Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1912-10-18
By Melville DAVIDSON Post
Copyright BY Edward ]. Clode

onrld nave 9OON .,
col lining at the Dresden, on Fifth
era The observer may not have
nus tIFs remarkable man nor any
1I - his history, but he would in
y b. - have noticed his fine, sineWy
MY and his features, clean-cut and
liar like those of an Italian
:: we'll to remember that every
4rv maintains a kingdom lying
w. W. the boundaries of this repub-
Ia do not mean the fiction Of SOW
,ontv attaching to the legations at
a S but a phantom state
h 'r keeping the customs, the tradi-
- s' even the very laws, of the moth
country.
mos only in this kingdom of Italy
cIgnore Mazaccra was a mar
Tntown in New York, he was
.o,v star of heavy opera, one
ordo Robini, with a voice like that
manv sirens, and yet the man,
mo this emasculated trade, was
fort a ruthless, calculating, steel
we'd sentinel, presenting himself,
singing, in the worlds most
DIic places, and reporting each
If to that phantom kingdom OF
" set down like a well-dtting
dow over the streets and buildings
New York.
mo MARQUIS Mazaccra lived openly.
cod in a suite at the Dresden. And
for weeks the district attorney OF
York had known that this man
hi to be in the electric chair; his
Istants knew it, the police officers OF
city knew it. On memorandum in
igeonhole of the district attorneys
X he was written down as guilty
murder in the first degree-willful,
meditated murder. The district at
ney neglected, nay, it should be
tten, refused, to apprehend him on
riminal warrant.
.et us not too hastily denounce this
trct attorney Of New York. He was
incorruptible public servant, able,
sistent, fearless. Why, then, this i'm
nifty to the Marquis Mazaccra, as
one heaven born, amenable to no
/? Why was he not sent promptly
the electric chair, and after to dim
r audiences? To know this it is
Cessary to know first a chapter of
liam history.
when one is dropping his copper
butte into the dish Of the collector
Sorrento, he will look to his left
ID along the Bay Of Naples. he will
erVe villa built of ancient Sicil-
marble clinging like a bit Of flung
sea foam to little promontory Of
shore, having for background a
bon grove, the thick branches sup
ted by lath trellis, like that COM
ply built for vines.
ther the singing marquis came
his Inheritance there remained
this villa, the half-acre of lemon
We and the steps to the sea, out of
at was once the finest estate in
eTnO Even the treasures Of the
a had for the most part, gone else
ere in exchange for Ira, that the
Eolute father Of the marquis might
lntaln to the last day his midnight
II OF revels for the ballet of the
apolltan opera, coming up the stone
rfWay, laughing, shouting, singing
OF diSsolute songs, as though
TAped by some enchantment from
nails Of Morgana the Fay, under
sea-
NE night, crowned with a wreath
Slted roses, brought by the first
'alS from their dancing floor, the
marquis, running forward to well
e Lauretta Matteo-the white
OF Naples-stumbled, and was
sell welcomed by the master of all
NC Young marquis, arriving swiftly
military school at Milan,
~ himself to have inherited q
pse' ana little else. Every item Of
inheritance had gone down the
stairway, except this patch of
vel 'hls house, this dead body of
marquis and an ancient painting
NC virgin hanging in its heavy
III The hall. This painting the
Ia'quls had not dared to sell, hav-
'a!e Tor the Welfare of his body
NC Vafgain. 1t was painted from
y 'ound-faced Tuscan model of
N.Y. age and was wholly without
- except It's coloring, which was
es'oIly fresh and bright. Never
~ II was the most adored Virgin
h sOu.n OF Europe, with a miracle
:. uedlt beyond that of any vir-
!, 'ne cathedrals-not a mere
eHing OF legs or healing of
h Ivy -, ,,nIants, but the saving of the
so, mage OF Tore del Greco, its
rosa s' us crops. its villas, it's
cs LES Its gardens, as well, also, as
n ,pples and its babies.
ai0 -0nner of it was that on a
M 81 SOou Tuesday, with scarce a
to y. warning, Vesuvius began to
l.ra A ashes, sulphurous fumes
Gs .. The alarmed but pious
IN u Iorre del Greco began at
larry IN procession every holy
rcbss ue found in any of the
hons MS out without effect. The sui
i'm Goud remained. the ashes