Catoctin clarion., 1912-07-11

ments-some OF the most interesting
and picturesque, no doubt, which sur
vived in Rome from the fifteenth ana
sixte enth centuries. Ii was here that
Vanozza, the mother OF Caesar Borgla.
owned hostelry, and here, as one
wandered in the crowded narro"
streets near the Via del Orso, one
could best realize the appearance oi
the city and its strange mixture OF
suu;,lor and nlagnihcence 400 years
ago.
Ghetto Has Vanished.
But nowhere has The modern Roman
made c!eaRer sweep than In the
famous Ghetto. that Jewish quarter
which was the most compressed ana
intricate tangie OF lanes In the ancient
city. nest OF dirt. disease and pow
erty inGe: cribable. The FISH market
within the portico Of Octavia went
years apo. II Is hard to realize that
in this pace the Jews OF Rome were
herded together like hogs, lnsuted'
hated. robbed and prosecuted. ana yet
multiplied and even occasionally gre"
rich. The Church OF st. Angelo, In
which once a year the Jewish elders
were compelled to listen to a sermon
preached against their religion, sun
remains, but the entire quarter lying
between il and the river has Vanlsned
You may read in history OF the SUI
fering of the Ghetto tolk when the
Tiber overflowed its banks. and now
the inhabitants shifted their goods
into the upper stories OF the houses
from boats.
In other quarters OF the city sani
tary methods We're conspicuous by
their absence. In many OF the streets
walking was we'll nigh impossible oW
ing to the habit OF casting all domestic
refuse into the open street. The mar
kets OF Rome, once the most interest
ing of Europe, have fallen into line
with the less picturesque but more
regulated markets OF the great cap
itals. The huge cattle market Just
outside the Porta del Popolo, has mi.
grated to corner OF Rome not rar
from the old Protestant cemetery, but
nearer to the Tiber. The wild Cam.
magma horsemen with their goatskin
aDrons and OK goads no longer form
feature OF the Piazza del Popolo.
nor do the unwieldy vehicles piled
high with the quaking carcasses OF
pigs and oxen any longer rumble down
the Ripetta or the Babuino. A thing
of the past, too, Is t"G peoples mar
ket in the Piazza Navona, where every
thing that flew or ran or crawled could
be purchased. Gone, also. Is the mar
ket in the Piazza Montanara. under
the Theater of Marcellus, where the
laborers were hired every Sunday
morning at certain hour. With the
spread of education the letter writing
scribe who formerly did a roaring
trade in the pennng OF love notes for
enthusiastic but illiterate peasants.
ha slkewise disappeared
Good hotels, boarding houses. and
furnished apartments OF all sizes. and
suitable to all purses, afford that COM
Portable accommodation which was
lacking or far too expensive In Haw.
thorne,s time. Artists are now board
ed and lodged like ordinary mortals;
they no longer dwell in marble halls
surrounded by medieval dust and
dirt. The foreign visitor Is no longer
menaced with fever. for malaria
thanks to the greater cleanliness, bet
ter drainage. more space and higher
ground-has practically vanished. The
death rate has been reduced to IL per
thousand against ia for Paris and
16l for Berlin Rome thus ranks
among the most healthy OF European
capitals.