The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-09

men and five francs a day to the above
named officers, but these latter have gen.
erously made this sum over to the re.
building fund-another instance out OF
| many of the fine spirit that animates the
italian army.
The materials as they are removed are
| deposited according to their kind in diff
| ferent places. The bronzes are locked up
in the lower rooms of the doge's palace,
and the marbles and the carvings OF
the loggia are placed in the arcades
around the court, where Signor De Lucio
arranges them according to the drawings
ne took OF them two years ago. In one
corner of the court is a huge heap of
iron. in another the zinc roofing while
In the middle Is wilderness of broken
beams and splinters of wood. The great
stones of the Celia, or Bell Loggia, which
Stg1or Torres identifled by means of his
microscope from a photograph, are car
lied in the arsenal barges to the ciciste $
OF San Giorgio Maggicre, and the bricks
are deposited on the little island of La
Grazie, little farther off in the lagoon,
where many primitive picnic has been
held. The rest of the material, tho shape.
less bits with which the thickness of me
old walls was filled UP and the criinl-
b'ed-to- dust mortar, IL carried away Ave
miles out to sea in great movable bot
toned barges C'bette'D, and is sunk in
the Adriatic. thus giving even the rub
b'sh of the famous watch tower of the
old queen of the Adriatic fitting grave
A pretty little ceremony occurred when
the first loads were carried to their burial.
Commentators Eoni. Cavaliere Malam ln!.
Professor Alessandri Of the academia
and few others accompd lied the barees
and took with them one of the large old
49, A. D. bricks. upon which was in.
scribed the date CT the fall. Into It was
fastened a boug1 of laurel, tied with
ribbons. and the little daughter Of Pro-
lessor AlessanGri dropped Il into the
waves Italians are very tender hearted.
and the eyes of those present were v ct
as it sank from sieht-perhaps with the
spray of the splash of the brick as it fell
into the sea. The last time We went to
see Commentators Bont vac found him
nrroun6 I'd with bricks-f usv reconstruct
ing history from the d9stru ton Of the
campanle. His work in Rome. where
naturally led him to study the stamps Of
old bricks. and here he mas found q vast
amount OF new material-new in the
sense OF being as yet unknown.
Antiquity of Materials.
He showed us how true is the tradition
terials for building their new home from
their devastated, old ones, for here OIL his
desk were bricks from Oquileia and from
Heraclia There are two kinds-those of
the ordinary shape. but much larger. and
big square ones of fourteen inches by
fourteen. used for binding the masonry
together and COR building strong corners
Commentators Boni had also a number
of Roman bricks Of various dates. one
stamped ct. A. M and another &c. j.
NJ N" Another had the inscription,
Imp. Ant. Avg. Pr. standing for the
Emperor Antoninus Plus. the last letters
being broken away. This OF course, dates
from the second century and no doubt
also came from the imperial city Of
AQuileia-"Roma Secunda." Still more
interesting, however, was one inscribed
with characters as yet undecipherable,
but which strongly resembles those on
~ fNala - - Ata In
san NItale at Ravenna and On those o.
the two square st. Jean1D'Acre columns
that stand between the door of the doae
palace and the baptistry of st. Marks.
He also showed us a bit of brick. Of the
date of which he is as yet ignorant. which
he has had polished and which is as
hard and lustrous as a bit of rich red
porphyry. One brick which, however. we
did not see, is a curiosity of another kind.
for it showed that ut the time of its max
ing a calf must have got loose in the
brick yard, FOR there is the imprint off
its hoof on the surfaee-an antique modi@e
hcation of "a bull in a china shop"