Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-29

sITeets great many dlnerent Kinds OF
transportation and conveyance. In all
of the continental cities a great many
carts are used, pulled or pushed by
men, women, children, dogs, cattle,
ETC., but in Naples, besides all these,
great many donkeys are employed
and a most motley grouping, man
and dog, or a COW and a horse, a
cow, horse and mule, and all sorts Of
combinations Of the above mentioned
animals. 1t is astonishing what large
loads small donkey can pull.
Marrow Streets.
But the most interesting feature Of
the street life is the people themselves.
They do as much as possible of their
work out of doors. Imagine If you can
hundreds of narrow streets ten to
thirty feet wide, and most of them
about fifteen feet, then consider that
the streets are lined on either side
with little shops about ten feet wide,
packed full of every imaginable sort of
goods and in the poorer districts the
shop Is often the bedroom and kitchen
also, one to ten children belonging to
each family or shop, most of the fam
lily on the street or visible therefrom,
the youngest children sometimes with
not enough clothing to cover
their bodies, street fakirs crying their
goods, the buildings often from four to
six stories high, and nearly every
house with clothing flying from the
windows, and lines across the street
from one house to another with clothes
hanging to dry, and you can get some
idea of what the street scenes in
Naples are. Of course, this description
applies only to the crowded and poorer
districts
There are some fine streets and
those along the bay, lined with trees,
form beautiful boulevard and have
some very attractive stores and build
ings, both public and private.
Island Of Capri.
Nearly every tourist at Naples goes
to the island of Capri, with it's Blue
Grotto, and SO we started on an ex-
cursion for Capri, Sorrento, Amalfi,
Cava, Pompeii, Vesuvius, back to
Naples. We were gone only three days,
but we were on the go nearly every
minute Of daylight and had splendid,
bright, warm weather the whole time
We left Naples Wednesday morning.
We were rowed from the quay in a
skiff out to the steamer which took us,
with about 100 other passengers,
across the bay in about three hours to
Capri, to the Blue Grotto. The day was
perfect, the bay as smooth and blue as
could be. There was good music on
board in the shape of a male quartet
of fine italian voices, accompanying
themselves with four stringed instru-
ments, and the people Of all nationals
ties, American. English. French. Ital-
ian, German, Greeks. Turks. Swedes.
Russians, etc, all light-hearted. dressed
in tourist costumes, and with their
guide books, cameras and opera
glasses. hanging around them on
straps. When we arrived at the en-
trance TO the grottc We had to disem-
bark from the steamer by twos and
threes into skiffs and were rowed
about 100 feet to the grotto. The en-
trance is by an opening about four feet
high and rs many broad, so that only
one boat could go in at a time and
then We had to sit In the bottom Of
the boat and duck on. heads. Inside is
a case ahou. zoo feet long, 80 feet high
and as many nreaa The water is very
blue and the i!si,s from the entrance