Show 11 amm R MEMO W V A mt vesuvius as seen from naples prepared by the national Nat Jonal geographic society D 0 alit nut not the center of the recent WHILE eni destructive italian earthquake naples and the towns around its beautiful I 1 bay suffered considerable damage from tile tremors and that which harms haritis naples with it its almost perfect arrangement ran gement of sky sea and mountains haritis one ne of the prinell a I 1 journeys ends af 0 the lie world any thing likely to alter after this setting ts of more than passing concern to thousands of former visitors as well as to residents when hen the advertises with the sloganeers modesty se see e naples and then ille he litts tn in mind of course the elty city and surroundings taken as a whole the city alone although the largest anil and most populous in the italian peninsula Is it hodgepodge hodge podge of narrow streets and tenement liv houses uses te teeming pining with life and gaiety sordid yet possessed with a vast vitality lo in hidi buildings dIngs and monuments of historic and artistic tir interest however naples cal annot vie with the towns tons of central and northern italy before the days of a united italy naples was the capital capi till of tile the kingdom of naples A large royal rohnl palace with white warble stairways and aind a throne room tilled with art treasures bears witness vIl liess to its former filip imperial erial wealth today naples Is italis most important seaport connected by fast steamship lines with every part of the globe its irs streets are lined with factories s large and small while the surrounding farm districts destrie 6 tire are fertile and productive As aa a tourist center it is ii surpassed probably only by paris dirty but picturesque for all its commercialism dirt and squalor however naples Is extremely picturesque rising in amphitheater fashion on the slopes oi of the hills in 14 it lie e northeast corner of the buy bay of naples the city Is full of quaint steep streets where brond broad steps take tile the place of the slab paving of tile the downtown thorough thoroughfares fares following the cholera epidemic in 1884 many of the narrow streets and high balcon balconied led tenement houses were replaced with broad avenues and standard buildings it la Is in tile the remaining canyon streets however that one finds tile the most typical tyl cal neapolitan scenes all naples lives outdoors to cook to work to play to gossip and almost to drasal dress I 1 street singers with their mandolins charcoal sellers and vend ers of sweets and drinks add their colorful bits to the lie dally pageantry Alac macaroni aront fac factories line the streets of the eastern part of tile city the fringes of on racks collecting a little of the dust every passing automobile and push cart stirs up for whatever the city lacks in neatness and beat beauty ity its famous hay bay more that alinn makes amends tile the bay of naples Is a yardstick pt of marine perfection few who have seen the bay of naples will grant glant that it Is eclipsed elsewhere for spacious and perfect loveliness its dreamy di enany ll headlands ajl and the incomparable contour of f vesuvius in tile the center tit at once distinguish tit golsh ail and sublimate it fascinating to visitors many lovers of italy feet feel a country like tuscany cuny with its softer colorings tind land gentler contours Is more restful and alid somehow more wholesome to live with and that tile lie neapolitan scenery Is too much like theater curtains come it to life nevertheless th eless every person who arrives at naples under fair skies sides mid and beholds this littoral for the first time cannot help being affected by its loveliness many of tile the visitors feel something deeper than admiration for them all of the coast scenery from alseno All seno to salerno lerno tins hua a strange and lasting fascination then there are tile the siren worshipers who have heard the elie mystic song andare and are content to let body and rest here forever and to such sucha willing victims of the picturesque naples la Is not a noisy nerve racking modern 1110 dern efty city full of af beggars and rogues gues and liens lens it la Is the old new nev elty city neapolis Neap nea polls S in tile lie bay of naples tile the very atmosphere to such neapolitan 1 1 seems more bland and limpid than el elsewhere on the peninsula lending to the distances a more magical and haunting charm tile the curving shore ts Is picked out and decorated with countless beauties and high mountain mounta inq descend desent abruptly to a seal sea streaked with color in which are set ethereal lilac tinted islands from the monastery of san blar martino overlooking naples a picture spectacle Is spread the great blue half moon monn bay dotted with red and white balls and surrounded by a mountainous coast aln line which fringes off of into the he mediterranean it at each end in rocky wets islets looks more like aa a stage curtain than a ren reality lity it lq ii vesuvius that tu makes akes the bay ot of naples lovely colors on an the say bay from froin vesuvius with the ruins of 0 pompeii ot at its base the eye follows the curving shore line to the moun gainous sorrento peninsula purple and hazy in the distance ending with rocky crags of the island of capri at sunset tile lie colors are so rich and tit at thea sime same time so 0 soft it seems hardly possible that they are real tile alio bay is a rippling sheet of gray tint and green and blue the rocky headlands and islands are the softest and most delicate ja lavender vender A rolling st stream ream of pit purple aple smoke rises from the crater of vesuvius and floats across the bicy sky while in the background billowy pink clouds catch tile the last raydot the blood red sun as it drops into the mediterranean to many observers the fairest of the neapolitan gems Is the island of capri thili alint lies in tho the blue waters just off the tip of the peninsula from high in air to below the waterline tile wand island Is scarred tind and pitted with myriad vast pock marks some pillared with stalactites and stalagmites mites some through which the never quiet sea moans and sobs soba with the agonized wall of ii n hurt monster one white with little pools of pure sweet water on its floor only a few inches above the sea one greener than emerald one blue us as heaven with row upon row of delicate pink corals corald and tiny scarlet jellyfish jelly fish studding tile the water ine like jewels while the refraction of the sunlight tints everything with the most marvel guily color th through which th alie silvery ripples of the bottom sand about 40 feet below seem within arms length back on the mainland tile the traveler can find beauties along this delight fut ful const coast even south of the bay As aa lie he drives ui u over the crest of the peninsula the siren loom in the distance too for far away for even the echo of the charmers chur mers song to be heard at hie atlie road load divides into two white ribbons binding the town to tile green hillside on by tile the eaves caves of troglodytes who have till aji the comforts of home hoine little patches of garden addable goats olive groves and grape arbors the road winds in ill find fit out up tit and dairl the stern ste rit face of of the cliffs rising and sinking in great billowy iw sweeps bips plunging fia hastily through short tunnels racing around lilg big and little bends now it skirts the shoulder der of a cliff with only an 18 inch wall between the wheels and the boulders bou hundreds of feet below picturesque js stud tile the shore ancient defenses against tho the barbary Bar biry corsairs cor and then presently amalfi once the brave little marl carldine dine republic that maintained Us its independence so long in defiance del lance of princes anil and |