Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-23

SIMPLY GRAND.
First Production Of the Last
Days of POmpeii
a Bewildering Aggregation OF the
Brilliant and Beautiful.
An Exhibition That In Magnitude and
Effect was Never Before
EQualled in TexaA
Fyrotpchnic Display R'gariIass Of Cost
The Eruption Of VasuVIus-A
Eoomsd City.

The Last Days OF Pompeii.
Last night Pain g marvellous exhibition
was presented at For, Worth with all its
accessories and concomitants.
II was attended by between ak and
seven thousand people; and between six
and seven thousand people poured out OF
the grounds two hours after they went
in with the conviction that they had wit
messed display the rqunl OF which has
never before been seen in the South.
The boxes nre arranged 10 sent $500
people, but even that immense capacity
wns not far beyond the necessities OF the
crowd last night. AS far as the
eye could see looking upward
and around, only SCI OF
faces encountered the vision, and these
during the exhibition were alternately
held spellbound by the awful drama be-
ing enacted on the Stage before them or
were frightened up with interest i'll the
passing features.
The grounds required for the exhibit
ton cover five acres. md Of this not All
inch OF space Is lost, for here is enacted
IL drama which embraces vast aud varied
incidents, winding up with the awful de-
VISITATION aud unnihilution of great
city.
The scene which Pains great exhibit
ton il intended 10 portray is taken from
Sir Edward LyttoE Bulwcr's famous
novel, The Last Days OF Pompeii.
The plot of the story Is briefly told.
Arhaces, q rich Egyptian. has chosen the
feast of the great Egyptian goddess to
dazzle the eyes of the Neapoitan lone,
with whom lie is infatuated. He there
fore arrauges grand festival, and lone
arrives with her uffianrpd bridegroom,
the Greek Glaucus. After the games
the temple of Isis, the Egyptian goddess,
are thrown open and the temples illu-
minated interior Is displayed TO view.
The priest and rriestesses Issue solemnly,
bearing aiOft the golden image of the
goddess, which they place i'll the center
of the stage. Suddenly ArOaces, who
wishes TO dispose of Caucus, demands
that all worship 1T the shrine of the god
dps5 or suffer death. G!uucus, who is
Christian, advances TO strike the idol
with his sword. Suddenly the earth
irembles by some hidden force, while
the fearful rumbling from The very
bowels OF the city causes CONSERVATION
and dread. while from the mountains
liquid fire shoots up 10 the heavens.
GlauCus and lone manage to escape by
boat from the doomed city. Arbaces Is
killed by a falling column, and the peo-
ple. screaming and shouting for uid,
srutter in every direction.
The history of Ponpeii Is simple
enough. Its building is ascribed TO the
Oscans. II Is known to have been n city
of some Importance 800 years before
Christ, but under the empire IL seems to
have become II kind of Brighton of the
epoch, q fashionable SUMMER resort and
wntering pluce. Cicero had n villa in its
suburbs, in which he wrote his famous
uOfhces'' nnd entertained as guests
Augustus Caesar, Ba!bus, ur;ius ana
pansa. Claudius took refuge here from
the tyranny of Tiberius, nnh his son
Drusus died within the walls OF Pompeii,
oddly enough, from the effects OF swal-
lowing the wrong why u pear pip, which
choked him.
The first eruption of Vesurius of which
We have authentic record occurred III the
year A. d. 10, on the 24;h day Of Au-
gust, late in the afternoon. 1t Is MEM
ornble not only as being the one W hich de-
stroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, and
caused the death of Pliny the naturalist,
but also rs having had PlinY the younger,
his nephew, Us its historian.
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