The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-09
LOOKED INTO CRATER
Professor Frank Dunkin In
Spects VeSuvius.
BEGGING FOR TIPS
He Found Most Unpleasant
Thing on His Trip,

June for a trip TO the Paris exposition
and through different countries in Europe
came back yesterday. He says Europe
is mighty good place TO go if you know
YOU can leave there when you get ready
and even at that he says it is better
place to leave than 10 go TO-
He travelled through France, italy
Switzerland, Belgium, parts of Germany
and England
Europe is seventy-five years behind
America" he says. LAS matter OF tact
America never was as clumsy and TOOL
isb and poor and backward as Europe is
right now. Why, do you know how silly
those people farm? 1 saw right in ENG
land. the country supposed to De up 10
1be times. farms with a little patch or
potatoes. probably twenty feet wide, run
ming the entire length Of the farm. Right
along by this potato patch was little
srrip of oats or barley, no wider, running
the entire length Of the field. Then there
would be corn or rye or some other crop
all running along the field. Do you sup
pose there is a man in Wichita with i'm
agination fertile enough to conceive the
in this country Il he should try anything
OF that kind? Everything is about on
level with this sort Of enterprise Inc
railroad cars are boxed of in compart-
unents. You get your ticket and the con-
ductor collects them before the train
starts. The conductor is an ofhcious
parsonage, strutting around the depot
platform with uniform and horn hung
about his shoulders. After he collects
ahe tickets and the time is up to start,
ne grabs the horn and blows it. Then
the train starts. You are in a compart-
ment and there is no way to get out Of
st till the train stops. The only door in
it is on the side and leads out Of the car.
They have no system Of checking your
baggage and you have to lug it around
yourself II it's a big trunk or anything
too heavy to carry you register it. Reg
istering it IS simply sending it by freight
and you either have to send it ahead
three or four days or wait for it when
you get there"
Mr.. Dunkin says, however, that on
some OF the European roads very good
time IS made. From Naples, italy, TO
Bale. Switzerland, as high as fifty miles
an hour is made. One remarkable thing
about the roads in southern Europe is the
number Of tunnels. On the road from
Naples to Pisa there are sixty-five tun-
nels. The st. Gothard tunnel, on a road
out Of Milan, is ten miles long and it
takes sixteen minutes to get through it.
One Of the most interesting trips Prof
Duncan made was up Mt. Vesuvius. This
volcano is about eleven miles out OF Ma
pies and there is no way to get there ex-
ccpt by carriage or walking. Mr Dun
can hired a cabman to haul him TO the
base Of the cone, where there is depot
or station on the cog road that leads to
the summit The fare was about $40.
About seven miles out the cabnans team
gave out Mr.. Duncan then hired be
[ otake him to the depot and they walk
ed four miles At the depot he hired
TWO guides. An eruption Of the mountain
last May destroyed the railroad and no
train has made a trip since. One of the
guides tied n rope about his waist ard
then tied the rope to MIR. Duncans waist
The guide then went in front and pulled
while the second guide came in the rear
and pushed. They went up about 800
feet and the authorities would permit
them to go no farther without a licens-
cd guide, and Mr. Duncan thus got his
fourth set Of help The government al
lows no one to proceed TO the top OF We
suvius without being accompanied by a
guide who is licensed by the authorities.
and the two Mr.. Duncan first picked up
had 40 license.
The cone is nearly straight up from the
depot. and while il is only a little more
than 500 feet 1t takes an hour to get 10
the top. Prof Duncan says the path is
only about six inches wide and the de-
scent so steep one would not look back.
\ false step or a stumble would land one
in Naples about eleven miles away.
THE crater or Vesuyius." SAYS Prof.
Duncan. sis about two hundred feet in
diameter. 1t is nearly circular and run
ming around it is . walk perhaps five
feet wide. After you have been 10 there
few minutes the guide viii allow YOU
10 walk close enough to the crater to
put your hand out into the steam thar
comes up from below. put my hand ou-
and the steam was hot enough 70 scald
the flesh in few seconds. The crater is
great dark looking hole right down in
the mountain and out Of Il arise suca
sUlphurous odors and smoke mixed with
ashes and steam as would suffocate Won
an "a few minutes if yen stood right near
the edge, Il was very quiet and no sign
of eruption. Tho least noise or rumbling
In The mountain scares everybody away
from the mountain for ar eruption 1nisht
come and destroy everything for miles
around"
The only unpleasant thing about this
trip Prof. Duncan says. was the persist
ence eff the caonan IN asking Tin.
Everybody expects a tip at places fre-
Quented by American tourists. This eab-
man followed Prof Duncan hair a day
tryins TO get a tip of about % cents. He
finally went 10 the man he was D-o~l-
Ing for and got him 20 20 70 Pr9g DIM
can 10 see i there was not some way 10
get tsp. Mr. Duncan finally showed
s'sns Of getting wrathy and the matter
was dropped
''fhe average guide or hickman Or
wa5ter or porter you meet on p tin
through those countries would SCI his
soul for tip" says the professor. For
ln ~ one cent a waiter VIII turn /,
restaurant over 70 yoii. The sverars
man Tnu employ would rather have Tin
tn9n tAe regular price he charges you.
He wants tip AT any cost. He viii sac
riace time enough to earn dollar try
inE - Eet Tip % Eve ar SIX cents. They
VII fellow you around the hotel ana
about on the streets dli you show signs
az hEAt- i is enc of TIE most aanovs7-
th,a-s In the world
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