The Holt County sentinel., 1900-11-30
Issued Every Friday.
Friday, November 30, 1900.
A Glimpse Of Mount Vesuvius and
Look Within Its Crater.

A Glimpse Of Mount Vesuvius and
Q Look Within Its Crater.
The second OF Edwin \. Welty's de-
scriptive articles Of certain features of
Europe As he saw them:
left you believe in my last letter on
the deck of the Vera in Naples Bay.
viii! now some 10 days later. on my re-
turn from Rome, ensconce you comfort
ably within the Grand Hotel DE Vesuve,
one Of the great hostelries of Naples, on
the great terrace and promenade front
ing the Bay. The hotel il an elegant
one, the rooms given mys II and family
consisting Of two beautifully furnished
bed rooms with parlor en- suite, front
ing on 4 small balcony. commanding a
grand view Of the Bay, the islands in
the distance. and the distant pillar of
smoke rolling lazily up from the crater
OF The great volcano beyond the Bay.
The view from the hotel " as at all times
a vista Of beauty such as the eye never
tir,s Of gazing upon. and, were but
gifted with the brush Of any one of my
lady friends Of the Oregon Art club, L
would put the scene on canvass in far
more satisfactory way than this poor
pen Of mine can depict it. But ! will
not long detain YOU in even the elegant
rooms OF this, one OF the leading hotels
Of the Continent, for have promised you
a glimpse with me at Mount Vesuvius
snd the subterranean fires within its
crater. The hour would be an early one
for my good friends. those luxurious
sybarites, Deacon Shuts, Judge c. j.
Hunt and Major Tom Curry, l know,
but my early training on a good old
fashioned Holt county farm in the late
eos, put me in good trim to be up with
the lark, as it were, and ou the morning
in question surprised even that indus
trious bird.The breakfast in Continental
hotels is simple one,a - blamed simple
one either one of the above distinguished
Missourians, am satisfied, would say,
but my vocabulary is more limited and
I will confine myself to plain En- nllish
phrases. The breakfast consisted Of black
coffee, cold rolls, hard as brick bats, ,and
butter, and is never different any where
on the Continent-save in Germany and
Austria, where they put in plate of
b ,ney in addition, and this hastily de-
spatched. a party Of 60 Americans took
our places in the carriages and coupes
provided for us, and were soon rattling
down the streets Of Naples over rough
cobble stones and lava paved streets in
. way that must have struck the aver
age Neapoiitan as unusual, to say the
least, for lattices were hastily opened
and windows thrown up, and the sleep
ers, lying in the embrasures OF the win
dows and on the overhangiug balconies
on what looked like a cross between a
carriage cushion and a mattress, quickly
reused themselves, and with the pretty
dark eyed Sinnoras at the open iattices.
looked down with amazement at the
long cavalcade OF carriages filling the
street below them. The picturesque
high rooted houses, with here and there
. niche with the shrine Of some Saint
beneath the quaint small paned win
dows, the curious arched passages lead
ing to the open courts within, the streets
narrow and winding and crowded with
. mass Of carts, wagons, misfit, carry alls
and vehicles Of every kind and size, with
An indescribable number and variety OF
beasts of burden, horses, ponies, oxen,
dogs and donkeys, with here and there
. woman hitched up with a goat, all
loaded, as a rule, with fruits and vege-
tables for the early city markets, form,
as q whole, a picture beyond my power
to adequately describe. Groups of
black browed, wolfish Italians were
everywhere, either preparing breakfast
in the street, boiling vegetables and
other edibles in grimy kettles, or hang
ing up great strings of macaroni on
frames to dry in the sun, or the days
washing in lines strung along the edges
Of the pavement, or upon the balconies
or house tops which ever was, for the
time, most convenient. The smell from
the foul open courts and the filthy
streets were as variegated as the best
regulated nose could wish. Dozens Of
street urchins followed the carriages,
turning haDd-springs and sumersaults
as they, painting from heat and exhaus
ton, followed alternately one after an
other of the fast driven landaus, or
thrusting fruits and flowers into the
open carriages in eager anticipation OF
the coppers usually thrown them on
such occasions by the visiting tourists.
Street fakirs of all kinds, and cripples
with every deformity the human anat-
omy is heir to, hastily aroused from
their morning slumbers, thrust their
wares or their deformities, which ever
was handiest, into the open coupes and
SuC t0SCS VI shCti abo
ladies, unused to such scenes, actually
sickened at the spectacle of theideformi-
ties they unwittingly witnessed: as We
proceeded bands of street musicians sur
rounded the carriages, pla. ing mandolin
snd guitar, interspersed with popula
street songs of the day, and peddlers
jumped on the steps with cases of
mosaics, ,Florentine statuettes and cheap
Venitian trinkets, all equally vociferous
and all equally intent on opening the
hearts and emtying the purses of the
"vella gooda Americanos."
will divert from my description a
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