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in which the Sacred Stairs are,
Church of St John the Lateran,
where Leo XIII is buried; Baptistry
Constantine (of st. John the Later
am. Church of ST. Mary Marjorie,
Coliseum. Rome has 365 magnifi-
cent churches.
July 3th-We left Rome at 1880
A. NJ, arriving at Naples at 4 p. NJ.
We had a beautiful view of the Bay
of Naples and Vesuvius in the dis
lance, from the hotel in which we
stopped.
July 6th-In the morning we took
the cars to Herculanean, where we
changed cars and went to the top Of
Mount Vesuvius. We left Vesuvius
at : o'clock and the balance of the
evening we spent in visiting the ruins
of the excavated city of Pompeii.
July 7th-Left Naples at $40 A.
NJ, arrived and changed cars at
Rome at 100, arriving at Pisa at 9
2. NJ.
July Sth-In the morning we visited
the Leaning Tower, built in 1174;
the Cathedral, and the old cemetery
built with 53 ship-loads of dirt
brought from Jerusalem. We left
Pisa at - o'clock and arrived at
Geneva at 3 P NJ. In the cool of the
evening we went to the Geneva ceme-
terry, the finest in the world. The
beautiful statues erected to some of
the dead cost away up into the mil
lions, some alone costing over one
hundred thousand dollars. 1t is
beautiful cemetery, over forty thou
sand persons compose its dead resi-
dents.
July 9th-We left Geneva at $50
A. NJ, aud arrived at Vintimiglia at
at 2:3O P. NJ, where we had our
baggage examined by custom Off
GERS and left at 4 p NJ, arriving at
Monte Carlo at p. NJ.
After supper we visited mot for
business) the Casino which is the
magnificent building the gambling
is carried on in.
Monte Carlo is a beautiful city, on
a hill on the banks of the Mediter-
ranean and contains many elegant
buildings. We all voted it to be
the prettiest city we have seen on
our trip.
July 11th-Left Monte Carlo 6 A. M.
Arrived Lyons 7 P. NJ. We just stop
ped over here for the night.
Jul v 12th-We rested all day until
P. NJ, when we took a walk down
to Alexander Bridge over the Seine
River. 1t is built of cannons cap
tured by the French in some of their
wars. We then took a cab and drove
down the Champs de Elyees, the
most fashionable road in Paris,
through the Bots du Bologne, very
nice, cool and shady park.
July 13th-We spent the morning
in part of Louvre Art Gallery of pic
lures and statuary. In the evening
we took in the Notre Dame Church
and a very pleasant car ride to
Nincennes, surburb of Paris.
July 14th-Today was the celebra-
ton of the French Independence, like
our Fourth of July. In the morning
we saw the review of the French Cav
airy and Infantry, the President
and Cabinet and all the foreign Am
bassadOrs were in the parade
1t is a legal holiday, all public
buildings and shops are closed, no.
body working and a good time, every
body has, dancing on every street
and hundreds OF bands played all the
evening until late at night.
July 15th-Today we went to see
the Luxembourg Gallery of Arts, in
which the paintings and statues are
all modern and very pretty Also to
the Church of the Invalides in which
is the magnificent tomb of Napoleon,
and the Louvre and Bon Marche, the
largest department stores of Paris
July 16th-We left this morning
by electric train for Versailles at
$40. arriving there 1920. We went
straight to the Palace of Versailles,
started by Louis XIV and finished
by Louis XIV and reviewed many
beautiful and large pictures of French
battles. We also saw in this palace
the bed room and library OF Marie
Antonette.
The park surrounding this palace
contains 1000 acres and is con-
sidered the most beautiful park in ex-
istence and for the little part we saw
it surpasses anything in parks by far,
OF the numbers of them we have seen
in Europe.
We also saw the Trianon Palace
and bedroom, etc, of Napoleon |
We left about $50 and got back to
Paris at P. NJ.
Alter supper we went to the thea
tire and saw a wrestling match by
some OF the champion wrestlers OF
the world. 1T was very fine and en-
loyable. The purse they were wrest,
ling for was 100000 and you know
there must have been some hard
fighting.
July 17th-Left Paris at $50 A
NJ. Arrived Boulogne at 11:45 A
NJ. Left Boulogne by boat at i
Nj, arriving Folkstone 1:3O.
The English Channel was very
rough crossing and many of us were
very sick. We left Folkstone at A.
and arrived in London 4 P. NJ.
July lSth-1t took us all day to
day in fixing up our clothes, getting
return tickets home, having mea
tickets cashed and doing little
shopping
L lett the party at 1 Z. NJ anC
came out to Shepherds Bush for 6
few days visit to Aunt Sarah.
July 19th-I stayed around the
house with Aunt Sarah Mrs. Webb
today and had a nice rest, after
weeks of travel, etc.