Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-05-04
LEANING TOWER OF PISA


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In St. Nicholas, John Ward vritos ~
1ho bell Towers Of Italy" Mr.. Ward
says OF the most famous f them all:
Iiaa seems like s.. .,lng city, as she
lies 50 qulet!y and silently along the
two borders Of the river Arno. She foil
asleep several hundred years ago. after
Enc mad struggled valiantly for her in.
| dependence and had won reu0wn dnrino
the lorce contests between the Guolnbs
| (pArtisans Of tho pope) and fine Ghibe1
INES (partlsnns OF tho emperor) Though
fisa mas long since forgotten the DAYS
vi hef greatness the world carnot H..
eet them WHOM it looks upon t. -. won.
oTously beautiful grouo Of four marble
"h'te buildings standing apart in the
sacred cor the cathedral, the han.
HS''f', tlo campo santo Cor bnrial
GfouAd), and, what interests Us most Of
AN, tao remarkable campauiIo. 81 we'll
hhoWn as the leaning tower. " This '
famous tower was built in ll74, IT'S
construction IS peculiar. There is in tho /
ceht'f a hollow brick tube or cyliDher. }
around TINS plain round tower tho archi. L
'9c's OulIt oI@ht stories Of open galleries.
wan beautiful, slender columns a o
""i'o marble supporting se,micircular 4"
arcAes, The general effect is ono Of u
great deiicacy and lightness a fairv,il,a tt
'o"er Oh wonderful grace. The summit II
- - feet from the ground. As Won MI g.
snow the tower leans 10 feet o1t n NJ
ne perpendicular and looks p, IL i, ga
y ouiu surely fall over at any lYo9ent la
1uY, 'S tho center Of gravity is etjll pa
'l'hlh Its base, it is as safe 40 If !. Pc
we're erect. The foundations were 1rot' ess
piy lmperiectly built at tho start ~. 20,
no tower began to lean before IL ,-aa trl
ali 1lnlshcd and We can coo y.hanl ""a hin
10 point the builders tried to brin, ~ owe
acA as much as possible to tho yertio.l aft}
He ny making the columns on tho ld,, me;
Oo Hibhor than tho others. The vo11a OF
~ are strengthened with iron b,,., L SO
ancy inc Consideration Of the arrhi. uni
otS "Aen they saw their boartif,,, but,
VIZ lcAlillS over and its fouudatinna lie
nAlh5 III the ground! 1t reoriro, ,,S ,D'-" guas
, Gy, nerves o to carry us to the top and hhal
'd nAu ourselves clinging to tho wall vail it al
1rt we are on the leaning side " ''' phor
mt tba 40 4 Ml"l Charles Dickens say, al l.
3 1 ,ho tower in his "pictura4 r T"y Br
~ In the course of the oycar ,' ~ like
'o ,op inc inclination is not yerv on III hi
'en5 put at tho summit it brr 5 "p, his {
'-t' gives ono the sensation of I";, nary
u snip that has heelod over tbr T,"5 ucol
"ctloh OF an obb tide. Tbo nJ1e6 81 off a
~ the low sido SO to sneak. lon V!lgo' the IN
e. 'l ro inc gallery aud scoinp tha an id(
% a avI1qo 10 It's base, is very star. Wi
- ana saw nervous travolor I h@Ii If Skill
~ tno tower involuntarilv .rta1 and il
, ~-ns no#n as if he had Soma j ;aoa made
Popping it up" ' '0'''o laea collar,
--0H we reach tho summit wo .,,.... tomC1l
VIZ Sot mat this was where tho , '.'. Mail
r Iu,'rr ro' Galilqo watched tho s SIrs
ad ti on tho fall of bodies ' nn1
IN , Inc Ia" of grayitation. ur rrt' Wh'
"a INC upper story. bony A., 4l'ie' cial pc
'ho largest Of which vni,ha' ST." an oXI
0,oOU pounds The hal, ge '1ole III the
' '|'' n'u IL wide reputation for cast lened
.cIiS OF beautiful ,c,,o N''Ht' and a
" .,I, ai' They lavisbe1 V om driving
al their art and their t.1"iI on when j
49, 4 s s4uarcccia (tho Paschal ban ahco b
h jS ,' , OF tho Pisan bells tbe ' inc roa
.nn was tollod when crjmi,nis man
, n'. 10 execution, is orname,fnI ana ca
hguro Of the Virgin .n nI, ti'. slowly,
80" al" mas rich, full tone. oi ~, Gu