The daily sentinel., 1913-08-28

QuttiOu Oh tue OAA NOMtT
some few years ago. st. Marks
church contains many mosaic or in
laid pictures; also paintings. The
mosaics are mostly by the Tintonettos
and the paintings by The Angeles and
other famous painters. Frederick
B5rbarosso of Germany first harrass-
ed the island Kingdom great deal
and in ST. Marks church in the near
nine hundred and some-odd, he built
before the pope and was forgiven.
Back of the Doges palace is the
famous bridge of sighs. over which
there was no returning for those SEN
fenced by the famous councils OF
three and ten. Much history is con-
nected with the Palace of the Doges.
Many famous people were here i'm
prisoned and executed. We saw ev-
erything with a guide. which is the
only way to see any city.
Rome, 100000. contains the fam
Gus Rorum ruins which was the civil
and business center of ancient Rome
the city of the seven hills. the
eternal city and once mistress of
the world. The coliseum is to one
side of the Forum, but nearby. Space
is too short to describe these ruins in
detail, but among them is the Arch
of Constantine and of this the tombs
of julius Caesar and Romulus, who,
with his brother Remous, founded
Rome. Romulus afterwards killed
his brother. Tradition has it that
they were sucked in their infancy by
a she-wolf. Visited the Forum under
guide and in the company of
young fellow met in Venice-an
American by the way. Three
fourths of all tourists are Americans.
We saw more than a thousand Am
erican tourists in the Vatican near
st. Peters church, Rome.
We went out on the Appian Way
the famous military highway of old
Rome to the catacombs and the tomb
of Cecilian. Visited Michael Ange
los castle and wandered over the Pol
atine and Capatillne hills; sat in the
self-same stalls of the coliseum where
sat the Roman patricians with their
thumbs more often pointing down
than up when asked for mercy and
walked around and around the arena
where the gladiators fought and died
for a Roman holiday and where the
early Christian suffered such agonies
from Nero on account of their belief.
From Rome my friend and l went
to Naples. Early the next morning
in company with a guide we took the
train for ancient Pompeii and here,
again encountered many strange
things. When you wander through
this quiet and ancient city of the
dead, with its narrow streets, only
wide enough for the passage of one
chariot, feeling of awe overcomes
you and If you are imaginative once
more the city becomes populated
the chariots with their tall wheels
and drawn by two horses are driven
wildly down the gutter-like streets,
paved with large cobble stones. The
horses must go carefully, however,
for a large stepping stone is placed
in the center of the street at short
intervals for the foot passengers to
over from one side of the street to
another as the sidewalks are from
foot to foot and half higher than
the road. You can see many of the
chariot wheel ruts in the pavements
today as the chariots had to all go
in practically the same tracks on ac-
count of the streets being so narrow
The horses went, one on each side OF
the stepping stones. Remains OF
wine shops and grain grinding mills,
with their jars and their stone mills
are still there and capable of doing
service The remains of elegant res
licences and temples and amphitheat-
ers are there, in fine shape. Most of
the statues and many sections of plas-
ter, containing paintings, were taken
to the National Museum at Naples.
When the ashes from Vesuvius de-
stroyed Pompeii it killed a good
many of the inhabitants and plaster
casts depicting their suffering can
be seen in old Pompeii In little
museum they have within the walls
of the ancient city. When a person
was overtaken and killed by the
ashes his suffering was horrible.
Plaster casts have been formed by
pouring plaster in the cavity around
the skeletons left after the flesh had
vanished in the centuries that follow
ed. They are still excavating at
Pompeii
We climbed to the summit of We
suvius and peeped into the crater
from which white sulphuric smoke
issue now, very slowly and forms
kind of cloud over the mountain
hardly to be distinguished from the
cotton" clouds around. The crater
looks like a big ravine and at one
end column of smoke fifty feet in
diameter slowly issue.
In my next letter | will tell you
about the active volcano of Stramboli
Cairo and the Pyramids, the Suez
canal, Palestine, etc, which | will
have then visited.
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