The Republican journal., 1899-08-17
Sight Seeing in Naples and Rome.

Sight Seeing in Naples and Rome.
T A Home Letter from Mrs. Edward Sibley.l
NAPLES, ITLAY, July u, 1899. "see
Naples and die.'' We arrived here at
seven o'clock last evening and drove a
long distance to our hotel through streets
crowded and gay with professions and
noisy with bands of music, fire crackers
and torpedoes. The shouting of men,
the braying of donkeys and strange sounds
that we could not understand added to
the general confusion. 1t was the occa-
sion of some festival and was celebrated
by a grand illumination and fine fireworks
late in the evening. Some New York
members of our party, who have seen
great displays of fire works in our own
land, say that the display in Venice far ex-
ceeded in beauty, variety and grandeur
anything of the kind they had ever wit
messed.
Although this trip is so full of interest
to us, and great delight and novelty, there
are some drawbacks to it's pleasure. The
poverty, degradation and abiect misery to
be seen everywhere in Italy is beyond de-
scription. Naples is said to be the dirti-
est and wickedest city in Italy, and we
can well believe it. Although our hotel
was most "beautiful for situation,N close
to the blue waters of the bay, with a very
picturesque old castle or fortress near by,
we could not walk or drive on that SPLEEN
did boulevard without seeing beggars and
cripples and sad deformities without num-
Der. How the children, and their name
is legion, live and thrive in such filth and
squalor is a mystery. The city is very
striking and beautiful with its many pink
houses and old ruins and the universal
light and brightness of the coloring The
wonderful bay of Naples and the Italian
skies are more brightly blue than we had
imagined. The nights are radiant with
the splendor of the full moon, and we sit
on our balconies till midnight revealing
in the glory and beauty of the sea and of
the heavens. Vesuvius is near, but the
smoke rising from its crater does not trou-
Bile us. Neither do the rumors of earth
quakes. There was slight earthquake
in Rome a day or two before we arrived
there.
We have visited Pompeii and were fully
repaid for the hot trip thither by seeing
the marvellous preservation of the fres-
Goes and much of the walls of the long
buried houses of the ancient city. We
spent three hours in the ruins, borne from
house to house in sedan chairs, each car
ried by two stout Italians. 1t seemed as
if we had stepped back into the centuries
long since passed, as we examined those
old homes and furnishings.
ROME, July 3D.. We are glad to return
been often to the Coliseum, and never
weary of its lovely grandeur. Rome is a
most attractive city. Its sculptures and
paintings are of deepest interest. Its
churches are marvels of architecture. Its
shops are fascinating, and still more fas-
cinating are the bewitching Italian maid
ems of whom we purchase gay Roman
silks and necklaces of Roman pearls.
This afternoon few of us visited the
Quirinal, the palace of the king and
queen of Italy, and saw many of the mag
nificent rooms, among them the throne
room banquet rooms, the recreation room
and ball room glittering with crystal and
gold. How proudly the attendant called
our attention to the portraits of ''Our
Margueriten'
Many of the buildings are of marble,
white or very light, and are richly deco
rated. The roof gardens are very attrac-
tive. The numerous balconies, even on
the poorest houses, are often adorned
with flowers and pretty dark eyed girls,
who know full well how to use their
bright fans to attract admiring glances.
We 60 to Pisa soon, thence to Genoa, to
Lucerne again, and later to Paris l wish
there was time to write you of the thou
sand strange and curious things and peo-
pie we see each day.
| HALLDALE, Rev. j R. Pentecost preached
at the Vose school house last Sunday D. m.
....E. M. Tucker and his sister from Pitts
| field are visiting friends in this community
....E. E. Hall, Mrs. A. e. Sisty, Mrs. Fl. n
Crockett, Mrs. d. A. Ordway and Miss
Eva Emery visited at Arnold Davis, South
Freedom last Sunday John Boynton of
| Searsmont was in town last Saturday....W
NJ and G. 81. Vose We're in Belfast on bust
ness last Monday. .Lewman Danforth and
| Fred Lucas of Searsmont were at ]. E. Hall 8
| last week.
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