The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-19
erpEEr SCENES IN RENE.
ding out the Old Picturesque
70" Ancient buildings Disappearing.

If il, a disappointment. The city has
@P Individuality. Government employees
the streets on Sunday, and men saw
inpublic ON the same day. Everything
Ina laft-handed, literally or tguratlyely.
-, RIM their vehicles at furious rate
az stumpy horse and whitening curses,
laws managing to keep TO the left; the
81. If doors turn in that direction, and
who cut timber for fire purposes put
t,f+ foot on one rim of a wood-saw
lu!.h tbe blade in a perpendicular position,
VIZ ,I,, the stick over the teeth Business
anu Lio.r on Sundays. Boys begin early in
= ,,o,,,incr TO scream their dIsinterested-
lne ~ =, the Wealth of this world by announc-
~ +be low prices they ask for big onions
~ larry with them on long string
Iro looking men, with fish on platters,
T., ont the excellence of tn cir stock
cESla others, with huge punches of
Wv balanced on their head,
ee spac.ate the festival with their noise and
ar2C,1 The shopkeepers pull down their
el,++ars and hang on the outside wall speci-
euus articles The butcher will in this way
I Iierlav sides of meat and the shoemaker
u Us If boots. A tailor, tape-measure in
hord is at his door ready to execute an Or
1a- for a suit of clothes. The sight of thou
Iands PRAYER book i'll hand, EN- route to the
Scbnrcbes. has no effect ON those who violate
tbe day. Once a rarity indeed, now to be
sl. frenuentlv on Sundays, intoxicated men
~ along the streets staggering or sing
sSc aIoud from hired carriages Others with
.beir hacks TO walls, where sunshine will
bon them aclow, lounge for hours, reliev-
mo fine time by quatfs from their long
nacked bottles, held on finger by loop of
bTaded straw For airing dogs Sunday
SONS to be the favorite day. The owner Of
avery canine trots out his property then
and seems proud of the propretOrship of
+be soiIed. woolly or nondescript cur at the
end of the chain. The accumulated honors
of Rome are nothing to the juvenile of the
Eternal City if he has the privilege of lead
iog a hungry dog for promenade.
vonERy NOTIONS IN THE ANCIENT CITY
vast change toward modern notions
has arrived. A street railway skirts the
coliseum, and omnibusses chase one
another into the famous precincts of the
city. The site of a grand palace, reared in
15S5. is now beer garden, with the bever-
soe at &C. a glass. and the walls of the
TIlding altered to suit the purposes of the
business conducted therein. A strong Ger
man element has located here, and practi-
cally controls the brewing inter
ests, which, though principally con
ideas. is nevertheless always rep
resented unless otherwise ordered as
Roman beer. The Turks, too, have coffee
houses and beer saloons. Where before light
wines were solely drunk, now heavier
beverages are demanded. This is explained
bv the Introduction of new class of people,
many from Northern Italy, who have wau-
dered in this direction in the last fifteen
wears They are smaller in stature than the
traditional Romans, and wholly unlike
them in appearance. Coming as they do
from colder climate, it is but natural they
should use tiercer drinks, that are gradually
growing in favor with the older
residents. Public life has lost
much of the traditional picturesque
ness and romantic appearance. To be sure,
the brown-hooded, long-bearded Benedic-
tine monks the bare-foOted Capuchins,
with their hair cut into a topknot, the
white-robed priests of the Red Cross the
Christian brothers, in their black gowns
and immaculate collars, clergy in knee
breecheS, black stockings and silver-buckled
shoes, and students in flowing robes
and wide-brimmed low-crowned felt
bats, are met at every turn; but they are
dwarfed in number and novelty by the uni
forms of the military, for Rome is po-
Iced by 1900 troops, in all the glory
If infantry grenadier, riflemen, cav
airy, field artillery, engineer and gendarmes
dress. They line the streets and fill the
houses. To their uses as well as those of the
civil authorities the oldest of buildings are
being appropriated. Eligible locations for
private or governmental uses are selected
without regard to the antiquity of the sur
roundings and structures of the living era
erected Here and there on street corners
strapping young fellows in blue jackets,
breeches OF the same color, red vests and
blue stockings, with their feet in huge hob-
nailed shoes or sandals, and swathed at the
ankles, loiter in the company of graybeards
in rags hidden beneath a cloak that reaches
10 the ground, who pose with artistic effect
On an umbrella of blue stuff.
THE PEASANT AND HIS UMBRELLA
Just here let it be remarked that one of
the common sights of Rome is to view the
assortment of umbrellas hoisted on a rainy
DAY. The opportunity is frequent, for when
the drops fall they do so OH a scale so gener-
Gus that, as during the present month, the
ram continues three weeks. Under the dome
o. the skies nothing was ever seen to surpass
the parachute picture. The colors of the
rainbow are not more varied. Outside the
rapidly disappearing Roman peasant
costume, the umbrella has the
next greatest amount of character
It, The rents that time and
NONiucuu udNe Indu6 are pduCneQ WIN any
gay looking scrap, and its size so distended
by the elasticity of the goods that when
opened 1t covers the sidewalk Without
us umbrella the peasant is not at ease. Rain
OF Shlne, he carries it under his arm, for
WIN nm 1t is a maxim that dogs and
strangers are the only ones who walk in the
sun as well as in the wet. Yet he too is
rdlculed IN the fashionably cut clothes of
tle present Romans, with their sharp-toed
patent-eather b OTIS and handsome para
cnutes' Americans and English are such
numerous visitors that the influence of
sueT customs, manners and habits
crowdlng the typical resident out of
egAslence. They have now their doctors,
Uleir dentists, patent medicines and tailors,
e anu one sees the announcement in all quar-
uerS That English is spoken. The peasant
mo comes to town with his team of three
ulLISeS re'plendent in flaming trappings,
5lllles ana tinkling bells, and driven tan
urn 10 ms cart, has to pull to one side to
e eaoW stylish broughams, coupes and family
sJpaIIlages, with prancing animals aud clean
anoEeh coachmen and footmen with the
ssslaragus bunch-looking tuft on one side of
'Neif SHINING hats, to pass.
ROMAN COWBOYS.
IN this day the Roman cowboy is looked
Spo1 curlously enough by even those who
ctu lis own tongue when he comes to the
Ii Ivy Lor the Christmas holidays. A verita-
t o ouil-pusher" he is indeed, with his
oro.I SUCK and its iron point in hand to
Soau Ihe cattle. The sombrero of his North
or t lcan contemporary differs only in col
VI from his black felt hat. while the accou-