The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-09-18
OVER SEAS.
me Ship "Milano," Venice. Italy, to
Piraeus, (Athens) Greece.

lscAFo, AUG. -, 1918. We left
-s with its cosmopolitan throngs
brilliantly lighted arcades, the
ss1ue attire of the Mohammeda
spicuously apparent, the even
1i.y Goth, and stood easterly for
The day before and the day fol-
Hsre busy days for me, as the
ls commissioned me to find the
nt among the passengers and
for and act as chairman of
.+ NJ be given in the first cabin din
r the evening of the 31st. Sew
engers eagerly suggested the
. their friends for songs, humor-
ps, recitations and impersona-
Tat was easy, but to hunt out
r-.ns to tit the names, get their
and assign their parts was hard.
sail y es, the mark of true
without hesitation. Others,.Oh,
said. said, and some did and
Z. but the concert came off,
slent was brilliant. Ex-Lieut.
bingham responded briefly to
-m-nt, The New World" and
Attiah, dentist of Cairo,
~ the sentiment, "The Old
! made brief appeal for the
Relief Association, 1--WE pick
+or IT'D and then sang America
rat shook the seas and added
The known brightness OF the
Illus Mediterranean sky.
orning, Aug. LIST, on schedule
'Canopic" gallantly steamed
Of Naples, which some say
beautiful bay in the world,
10 this new Italian ship Mi
-r she, for only her second
Piraeus and Constantinople,
Il Of the Elysian waters that
nice; and | would say, with
see both before passing judg-
see Venice from the harbor
a An object of great inter-
-7 when we came into Naples
old Nesuvius smoking. He
rowing off fumes, sometimes
times heavy, since spring.
up out of the great crater
poured over its west side in
It wind the morning Of Aug.
WIS WOOL like tieeces. The scien-
qortends an eruption of fire
matter. If OLD Nesouv is
sick from smoking, 1t serves
and | want to bear witness
around there again the last
august, so / can have it to tell
rs q fair warning.
naples our ship sailed at 10 a.
nd, to make her eastern ter
IT, Genoa, passing the castle
l,iand of Ischla on the north
bay, the island of Sardinia to
and the island of Corsica, on
the birthplace of Napoleon, and
stand of Elba, his last assign
before his exile at St. Helena
ut1ern seas.
milling history of Genoa, as a
republic antedates the Cru
IS record of strife and con-
rough the centuries; but her
Harbor and position in the foot
G- Appenlne mountains, rare in
1eauty, have attained for the
-reat commercial Importance,
Ha last two decades a rapid
Her manufactured of silk and
lucts are not in considerable.
viii not fail to be interested in
ancient streets, the "palazzi
z gone, charming courtyards,
cathedral of San Lorenzo and
vic church of San Ambrogio.
Of ST. Annunziata has some
st middle age paintir gs. There
ny Of art and a museum of
tory renowned over al Europe
sterpieces and art treasures
contain. The hillside villas
1ting. Of beautiful palaces
palace, the St. Giorgio palace,
Change are conspicuous. The
contains striking pictorial
In a mountain gorge on the
side Of the city is the ceme-
Ntaglieno, probably the most
" of the dead in the world. 1t
liable museum of sculpture, made
H here by the generations of
-se families at costs of millions of
4 four square wall of marble
4Desing gates of entrance is built
lislde and on the plain, enclos-
Any acres of consecrated earth.
he inner face of the wall are
gorridors, tombs, nitches, crypts,
Haagr shrines, and all conceivable
vices, effegies, and sacred in
'.S The magnificent tombs and
entail structures are n tably in
ti4e. Lowly people are buried
most part in the plain, though
-s there are beautiful, and
lowers are a maze of inspira-
user temple-like dome in the
the enclosure one group of
parian marble haunts me. A
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