The Arvada enterprise., 1910-09-09

ever in. / pay 7 francs or $1.35
per day fer full pension.
Tonight touring party of %
Americans are coming. | went
this morning by train to Pastum
where there are also some fine
old ruins of Grecian temples built
from 100 to 400 B. c. When |
got to the station happily met
again Mr.. and Mrs. Mabery, the
Cleveland people, so we spent the
day very enjoyably there, we also
had with us very fine young
Englishman who had come to
look over the ruins. Pastum, or
tPescidonia the old Greek name,
signifies the city of Neptune, was
founded by the Greeks 600 years
lB. c.; in 273 it became a Roman
| colony, the temples arer rated sec
ond only to those of Athens and
they are surely imposing. old
ruins, there are three now to be
seen quite well preserved. We
ate lunch in the shadows afforded
by one of the massive pillars of
the temple Of Neptune, this is no
doubt the grandest of all the
rpmUfE5-, t995 44effg-by rs rs feet
wide; it has al each end six large
huted Doric columns, each is 2S
feet by 6 3-4 feet in diameter at
the base, it is porous limestone
meIlowed in color by age. l re-
turned to Caya at $50 and bade
adieu to Mr.. and Mrs. Mabery
who sail for America on Friday.
! meet the young Englishman
again in Rome.
August 8th. Left Cava early
this morning for Pompeii. AS
usual over here, one is bothered
by officious and persistent people
who want to guide. / was at the
gate as soon as it was opened, |
prepared for an interesting trip;
it certainly makes a deep impress
sion the awful solemnity and de-
struction Of the place, when once
on the place one lives it all over,
the event becomes so real; a look
at the ruins of the city as you
stand in the streets, and then a
look away at old Vesuvius and
you wonder why it may not all be
as you see the smoke as
cending from the crater. 1t is es-
that Pompeii had from
twenty to thirty thousand people
at the time of the incarceration
in A. D. 70. By the eruption of
VesuvIu5- the whole region was
covered with a layer OF pumice
stone and hot ashes from 10 to
Is feet deep. Many of the in
habitants escaped but others We're
either unable to do so or remained |
to take their treasures with them
and were caught in the fiery
storm and buried in the ashes
and pumice, and the city was left |
buried in apparent oblivion; later
eruptions increased the covering
to 20 feet and the city was for
gotten. In the last fifty years
however, excavations have been
carried on Systematically yet only
one half Of the city has been un-
covered; the streets from 10 to
25 feet wide are bordered by
sidewalks and paved with poly
gonal blocks of lava; at intervals,
especially at the corners, are
placed housekeeping stones across
the steeets for the use ofthe
pedestrians; there are ruts, some
s inches deep, worn into the
rocks of the streets which look
as though there was considerable
traffic and heavy hauling, at
the street corners are the ruins
of public fountains. Almost all
the houses were built Of concrete
or lava stone and some af them
plainly show that the owner was
a man of wealth, one in particular
called The House of the Faun is
very large and gives evidence Of
elegance, the walls are covered
with marble stucco and the floors
with the most superb mosaics,
the wall decorations have a pecu-
liar charm and some are well pre-
served, the bright colors of red
and yellow predominant. On the
grounds is a museum containing
a good collection of relics among
which are casts of models ofdoors,
windows and objects in wood;
the casts of human bodies and
one of a dog show too plainly the
the tortures and agony in which
they died, there are cakes show
ing plainly they had been cut,
dishes of figs, plums, onions and
various grains. The only part of
the suburb outside the city that
as yet has been eXcavated is
called the Street of Tombs; the
ancient custom of burying the