Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1907-02-01
Southern Italy.
HOTEL METRoPoLE & VILE
Naples, Italy,
Christmas Day, 1906
Mr.. J. B. ANDERSON,
Frederick, Delaware.

heading of this letter that l am IN
Naples in Southern Italy, city OF
! 800, 900 inhabitants. 1t was a city
more than two thousand years ago
The Apostle Paul landed close to
this place when on his way to
Rome after his most remarkable
sea voyage from Palestine. The
old city where Paul landed was
called Putcoli, but is now called
Pozzuoli. It is very old and was
built by the Greeks long years be-
fore the Romans came into power;
close by where Paul landed IS the
beginning of the Appear Wav,
which runs to Rome, a distance Of
nearly one hundred English miles,
and a well-paved road. If you re
member it was the Appear Way
that is stated in the Bible that Paul
entered Rome, Paul was a Roman
citizen; and when he found that
the Jews were bent on his death, he
appealed to Caesar" and was sent
to Rome to be tried by the Roman
Law, and he was in Rome a num-
bers of years, and perhaps never
would have been tried. But Nero
conceived the idea that the Christ
ians were hostile to Roman author
ity and ordered Paul to be behead-
ed. Paul speaks in his letter to
Timothy that he was ready to be
offered that he had fought a good
fight, ETC., but it does not say that
he was put to death, and the ac-
count so readily circulated by all |
the churches that he was beheaded |
by order of Nero, is all traditional
and is more than likely untrue, for
there is no contemporary history to
substantiate it, and no doubt is the
result of romantic writers who con-
2eived the idea that it would make
the life of Paul close more heroical-
" by having him murdered by
Nero. At this modern place, POz-
,uoli, as it is now called very much
history attaches. 1t was the sea
tide resort for the Emperors Of
Rome and many of the wealthy
people as well as statesmen and
and generals visited it dur
ng the warm season. Nero, RUme's
most cruel Emperor, had palace
lere, and had erected one Of the
lnest amphitheaters in all Italy; it
vas here that he entered the arena
o contest with gladiators or Ro-
nan prize-fghters for the victory; a
lace is pointed out where the Great
ulius Caesar had his Willie and
pent considerable time here; and
he high elevation is pointed out as
he place where Nero $ mother is :
uried; close by is the place cele-
rated in history as being the place
here Nero in the year SO A. D. :
tanned the murder of his mother :
he original plan was to have her L
rowned in the lake: this faile d
nd she was killed by a soldier and :
y Nero orders. It is to this place Il
lat Brutus retired after helping to L
his best friend, Julius 7
aesar. .
The orator, Cicero, had a Willie !
ere, and for centuries this was the y
resort for elite of Rome 8
Id was a great city of extensive g
it was at this place the =
,mmander of the Roman fleet, -
iney the Elder, rendezvoused IL
hen he sailed or rowed his gallies
-er to Pompeii, where he persisted :,
trying to assist the unfortunate VI VI
habitants Of that city, when it y
as destroyed by the great eruption p
old Vesuvius in the year 70
D. The account Of his death
ID the destruction of Pompeii was
-itten by his son, Pliney the
might write much about
is city, which skirts the shore of
2 Bay of Naples, which forms he
around which the city is Fe
ilded and extends back and up Is
2 hill side, and the scenery from Fe
= high hills back Of the city can Fe
be more beautiful anywhere. 2Sl
seems to me perfect, and no sight Nj
1ld be better. But, notwithstand- be
: the many things there is here A
admire, there is the ever present, pr
mace to it all and thousands Of
ople surrounding it-Old Vesu-
IS, which now sends out only a
bic smoke as a warning that it
still at the old place and may be
dy to go into active business at
y time. I went down to Pompeii
/ saw again the great excava-
us made there, which discloses
fact that Pompeii was quite a
&c city, it seems to me there is n
eady enough uncovered to make
m for a hundred thousand in
,itauCa and fthav are e+it1 IN