NEW WONDERS OF POMPEII.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1923, Page 4

NEW WONDERS OF POMPEII.

liy ' Win.! IW ... 1 J. Juno JO. Three* montl's ironi now Kii?<£ Victor Ktmnamiel of Italy will step through a high wooden gateway im the inv.et slopes ul .Mount Vesuvius straight back into tin* pays of (lie (daesav. W Imt awaits him there is no e 1... r reproduction of ail Imoerid Roman town, hut tlio ;k teal place it-sc!i. ceinp'ete to the very advertiseuieiils and election rnanifestos on the v.ails. Some indication of these wonders was e.iVeii in 'Jin' Daily .Mail in March lasi. Due there is nun h wore t•» be to!.!, d here are hoti-vs to \\ hi; h S v.c.-. t.-.he". yesterday where one < ;uh! 1.-el >k> stir-i'ti-e if tli” Roman owner in his white toes suddenly appeared through the | mtted doorway and olfereii a eiip id Falerniau wine from tl’.e terra-cotta jars c online in the marlde founta in, where the water still plays through pipes twenty centuries old. When the Kin;;; ~f hilly comes lie will not only see fish swimming in the original in;;r!l.asms, hut aho vines and roses twining over the pergolas exactly as they used to do, fur by the side of each ei tin- rout •; have been found wliere they were planted at ihe beginning of die Christian Kra lias i.een set a fresh sent’: of t'".e s m:i- Kind, and the whole viihi i- a - e:;tv and almost as habitable :*..• when .1 tilnis Caesar Inmleil in Britain. and .Herndon was a forest swam]*'. The l.nmeliold i- i oniplete. indeed. . ...u to die grim detail cl sm'iio of lie is die-, of iis i'lriaev iuliahjt an(.-. pan !y hononilie 1 0"d portly restored wiib I hi v. hit h lie in the cclhivs w hei > tfev ivk i over from the stiffw a' i.-1■ V 100-, i! i.. ( Vesuvius no lived noon llf town. Tlru'e aie two wotifii. ov old t lie other ynlilt !. looked it! etu lt eiber's wish in" l-.i'iii of ibe iron nails in Ins •sandals still distinct ; and a man on hiI.v. idi s drown o’) and ivory :..etli i lem-ltetl in tli-> tip my of nsphyxfi will he one of the mns! memorable days in the whole record of arohaeol.igv when tlio new excavations of Professor Spinnzznla are thus thrown open in ttot ohor or Xo'/endoer to the world, for Lw years they have been carried on ititititenaiKfetlly behind that hiuh fenee I r (* t, ve r 11 ! i i e:; i v. orkuion. who have ciown so exp dun die Direttor of Vfrrle. ( audierc ( armebi Tauzr.uo. tts- • ured me that I hay ate themselves better a " hneidvdslr, l Ilitli were 111■ - pro-

I’e ■■■os t.-u years ago. Th-. me; 'axis of a n h:u o'opv all over d:,- .rid have, indeed, been' chanced doe exnmule of itic-se latr- f e- avalines a l . Pompeii. for "■bile earlier sea rebels worked with ,;i -U and shovel. Profess.or Spinazz .la's -.i :>i o.e.'s. bu nimirolons is their .- \tern of di-iai-nine the lmiiid city don in twelve years only one narrow sire.- ,ei o' hundred yard's hurt has Dui diet si re d !■. as dill'..rent from tie iv a of Poaipa ii t-s the Tov.er of la '! io'i final ;l ruined castle like l la : ,iml . “i I toil-t also be ' definite!;, s. .'Ve. •'niiee ins. J-le mu-.t know v. lie'. !i“ eon -i- to lind. or f -v, ill (h'Mi'uy \* !i;i t<■ \i t may ha

t her. o l" lit il I'll! td! exeat a t ion done al Pompeii hud been on the l tench com. A-vi:od.o'v-isl : drove horia! ia I i ul l in "s ini i t !na mass of cart 'a n"d live a, i. I orneo.bt out whatever t ! ' ' . i • I - a met lav I t hai ei vea i have of rath,l and easy finds in die for'll of staiiues or Iveesttrc. but if rela a mass of rubbish." Prol'es-or Splnaxxnhi's own sy-t.-m • us ! ".-I on 11 niei u.siott he bad formed In vi'it ; n:t exi itvtitions a" over the 1 .and Timead. He mud., no hi. nua.] tha i ! h ■■ i vas mimh mmy In lind V.aVe ’Ti: " h' ,if law'., if' one knew ", . do . i... I , ha." " do, 10" '.OO, ■: 1 ''V'd.o.i t : ■ Soul’:;.‘Ml H..da lid I I ..>!-• -I.IU 111 !v looked i.» ml a ■ . . ; dia' had h -ii lull m' Ii!- and a. .' ode- like I boose pre.-aiu .m.y "'! ! i;: t is ex a" 1 .1 V ti lint J lltive lound ti si wet whose frontages at'o pay with t in.",- and i! lost rated advert isomen Is. in' wii b hi i!e shrines at every - toad- v.-ii h shoo - minicio- open Ie t! . laea! a :iv a- time are ic ,v in i\bdd loan an 1.0. - 'will, wildn-houses an • ... me -hi: r .: ami ! aioitn's ...ml a po--iathiii. I he me . ami tioilles -till need t here oil the . lei' oh ih"

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are failed, and under their eyes th? in ft tori il mound it is dolivit'-ly removed. If necessary, the wall or arch to pillar that u-rsnei is -i lengthened by being filled with <ei tomt inch by Inch. Wooden I hit:aw n,i !i a- stair-

exposed are replaced by exact copies, math on the spat. The result is that in a house like the .jeweller's it; Ih u•• me .■-.pimi/.xrda’s street ; ui tan walk upstairs to his upper storey (uni a sinttle upper storey 'm the rest of Pompeii has survived

t.ho utistieiuitie em avatious carried on there). You lind Lite pavement and eeilinc of the first floor with, mosaics and 1 rescues nearly intact. There is plass —of an op,,n,ue. milkv-hhte <. Inui .-till in the windows; the smoke of a lamp, on the roof of a niche where it hiinc. The road' is t .uered with the very same tiles that sheltered the Pompeian owner. You cut slip mi t • hi- hah any and !c: •!; iit her into ids warden, where are still W.am.iiua; tin root- o, the lives tiiat ea , e liim shade. !i- eluents (paint: d in r.o.i o,u while Idle those oi the Daily A: :i’') are as hy.ibk a? the day they were pm iiji. “Deeimu- i J iiutatm !.m lelitts v.ail have ten si|i:ads of aladiators iiahtiny •it the Pompeian Dame- mi .April ltd" leant t hat Pom; mail y ■■litif inns know attetus have fmaotlen. it wan to cover :.!t ' wails wills the apneals to am • !Vo their opponeut sian.d h;. selueoiie oi ‘‘A.-eiliim a at! dmyriaa a -k yott to vote iv lamas us as Drumvu'' la I. hid ablet man ). t h-se l» o ladies '■■■ ,rn a i V. 1 - phoned to n •. "m : ■ a a. - ;. o. i, i ~ mil w a i and aan r , a : i : oa; baa m; •.m e he. l a: if.an i&att&CLXSXSXJZSZS