Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-06
A REPORTER IN EUROPE.

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Charles A. Dana Describes some Of the
Best Things He Saw-In love With the
Jung Ffau-His Best DInner-Mural
Paintings
rwErrrHs FOR THE prsrArcR,
Mr.. Charles A. Dana, Of the New Fork
Sun, is good reporter. He has just come
back from another trip to Europe. He
knows that place, for he was chasing after
Eil-Wagens in Austria at a period when
many men now important had not yet Wis
tied the earth, and ever since that time he
has been going over the territory constantly.
Like all good reporters, he knows what
other fellows want to hear about. and for
the benefit of those who may read this he
has taken the trouble to pick out few su-
perlatives from the things he has to say
about this last trip.
1t is pleasant to watch this newspaper man
as he talks, and see him lean back and laugh.
and to wonder how much money and how
many tons OF paper he has saved in his life
by his habit of using a little porcelain tablet
to make notes and diagrams on.
The Greatest Sight in Europe.
1.-THE greatest sight in Europe is the
Jung Frau" said Mr. Dana, with a sweep of
u
Frau's height. could l do q two.stick de-
scription of the Jung Frau? No, could not.
1t could not be described in two weeks, al
though that is a lot of space. nor in two
years. 1t is superior to every thing in beauty
sna IN .s erect on sas IA
uary, its peak white with snow and with the
sun Shining on it perfectly clear to the eye
at great distances. Say that every traveller
should see the Jung Frau without fail, and
see her from IntcrIaken
"The most beautiful thing that saw was
the BODY OF young girl in Pompeil. She
lay face downward. with her head resting
upon her arms, perhaps asleep. The acci-
dent which wiped out ciry did not disturb
her. The ashes from the volcano settled
down on her, packed with the weight Of cen.
crumbled to q handful of dust, the ashes and
powder from the volcano formed q perfect
mold of her form. OF this mold the marvel
onsy XII men working at the Sic
saw. The young girl, who might have been
20 years old, was clad in a single garment.
No more beautiful form was ever imagined
by a sculptor. A pathetic circumstance was
her body was found"
Mr.. Dana talked about this girl of many
centuries ago much Us Lawrence Sterne
wrote about the young woman in the glove
shop 1t was very real, and would have
filled even serious man with a desire to go
back through time, to take the poor girl
from her miserable surroundings and nnd
quiet home somewhere out of the volcanoes
reach.
Though an Editor He Ate Well.
1.-THE best dinner that ate while was
abroad this time," said Mr.. DANA who knows
dinners, 81 got at the cafe Magny, across the
Seine in the Rue Dauphine. I always go
there when 60 to Paris. Americana may
do many things in Paris less wise than to go
tn fl,a Horvv k,,xvx ct,,dx fno
interesting mirrors. Once, 30 years ago or
more, all literary men Of Paris met at
Magny's, and all at one time or another SOL
emnly wrote their names with q diamond on
one OF the big mirrors.
"Those diamond scratchings are there to-
day, of course, and inside the old gilt look
ing glass frames you may see nearly all the
names famous in modern French literature
George Sand, Balzac. Victor Hugo, Eugene
Sue and endless others. I tried the fashion
able cafe Anglais once or twice this time,
but got a better dinner at the old Magny.
NAPLES is a fine town to see," said the
ruler of the Sun and lord of the office cat,
meTar ss haS
thing about it is the fact that it really is not
Italian and never has been. 1t is Greek
town. 1t was settled by the Greeks, and the
Greek type and manners still prevail.
Mural Painting On Canvas.
Tin the course of an artistic education
every one should go to the big museum at
Naples and study with especial care the
beautiful paintings taken from the walls Of
Herculaneum and Pompeii. They are there
as beautiful and fresh in color as on the day
when TIE artists stepped back, took good
look and decided that they were finished.
Such delicate imagination is shown in these
works Of art as we do not see i'll modern
in stance, and all sorts OF delicate fancfes."
Mr.. Dana allowed that the transferring of
those paintings from the plaster walls to en-
during canvas as large straw added to the
can do anything.
First" said he, "a suitable canvas is
glued on to the face of the painting with
wall behind the picture was scraped until
there was only the thinnest coating of plas
ter left for the paint to cling to. Then q
second canvas is glued to the back of the
painting. The canvas on the front, which
has held the picture together during the un-
derming process in the rear, is removed, and
there is your mural painting on canvas. It
Is difficult work, but we'll worth the trouble.
The Most Interesting Man He Met.
-"The most interesting man ! met in
Paris" Mr.. Dana added, recalling the news
paper rule that no story amounts to much
which fails to introduce O human being,
'was Theodore Child. Theodore Child, as
every one should know, is the Englishman
living In FaflS VINO knows so mucn about |
art that he can make conversation on pict- |
ures more easily than most of US can on |
and whose mind is SO widespread |
that he has written a sort of q book on eat- |
ng. The London Daily Ne,cs. by the way, |
devoted its second leader to that book only |
/ few days ago.
Mr.. Dana said that he could not say much |
.bout his travels next year. He minated |
hat it might be necessary for him to start |
IN long journey in the meantime, but ad- |
nitted when asked that he did have some |
rope of going to Japan before going to
heaven. A. B.
Luxury and Starvation in Russia.