St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-18
AwFuL PovERrr Isl NAPLEs.
The Misery and Distress. to Witch the
Heroes Of EPideDsie Cholera are
Added.


The Misery and Distress. to Which the
Heroes Of EPideBsic Cholera are
added.
Naples Letter - y. Y. Sun
The great problem with the government
now is how to disembowel Naples, or to
spread around the shores aud the neighbor-
ing hills the surplus population which over
crowds the Easements OF the city The base
ment Is dirty institution Of Naples. In
single rooms Of the ground floors or in the
cellars whole families live together With don
keys, goats, chickens and pigs. They are
so poor they cannot pay for better quarters.
II is not depraved taste which makes tn EN-
crowd in these dark and dirty holes and keep
their little ones in the gutter,
it is only need. The Neapolitans
are not brutes. They Ike music,
bright colors, and light. How can they pay
high rents when the best wages are scarcely
one franc dayl There is no city in Italy
where wages are so low as in Naples Tn
best skilled workmen-the tailors, shoe
makers. type settlers, job printers, masons
and earpenteTs-even in the busiest seasons
scarcely get thirty cents a day, while the
second rate wOrkingmer must get along
with ten cents day OF less.
tits therefore impossible for a NapOlisan
TO pay more than 81 a month for his rent
The condition Of the women is simply dread
full A poor mother is obliged 10 get work
outside Of her home for her bread aud for
that Of the children. Hat makers, dress
makers and flower girls make only So or 81
a month The great majority Of the women
are obliged 10 20 out to service as dOmesties.
A servant girl gets ten francs a month,
without any dinner. Some have two or
three houses In which to do homework for
81 1t each house every month.
They are constantly running from
one house to another, and scolded and
threatened at each place they 90. Many OF
these miserable creatures have children to
nurse when they 20 home at night, a baby.
perhaps, that has been left the whole day in
the arms Of n little sister. The poor mother
going home without sufficient food and half
exhausted, has 10 nurse the little one, aud at
thirty years Of age looks as old as If she had
suffered the wear of sixty winters. How
very, very many of them have fallen victims
Of the cholera,
Children in Naples are considered sort Of
burden or hindranee. When a boss takes a
10y to work merely 10 pay him his daily
bread, mother is happy, and when little
girl makes Eve cents a week By hard daily
work, the work of a regular servant girl, the
mother is equally delighted. No wonder
that the government is taking up for serious
consideration the question how 10 lodge a
little better this immense crowd Of hum bic
beings, swarming ike ants in the filthy, dark
cellars and rooms OF the NeapOlitan base
ments.
The financial condition Of the city Is ter
rible. No vegetables or fish are allowed 10
be exported from the city, aud the prohibit
ton stops the work Of many thousands of
persons.
The situation as regards the cholera has
improved little, yet the figures of deaths
reach greater proportions, in comparison with
the number OF cholera cases. than in the be-
ginning Of the epidemic. The generous
lsraelite, Signor Schilzzi, who accom- panied
the cardinal on one Of his visits, and who
aas so generously contributed for the cholera
fund has been attacked. by the plague. The
sympathy Of all Naples is extended to him.
Cardinal San Feice has visited him The
measure adopted by the government in re-
gard TO professions is very unpopular They
have been lately dispersed by force, and in
some instances pitched battles have taken
place between the police and the people.
Some OF the stOrekeepers have been ordered
tn close their stores, apparently for no other
reason than that they displayed religious
pictures. The people are indignant, aud in
their ignorance actually believe that the au-
thOrities want them 10 die.
These insinuations find their way among
the customers Of the cellars Of the PeidgrOtta.
Posilipo and COrsO, where during Sunday,
large crowds resort to drink wine and eat
melons. I'VE are too many say the tipsy
Neapolitans. land they want TO get rid OF
US" This terrible suggestion is caught up
as quickly as news by telegraph, arousing
sentiments which can easily find vent in a
rebellion Such has been the case at Spezia,
where people think that their being isolated
contributes to increase the plague, and have
fought with the soldier and the caabiniers,
leaving some wounded and some dead on
the ground.
penny subscription has been opened TO
offer King Humbert and Amadeo, his
brother, a golden medal concentrating
their visit TO Naples In the meantime the
Bourbon party has, through the Marquis de
Felice,. opened a similar subscription for a
golden medal to Cardinal San Felice, arch
bishop of Naples.