The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-14
THE MAN WHO REMEMBERED

70 the extent of revealing his peculiar
Cortice took the bearings from the
intersection of two strcets-you WI!
understand that the spot where we
stood was considerably higher, over
the low roofs OF the old city, in TACT
aud that the surface soil was rouGh
and barren, looking like nothing 80
much as a bed of light gray ashes
not very closely compactcd togetner.,
"Hcrc. [ nudge. will be about the
spot, - said Cortiee at length, indicat'
ing q certain place.
In iiffy those Jtulians fell TO work
with With The aforesaid pick and shovel
and basket. And how they did make
the dirt fly. First they opened
ND wide trench. and from that
dug lateral trenches, the llght ASH
and scoriac being shovcled into an
|endIess line of bushel baskets and
carricd away to the dumping piaee
outside the city s ancient oval Wau,
Rv noon they had uncovered an
area OF perhaps half an acre. first
some roofs appeared about TWO tect tGet
from tho surface: then upright walls:
offcr that the laborers, who were eS,
merits i'm their way, simply followed
| fhc wall. That they were diggine
out the ancient Street of the Doves
became apparent when on ihe corner
I of the wall aPpeatcu -, -
/ ouintina OF two doves billing, thc COZ
ors as fresh as Wnch laiu y"
years before.
When we returned from lunch we
/ found thry were actually digging 10
/ iIo afrium of the house of Nanadius:
/ II should be said that the houses o.
! Pompeii were never more thah oue ou
story in hcight-about eight or tou
/ fcct from pavement 10 cornlce. Con
| 1,l not as OIpJ
as might at first sight appear
Tins far Corticc had conicntcd MN
self with general directions, but, nov
tbs4 we were really within the housl
,rLore he met his tragic death, by taci
consent of Signor Mattel he asSume'
cbarGc massipg the force of laporer
al one corner OF the atrlum;
Now. the Pompeiiuns did not us
doors within their dwellings; the en-
frances TO the cubicula or sleePini
nIacos were masked by curtains SIN,
ply. This particular corner, II ernm, sur"tI' th
had been protected somew nat trom !u
rain of ashes by a slight proJcctlo
fron; the roof or coruicc above. Con
seauently the stuff to be shoVelcd ava
was much lighter and not so tlShtl
packed as elsewhere, =,
Cortice had jumped on 10 the pil
Of ashes the instant the opening mt
the cublculum appeared: anu c'en Sc e
a shovel himself. When three, Zee
had been dug away he stopped. an
pccrod within; then resumed dlggln
harder than ever. his example nerN
inc the gang to rcdoubIcd efforts, ~
his excitement was contagious. Inc
lust pitched the stuff for the preser
into The center of the atrium:
In half an hour at most the enti1
narrow doorway was clear, and thel
was besides a small space in fror
where four or five of rs could crow
together. Aud this is what we saw:
4 narrow room perhaps eight ie'
deem by Rve or six wide, bare of IN
niture save a water.iar, curved metz
stool or bancal, and a shelf on whIS
still stood some small statuettes. III
walls were decorated with figures
living birds. fishes. flowers and son
rather unconventional female figure
all eNauistely drawn and colorcd, II
latter as vivid as though the arti
. had but lately left.
: But our ewes took in these mn'
= details at one unconcerncd sweep
{ Pompcii aboundcd in such. What caugl
? our gaze and held us spcllbound w;
: Il skeleton standing erect at the I;
| end, the brass helm dropped low ov