The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-10

Monua& June 13.-Sardinla was
in sight this morning and
We are promised arrival in Naples to-
night and disembarkment tomorrow
morning at an early hour, so I will
await terra firma.
In Sight of Naples.
Naples, June 14.-This morn
ing we arrived in sight of
the lights of Naples about 4 o'clock. It
would be difficult to picture a more
beautiful sight than Naples at a dis
tance.
There are peculiar charms about Ma
pies from a distance
We could not get to the wharf but
anchored little distance from it, and
had to go ashore in small boats, which
landed us at the Custom House, where
a very perfunctory examination of
baggage took place, and then we fell
INTO the hands of the cab drivers. I
say 1t adVisedly that, of all the infa-
nous freebooters and thieves on the
face of the earth the Naples cab driv-
er is easily in the front rank. They
charge what they please and worry
you and apparently themselves until
you feel sure you will die of heart dis
ease or they of appoplexy.
We went to the Hotel Victoria, which
has beautiful location and a good ia
al
charge list. AS we had breakfast on
board ship we soon sailed out and
walked TO the Aquarium, which is said
to be one of the finest in the world,
and which is certainly of very great
interest.
Took in POmpeii.
June Is, Wednesday.-W drove to
Pompeii and spent a couple of hours
| in it's wonders In former days the
dc DE-, ,asg
| dangerous on account of brigands, but
Watchful government has dispersed
the brigands and they have all settled
down in Naples as hotelkeepers, cab
men and guides. 1t would have moved
the heart of a cynic even to witness the
desperate efforts of rival restaurant
keepers to capture our party of six hun
CRY mortals. / need attempt no de-
scription of this resurrected city with
| its narrow streets and painted walls.
! its mineral baths, broken columns and
| fallen statues. That it's people we e
rich, luxurious and with faint ideas
of morality seems pretty evident.
If old Vesuvius ever gives the world
a story of such horror as marked the
| last day of Jompeii,an sends it's death
laden streams over fair Naples and
! cover it deep down beneath layers of
| ashes and lava; and if the famous
wanderer leaves his mournful task of
sketching the ruins of st. Paul from
the remains of London bridge, and
wend his way to sunny Italy and at
tempts to eXhume the buried grandeur
of beautiful Naples, he will find not
far below the surface a Naples cab
man whose cheek has resisted the fiery
rain of Nesuvius who will say, Take
a cabba, only 2 franc"
Shaved by a NeapOIitan Barber.
strolled down town after dinner and
determined to try a Neapolitan shave.
! am yet alive, minus a little skin and
with much respect for tonsOral mus
cles. l entered the shop which was
probably twenty feet wide and ten
feet deep, and after removing my coat
/ asked for a hair cut, shave and
| shampoo. The barber promptly bowed
me to a chair and after fastening
half of a sheet around my neck and
chest he produced a small pair of scis-
| sors and Selling a lock of my hair be-
TWEEN the thumb and forefinger of his
| left hand he sawed it off with the lit
| tie scissors. He made vicious ships
| with the same at various parts of my
Uranium, then blew a cooling breeze
| down my spine after first unwinding a
part of my anatomy, and taking a
| critical glance at his handiwork, said:
THAT goes all right, eh?''
| When l was shaved, sitting bolt up
| piled with a piece of leather, or cham
dis skin, and he commenced shaving
| due south, went north by the right
| cheek, then westerly towards my
mouth and so on. 1t took two men
| to decide the momentous question
whether the water was first to be pour
| ed on hot, cold or tepid. l was not
| consulted and, of course, made no re-
marks. The whole performance was
sngularly solemn. AS the walls were
! lined from floor to ceiling with mir
! rors l had the peculiar privilege of
| seeing myself from all sides and also
had diversified view of the distin-
! guished artist who was presumably
| engaged in shaving and shampooing
me.
Climbed Mt. Vesuvius.
Thursday, 16th-To-day we went up
| Mt. Vesuvius. To all those contem-
| plating such a magnificent trip l would
! in all charity give Punchs advice on
! the matrimonial subject, Don't" The
! carriage ride from Naples to where the
| cable road commences is a very di-
| versified one, passing views through
open portals of a magnificent vista OF
! garden and sea, and a constant at
tendance of armless, legless, twisted,
malformed and distorted creatures
| asking aims, with a running accom-
paniment of small boys who seem all
| legs as they turn handsprings and
somersaults, never interrupting their
cry for pennies. Flowers are thrust
into your face, cherries and apricots
almost emptied into your lap by zeal
Gus vendors; flies and fleas abound,
and you are in constant dread that
your driver will run over somebody,
since all live the entire day on the
streets, and outside of Naples there
are few sidewalks. The patient der
key is everywhere in sight, and the
peculiarly sad expression which this
abbreviated beast of burden habitually
wears seems here increased, doubtless
! by the disgrace which he feels at such
| company as he is bound to keep.
The ride on the trolley and cable
road is more than pleasant. You are
accompanied by two of the national
police, who are supposed to be present
to protect passengers from the bril-
gands. They ought to be in the hotels
| and with the cabs.
Hauled by One Guidej Pushed by
Another.
But when you have gone as far as
the cars can take you, then after pay
ing 30 cents a head to the representa-
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