The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-10-16
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After being I'M Rome tliree week
sE am greatly pleased to fulfill
q promise given my several friends q
8 Home to Wriite a. letter for pJLbllea.
! tfbn fnAlieus0f many TO their severn
addresses ~. { !. ,.-,l 10.
After a voyage 81 exceeding
beauty and fine weather. We anchored
Under Gibraltar with whose massive
profile NE had but Pictorialls been
Impressed a meager one Indeed 70
HE one we have now after q trip
through 3 portion of that great
Iabryinth og heWn stone galleries
from which each 100 feet a modern
bit of the Kings artillery stands
ready to do his viii. Then after a
trip through the quaint town with
its Heterogeneous collection OF !, IN
habitants We went aboard and f o.
Nables. Coming into the harbor at
its most beautiful time Just when the
sun rises behind the city and Vesuv1-
us. both becoming clearer as the dis
fance lessons and the mlsts Danish,
until the plaster houses stand out
clear and white in that most beautI-
full crescent of whose axis we drop
anchor. and go ashore through
hundred little boats loaded with all
manner of salable things.
The Neopolitan says see Naples
and die. and I for one would not
want to live very long If 1t must bes
in its poorer precincts, where theys
are one half Cor more) naked and
the rest rags of many HUGS, humid
reds sleep in the streets, apparently
as happy as mortal can be, IN faet,4
the outdoor life and careless dress
are things of pride. to those art-loY-
ing easy going italians.
Since leaving Naples we have
.leerined of the shocks that have been
experriienced there and are not art al
sI,Fnriised as for some time before
our visit to VesuyIus and during II
lo11d reyerberatio could be hearfi
within It's seathing crater and d new
crack some 500 feet deep ran down |
lis side An indirect warning pos
sibIy, Of what has since come a y. T.
over Italy large posters sol1 esG alu |
for. the unfortunates In the 8Ja4apfa |
district. Castof clothing is much
desired for the destitute and shelter
less Among other treasures IN the
ma onifcent cathedral are the mans
with which Christ was fastened 70
the cross, and statue OF Mlchafl
Angeles. 's9';s y ~ r
We enjoyed a day at PomPeii. very
much. wand among fairly wen
preserved houses erected 600 years
before Christ, some of which contain
statues on their original pedestals
and great many of; the frescoest
are stili brilliant and beautiful, rs
are the baths in their. Moeaies anu
marble. The trip from Naples 70
Rome is anything but pleasant u
the slow-noving, uneomtortaoie cS!s
Int surely one is well repaid IN t4ls
most beautiful city, with whose MS
+orv one needs be but slightly ac-
ouainted to be thrown into an ave
inspiring wonder for many parts pI
ancient Rome are now unearthed apd
one sees the very places where some
az our most instructive readings
scnes were enacted until the cpl
.lise,1in is beheld one cam not apPFe
ciate how utterly inadequate q PIC
ture and description can be, Tor a.
fen beineiused as quarry for several
generations it still stands the major
part Of its former whole. Hencq
nm fully discouraged from attempt
ing ANYTHING of it.; or st. Peters, lol
IN fact any Of the grand antiquities
other than to remark their wonder
:. Inst now Rome's 400 are in the
north though many are here en1py-f
ing and fine and mot too w rig days p, !:
and cool evenings, seated ats little T
tables along the sidewalks and IN the
squares s,l, where military bands render
most pleasing music. Ices, vines
and fruit are ssen on band gag
IRE also spaghetti and fieqs-
Italy's 4th of July was celebrated
here the goth of Sept, when 80
years ago this city was wrested from
the pope. o,OOq VISITORS were
within the walls, coming from all
parts Of. the slxingdom- More could
sdoubtless be said but as time thes
II thank the publishers and deslst
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