New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 18, 1929, Page 12

_ anca and Boscotrecase. sdington, ‘June 18 UP—Vesu- geologic on the continent of Europe. & matter of fact, the mountain been cpntinually in eruption 1631. The public, however, hears of its violent spasms ‘when its kot hands clutch the Ital- Jan countryside in a death grip, as when Pompeil was destroyed and Herculaneum embalmed in mud August 24, 79 A, D. Vesuvius is called the cabinet volcano because it is so small. It is only 8,890 feet high, and yet it is the most famous volcano in the world, the National Geographic so- slety points out. ., It is a cone within a cone. The vidge of the outer cone, known as Mount Somma, rises highest north and east of the present small peak that flaunts its steam plume over Naples Bay. Mount Somma’'s ram- part is the rim of the crater blown epen when Pompeii and Hercula- meum fell before the mud and lava. For 1,850 years the volcano has Dbeen filling up that pit. Still new .lava flows must cross the Valley of Hell, the depression between the fnner and outer craters, before they | can rush down on the villages. The last major eruption occurred in 1906, when lava buried Casa Bi- The latter is less than two miles from Pom- i Archeologists working at Pom- peil and Herculaneum live in con- stant fear that a new disaster will obliterate their labors. Street cars ¢ «from twentieth century Naples now R A EE TR PARVRIONA B E AR ] i Eri e transport visitors in a few minutes to the heart of first century Pom- peil. Excavation proceeds rapidly. The oid practice of conveying articles discovered to the Naples museum has been changed. Now every bottle, loaf of bread, picture, statue and poster is left in place. Walking down the .treet of Abun- dance one sees election posters, a dry goods store with fresco pic- fures showing methods of making goods d the Fullonica Stephani, Btephan’s laundry. One sealed jug on the polished arble bar contains a liquid— probably wine 1,850 years old. Flowers the Romans loved blos- som again in the gardens of Pom- peli's foremost citizens. A grape- vine springs from thc spot where the root of a grapevine was found under the ashes, Herculaneum presents a bigger problem, but also the hope of greater treasures. Pompeli was a Roman Boston or San Diego; Her- @ulaneum a Newport or Beverly the ashes; at Herculaneum arch- eologists must cut away layers of solid rock. The mud poured down by Vesuvius solidified.’ To lay open Herculaneum the Italian govern- "|ment expects to spend $1,000,000 over a period of 10 years. CURACAD RELIVES OLD PIRATE DAYS Was Scene of Bloody Adver- tures Two Centuries Ago ‘Washington, D. C..—June 18. — “In becoming the scene of a sur- prise attack by a band of looters, Curaco, small Dutchk island of the Caribbean, forsook her slow exis- tence as one of the quietest and most peaceful towns of the West Indies, and flashed back to the rollicking, roaring, bloody «days of the sixteenth and seventeenth cen. turies, when this ‘Span Main® was a freebooter’s paradis says a bulletin from the Washington, D. C. headquarters of the National Geographic Society. Naval Powers Rivals for Port The chief city of the island, Wil- lemstad (also called Curacao, a town of nearly 20,000 inhabitants, was attacked during the night of June 8, by a band of 500 men from the South American mainland; the forts and police headquarters were seized; a supply of arms and ammunition was stolen; an Amer- ican ship was commandeered; and the adventurers set sail for Ven- ezuela with Curacao’s governor and its chief of police as hostages. “As astounding as this exploit appears to the twentieth century observer,” continues the bulletin, “it is only a repetition, with slight alterations, of experiences from the island’s past. Curacao has a ‘ine harbor, one of the finest in the West Indies. This fact was recog- nized from the day that a Spanish explorer, Ojeda, a friend of Colum- bus, discovered the island in 1499; and at intervals the great naval powers have tried to claim the har- bor for their own. “It was given by the Spanish em- peror to the governor ‘of Venezuela in 1522 and some time afterward a Spanish settlement was established on it. The Dutch captured it in 1634 and it served a decade later as political training ground for Peter Stuyvesant, who afterward was made governor of New Amsterdam, predecessor of New York city. Has Been in Spanish, Fernch, Brit- tsh and Dutch Hands “Curacao suffered attacks in 1673 and 50 years later, both times ! frim the French. On the second oc- casion the French were driven out by the British, who remained in possession of the island for two years. After the Dutch regained control, Curacao experienced other attacks from English warships, and Hills. At Pompeil they brush away | the island was under British con- trol from 1805 to 1815. “Since the latter date the Dutch have been undisputed owners of the barren littie isle; but there was at least threat ' from an entirely different quarter in 1903 when Ger- men men-of-war put into Curacao during their famous deft-collection demonstration ugainst Venesuela. It was rumored that Germany dream- ed of making the harbor a base for. control of the West Indies. “In spite of a population of more than half made up of negroes and mulattoes, and with considerable number of Jews, Spaniards and South Americans, Curacao (or Wil- lemstad, if one chooses) is intensely Dutch in appcarance. Dutch clean- liness has been successfully trans- planted to this tropical site, and the main streets, gutters, sidewalks, and wals are spick and span. Only in some of the narrow alleys ot the negro quarter is a lack of cleanli- ness to be noted. Valuable as Tvading Station “Curacao is approximately 0 miles long by three to seven miles wide, and lies ¢1 miles off the coast of Venesuela. The island is quite dry and produces little, Prac- tically all food is imported, and even drinking water is brought from the mainland for those wha can afford it. Others drink rain wa. ter caught from the roofs and stored in cisterns. “The island’s chief value is as a trading station,’a value to which both its location and its harbor contribute, Lying just off the north- ern coast of South America, and controlled by a country famous for its peaceful and efficient political and commercial methods, it makes an ideal distributing and transfer point between its potentially weal- thy, but sometimes turbulent neigh- The town ia bullt ‘on both sides of the narrow entrance channel aad along the flanks of the basin. A the town’s popalation is furnished by the tolls charged on this bridge. ‘Persons wearing shess’ pay ¢-5 of one cent, ‘persons without shoes’ 2-5 of one cent, for sach passage. “The well-to-do Dutch of Curacao make the gesture of maintaining country places on the barren stretcheg outside the city, but few plants other than cact!i and aloes can be coaxed ino growing through- out most of the island. The several ostrich ranches fit better into the picture. Fine, strong birds are grown and ara soid to soos and cir- cuses or for breeding stock. “The famous ‘iqueur, caracso, is still distilled in small quantities on the island from the small bitter or. anges grown focally, but the indus. try in the main has been taken over by Amsterdam, *“Pertoleum is the greatest single factor in Curacao’s present day activity, and one of the largest re- fineries in the world is maintained on the island. The crude petroleum is brought over in tank barges from the rich Venesuelan field around Lake Maracaibo. The wu. merous refined products are shipped from Curaeao to variouy parts of the world.” 5 The Chicago Art institute this fall will train designers in printing, architectural modeling and furni- turg. From Missing Dole Cralt Hawail were believed to have been | was due to an accumulation of amall causes. Giving technical evidence at the beard of trade inquiry into the sinking, regarding the effect of wina borrowed feet after hitting the child and that the brak:. were almost useless, parts of the plane, Golden Eagle or! “I think the loas of the ship was Miss Doran, which disappeared in the Dole flight from Califernia to Honolulu, in 1937, during which five fliers perished. One pisce was identified as part of an stabiliser, while the identity of the others was uncertain. 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