The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-17
A Herald Correspondent Takes a
Stroll Through its Streets.
THE ERUPTION OF vEsUYIUs.
Advertising NOta Modern Idea-Rnts Of Charl-
OTIS Formed Two Thousand Years
AgO-The Bathing Places.
For TEE SUNDAY HERALD


trne human instinct, and few centuries
may place like laurels, or even greater, on
all who have been honored with existence,
in the progressive nineteenth century. We
now delve and cautiously hunt the spots
where early races have dwell as they may
have themselves searched for relics in the
abodes of still earlier peoples. For ex-
ample, during our
VISIT TO THE ACRoPOLIs
at Athens, a German professor was carry
ing on deep search in that noted place. as
Herodotus, near twenty three hundred
years ago, may have done in the then no
less famed quarters Of old Egypt.
And the relics found, how rare, how in
spring! They teach the mode of life, they
even give the features Of the beings for
ages silent A rare old coin, with the
image of some hero Of antiquity, is prize
in which we all delight, while the marble
busts of the famed ones, are trophies for
Kings and rulers.
If helmet, rusty spear head, . seal
ring, or domestic utensil is of such inter
est, because handed down from the good
old ages we read Of, how intensely inter
esting must not places be where we can
study the every day life, habits and Gus
toms in full, of the mortals whom we now
50 greatly honor! Such place is
THE FAR RENOWNED PoSPEH.
Whereas the name is so well known, we
believe many are as we were before a fav-
ored visit to the noted place, not so well
acquainted with its wonders, that have
now been before the world for over
generation. With this thought, we treat
a subject in public print that many a
writer has touched on before. Yet Pom
peii possesses a secret power that capt.
Yates, / may almost say, melts the soul;
and when once behold, one feels like it is u
constant delight to think and talk Of its
charms In other times and plLces, one
single edifce temple, a theater, tomb,
that had escaped the wreck of ages, would
have enchanted US; nay, an arch, the rem
nant Of a wall, even one solitary column,
was behold with veleratiOn; but to dis
cover 4 single ancient house, the abode of
a Roman in his privacy, the scene OF his
domestic hours, was an object of fond but
hopeless longing. Here not a temple, nor
4 theater, nor a column, nor house, but 4
whole city rises before US, untouched, IN
altered, the very same as it was eighteen
hundred years ago, when inhabited by
Romans.
LET Us ENTER.
To do so costs two francs, and we get a
guide to pilot us IN its ancient streets. We
got an impression, on our first visit much
similar to that of the old woman when
visiting the colosseum at Rome; she de-
clared it was sadly out of repair. Imagine
"A whole city, with a capacity for about
forty Thousand inhabitants, standing in
naked walls story high, and you get a
fine picture of our first view Of Pompeii.
The guide first leads to the right i'm
mcdiately after entering the gate, TO what
is called the museum. It is a sad-Ooking
museum, when we consider the treasures
carried past it from the city TO embellish
the museum at Naples near by. and be
scattered over Europe; yet it is well worth
a few moments time. Here are the fossil
remains of human beings buried by the
ashes Of
THE TERRIBLE ERUPTION OF VEsUvIUs,
in A. d, 20. See the agonies of death on
the features of the face, and the cOntor
tons of the muscles as they writhed in
pain When they were discovered, some
bodies were in a position that told long
stories; one man grasped purse as he lay
in the centre of the street; steward was
found by his masters door, with the key
still in his hand; faithful Roman sentinel
was by his post of duty, his weapon near
by, which post he had not left, though the
city was near forsakcn at the dire disaster.
More than sixty bodies have been eXhumed, |
but they are not all here in the museum:
only few bodies remain here, and with
them they have left the body Of dog;
poor animal it also shows the points OF
death in a striking way.
We are next led along principal street
toward the central market place. AS we
walk along we may observe the rutS OF
chariots, formed two thousand years ago;
and, on either side of the street in con
venieut quarters, are fountains with spout
or part where the water flowed out, worn
smooth by the application of
THOUSANDS OF ROMAN LIPS.
Lead water pipes lead to these fountains, |
and they resemble much the pipes in use |
in our times. We observe that streets are |
so narrow that two vehicles of the width |
indicated by the ruts in the paving (they |
are four feet apart, could not pass each |
other, showing US they must have had GER
tain times for coming in and going out |
TIE pavement is Of a hard volcanic stone; |
and the stones are neatly fitted together, |
though not cut in regular forms or shapes. !
The streets remind US very much OF the |
modern Italian streets, and paving Is much |
similar Many open-faced shops are along |
principal streets, and wine shops are very |
frequent The WINE seller kept his wines |
in large earthern vessels, sunk in the stone |
counter, so that when the covers were |
placed on, they lay fiat with the top OF the |
bar Most Of these counters, or bars, are
of fine marble, and marble is common to
the city. Signs are painted over many |
shops, and we can see that
THE ooLoRs WERE ONCE GLOWING,
though now much faded We may also I
learn by walking through the principal |
streets, that advertising is not altogether
an invention of the present age. Placards
and posters enliven the streets, and many
portions of walls were well worked over
with the painters brush. In the public
quarters, were panels evidently set apart
for public use, and they served much as
our newspapers do now. When first found,
they gave announcements of an election on
hand when the city was destroyed; and !
several parties had their several candidates
names placed up to good advantage, with |
the names of those who recommended or
nominated them. These have mostly all |
been removed to the museum at Naples and |
elsewhere, but many public announce
ments are still to be seen. Some ord1-
nances Of the city are cut in stone and |
posted conspicuously; and the emperor
Titus had some orders posted likewise.
AT THE PUBLIC MARKET PLACE,
our guide shows us many public buildings,
among which is a temple OF Isis and fine
public bath for men The style OF archi-
lecture is Doric, and the columns are OF
burnt brick plastered around with fine
cement. They lack the symmetry seen in
fine Grecian work, and the buildings appear
low and bulky. In the bath for men we
can note what fine times these old Romans
had in their good sociable mode of life.
The bathing places are dry, but we may
enjoy the marble seats so long vacant.
After resting little, there is a desire to
romp in the same spacious yard, where the
hardy men of old had their gymnastic