Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-08

Holland is essentially the land Of
color, and, owing to the splendid facil-
tiles of travel, is becoming increasing
ly popular with artists and the artis
tically inclined in all parts of the
world
Among the important buildings in
art at Dordrecht, the. Stadhuis comes
first; then the Win STRAIT, with its
medieval houses. plainly denoting
the former wealth of it's merchants
when enjoying the privilege of the
Staple The next great feature is
the Groote Kerk, containing choir
stalls of worldwide fame and beau
tifuily carved pulpit of white marble
(date 1850, In this town were born
the two brothers John and Cornelius de
Witt; but bort is specially noted as
the place where the states of Holland
held their first assembly and declared
the prince of Orange stakeholder and
the only lawful governor of the coun-
try. The Groote Kerk is the subject
of Albeit Cuyp's notable painting in
the Ryks museum at Amsterdam. Sew
era1 artists were at work on the sub
ject of the great church from differ
ent points of view. We next took
the steamer to Gorkham, or CORN
chem, an old walied,town with ancient
wooded houses and picturesque canals.
On our way we steamed through dis
trict called the Biesbosch, where lin
terrible inundation in 1921. Y viii
lagos and 100000 human beings were
swallowed up by the waves; 35 of the
villages were irretrievably lost. so
that no vestige, not even of the ruins,
could afterwards be discovered" We
now retraced our steps to Rotterdam,
en- route to North Holland and the
dead cities of the Zuyder Zee.
The train was left at Gouda to see
! the world-famed painted glass win
dows in the Jams kerk; it was raining,
so that we were glad Of the shelter
the church afforded, and greatly
wished for more time to study these
really wonderful windows. However,
/ the train to Amsterdam would not
! wait, and we meant TO get through
| that day. so very reluctantly tore our
selves away and through heavy rain
made all haste to the station. On
the journey the wind and rain could
/ not have been worse; the canals were
| greatly swollen and the land mostly
I under water so that we seemed like
a vessel at sea. The water poured
| from door to door Of the railway car
| rage like a ships deck in bad wealth
/ er. We stayed the night in Amster-
| dam. intending on the morrow to
move on to the noted fishing village of
/ Volendam. The next morning, still
| in the rain. we crossed the ferry to
! Tolhuis and trained to Edam via
! Brock and Monnikendam.
| Here we experienced a rather novel
I mode of travel by TTekschuit, which
was the only means of travelling to
7 Volendam prior to the railway being
| built. The Trekschuit is a rather com.
] modius barge, usually towed and
/ pushed by the two men forming the
crew. On the occasion of our visit
the wind serving, a curiosity in the
way of a sail was set, which took us
along gayly, permitting the men to
remain aboard. The weather was
very squally, and every moment
| fully expected something a. carry
| away: but by clever seamanship-in
herent in most Dutchmen-we got
through safely, till, nearing Volendam
we were nearly overpowered by the
| horrid smell from a duck farm stu
! ated on the windward side Of the
canal. This was something new in
the way of smells, and on relating our
i experiencein the hotel at Volendam We
we're greeted with roars of laughter
they having had some evidently. Al
! any rate, it was q useful initiation
and for the remainder Of our stay we
carefully avoided approaching a duel
farm and tackled, If possible, or he'll
| our breath while hurryilg past. ThesI
| duck farms are an institution Of this
tart Of Holland, and contain from