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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1928)
NAPLES OUR COMIC SECTION 2 0 D Our Pet Peeve Macaroni Factory Prpnri by tti National Oeocraphl NArLES, Ituly's largest south era city, cannot boart the architectural beauty o( the northern cities, bat Its peo ple, whether rich or poor, are strik ingly beautiful physically. From the storied heights that sweep In mag nificent amphltlieater around the bril liant bay the old city struggles down ward In a picturesque buildle of densely-packed houses and other buildings, tortuous streets full of color and but bling with the nervous activity of the South, black canyons of rtone stairs, often slippery with damp and dirt, across which the teeming bouses gos sip and quarrel In neighborly wise. Nowhere are flsherfolk more pictur esque In bablt and costume; nowhere Is there so salty a dialect, spiced with such quaint and startling phrases and exclamations. Bore and brown of leg. dressed in ragged, parti-colored mot ley, stont canvas band about eacb sinewy body for hauling Id the net without cutting the hands to pieces, they bring ashore their shimmering silver quarry right along the widest, finest promenade In the city the handsome Via Caracciolo. Across that broad street the charming Villa Na tional, not house, bat public park, wholly conventional in dertgn, con tains an aquarium which may fairly be considered the most remarkable in the world for both the variety and In terest of its finny and monstrous ex hibits and the thoroughness of Its scientific work. To it many of the great universities of the world con tribute annually for the privilege of sending special Investigators in (oo logy. . The commercial activity of this sec ond reaport of Italy dings close about the skirts of the enormous royal palace 800 feet long on the bay side nd 03 feet high and the naval basin and dockyard. Every smell and sound of t thriving seaport may be smellea and heard, multiplied generously; ev ery flag seen on the ships that ride at anchor near the stone wharves. On the streets men of every race mingle tongues and costumes and man nerr; Babel Itself was only, mildly confused compared with this Jumble of Kaples; and throughout all the thron pluy the street musician, the macs ronl eater that is trade, and a sat isfying one, apparently the piratic cabman, the guide, and the baggnge smasher all seeking whom they may plunder with a gracious twinkle of humid bluck eyes. 8trt 8inaer Are Numerous. Street singing Is an especially Nea politan Institution, and when fur the first time one bears beneath bis win dow the more often than not off-key versions of the rnappy, lilting. Inex pressibly Infectious Neapolitan songs. he Is enchanted, and throws pennies freely. After week or so of it as a stesdy diet, day and night, he In clines much more toward heavy crockery I The entire Neapolitan littoral Is vol cnnlc, from Vesuvius on the east to the storied tufa heights of Cumae on the west. Between Cumae's ruins and Naples lie those famed and mystic I'hlegraean fields of our school days, which nobody remembers anything about. They have always been a the ater of tremendous volcanic activity, but the disturbances here have no con nection, curiously enough, with Vesu vlus; also, the two areas are wholly different In geological character and formation. The spongy nature of the rock of the I'hlegraean fields allowed the In ternal stesm and gases to escape with relatively little resistance at numer ous points; so, lnstad of one tre mendous peak being formed, as in the case of Vesuvius, many little craters wart the ground. Thirteen still exist, among them Solfntara, bellowing oul a vaporous combination of sulphur liydrogen, and Ft earn, and producing startling little special eruptions when teased with a lighted stick; drled-up Lake Agnuno, with Its famous, or In famous, "Dog Grotto," where about 18 Inches of warm, bluish, foetid car bonic acid gas snuffs out torches even more quickly than It used to the poor dogs kept there Tor show purposes; and number Lake Avernue, In ancient times surrounded by dense forests and dark traditions, one of which declared no bird could fly across It because of its poisonous exhalations. The Cumuean Sybil was supposed to Inhabit gloomy cavern In the south 3. In Naples. bank. Her room and others In the rock are probably part of the remark able harbor works built by the Em peror Augustus. In this same region is the Monte Nuovo, 400 feet high, thrown up In three days in lo33. Dominated by Vesuvius. On the east Vesuvius dominates the whole splendid region. He Is the Cyclops standing, blind and massive and treacherous. In the midst of his rich vineyards, olive groves, and vege table gardens; for, though he rpreads destruction In his blind rages, the fact Is that this entire plana is the mar velously fertile soil that disintegrated lava and volcanic ashes make. It bears huge crops, far greater anl Oner than ordinary good soil can pro duce. Among other things. It yields the grapes whose spicy juices are so precious their wine Is termed Lacrima Crlstl Tears of Christ After the great eruption of A. D. 79 there were occasional eruptions which varied In intensity, until 1500, when the volcano became quiescent The crater walls grew up thick with trees and scrub, while cattle and wild boars roamed the grassy plain Inside all but an ominous lower level of a-hes and pools of hot, gaseous water. Then, in December of 1G31, the whole in terior was blown violently out, and 1S.00O people are said to have per ished. Since then Vesuvius has never been entirely quiet It was horrible hot mud that over whelmed fashionable Uerculaneum in 79, belched from the crater as torrents of steam, boiling water, and scoriae. Uerculaneum is a rich and tempting bait to the archeologlsts, for from a single one of the ruins came most of those exquisite bronzes In the Naples museum, and 8.000 rolls of papyrus, part of the owner's private library. What a contrast is Pompeii, de stroyed at the same time, but by ashes 1 Though these gradually hard ened Into something like cement, they are much more easily removed than the stone at Uerculaneum. and most of what we know of the details of snclent Latin life we have learned from the stark, scarred, roofless lower stories spread out before us In deathly pan orama within the old city walls. Stabis and Capri. Where the pretty little modern wa tering place of Castellammare dl Sta bla, with its cooling sea baths and strong mineral waters, lies snugly In a little bight on the neck of the Sor rentlne peninsula, Stablae once stood. It Is ont of the very loveliest parts of Italy, region of tumbled bills clothed with luxuriant groves of orange and lemon, whose golden fruit adds luster to the gleaming foliage. Entic ing roads of milky white wind and wind, now between hlgh-wslled grove snd vineyard; now along open, akyey heights, with the blue sea as back ground hundreds of feet below, and the beetling cliff rising straight ne- hlnd ; now beside villa gardens, where every brilliant color on natures palette items to have been poured out with prodigal fullness. The air Is perfumed, the skies are sort ana balmy, the roads superb. Capri, great, twin-humped camel of an Island, kneels In the blue just off the tip of the peninsula. From the sway-backed huddle of white, pluk. blue, cream, and drub houses along the large harbor, up the breakneck road to the fascinating town nestling among the hills, white-roofed and Moorish, and on, atlll higher, by the winding road or up the neorly perpendicular flights of rock stairs, which furrow th frowning crag with their sharp zigzag outlines, to Aoacapri, SOU feet or so above, every step of the way breathes the pride and splendor and degradation of the Island's greater days. Here a cyclopean mass of shattered masonry In the warm emerald water tells of a Roman emperor's bath ; yon dr on a chlmneyllke cliff the sinister ruins of a stout cartle keep whispers of ancient garrisons and pirates, not armed with automatic rifles or high powered artillery; end here, overlook Ing the rea, the vast ruins of vllls recull "that hulry old gout" Tlberlui and his wastrel voluptuousness thai turned fair Cuprl Into siityrdom. Capri today Is richly dowered foi sightseer, artist hlrtorlun, antiquary and geologist On every hand ar shaded walks and sequestered bower In the thick groves of orange am lemon, laurel and myrtle; wild hack grounds of tumbled rock; titanic rlf In the crest, Into which the sea ha thrust long. Insidious blue fingers. IHQH TO WW iniiw ? h Cwilht w H. n.) 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