The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-29
PLEASANT ROW IN VENICE.
OUTOF THE WAY CORNERS VISITED BY AN OBSERVING TRAVELER.

~~ 'i7Ah Ahlu lO Hn armenian convent ana
 During the Passage He Passed Under the
 Bows of Italian Ironclad~-Beautifui
 Carving and Paintings Were Viewed.
 Dresden, March 5, 1895.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND CoURIER'
 There are a number of very interest
 ing islands in the vicinity of Venice,
 and to visit them by gondola is a very
 pleasant experience.
 Small steamers, which carry one hun
 dred andfifty to twohundred passengers,
 run often during the day to the Lido,
 Murano, and to other interesting places,
 but sailing by steamer through the La
 goon is an unromantlc method of trav-
 el, and the rapidity of motion is SO great
 that the real delight of the excursion is
 marred, and if a person is not pressed
 for time. would by all means recom- mend the use of a gondola. Many tour ists board the steamer at the quay on the Schiavoni, and in the short space of
 fifteen minutes are landed at the other
 end of the Grand canal, having passed
 churches, palaces, Rialto, and all other places, in a quick tumble and sad to re- late, many seem satisfied with the irn- pressions thus received. To appreciate Venice and to become really interested in it's beauty, and acquainted with It's pretty hooks and corners. commend me Jo Jot, ie fba poetry of motion; it is slow, and the slower one proceeds about Venice the better. Let us keep our eyes about us and we will soon find that if we stick to the motto "Festina Lente," we shall gain more in every way than by hurry ing rapidly. It Is the delightful month of September and just like June at home it is ten o'clock in the morning and the gentle nipples are breaking with an almost audible sound upon the marble steps leading from our salon down to the canal; let us enter gon- dola (here are fully twenty of these pie turesque crafts always moored in a lit- tle wharf in front of our hoteD and en- joy delightful excursion somewhere in the vicinity of the city. Where shall we go? To the Lido? to Murano? or down the Lagoon? We decide the ob- jective place of our morning trip by writing the names of places upon small bits of paper and from these slips we will draw lots. The Armenian Convent" falls into the lap We'll then, let us go to the Armenian convent on the island of St. Lezzaro Our gondoliers row us slowly by the custom house and along the Molo by the Piazetta and Ducal pal ace.
 We pass Daniallis' hotel. formerly one of the grandest of Venetian palaces, We hug the shore and row by the mar ble wharves and so along the whole length of the "R1va degli Schiavoni; | this is the most popular lounging place in the city. We stop a few moments to | admire the magnificent equestrian stat ue of Emperor Victor Emmanuel II. | with Venetia enslaved on its back, and | Venetia liberated on it's front It is | a, fine colossal work standing right on | the quay. We proceed keeping close | ito the shore and soon row past the old | church of St. Maria della Pieta, where we once went to see Moretti's grand pie ture of Christ at the House of the Pharisee" and Tiepolo's beautiful cell ing fresco representing the Coronation of Mary" We shortly row under the bows of two Italian ironclad ships of war fairly bristling with guns, and us with the brightness of their polished metal. We are now passing the canal which conducts the warships into the great basins of the navy-yard; having gotten well by this canal we notice a little bit of natural sea beach, a strip Of one hundred feet where there is a sort of boat repairing place, in fact a little anticipated ship yard. It Is a pretty spot and seems to smack of an- ctent history. reminding us of an old picture of Lukas van Uden hanging in the Dresden gallery. The waves break up and down this little beach just they dashed there in primeval times when the one hundred and twenty islands (Venice) were without trees or inhabi- tants. This little lost scrap of sea beach is the one remaining in Venice Now as we are nearing the pretty public gardens we will row under the overhanging trees out to the point, then make sharp turn to the right, l and steer straight towards a small is- and right ahead of us about one mile and a half distant We can readily it from the neighboring is ands, for it possesses a bell shaped By santine Campanille, the only one of it's l ! 1ind in Venice. A large P. S o. steam ,r is running rapidly down the Lagoon . pound to Trieste and Alexandria. and as We pass right under her stern we can . read her name ''Hydaspes. a amiliar and popular craft in these wa : CTS. The Lido is two miles away on /. ,ur left, and the islands in the bright . morning sunlight sparkle and seeth to i, cintillate like jewels on the waves the