Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-02-28
THE VENICE OF TO-DAY PICTURED
Every Night Festival to the We
netian."

L
tian Register. EVERY night is a festi-
val to the Venetian, his unparalleled
piazza the most glorious ballroom in
the world. Every evening, when the
band is not playing by the shore of
the palace, it is rendering the best
music in the piazza itself. 1t is GU
rious to note, however, how only the
more sensuous Italian melodies are ii
harmony with the gay spectacle, amid
the piazza's blaze of lights, reflected
in the thousands of highly-colored We
netian glasses of the electrically
lighted windows of the shops beneath
the surrounding arcades, scintillaeing
on the shining minarets and COLLEEN
mosaics of that fairy masterpiece of
architecture, San Marco, and glinting
amid the traceries of the ducal palace
now happily also an adornment of the
piazza since the solemn mass of the
| Campanile has ceased to frown on
the less serious Renaissance strI.
ures which, in the course of centuries.
had grown up about it. 1t is the
realm Of sentiment joyousness, even
the intellectual harmonies of Bee
thoven's Pastoral seem out of touch
with the environment
L Every evening the gayly-dressed,
courteous multitude quietly prone
nades back and forth before the to-
bles of the restaurants, whose shining
doors have not been barred day OF
night for 400 years; or they sit cor
before the arcades eating and imbib
ing what ney will Prince and peas
ant, princess and washerwoman, min
gle in that orderly enjoyment of life
undisturbed by drunkenness or ru :
, behavior. Even the English Jack Tar
ashore here forgets his notorious
habits, to the disgust of sturdy Eag
lish commercial captain who decla.e s
his navy must be degenerating if Jack
can be so tanned he does not kick up
some sort of row ashore .'You Amer
leans did there he says, there is
hope for you yeti" Alas, we have IN
America no such public amusement
where every cultivated sense of har-
mony is gratified and none ever out
ragged by excess.
The fan of the Campanile has mi
fled the architecture of the piazza and
given finer view OF it's inner de-
tails; but the restoration on the cid
lines, now about 10 feet In height.
will fill the void which was felt in the
view of Venice from IS seaward ap.
proach. There the loss to the general
effect was most serious.
The catastrophe has had one most
valuable outcome. 1t has awakened
the venetians from their dream Of
the dolce far niente to the danger
they were in of losing all their seem
ingly immortal monuments OF art
Wall after wall of the inward portions
of the ducal palace is being stripped.
for the time, of its glorious decora-
tons. and rebuilt and strengthened
The great pictures of the church of
the Frari have been removed to San
Toma while the first-named church is
being rebuilt and strengthened from
within. San Giovanni and San Paola
are also filed with forest of scat
folding. and the encrusted Dario pal
ace nearly opposite the Grand hotel
has had to be rebuilt from its founda-
tons. Fortunately the beautiful fa-
cade made famous by Ruskin was
preserved intact as when Duse leaned
from its picturesque balcony; out
the palace next was less fortunate.
and its new front is not wholly as
satisfactory as its older construction
The palace OF Desdemona still pre-.
serves its outward appearance, though
ii Is being rebuilt within and the
city has had to entirely renew the pile
foundations of some nth century psl-
aces in the side canals, which It was
fitting Up as public school-houses
Had these precautions not been TAX
en- at once. Venice would have be
come. Ike her own Bucentore. only a
sad remembrance preserved In pic
lures and models; but. with tire