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In Venice (Venezia), ‘‘the Queen of the Adriatic.” v Our first visit was to the Piazza aan Marco, the largest open space in Venice, an irregular quadrangle measuring 560 feet in length, 280 feet in width at the east end, and 180 feet at the west end; with a fine sea-entrance to Venice, a great resort for people of all ranks and conditions in good weather; the place for all patriotic and civil as well as religious demonstrations; it being claimed that “in no other 'Vcity in the world does the life of the place so centre in one spot.” It has a fine stone pavement with surrounding covered-arcade of 129 arches on three sides, containing the chief shops and noted cafes of Venice. To the north and south of this quadrangle are the old and the new Palaces of the Procurators, the former being at this time pri vate property, the latter a Royal residence, the connecting building being a wing of the Royal Palace and erected by Napoleon. > The famous Church pr Cathe dral of St. Mark fronts the Piazza, and is gorgeous in its architectural ► grandeur and costliness of mater ial. It, according to prevalent tradition, contains under its high altar the body of St. Mark, the Evangelist (the conpanion of an apostle and author of the second Gospel narrative), which had long lain in the temple founded by him self at Alexandria, but was trans ferred to Venice by two merchants of the latter city. “Whether there was a church or not before this time, the present magnificent edi- l fice owes its origin to the the ad vent of the sacred relics, The original building is Romanesque, with brick walis concealed by a wonderful museum from every country coming under Venetian influences, including tributes from Tyre, Greece and Constantinople. The Gallery around the church is worthy of close inspection. The stone floor is ominously uneven. Will the church share the fate of the Campanile? On our round we saw the Car dinal of Venice and his nricsts and others goingjthe rounds celebrat ing Madonna Day, and also wit nessed the baptism of an infant by sprinkling. It was at this Cathe dral Church that the present I’ode (Cardinal Sarto) ministered before his election to the Papal Chair, if we are informed aright. As one emerges from the front entrance of St. Mark’s Church,and looks to the right he beholds a wonderful Clock Tower, built by Pietro Lombardo in 1496: “On the dial-plate are marked the twenty four hours, the signs of the Zodiac, and the phases of the moon. Above this is a Madonna, sitting in state upon a platform between two doors. On grand religious festivals, such as Epiphany and Ascension, the door on the right of the Virgin opens, and out walks an angel with a big trumpet,which he blows, and then bowing to the Madonna,passes on;andis followed by three gentlemen, representing three Moorish monarchs, or the three wise men,or the three sacred kings, one of whom is black as the night. They all pause, and bow before the Virgin, and the whole party pass through the door on her left, which immediately closes after them. On the platform is the huge bell, beside which stand two giant figures, who strike the hour with sledge hammers, while above all is the Lion of St. Mark with outstretched wings. Never will the inhabitants of Venice tire of witnessing the performance of this wonderful clock; and the stranger is nearly as much inter ested in the unequalled pleasure with which the natives linger to gaze upon the procession as in the exhibition itself.” When the clock strikes two in lining tf marble. It was remodel- edin the Byzantine style during the afternoon, a multitude of p-g- th e ; eons may be seen gathering from every quarter to be fed on the j t I Piazza, formerly at the public ex- but now by means of the twelfth century, and in fifteenth century the facade was added to in the Gothic style. is built in the shape of a Greek j P ense ’ but " ow by means ot a Across, and occupies all the eastern ! le g ac Y lett by one of its citizens side of the Piazza. In no other | for the P ur P ose - The V are very budding, perhaps, in the world, has i tame - and hav u e various legends at- .there been lavished such costly f tach ‘ n S t0 them ’ " 0ne 15 l u hat material as in the composition of | th ey were loosed from a church at 1 a religious festival; and having I fled for shelter, and found a house i for themselves under the roof of i St. Mark’s, the Senate decreed this church. Domes, columns (5oo of maible), statues, mosaics (covering an area of 46,500 square feet), wondrous arches, altogether , make up a building that might be | that: the State should J^ov.deter taken for a Mohammedan mosque! them. Another is that, when or, what it really is, the contr.bu-1 Admiral Dandolo was besieging columns (the red one, surmounted by the marble statue of the Re public’s protector and earliest patron, St. Theodore, holding, singularly, a shield in his right hand and a sword in his left; the grey column being topped by the historic winged lion of St. Mark in bronze—once carried by Na poleon to “the Invalides" in Paris but restored to Venice in 1815). These columns have many legends attaching to them. Beyond them lie the Lagoons with numerous large vessels and gondolas; the Molo, a fine promenade, running at the bottom of the Piazzetta and furnishing headquarters to the gondoliers. The famous Campanile, or Bell- Tower of St. Mark’s, stood near the corner of the Royal Palace, a short distance from the church, mearly 350 feet high and about forty feet square at base, until the summer of 1903, when it fell and great was the fail thereof. It was ascended by easy inclined planes, up which Emperor Napoleon I on horseback rode, accompanied by two Austrian officers, to the open belfry at the top, where a watch man used to be always stationed on the lookout tor fire or the foe of his country. A plain board fence now enclose the ruin and the spot, as they begin to rebuild it. This bell-tower of the Cathe dral of St. Mark was one of the most historic buildings in the world. But one man in Venice really knew the danger of it fall ing, the aged Luigi Vcndrasco, The story is interesting in itself and for the lesson it teaches: “He had never ceased during the last ten years to beg the Government to allow him to put the Campanile in better order. But his warnings were unheeded. One Sunday morning, old Vendrasco, who w,.is about 84 years old, went with his son to see the Campanile. He showed his son the crack in it. The son said what many said, •That is nothing. A small crack like that can really do no harm to such a building.’ The father said, ‘Son, it is not the. crack. It is that of which the crack is the effect and symbol, Our Campanile is doomed.’ The next morning it came tumbling down. Often a man comes tumbling down like that, falling to the earth with a great crash,and many are astonish ed. But the wise, who have seen in him the weak spot ot self-indul gence, have known all the while that he was in danger." Let us all beware of having the slightest crack in our characters that is the sure foretoken of coming disaster to our lives. “The thunderbolt Falls heavy, and the hand by which ’tin launched Is veiled in clouds.” The Palazzo Ducale, or the Doge’s Palace, is a magnificent building in the Venetian Gothic style, on the west facing the Piazetta, and on the south looking toward the Molo, the halls and rooms being rich in the grandest illustrations ot the skill ot Tintor etto, l'aoio Neronese, Palma, Giovane, Bassano, et al., in fine state ot preservation. Most not able are the Grand Entrance, the Court, the Giant’s Staircase, the Golden Stairs, the Hail of the Grand Council, and the pictures, especially that on the east end ol the hall, “the Gloiy of Paradise” by Tintoretto (the largest picture tion of the art of numberless gen erations in the construction of a Christian church.” Over its main entrance are the celebrated four bronze horses (attributed to the . jCandia, he received important i news by means of pigeons de spatched from Venice; when vic tory crowned his labours, these same birds bore back the news to jaws,for every department of state, for every crime, for all comers, against all persons, for written or for oral communications, anony mous or signed; and below each was inscribed, ‘Denounce! De nounce!’ Once denounced, the victim is seized; once seized, he is sentenced; once sentenced, all is over. Nothing is seen, heard, sus pected of his fate. He disappears! A man is suddenly missed by his family. Where is he? They dare not ask. The Pozzi, the Piombi, the Ponte dei Sospari, the Rio Orfano alone can tell. At mid night one hears a splash,he listens, he hars no more—all is still! He hurries on, breathless with terror, with quaking heart and footsteps.” Here too one may visit as we did the old dungeons, and “the Bridge of Sighs,” which, as Ruskin says, owes "the interest it possesses chifly to its pretty name, and the ignorant sentimentalism of Byron,” and which Howells (in his work on "Venetian Lite”) describes as "that pathetic swindle, the Bridge of bighs. ’ It is a fine covered bridge connecting the palace with }he prison, allowing for the bring ing of prisoners to trial direct from prison without passing through the public streets and for their dis missal from the house ot justice without exciting public attention. It is now agreed that it is not as sociated in any way with the names of great State prisoners, but only with low and common place criminals deserving no sym- qathy. Yet, as we stood later up on the Ponte della I'aglia, whence the best view is had of it, we could but recall with vividness the lines, of Byron that have lmmoitalized the spot: "I stood in Vonioe—011 the Bridgo of Sighs— A palaco and a prison on enoli hand. I saw from oat the wave her structures rise As from tho stroke of the enchanter's wand. A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles O’er the far times when many a subjeot land Looked to the Winged Lion’s marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred islos.” Besides these, there are the Grand Hall of the Four Doors, the Vestibule of the Ministerial Coun cil with its famous pictures (Jacob’s Return to Canaan by Bassano, the Rape of Europa by Veronese, Bacchus and Ariadne by Tintoretto), the Halls of the Ministerial Council and Senate, the Chapel of the Doge and Antc- Room with fine pictures. To the pleasure of a visit here was added that of going through the Royal Palace. The next church of magnificence in Venice after St. Mark’s is the "Holy Mary of the Salvation” at the entrance to the Grand Canal, built to the Virgin in memorial of the stay of the plague of 1631, on a base of l,200,oCO piles, and con taining Tintoretto’s “The Mar riage in Cana” and Titian’s “Death of Abel" and "St. Mark and four| Saints.” Whatever else one may miss in Venice, he should not. fail to give time and attention to the Scu da i l)i S. Rocco, the art-home of ! Tintoretto, and containing a very remarkable collection of his woiks;j and which we counted it the high est privilege to visit. The Church of the Jesuits is THE GREAT BARGAIN SALE Continues at this store. There is a world of bargains here for all who come. Note the prices below carefully. Come and see the goods. An examination will make a buyer. 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It pre sents the world’s greatest successes in the milliners’ art. We want you to know how much we save you on Trimmed Millinery. The hats that would cost you elsewhere #10 to #15 are here at #8.08. Special values for Saturday In Vntrlmmed and Rcady-to-Wcar Hals All Hata trimmed tree of charge In the lot are Turbans, Face Hats, Sailor Shapes, Patent Leather and Plain Leather Polo Shapes, in black and an assortment of col ors. Prettily trimmed with cord, velvet, silk, quills, wings, ote. READY-TO-WEAR FELT HATS—Choice assortment of shapes. Trimmed with pair of wings ami velvet. Home in black and in colors. In the lot are also some velvet hats. #5 values are marked #2 08. tINTRIMMED HATS—Variety of the newest shapes, small French sailor effects, largediessstyles, etc. Plain fitted velvet hats, something en tirely new this season. Come in Splendid hats for knoek-ahout plain black, white with black 1111- wear. Ordinarily these hats cost dcrfacing and many other wanted from #I to #1.25—our special sale colors. #8 is the real worth— price 40c. special #1 08. New York Bargain Store ever painted on canvas, 84 by 34 j particu l arly queer, its cost having feet, and spoken of by Ruskmas “the artist’s chief d’oeuvre, and the most previous thing that Venice possesses”), the Voting Hall or Hall of the Elections, the Greek, Lyssippus, by some, and to Venice, and they and .their de- Triumphal Arch, the Ceiling 1 i u ' , ”“ " Paintings and the Portraits of the Roman hands by others, brought j-scendants have ever since been from Constantinople to Venice, | cherished by a grateful people. Doges, the Library, the Archaeo taken to crown the Triumphal j Nowhere alse in the world, per- i 0 g ica i Museum, notably the Hall Arch in the Place du Carrousel by 1 ha P s > ma y so man y P‘g eons be ; of the Council of Ten, and its as- Napoleon, and returned to Venice! seen at one time as in the Great sociatcd marble « tnrough the intervention of the | Sc l uar< ; . of Mark - Ic ls a re ’ i Of this secret, powe Emperor Francis I of Austria), a Slab of Porphyry marking the spot where Barbaossa bent his neck under the foot of the Roman Pontiff, etc., etc. Indeed, here we have an interior which may be characterized as draped v/ith a “tapestry of stone,” real “paintings of marble,” representing all na tions and ages and styles of art, a markable sight. lion’s mouth.” powerful, relentless Council established in 1310, the Turning to the left as one leaves |i on ’ s mouth was the instrument St. Mark’s Church, at right angles j or rece j v j„g denunciations and with the Piazza, is the Piazzetta with Doge's Palace to the left, and j As on ~ baa it, the Mint and old Library now in connection sending forth its dread decrees. the lion’s mouth was everywhere; at the landing ot with the new Procura-: tbe <Gia.nt’s Sta lrC ase,at the portals tor Palace (forming the Royal j of the ducal palace at the entrance ^ isTrich’marble mosaic. 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