The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-10-08
THROUGH ITALY AND SWlTZER.
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That of all my possessions l didn't
want to lose.

stop here was our visit to the British
Notifications. 1t was also most firing
to our physical selves, for we had to
climb steps and steps and then some,
but after many admonitions on the
part of our party leader to go slow
and 'let the guide lead the way" we
reached the place marked Castle Com.
munication. Here to our regret we
were ordered to leave our kodaks be.
fore proceeding farther. A soldier
now conducted us up more steps to 4
there were openings along the tunnel
out upon the mountain side and back
of each opening was a huge black
mouthed British gun pointing to the
harbor below. Right in front of thes :
big black mouths we made our exit
out upon the mountain side where we
had a splendid view of the harbor,
made all the more pleasing from the
fact that in it were three American
battleships flying the American flag,
the best looking flag of all. This is
certainly a wonderful fortress. They
say hat they keep provisions enough
there to maintain a garrison of 25,0oG
men through a seven year seige.
Other interesting features of the
trip which we saw before our final dis
embarking at Naples were the Bal
earle Island, from which julius Caesar
hired singers and archers for his
wars, the lights of Monte Carlo, a
French fleet of twenty-five vessels
which crossed our path on a practice
cruise near Toulon, and the birth
place of Christopher Columbus at
Genoa. We reached Naples on June
%, after a fifteen days voyage. Due to
the fact that the Italian doctor who
came on board ordered everyone to be
vaccinated before going ashore, be-
cause of a supposed case of small pox
in the steerage, grand excitement pre-
vailed. Barred arms were the thing for
several hours, but as we heard of no
one whose arm worked" we con.
cluded it must have been sort of a
farce.
Naples is a dirty city, Astounding in
beggars and in itself not particularly
interesting. But the side trip from
here to Pompeii, the city buried by
Vesuvius in 70 A.. d., was great. We
saw the deep ruts wor in the pave
ment by the ancient chariot wheels,
the exercise grounds with a huge stone
ball just where their youthful athletes
had left it, the drinking fountains
with the hollows worn on each side
where the people had leaned over to
drink, the ancient Roman houses par.
TALLY restored, and, in the museum,
the cooking utensils, articles OF food
such as eggs and bread. and corpses
of human beings, all of which had
been preserved by the encrustation of
the hardened lava. At one house
which was recently excavated w saw
at the entrance the skeletons of five
people who had evidently been over
taken by this terrible death in the very
act of escaping. 1t vas very realistic.
They are still e~xcavating here and
every t%easpoonful of earth is handled
over to be sure no relics are missed.
On u return journey we had old
Vesuvius in sight all the way and
there surely was some smoke pouring
out of her crater. But | never thought
of being scared. The interest of it all
was too great.
! Rome was, l may say, the objective
point of my trip, and a much nicer
! city than Naples. 1t is, of course, a
! city of magnificent ruins, the mos
awe-inspiring of which is the famed
Colosseum. One realizes the full grand
eur of this only when you come neal
it and look up at it. Not far from il
is the ArCn OF Illus, WufCH 10 Iue ei
trance to the old Roman Forum from
one end. To me the Forum was q
fascinating place, as | sat in the shade
of the lofty columns of the Temple OF
Saturn and drank in the ancient spirit
of the place, and as | walked along its
ancient Sacra Via, through the remain:
of it's once glorious temples and ovel
the spot where julius Caesar was
assassinated, where Cicero thrilled his
hearers by his oratory, and through
the prison where Cathiline's conspira
tors were strangled and where st
Peter and st. Paul are supposed tt
have been confined. Now however
is completely overgrown with grass
and flowers and shrubbery, which con
trast beautifully with the ruins.
The cathedrals in Italy are magnifi
cent but it seems to me that their chic
use lay in the fact that they afforded
tourists something to see. At thu
Sunday morning service at st. Peter
II seemed that the DeOple were mOStl,