Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04


ment' for travellers is partof his industry. He
makes something out of them, on one side. and
something out OF the caonen aud tradesmen he
employs on their account on the other: and this
profit he probably shares with the house OF this
we saw evidence during our stay That he
would not make something ont OF US he ought
not 10 nave been SO simple as to believe, for we
the shepherd OF the little flock, at iesst-hsd
been In Naples before, and had learned some
thing OF the character Of the common people.
'fhey are all thieves or beggars,' he then said
In his haste an opinion which ne had NOT greatly
modified at his leisure.
Some friends OF ours told rs that they had
found at least one trustworthy Neapolitan cab
driver. He had taken them everywhere; he had
never deceived them, nor exacted an exhorbitant
fare, and he had received many gratuities for
his excellent behavior. His last service was to
take them one morning to the railway station on
their way to Rome What would they hive
thought of his honesty if they had known that
he went immediately back to the hotel, reported
that they had gone off without paving him and
appealed TO friends they had left behind to give
him something to make up for his loss?
These things seem too trivial to take up the
time in telling them; but they are part of the
travellers experience and cannot be passed over
if one is to give q correct picture of Naples as
tourists find it. 1t is wen to know what 10 ex-
pect in visiting that dirty yet delightful that
most unsayory yet most pictrresquely situated,
city. Then you can make little or much of the
annoyances you find there according as you are
wise or foolish.
"Oh! NaplesI 1 wouldn't spend a night
there!' one lady of our acquaintance had said,
when told where we wee going. cts horri-
BILE place!''
81 am sure you will be charmed with Naples,
as was,' said another, who had seen it with
different eyes.
As for US, all the annoyances attending our ar
rival were forgotten when We looked from the
windows Of the rooms that had been secured for
US IL Beppo's hotel. The sun had come oat
again, and the view outspread before us was en-
chanting. In the foreground was the gardens
and picturesque roofs, which we overlooked,
for the hotel is in elevated quarter of the city
on the new Via Amedeo; below, less than half
a mile away, appeared the tree tops Of the Villa
Nazlonale, or public garden, which extends
along the shore of the bay, and the open sea
beyond, deeply, darkly, beautifully blue, -
with Capri in the distance in a nimbus of golden
haze; on the right the promontory of Posilipo,
plumed with groves, the walled villas at its base
washed by the dashing waves; on the
opposite side of the gulf the peninsula
OF Sorrento, uplifting the mountains that
shores. And such mountains! their wondrous
light and shade changing with every change of
cloud or sun, or atmospheric condition, Saint
Angelo, the ioftiest of them, soaring 5000 feet
above the sea- A projecting roof cut of the view
of Vesuvius, which, however, could be seen from
a terrace below. Passing steamers, pleasure
boats and fishermen IN their quaint rugged crafts
added life and movement to the aspect of the
bay.
The rooms themselves were large and airy,
with tall French windows receiving the sun all
day-the glorious sun of Southern Italy. The
situation unexpectedly commanding and
the outlook so indescr1bably lovely that we
blessed our friend again in our grateful hearts
for bringing US there, and could have almost
taken the faithful Beppo in our arms.
The children are full of enthusiasm. 81 want
to stay here always!'' exclaimed the too i'm
pulsive Estelle. Their ardor was not dampened
when the old housekeeper took them into q
garden and bending down the boughs OF a man