The Arvada enterprise., 1910-09-23
Aryada Boy Visiting
Rome and Venice.
Continued from page 4.

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any other city in the world
Each day there are 76O gallon.
of water from the Alps for eacf
person. Fountains abound every.
where some are very beautiful
and costly.
Of course have visited the ia
nous catacombs. | expected tt
see thousands of skeletons but
find that nearly all have been re.
moved, the bones of the popes,
saints and martyrs being distrib,
uted among the different
churches. These subterranear
passages are. cut in the soft vol
canic rock; = more than 80 have
been discovered around Rome, ex-
over an area of about
$50 acres. If all the passages
were put in a line it would ex-
tend about 597 miles Of the en-
tire length of Italy. 1t is like
going into lonely coal cellar,
only it seems to have no end.
On either side in the walls are
carved out the hollow shelves
that contained the bodies, over
1000, 900 in all. 1t is truly city
of, the dead and the only life |
saw outside of our party was a
cat in the catacombs (this is
s inkp \
Every one has heard of the Col
osseum, the most wonderful ruin
in the world. The amphitheatre
of ancient Rome was begun by
Vesparsian in 72 A. D. on the
site of Nero's Golden house, it
was inaugurated by Titus in 80
by sports that lasted a,hundred
days during which thousands of
men and beasts lost their lives.
1t is estimated to have cost So,
100000 Notwithstanding the free
labor of thousands Of captive
Jews. IteoVers 6 acres of ground
and has four stories of arches, it
could accommodate so, specta-
tors seated on tiers all around.
Here for hundreds of years glad
iators and thousands of Chris
tians suffered for their faith as
Byron said! "Butchered to make
a Roman holiday"
This saying is tracaable to the
eighth century: while stands
the Colosseum Rome shall stand,
when falls the Colosseum Rome
shall fall, and when, Rome falls,
with it shall fall the world y
/ have a,WaEe read that one
sheuid See the Colosseum by
moonlight. Last night had the
splendid opportunity, the night
was beautifully clear, the scene
was profoundly impressive as the
mooyf sbone, then the picturesque
arches lighting up the interior
with ghostly splendor.
leave Rome tomorrow, Thurs
day morning at 8 for Pisa and
Florence feeling That I have seen
Rome pretty th9rQVghly even TO
ElSslng the toe OF st, Peter S
Statue and climbing on my knees
the holy stairs of % marble steps,
nine years indulgence for each
step. These are the stairs
brought from Jerusalem toward
the end of the crusade in mem
ory Of Ghrist's ascent to Pilates
Jndjf1ent seat they may be as
cended On knees only-How my
knees ached.
Aug. 81. l had a delightful
time in Florence, 1t Is a fine old
city beautifully situated on either
side of the river Arno with lovely
Surrounding hills.
On the way from Rome l
stopped for about four hours at
Pisa where is located the fa-
NOUS Leaning Tower. The cam
panile or leaning bell tower is a
beautiful structure Of white mar
BILE built from 1t74-1350, it is 1749
feet high and IA feet out of the
perpendicular; Au the base on
TIE side toward which tower t the
LEANS is a beautiful spring. This
is no doubt the cause of the lean
though the joke is current that
the contractors and contractee
had a serious dispute and the for
mer put a lean" on the building.
The cathedral and baptistery
entirely of marble are beautiful
buildings, | have never hearc
such wonderful and such beautl'
full echoes as in the baptistery
circular domed building.
The ride by train to Florence
Is very lovely, one passes through
beautiful hilly country luxurian1
in verdure and fruits = but what
they do with the fruit | dom
know, | have never eaten sucf
poor fruit as in famous sunny