The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-05
Many Historic Spots Of Eternal
City Are Very Damp.
TlBER 0vERFLOWS ITS BANKS.
Grand Feast for Both Professional and
Amateur Photographers Very Few kc-
cidsnis Que 10 Excellent Ssnce.

Today half the population OF Rome
;rowds Tibers banks to gaze at the
river mighty in food. writes a CORES
pondent. The almost constant rains OF
the month of November and December
have produced inundations throughout
the country, and the Tiber has over
flowed It's banks In many parts, bringing
about wreck and ruin 10 dwellers in the
f0wiands through whicn II flows.
The people of Rome are deeply inter-
ested in the rise of the river. Many of
hem who dwell I'm the parts of the city
which are lower in lever, and which are
the first to be flooded, have had to leave
their dwellings. which are now unap-
proachable except by boats
Those who dwell in the more elevated
quarters have taken occasion OF the first
bright and sunShny weather for some
time past TO visit the places where the
Hood is most conspicuous.
The Roman Forum is one Of the first
places to be- flooded The extraordinary
lnundatlon OF today has rendered il a
great lake in which the ruined buildings
rise I'm the midst OF yellow water like
Ancient history repeats itself in the
Forum today. IL is Horace who I'm his
ode to Caesar, describing the inunda-
ton of the year b. c., writes
We have seen the tawny Tiber, with
Wrenched violent back from vents in
March on TO Numa's nall and vesta's
shrine.
Menacing downfall.
The residence OF Numa. the Regia, ad-
Joined the temple OF Vesta, I'm the Fo-
rum, not far from the base of the Pala-
tine. Today the gentle waves OF Tiber
lap the formless foundations of Vesta's s
shrine and lie close TO the marble rem
nants of the Regia.
FEAST FOR PHOTOGRAPHER
From the temple of Romulus. the son of
Maxentius, 10 the base of the Arch of
Septimius Severus. and from the Basilica
Julia To the other side of the Forum
there is nothing but yellow water visi-
BILE amid which fragments OF ancient
buildings appear like islets and solitary
columns rear their heads and are reflect
ed i'm the still. mirror-like surface OF the
risen Tiber.
The -phntnera paer- AAes-a feast here to-
day. All kinds of machines from the
heavy laree-sized article on it's tripod
to the pocket kodak, are directed from
many points on the flooded Forum. and
what might be called water-colored Views
OF this classical spot will be shown I'm
many distant land
At ST. George. In Velabro beneath the
west side of the Palatine. where the four
sided arch of the Janus Qusdrifrons and
the arch of the silversmiths. raised in
honor of Septimus severus, stand. the
liver has risen.
The church. which was once the titular
church of Cardinal Newman. Is flooded
10 about eight feet in height from the
floor. An unapproachahle gas lamp light
ed before the river rose In the night Is
burning in tho bright sunlight.
The temple OF Hercules. by the Tiber's
brink. with its circular portico OF 10 fluted
marble columns. stands I'm the midst of
a large and deep lake
The church of Santa Maria, I'm Cosme-
din. recently restored with great care and
cost 20 its antique state OF the seventh
century, Is filled with water eight feet
deep.
st. Paurs. that grand church Of bright.
new marbles. that are n delight 10 every
one who looks upon them. is unapproach-
able, as the road leading to IL is deep un-
der water.
TIBER FULL OF wHIRLPOoLs
The Pantheon is unspproachable from