The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-12-10
GOES SIGHTSEEING
in SUNKEN CITY
Seven Failed to Escape Wrath Of
Volcano and Like Number Of
Guides; Other Ruins for
Future Tourists
By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD.
u. p. staff correspondent.

u L. Stall correspondence.
NAPLES, Oct 25.-(By mail You
get your first news from the Balkan
front here in Naples, second stop in
the four jumps from Paris to Salon
ika.
1t isn't news of soldiers or cannon;
it's far more important to you than
that, and it comes from five American
Red Cross men who have been in
Serbia and wait now in Naples for a
boat to take them back to the United
States.
BED bug powder is what you fell
lows need" they say. BED bugs and
lice are more deadly than bullets. And
mosquitoes-why, there are mos
quitoes in Serbia whose bite is GER
tain death"
well, what's the answer?"
Garry mosquito nets
1--WE don't need ours any more be-
cause we're going home, thank Cod"
said one doctor, want to buy them?"
We make dicker for three dollars
and half per net and buy three Of
them. Also we increase our baggage
with four pounds of insect powder.
There are five hours left in Naples
for sightseeing and we choose the
sunken city of Pompeii. When old
Vesuvius belched out fire 79 years
after Christ, it nearly emptied the
city, but this war, nineteen hundred
and fifteen years after Christ has
done just as thorough job. Seven
human beings couldn't get away from
Pompeii when the volcano broke out
and you can still see their bones lying
as the volcano shock left them.
This new volcano of war has also
found seven persons who were unable
to beat it, They are guides; sad
creatures who were too old to be
called to the Italian colors, but, un-
like the seven bony persons, they SEQ
you first. They rush at you. They
fight over you.
One hundred and fifty thousand
persons used to visit Pompeii every
summer before the war volcano struck
| it. but you are the first tourists these
guides have seen for a week and-so
they tell you-the first rich American
tourists that have appeared in the last
| two months.
All of the great sunken streets; the
miles and miles of ancient avenues
and boulevards and the hundreds Of
houses, shops and cafes which have
been execavated from the ashes of the
nearby volcano, are deserted. The
footballs of the tourist no longer clat-
ter over the ancient pavements; the
'ohs" and "ahs" of wonder are heard
no more.
Pompeii has been deserted a second
time. All the loving care which scien-
lists have expended during the last
hundred years in bringing the ancient
city to light, seems to have been
wasted.
The world isn't restoring ruins of
ancient cities these days. It's making
ruins of new ones.
As we leave the sunken city, Nc.
Cutcheon of Chicago, who is an artist
and therefore unbusinesslike, pays the
guide double his fee.
/ Jimmy Hare kicks
Poor DEVILS" says McCutcheon
they won't see any tourists here fol
the next twenty-five years"
"Why do you say twenty-five
years?" asks Hare.
Because all the tourists will go L
see the ruins of Rheims and Louvain,
McCutcheon explains.
Hare withdraws his kick and we g
back to Naples to pack our mosquito
netting and our bedbug powder for th'
/ third jump in our dash from Paris t
/ the Balkan front.
, The third jump-by train-w TAX
us to Messina.