab I 1 rest we passed over the craters of these fresh lava streams there are five mouths yellow with sul plit ph irand the billowy ejection stands on their lips just as they were when they spit them forth so far it seems that such lips must needs be treacherous but I 1 venture on them thenia and nd wonder how far is H the source from foin which they spat spat fire farea 4 few weeks before the crater at the summit is two or three hundred feet higher and is the point from which nearly always issues and much of the time stones stone and sand lava are thrown u up p the configuration of tho the mountain a as s seen from i the bay of naples where texa mined it shows that the present crater is is on one side the western side of a very much larger crater of a vc spent volcano on the sido side toward ahe rim of the original nal volcano wl which 11 eh was active long before historical timea was burned through or melted down and piled upon up on the mountain tain sip elope e below the whole history of X the procedure ro cedore ce dure is plainly writ written en ou out t in in the landscape and the wonder ia is that nothing is said about it for aa as I 1 know on the d day we went up vesuvius was buncom uncommonly ay me we I 1 y active we approached pro ached it from 1 I the leeward side and long befaro be foro the tile top fop zebeard we heard beard the thundering Ii hissing issing roar of the eruptions saw the ashes aslies falli falling ing about us the stones shooting up hundreds of feet in the air air and f falling 1 in bbowers bh and tho fumes p sulphurous gas ome of the company when we wd ca came tau to td the I 1 region where smoke w was as ang issuing i from the corners of the rocks below us where wo we could look down through the the funnel shaped chimneys whence the scorching ebing jis gaa was coming arid coloring tho the rocks around a bright bellow yellow decided they would go no further arther but I 1 had como come to ece see the yol c cona atud pushed on the guide followed me some hundreds of feet and then ho lie stopped and called on me to come back I 1 kept on and by going around to fo the windward side de I 1 was able to reach the rim of t the io crater the stones lvere cre shot ii up li into the air most vertically bul some of hem them fell around me nie I 1 fas careful after each eruption which occurred at intervals of of two or cir three minutes to watch the stones prepared to dodge them any tiny should come down in my di I 1 rec tiou this position 1 I could not I 1 look oak down upon the boiling surface but I 1 could hear the terrible r Fp lashing and surging and roaring and could could we ape the be red hot bot masses s of I 1 lava iva five or six feet long and a f foot bot wide or BO so thrown up aike like bloody masseros masses masse of flesh fleshy torn and ana dripping drip these thereafter after going up thirty or forty feet in tho the air air turn black separate into fragments and come bownas down as stones stone s and ashes it was tho the wildest and most horrid sight I 1 speak of the appearance not tho the f fact 1 ct I 1 ever saw plutos butcher shop where he be amid all the wild music and outcries of the lower world was butchering hia his victims and amusing himself by throwing the fragments drip dripping 01 g in their goro into the air this 8 was the first suggestion sup estion the suggestion of sense this boon soon gave place to a curr current elit of reflection wonder and gratitude I 1 stood there amazed before the wondrous power that bad sobered and tamed tho the wild forces of our planet I 1 remembered that once gigantic etelda of fire raged over the e whole earth sti snorting orting and fighting pawing at tho the sun a and nd kicking their lecla h ec Is in the face of shemoon tho moonane moo nand aud now he had kub dued and trained and stalled them and now we must come here to see bee only the frisking of tho the tail the descent was was cab easy my guide took me by my aimse arm selected acted a steep place of soft ashes and we strode or slid down going ten or fifteen feet to a step in fifteen Imin wo we made tho the distance which abi ch took ns about cwb two hours to ascend I 1 I 1 D |