Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-04-18

of abundance with hands hanging full
of money, grapes and other products
OF the empire-this was evidently call
ed Abundance street"
The baker shop was interesting, it
had great stone oven, fire box under
meath, the stone mill for grinding the
grain and the great granite tubs for
making up the batch Of dough. The
cad water pipes used 30 bring the
water from the fountain are stin there
in position. The test has been made
by cleaning out the pipes and pourins
water in the fountain and surely it
runs in the shop as of old, two thous-
and years ago. No bread was founo
in the public baker shop, as perhaps
the destruction came when it was
not baking day, but in several Of the
homes were found the round, fiat
leaves Of wheat and barley bread in
cased with ashes. 1 saw two sets of
muffin pans almost as complete as in
hardware store in Douglas today.
The pots are all bronze, an apparatus
for heating bath water and with stos-
cocks which are not rude, consider
ing they were used two thousand years
ago. In the market are found several
interesting things. Some eggs whose
shells are perfect, some grapes or the
real size and also some oil. The scales
for weighing articles of produce are
unique. They are the old balance and
steel yard. The weights for weighing
eggs are bronze and are made in the
shope of an egg; those for fish in the
shape of an egg; those for fish in the
the shape of cheese. All the gold
jewelry is in perfect condition. The
wrist bones We're found with bracelets
thereon, and necks and fingers with
chains and rings around them. These
are still in the same position as when
discovered.
At the comic theatre, which is known
by the Latin inscription still seen on
the floor, were found the ivory tickets.
showing high and low prices and also
the dead head"
The paintings on the stone walls
are in wonderful state of preservation
wherever discovered on the walls of
houses. Among the best preserved is
that of the chicken fights. They are
on the walls of the houses of Glaucus,
Vettii, and Cassi; also some painted
on the square pillars. 1t shows the
Romans revealed in the chicken fight
and see plainly where Spain and Mex
leo got their chicken fights. One of
the colonies of Rome was Spain, OF
Hispania, and thus in the time of the
Caesars it was carried there and by
the Spaniards brought to Mexico.
That Pompeii was morally corrupt
is shown by the remains of the house
of prostitution. No ladies are permit
ted TO enter it, but the soldier guard
opened the door for me. Much Of its
vulgarity cannot be described in this
article, but the paintings of the vilest
nature are still preserved on the walls.
The one solid alabaster bath tub
found here is real work of art, but
all the carved figures are as plain az
yesterday and are of the vilest and
most shocking scenes ever pictured by
man.
No wonder PompeI1 fell in flame OF
fire; if there is any such thing as the
wicked being cut OF suddenly in wick
edness here is one place at least where
it happened. But my space is ex
hausted. If you ever come to Italy
be sure to see Pompeii, the strangest
sight in all the world, and yet the most
real dead thing l ever saw-thanks to
science and history for the excavations.