The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-19
LlSBON--GAY AND GRAVE.
Interview Between General Grant and
the King Of Portugal.
A ROYAL SHAKEspEAREAN SCHOLAR
Visiting Cintra---A Dream OF
Paradise.


degree the view of Constantinope from the
Bosphorus. The skies were gracious to our coming
and the air was as warm Virginia spring There
are SO many stories about the foundation of Lisbon
that the reader may take his choice Ulysses is said
to have made this of his wandorings. and to
have in the words OF Camoens. hidden "the eternal
walls OF Lisbon rise" There is legend to the effect
that Lisus, friend of Bacchus, was the founder
while other authorities say that it the great
grandson of Noah. person named Elisa. and the
date they fix at 2.150 years before Christ, 27s
years after the Deiuge The value of these legends
is that there is no way of contradicting them and
one is a6out good rs another. find it easier to
believe the narratives hear and to fancy..as walk
up and down the steep descending streets, that
am really in classical society. 1t is due to
Elisa's claim to say that the time is fixed,
and that it only four thousand and
twenty eight years ago. AS come into more at.
tainabe chronology we find that Lisbon was once
part of the Carthagenian dominons and supported
Hannibal. That astute commander had such hard
luck in the world that have always been disposed to
take his part, and Lisbon has friendlier look
that know she stood by the Carthagenian captain
against the power of Rome. 1t shows lack of en-
terprise in the Lisbon people that they have not
found out the house in which Hannibal lived the
trees under which he prayed, all well regulated
ton. There trace Of Hannibal in Lisbon.
The people seemed to be under the impression that
the only great commanders who had been in
Lisbon Don Sebastian and the Duke of Yelling
ton. They show the very quay from which Don
Sebastian embarked on the journey from which he
has not returned and the lines Of Torres Vedras
in the suburbs, where the Duke began his senti-
mental errand of delivering Europe
LIsBoN's sPLESpoR
Julius Caesar was kind to Lisbon although the peo-
ple-such is the ngrattude of modern times-seem to
have forgotten it, Then came the Cloths. who took it
from the Romans and plundered it. The Cloths, who
seem to have been uninteresting people. we'll de-
serving their fate. were driven out by the Moors
more than eleven centuries ago. The Moors never
had much peace in 4sbon and the chronicles of their
reign chronicles of assaults assaults
now Christian ahead and now the infidel-for centur
les that real estate must have been bad an in
vestmcnt during their day in New York since the
panic. But there came prince OF the House
of Burgundy, about seven centuries ago.
and he whipped the Moors in pitched
hattie. The chief incident in this transac-
ton was the appearance of Saviour to the king
on the morning Of the battle, with bright halo
around his head. who assured the prince Of victory
This sovereign is called the founder Of the present
kingdom Of Portugal. He was known as Alfonso the
sepulchre at Coimbra He iourished about the time
of Henry H.. who had the fatal quarrel with Beckett
For two centuries Lisbon remained under her kings
until king of CASTLE came over and burned a
greater part of the town. II that there was
in the case for Camoens tells the beauteous
Leonore. who torn from her husbands widowed
arms against the law and commandments In 1897
Vasco de Cana sailed from Lisbon the cxpcdi-
ton which to result in the discovery of the pas
sage around the Cape of Good Hope to the
Indies. This the beginning OF a career of COM
mercial splendor. For two centuries the wealth of
the Indies poured into her Golfers. In 1880
Philip ii. of Spain took the town and annexed Poru-
gal. During his reign the Spanish Armada fitted
out at Lisbon and sailed from here conquer Eng
land. If Philip had made Lisbon his capital and
transferred the government OF the whole peninsula
hithcr there is little doubt that Spain and Portugal
would be one country STILL with advantage to the
two nations and the world Lisbon liz the natural
site for such capital. But Philip was infatuated
with his monkish at the Escuria and his sue
ccssors did not think much Of Portugal except as a
good province to tax. and in 1910 the people
one December night and drove the spaniards out
and from that tine has been in the hands OF its
own people.
THE MEMORABLE EARTHQUAKE.
The most memorable event in Lisbon history was
to-day. and about which people converse-as the
people of Chicago do about their rc-as though il hap
pcncd the other day. II was ON the feast Of All
Saints IN the early morning when Christians were at
mass praying for the rcpose Of the souls of dear
ones gone A noise was heard of thunder, the
buildings tossed like ship the pillows, darkness
fell upon the Garth and all the churches were
crowded hundreds crushed to death at the affairs
foot by the falling timbcrs. Nearly every church in
the town was destroyed. Then the people rushed TO
tho water side and to the higher places Of the town.
mainly TO church called st. GATHERINGS
Surely there safety on the high places
and ON the banks of the river But n second
shock ST. GATHERINGS Church fell with crash
The river became sea, and there rolled over the
banks a mountainous wave. sweeping the lower
streets and all that lived on them and tho earth
opened aud the ships went down, likewise magnin.
cent marble quay. which people had assembled
all went down. down into the depths. and when tho
wave rcceded IL was found that all had been swal
lowed up. The river and fell three fathoms in
M instant. The ships anchors were thrown up to
the surface. third shock came. aud vessels that
had Teen riding in fathoms of water were
stranded. Then fire broke out and ragged for six
days. Never since cities founded any one
sorcly smittcn beautiful Lisbon
RrBriLpED LISBON.
The best authorities say that the loss Libon was
s3oo.oooooo In money. Or 10000 houses only 5000
remained. Thirty thousand lives we're lost. Then
the robbers came and plundcrcd the ruined town. and
II was given over to plumber until the rcsoute Mar
quis Pombal. ancestor OF the recently deceased SOL
danba. came and building gallowscs in various parts
of Lisbon. hanged every one who could not give a
clear explanation Of how he came by his property
In all $50 hanged II seems that the earthouake
which destroyed Lisbon was felt all the world
~ far north M the Orkney Islands and in jamaica
Tho elimination was in Lisbon. But the people.
under the lead of the brave Pombal AMI tho King
Joseph I.who is called ''The Most Faithful'rebuit
the town. and you see how well that work was
done You see rows of houses that remind Won of
Paris. fine squares and newncss In certain quarters
a. though II was the rebuilt section of Boston one
hundred and twenty three years have passed since