The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 25, 1898, Page 21

* THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1598. =il S OOPOEEOE0000E | Y g@@@e@@@@@@@@'@_@_@@ ¢ A FTER LYy- ¢ <#TYRAVELERS ¢ ing quiet for ° and scientists © > yearsodMt. ¢ e from all parts o > Vesuvius has © o of Europearchast- o » burst out in what © © ening to Naples o - promises to be a © o to study and take © > record - breaking « o pictures of the o o flow of lava and © {§ phenomena. e @ [oXoXoXcROoXOXOROROROXOJOROROROKO] “The Recessional,” which two hemis- pheres felt to be one of the very truest and soundest pieces of work done by » Stones. !:TLR i any writing man in our day and gene- oy Meththe ration, he was So Gepressed by its & S touoniof S SEUTbROGo shortcomings of his private concention » eighteen ve: ago, old Vesuv- | that he threw the rough copy in_ the fus in I s again broken | waste-paper basket. Thence Mrs: Kip- forth in w dy been | ling rescued it. But for Mrs. Kipling recognized and classed as a “grand we should have had no “Recessional. For his best patriotic poems he has de- clined ‘to accept pay. We may repeat here a remark of Kip- ling at a dinner party in London when asked if Cecil Rhodes were married. “Yes,” he replied, “to tens of thou- sands of square miles of British terri- tory. England cannot afford to let a man like that marry in any other way.” 5 Kipling and Mark Twain obviously do not agree as to Rhodes. “When Rhodes’ time comes,” said Mark Twain, “I hope to get a piece of the rope.” ‘A WOUNDED SOLDIER'S STORY. E stopped -at a cot far down the line in the soldiers’ pavil- ion at Bellevue. ‘“Here’s a queer case,” said the doctor. “Look, see the .red mark on his breast! it’s almost gone; and then this other ong at the back. The bullet went clean tHrough the left lung. It's a wonder he's alive to-day. We pumped out—let me see—" “A hundred and sixteen ounces,” said the soldier. 5 It was easy to see that his mind had dwelt on these figures. One hundred The: guides, however, did not prevent | and sixteen ounces of blood—hig blood. us going up, so with the students and | Je had thought of this for days, reck— three Englishmen I went up between | 5 ot R At, o SO o rehension, two streams of lava to get a little near- ; : : er view. The rest of the party shook | afterward with a certain pride. This their heads, but left us to our fate and | was his title to distinction in the ward. vt b‘""'k,dl‘l’“'a "}“('],‘:‘“"“a,‘a';:-d | “Exactly; one hundred and sixteen heat meanwhile had grown so intense | Surgeon thought pus would form, and that I was dripping with perspiration. | wanted to cut away-the ribs, but I eruption.” The inhabitants of the dozen or more cities and the hundred villages and thousand villas and farms about | sides and around his base are al- | v stricken with terror and fleeing danger may bury their any moment. f sightseers and scientific ob- | om all parts of the world are : thither as fast as steam can | m, and to the already large tion of Ves . from the to the la by the most elaborate s that science-can devise, will be taken, and from small views of lim- ope to the grand biograph repro- ‘tions the public living in distant | s ean kiow what & voleanic erup- | aller towns and villages are hin the z of danger during an | eruption, while thousands of country s and f: iot the lower up on the | 1es and hotels ar uip beyond these. The , founded in 1841 by X L‘\.\ \;\\ N ».?('\\\‘ ¥ N A view of the crater at the height of the last great eruption, dpril 26, 1872, when so many persons lost their lives and much property was destroyed. The observatory shown in | The Famous Umbrella Cloud Overhanging Vesuvius to a Height of the foreground was nearly buried by two streams of lava, which almost entirely en- 10,000 Feet. This is One of the Signs of Great Eruptions compassed it. The shoulder of the mcuntain on which it stands is said to have supk, and Has Been Frequently Observed During Periods of the Volcane’s Activity. Humboldt Wrote a Detailed Descrip- within the last few days, over 1500 feet. : : tion of it in 1822. Many Scientists Since Then Have Added loni, at a height of 610 meters, with |tive and devastating. During that first [was again devastated — were i i the Hermitage near by, is the nearest | eruption the er part of Somma of them Their Observations. place of permanent abcde to the mouth was broken up and thrown down and | inent |in November of the latter year lava be- |a stream of lava broke through a fis- "',‘.‘}?fl" AR LR IR T nt soee {)'fv{"r'"*ul"}" o \Hn_h‘l\:rf gan to flow and continued until 1868, | sure in the northeast side of the moua- some thirty-three miles in circumfer- e ey S | epag when, “tfl““'ff]‘ el through a ils- ]‘“’li“- and in October another followed Ideal Section of the Volcano Showing the Presumed Con- gt et proei iy ol e & % e 5 % 4 educ sure in the side of the cone and brought |on the northwest side. The phenomena _ e e e Pliis gme, down o e yeeni e omispom e [H - Heis 09001 relief, About two vears later, early in | increased in violence until they reached pection With the Reservoir of Mclten Matter Beneath. ¢ S L z Y € Lerupt oK e pl S i | 1871, began the most recent eruption of | their culmination, 2ith to 30th of cone er, which first sprung up dur- mountain were recorded, ang since that | From 1561 to 1865 there was quiet, but | great activity. In January of tr{av. yet’lr ] April, 1L872, Whoever said first that hell was a|sfuck to the pumping and he pulled ing the eruption of A. D. date fifty, the present one making the 35 o ) purning lake must have . cribbed ' his| through, Ifche'd been & smoker, though, fror above the sea and the ape sixtieth. to 1900 feet higher.. This height v idea from the top of Vesuvius. Even| poq pe a dead smoker now, but his 1 For centuries continued the mountain | - ; RS < e a left after each eruption, the greate has been known to remain quiescent, ;‘r‘[et}s]te‘lleli?x:;xn“gelaenda‘;ggs:r?ge ‘;i‘n it is | heart was sound and could stand hali- corded being 2053 feet. The apex is|and then again to have long periods of S e e P Nas maken o man|rations of afr.” trippateli i e, thin cCending 40,8 most uninterrupted zctivity, as dur- . say to himself that it is not he who| “I don’t drink, either,” said the sol- cent observation, o n diani ng the years between 1717 and 1737, runs the universe. dier, “that is, nothing but beer. I'm a ter and a crater of between 500 and 600 | when it was hardly in a state of com- Suddenly ;i 2 " ¥ v there was a report like a | German. feet deep. | plete repose at any time. From 1500 to Vl US IN E U P I [ON i at once, an awful | S i = north and east, partly cireling | 1631 it was quiet, and w cered with ii. o | thousand cannons Jeil] Are you?” said I. “Where from? On the r E e it the top of | .o 3 + 5 - 5 Monte Somma, whose | wood and bushe: smell, and it seemed as if the top Fort German, fowa. I'm a quarter- uvius : ple mracad the mountain had been blown off. We ; B poe I‘unl:.xh.:xzr\x‘un-l-;u ";Tif’de:e; i ;“il!\i;w ‘lh'- Y'xj'zn 2 me, on ——m T | did not stop to see just what had hap- | Master sergeant in the Sixteenth In- nd between t o lies the deep | Deceml 5 2 f. Th « nd on the| warning, a t p uil;m(hnlcm”_“x;’» [osaedbus tookht0 ony hegldidapnihe fa!l-literi;:emrd an intelligent quartermas Atrio d 73 , and on the | wan , @_mos! terrific eruption, T E i st tain. It was as if a dam of = 2 i h is being filled | s t of which detailed By a traveler who nearly lost his life there. :he:};‘mzu]r;l:}?emhad burst and the red- | ter sergeant, so I talked to him a while, i f hot lava was coming. A great fissure | letting the doctor go on. S opened ten feet ahead of me but I k“das it at San Juan you got hit?” I jumped free of it as I ran. ‘- No one | asked. 3 ey - dared stop to 100k for the others, but | ‘“‘Yes—half way up ‘the hill. It didn’t we all came down safe, that is not | hurt much—just jarred me like a good are given, ashes rose in the form of | glad I was there when Ve- | the crater when ed cone, and, obscuri us did a little work. Of cou d { the sun, turned the midday of 1y being glad that I was there into the gloom of late twilight, and o6 Abes notmean PHALTE 188/ DleAS.: e re is so much|can get to the top of Vesuvius, where , | noise,” his dark-eyed daughter said to| it is hotter than Tophet, and refuse | m" me, and I had half a mind to put off | those bettles of “Lacrima Christi” and going till another day, but thought bet- | Falerian he is more than human. ot of the cone and a cable raii- travelers up to the top. Previous to the first recorded erup- tion of A, D. 79, which overwheimed |deed spri 1 hern 1 5 \ ter of it and went. The egzs we roasted in the hot lava | coufiing our hard bruises. punch.” Herculaneu d Poripell, the ridge of | ) ure to me »‘0‘ see pecple or their I It was a strange picture I saw as my es down from the crater like overtook the people we had been|{ ‘'Did you keel over on the ground?” Monte Sor t high, encircled urled up to t property destroyed. donkey trudged up ithe mountain sid \\'L'igglini:‘scx‘pents of | with before they reached the vineyards. Zeel over nothing. I went on up the mouth of an old land to a distance o cumference. | of twenty-five ton ny direct | Violent earthquakes a 0 hot it is quite giowing | The peasants were frightened and had ing as it first appears. | run to the churches. One man came us—were gath-: We ve our donkeys here, | out of the church in time to sec the lava | lung es. In the evening the |and but for the aid of straps and chairs | cover his home. We were watching [ “Cert'nly. I tell you it didn’t hurt; )t as safe as the | streams of lava poured down from tha e Trale A A AR e A e young men and women come and dance ! make the rest of the jourrey on foot. themn curiously when the earth under | it just bled a little where the ball came ‘ampania around | summit, overwhelming the towns of | 1 have walked and ridden and driven| on the grapes, which are thrown on a| There were some German students in | our feet began to tremble. The earth- | out.” Strabo, | Boscoreale, © Torre: del Annunziata, | Up the mountain, but every time it is| platform built over a huge cask. They | the party, and I wondered if they | quake, which always comes with an| *And you went on fighting?” Torre ael eco, Resina aad Portici, | different. There had been so much | drink as much wine and eat as much | wonld come down as hilariously as they | eruption, did greater damage in other ““Yes, sir; I kept right on—uap aways, des h T inside of her for a fort- [ cake’as ‘they like and st their own | were zoing up. There were great fis- | districts, but it added to the horror as | then down flat on the ground, then up But where everything is dollars and| of old Vesuvius, It was the. vintage g at Somma. | cents it is a relief to find something | S€ason, and the {eflp!e—fonly the poor | white ne ot | eroi. earthauakes accompanied the | which-is not under the thumb of Zwlam/’lé;'if"‘““’ ide of Vest been a scene o ruption, and no less t 1 seven great .o Dagidedly A RoL g8 their g t—with a bullet: through your B csuvius s cov- artillery i be , with the night tha ry one was a littie un- | Music for dancing. They are too poor | sures in the earth and one and another | we stood still, fearing to run and fear- | again, firing and yelling and laying low b i g JaLTex I8, [Lox tarto aeRcIX @ mlace oT 2 of fiery vapor over the | USUally.to own a Addie or flute even. | of them would be looking down into the | ing to stay. =~ ARTHUR OSMUND. |until We got to the blockhouse.” but| In 1707 an erup lasting from May BT ne | Riding above the vineyards the way | opening most of the time at the =reat- “How long did you fight after you got atched it from across ance | to August c iples with dense A | was not so pleasant and the donkey | est risk of falling in, for the = 5L hit?” s of | showers of nd filied the pec emied 10 compeai one to go up ':ml1 pped on the loose stones and stum- | sulphurous odors were strongi MRS< K”:LJNG “About an hour, I guess—until we 1 s if they | with terror. In 1737, 1760 and have a nearer look, £o in'the morning | bied on the seams of lava buried in the | had smelt them before. Tt SAVED THE POEM, |sot what we wanted. Then one of the en cousumed by fire, One might | quantities of and scorla very early i set out. | ashes. The fine limestone dust blew | ha taken many whiffs to mak 5 | boys told me my undershirt was all ejected, the streams in the lat ; If the peopie on the steamer had all| about and hurt my eyes, which were | insensible, and I must confess the care- | One of the ne reaching Portici and even self. gone nsiae’ and . yead: newsnnriers br | SEMAK SO the il (he eun ihere | 1eanen OE L e dd thi t black and T . e \ AT 36 Hay- e L8 hicio S alw: urists, began - to | ner & s 3 e v = P R sudden everything wen: ack an The year 1770 saw one of the =ast 'L‘""kf‘{ "tl"e‘"’.:“,‘ fgds"‘u h’:g";{‘)‘ fn“‘l:;‘;lmeel groups, some riding on horses and | loose ashes and the red lava, red in| Cent Visit o ‘*_“,l‘,‘i‘.hn‘}f“‘“ writes of | foll in a heap. It didn’t matter then.” gladiator, | stupendous eruptions. Vast numbers | taking the tiip to Sausalito, s donkeys and some being helped along | color, not from heat, ‘was soft and | Bim in the'Cape Times: ‘“What happened after that?" refuge, | of red-hot stones, 104 pound is the Bay of Napies like San Francisco | by a stout strap around the waist and | warm, but better to walk on than the He taki his work hard. “‘Oh, nothing much. I just lay there »aper men who inter- | bloody behind, and started to look at viewed Rudvard Kipling during his re. | i 1 5tood still to let him, and all of & Epartacus, chose ] and from ges of | were thrown to a height of 2000 fget | Bay, with Vesuvius off to the north as| pulled by two guides. On this visit the | loose stones which slipped under us. tremendously in earnest about it till T came to, then I tore half my un- Somma thstood | and in every direction, terrifying (he | ;puch as possible like Tamainais. railrcad had not yet been built to whirl| The noise was like the rumbling of |jous to give of his hest; often dissatis. | dershirt off and fixed the thing.” the long sie inhabitants all o It was very warm and I went to the|US up. Many of the ladies were being | great machirery, with an oceasional | goq with his best. $e is quite eo “Didn’t the doetor look after you?” Seven The lava eruption of 1794 x terribly cottage of a fisherman I knew and hired carried in chairs, but all .of us were [ loud report, as of an explosion. Farther o “Not that night—there. weren’t any earthly, vet striking tones, proclaimed h acter as one of the safet making for one point. | up red hot stones were constantly fall- cally dissatisfied with success; quite doctors abouts’ 2 ey for the trip up the moun-{ " (hen we came to the top of the!ing and the guides, who are very su. tragically haunted by the fear that “Did vou lie there all night*with no an idea that | am as poor | mountain, where the lava is still soft | perstitious, refused’to o any further. | this ot that piece of worl, felt intense- | one to Lelp you?” " | tatal, the streams even reaching the|C° ok real char- | sea at Torre del Greco and destroying | his donl valves of | 400 persons, besides an immense lot of | tain. He the hidden fires and Titanic forces of | property.. -j a8 himself—1 am sure 1 do not know |and hot and red, we were all glad to| Over the crater was what might have | Iy by himself i . writing. and applaud- | *Yes, I-lay. there all night; and,. Jet the Interior earth. and took a position The eruptions of the present century | why, and so we are very good frieads, | meet some peasants who had bread and | been a huge pine trgp}:)f vapor and|ed even by high and mighty eritics, me teil you, there were others.” in history even ahead of Btna, on Si- |have been frequent. Those which |and he deals as honestly as a Neapoli- | eggs and wine to sell. molten lava was pouring over the rim | in reality cheap and shoddy in exec Then he went on to describe how hig cily, not far away, known in mythology | oceurred in the years 1804-05, 1822, 1850, | tan can with me. Oh, that wine! Horace sang of it and | like boiling milk over a ksttle’s side. | tion, and will be cast in damages be- | lung filled up slowly for twonty days, and song as the “forge of Vulcan,” and | 1855, 1868—in which .the cone sank 195 *‘We are zoing to a vintage dance. | even Frances Willard drank it! It got| . No amount of persuasion would in- | fore the higher court of posterity, | and how the doctors finall, um; in history of long date as fearfully ac- | feet—and in 1861, shen Torre del Greco | Come with us. It is not good to go nearl her into trouble at home, but if any one | duce the guides to go nearer the crater,! When Rudyard . Kipling bad written | out. Y ouoed