Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-12-31
THE DOOM OF VENICE
NJ MAY BE 70 LIE IN THE BOSOM or
THE ADRiATiC.

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The Famous Bells Of st. Marks May
4 Toll ON Oceans Depths Like Those
of Old Port Royal-The sSunIken
I Cities of the World. ,s@s 4:f.
/: 1t is believed by many that Venice
b sinking into the Adriatic and that
she gradually will disappear beneath
the waters Of the great lagoon from
which her palace crowned islands
arise. Other cities have gone that
way before her, and ships now sail
pvel. spots which were once teeming
with populous life. ~ss> -
At the entrance to the harbor Of King
ston, Jamaica, the original city of Port
Royal lies fathoms deep beneath the
blue: and sunlit waters of the Carib-
bean sea. A narrow strip Of land, on
which are a small settlement and a
fort, is all that Is left of what was
once the richest and wickedest town in
the. West Indies. It was the resort Of
pirates, who rested there from their
depreciation and made the city hid
eous with their reyeIry. But these pi-
rates brought great stores Of their loot to
the city, and its commerce grew and
dourished. Palaces and churches were
built, pirate often striving by rich
endowment Of a church to square his
accounts with heaven. .:'> -
Throughout the greater part of the
seventeenth century no town in the
western world was so magnificent as
t., is buildings or so luxurious as to its
habits as Port Royal. Then one day in
1892 the anger of the Lord shook the
island Of Jamaica, and the greater part
Of Port Royal sank beneath the sea.
carrying with It hundreds of its in
hebitants. Towers, churches, palaces
and forts went down, many Of them
not tumbling in ruins by the shock,
but si,-..a1ii,lg Scdily beneath the waves.
!. On bright day, sailing over the
spot where Port Royal once stood, one
can look far down through the clear
water and see the remains of the city
still standing there on the ocean bot
tom, with fishes swimming about
among it's 'towers and great tropical
seaweeds waving from its sunken
walls. j. IL. ,.-.::r... =.
+ The negroes Of Jamaica-and some
white people. too-wln tell you that be-
fore storm the sunken bell Of the
great cathedral which went down with
the city on that awful day in 1892 can
be heard distinctly: tolling below the
waves, rung as a warning by the
ghostly hands Of the spirits Of depart
ed buccaneers which haunt the subma-
rine city. People who do not believe in
ghosts, but think they have heard the
tolling Of the bell, say the explanation
is that when the city sunk the great
bell Of the cathedral was not thrown
from its place, but still hangs as it
originally did. The coming storm be-
fore it reaches Jamaica stirs up the
waters Of the Caribbean and sends in
upon the shore deep waves, which roll
through the sunken city and set the
bell a-tolling. ~ a4
Another sunken city of renown is
ASs%AsAS, IlfAI cpACuOAA ACSOIL lAC 1Lul-
ian coast where Nero and Caligula
"reveled and drank deep" A stray
Cling village and heaps of marble ruins
still stand upon the shore and bear the
name OF Baiae, but the greater part of
the city lies beneath the waters of the
Mediterranean, and tourists from Ma
pies so out there to gaze down into the
waters and try to catch q glimpse of
the submerged city.
The resort Of all the wealthy mobiles
Of Rome when Rome was mistress Of
the world, Baiae was a marvel Of lux
urious splendor. Palace after palace
was built on the shore, and architects
designed magnificent structures ex-.
tending out into the sea. p. n .sz
y When Rome decayed and the Cloths
ravaged Italy, Baiae was sacked BY
the invaders. Soon after the city be-
gan to sink. First the buildings which
had their foundation in the water sub
sided beneath the waves, and then
the sea made an attack on the land.
Gradually the shore line receded, and
the Mediterranean flowed through the
streets where Hadrian had driven his
imperial chariot and Horace had walk
ed thinking OF his next poem. a
Il These promontories, crowned with
grand towers and gorgeous palaces,
We're undermined and toppled into the
deep until at last the major part of
the splendid city was submerged. IT'S
disappearance was not sudden, like
that Of Port Royal, and due to some
conyulsion Of nature. but Baiae went
down to Its death gradually. as Venice
is said to be going.
In Holland the subsistence OF the
land has brought 1t about that many
towns once populous are now covered
BY the sea. The old Roman camp at
Brittenburg, after sinking beneath the
waves, emerged again Ii 1920, only to-
disappear, and it's remains now lie III
deep water opposite the town Of Kat
wiki. The original Katwijk itself now
- beneath the waters, as also are the
original towns Of scheyeningsn, Dom
burg and Egmond. III fact, succes-