New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-01-02
THE DOOM OF Y ENICE|
IT MAY BE TO LIE IN THE BOSOM or
THE ADRiATlc.

THE ADRIATiC.
The Famous Bells of st. Marks May
Toll on Oceans Depths Like Those
of Old Port RoyaI-The Sunken
Cities of the World
1t is believed by many that Venice
Is 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
over spots which We're once teeming
with a populous life.
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 small settlement and a
fort, is all that is left of what was
once the richest and Wickedest town in
the West Indies 1t was the resort of
pirates, who rested there from their
depredations and made the city hid
eous with their revelry But these pi
rates broughtgreat stores Of their loot to
the city, and its commerce grew and
fourished Palaces and churches We're
built, a pirate often striving by a 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
toits buildings or so luxurious as to it's
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
habitants. Towers. churches, palaces
and forts went down, many of them
not tumbling in ruins by the shock,
but sinking bodily beneath the waves.
On a 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 ropica,
seaweeds waving from its sunken
walls
The negroes Of Jamaica-and some
white people. too-will tell you that be-
fore storm the sunken. bell of the
great cathedral which went down with
the city on that awful day in 1852 can
/ be heard distinctly tol!ing below the
| waves, rung as 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
4 waters of the Caribbean and sends in
upon the shore deep waves, which roll
through the sunken city and set the
bell a-tolling.
Another sunken city Of renown Is
Baiae, that splendid resort on the Ital.
ian coast where Nero and Caligula
"reveled and drank deep" A strag.
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
Piles go out there to gaze down into the
waters and try to catch a glimpse of
the submerged city
The resort of all the wealthy mobiles
of Rome when Rome was mistress of
the world, Baiae was marvel Of lux.
urious splendor. Palace after palace
was built on the shore, and architects
designed magnificent structures ex
tending out into the sea-
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 ther
the sea made an attack on the land
Gradually the shore line receded. anC
the Mediterranean flowed through the
streets where Hadrian had driven his
imperial chariot and Horace had walk
ed thinking of his next poem.
These pronontories, crowned witt
grand towers and gorgeous palaces
were undermined and toppled into thu
deep until at last the major. part Of
the splendid city was submerged 1t:
disappearance was not sudden, like
that of Port Royal, and due to some
convulsion of nature. but Baiae wen
down to it's death gradually, as Venice
| is said to be going.
:. In Holland the subsistence Of tn
land has brought it about that man,
towns once populous are now covered
,, by the sea- The old Roman camp a
Brittenburg, after sinking beneath thu
waves, emerged again in 1920, only t
disappear, and its remains now lie il
deep water opposite the town of Kat
wiki The original KatWijk itself nov
) Is beneath the waters, as also are TIL
original towns of Seheveningen, Dom