The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-09-01

turned for articles forgotten or neg
lected i'm the first fright were, at least
some of them, destroyed. In making
the excavations when the laborer's
pick or shovel opens cavity it is filed
with plaster of paris mixture and so
a reproduction of the object is OBJ
tanned. They have museum with
the reproduction of men and women
and animals as they were covered by
the lava, some in attitudes showing
their agony and struggle, some face
downward in an effort to protect
themselves from the shower of ashes
as an Arab will today in sand storm
on the desert. We objected to an
other night with the mosquitoes at
Pompeii, so we drove to Castlemare
on the bay five miles away, and had
beautiful rooms looking out upon the
Bay of Naples with its graceful curve
dotted with many villages, while old
Vesuvius quietly smoked in the back
ground.
From Castlemare we drove along
the shores of the bay to Sorrento, some
ten miles farther out on the PENN
sula, the road for goodly part of the
distance cut into the perpendicular
base of the cliff that drops down into
the sea. We passed under the home
of f. Marion Crawford built on a cliff
overlooking the bay and the islands
and charming valley that runs in
land from Sorrento. AT Sorrento we
took steamer for Capri to see the ia
nous blue grottO. AS we near the
/ island the water takes on a most Pc
culiar and beautiful blue color, very
| different from the blue of the ocean
and more striking even than that of
the Hgean sea. The steamer stops
near a cliff that rises abruptly some
hundreds of feet and we get into
small boat and start toward a small
black spot at the waters edge that
proves to be the entrance to the grotto.
There is general scramble to get low
enough to avoid striking the rock as
our boat glides in, then we are in
darkness moment, but as the eye be-
comes accustomed to the place we find
| ourselves in cavern some IT'S feet
in length and irregular in shape, but
all colOred dark blue except the
water, that is beautifully bright and
the oars as they dip shine like silver.
All the light for the grotto is refracted
through the water and takes the color
from its blue tint. That is all there
is to the famous blue grotto of Capri,
but it is very pleasant memory to
take away.
Capri is mountainous island with
two peaks at either end, and depres-
sion between. It has two little viii
lagos that have been asleep for CEN
turtles to all outward appearances and
population that swims, fishes, raises
fruit and takes life easy. The only
people who work are the tourists.
They are worked for all there is in
them, and yet it is very reasonable
place to live, and if one wanted eli
mate, beautiful views of shore line and
sea, pure air and nothing to do Capri
would be the place of places, as lady
on the boat told us. She had lived
there for years and was born in Wash
ington. AS our little steamer hoisted
anchor for the return to Naples an
Italian band came aboard and played
for US. What musical people they
are. AS they played one of the guitar
lists would occasionally break into song
and his eyes would flash and his whole
body be expressive of the melody,
suddenly at the close of one of their
pieces he dropped on one knee and
raising his hat gave closing line of
the piece they were playing, "adieu
Capri" then followed an aria from
Regaletto. One hardly knows which
to admire most, the wondrous harmon
les of the German masters that stir
you like battle, or these melodious
creations of the Italian that tell of a
time when the tuneful music of the
spheres shall be heard by mortal ears.
Naples is a great city. About seven
hundred thousand people live in it.
1t has narrow, crooked streets that
Chamber up and down the hills, these
streets are lined with four and five
story buildings, and these in turn are
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