Bisbee daily review., 1907-05-18
THE BURIED GLORY | Of ANCIENT TIMES
Pompeii and Naples As Viewed By A, J. Sampson of
 Phoenix.

DOUGLAS, May Especial )-
 A Phoenlx friend has received most interesting letter from General A. J. Sampson, who, with Mrs. Samp- SOL, is now touring the Mediterranean coast. The letter is written from Rome and the friend who received it has given 1t to the Republican for publi cation, as follows:
 Rome, Italy, April 6. 1907. My Dear Frater:
 We are now this far on our cruise" It has been a wonderful time of sight seing. l wish you had been with us, am sure you would have enjoyed all the places yisited-Madiera, Seville. Gibraltar. Algiers, Athens, Constanti- nople, smyrna, Jerusalem, Cairo, Ma pies. etc. etc.
 What a Herculean task 1t would be to write of all thesei Naples and Pom peii, which we just left, would require many pages. So, too, would many of the other places. In a few days We seemed to have lived thousand years For hours and miles We walked through the dead city" Pompeii, and looked at the theaters where once thousands assembled to listen to the most debasing plays: and. yet, all Pompeii's theaters were not of this class: wandered through the barracks where once gathered thes gladiators ready for the fray through the Civil Forun, the Amphi2tre, the Temple of Venus, the Basiliea. the Temple of Isis, the Temple of Apollo, the Street of Abundance" and the Way of Mer- cury;" looked at the work of excavat- ing as 1t is now being done; saw evi- dence of the extreme immortality of that people who lived 2000 years since who were so completely wiped out of existence Nov. 9, A. D. 79. We saw number of ruins of houses that yet show works of art and sculpture, of course. all in 8 ruined condition, as only in a lew instances is a compete story of house left standing. There have been excavated 520,900 square meters of the city and it is estimated that 312,000 square meters more are yet uncovered. We were shown a block only recently uncoy- cred Strange it is that during the | Middle Ages" Pompeii was forgot ! ten and lost. Search for it commenced first in 1892, or more than i500 years after its destruction. How vas this
 
 marched through the same streets where more than two thousand years since more than 30,000 inhabitants lived. but where now scarcely the friendly chirp of a cricket can be heard all night to give variety to the guards who watch through the weary hours to prevent spoilation by vandal hands, where once the nights were H. i, The incomprehensibie thing to me is, how this city was lost for 1900 years? Pretty good proof it was not a part | of the United States.
 | Then, in the museum in Naples was another surprise as we looked at the kitchen utensils, the table ware. the house furnishings, the surgical instru- l mensl the mecEanidal tools, etc, etc, that have been excavated at Pom | peii showing that they had many tings that we are wont to regard as of comparatively modern invention and ! not as in use thousands of years past La pan for poaching eggs, an egg beater, fancy door handles, bride bits all kinds of selves, every kind of pan pot and kettle you could imagine, col endars and pans with holes not mere ! " 10 IeL lne WaleT pass IuTOuSus uu
 all formed into artistic designs Oh a hundred things I was surprised tc see: can't think of them all. There too, were the loayes of bread anC cake sburned to crisp on that event ful November day, the casts of numer
 ous bodies there found, pieces of cloth ing and furniture not entirely burned
 because covered by the falling walls and thousands of other things of inter est.
 f But here 1 nave wandered nn a
 this great length about Pompeii ant
 must stop now with a few words abou
 Naples. the largest city of Italy witt
 nearly 600,000 inhabitants. It occu pies one of the most beautiful site
 imaginable. on a bay that has eve
 been the admiration of the world. On' writer has described Naples as a , Paradise occupied by devils" Re
 cause of the character of such 1arg ! per cent of her inhabitants she is sait to be city of cheating, deceiving
 thieving, rObbing and begging, and yet
 on the other hand, her people are goot iHa left this p,ornirp f~-- Nevada hu