The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-02-09
PART z.
Milan.

In my last published story of my
trip abroad told Of the trip across
the Alps and into Italy. Our first
stopping place was Milan, the largest
and most prosperous of Italian cities.
lit nestles about the foot of the Alps
and is the home city Of million
people.
The Milan Cathedral has been &C
counted the eighth wonder OF the
world Tt is the third largest
church in the world, exceeded in size
only BY the cathedral OF st. Peters
In Rome and that at Sevilla i'm Spain.
Tit ia built entirely OF marble and 10
adorned with 98 turrets and $500
statues. The stained glass window
in its choir ID the largest In exist
once.
The building it, 485 feet long 252
feet above the pavement and fs sur
mounted by a tower $50 feet above
the ground.
/ wanted MIR. Neal to climb with
me the staircases to the top or the
tower, but he declined the invitation.
T am not certain that am sorry.
The city has scores Of beautiful
buildings, charitable institutions,
churches, museums and art galleries.
1t is circular in form, though laid
out irregularly. In the high walls
built to protect the inhabitants i'm the
early day, there are ten gates,
beautifully adorned, and every here
and there is a beautiful arch erected
to commemorate some notable event.
We arrived i'm Milan August 20.
Next day we took drive and made
a casual survey OF the city and it,
environs.
we had seen beggars in other coun-
tries, but we got our first glimpse OF
Italian beggary in Milan They
swarmed everywhere.
One can't afford to pay attention
to one OF them or to give aims to
any, or the host OF them would ruin
him
There is a great deal OF manufac-
turing done ia Milan. It's machine
shops are immense. We were egpec-
tally interested in these shops for in
many OF them, they use the tools
manufactured by the Lands Tool
Company and Lands Machine Com
pany OF Waynesboro.
The representative OF these COM
panies was very kind in showing Us
through these shops.
Venice.
Every now and then we read dis
cussions in the American newspapers
concerning the possibility OF the auto
mobile supplanting the horse.
Venice may well be called Horse
less town"
There are only four horses in the
entire city and these are on the low
or of st. Marks church. They are
animals of great antiquity, and long
travels. Once they were carried by
Constantine the Great 70 CONSTANT
nople. They graced the triumphal
arches of Nero and Trojan in Rome.
The Doge, or Duke Danolo, secur-
ed them in Constantinople and
brought them to Venice. Napoleon
took them to Paris after he had addel
Venice to his realms, but the Emper-
or Francis returned them to Venice.
They have no need for live horses
10 Venice They wouldn't know
what to do with them il they had
them. Venice has no streets such as
we have. The streets are canals
along whose banks the buildings have
been erected.
We left Milan for Venice August
80 and rode through a beautiful
country, nearly every foot Of which
was in fruit There are thousands
OF acres planted in Mulberry trees,
on which the silk worms feeds.
These novelties made our after
noon journey over a stretch Of coun-
try about equal in length to that be
tween Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, one
of exceeding great pleasure.
Three miles from Venice we struck
the viaduct, Of 222 arches, over
which the railroad runs into the an
Gent city. These arches are built on
piles which surrounds the city.
We had formed ideas Of Venice, but
our dreams were exceeded by what
we saw.
Our conductor informed us, az we
neared the city, that when we got
out Of the train we should divide into
parties Of two or three for each car
riage. We couldn't understand. New
or before had we received such in
structions and we believed that Ven
ice had no carriages.
Arriving at our destination, we
identified our grips and started for
our supposed carriages. We found
them to be boats, gondolas they call
LQ0H Ill N0ulC6.
we entered our boats to 60 to our
hotel, the Danuelf, close to the Plaza
of st. Marks. Before landing some
of our party were very much excited
fearing that the gondolier didn't
know where we were to 60. At any
rate, though we could not talk to him
our boatsmfn landed us at the right
hotel after an hour.
Beggars holding long poles with
hooks on one end to hold the boat
greeted us at the landing, while we
disembarked. They always have
their hats ready for the alighting pas
sengers and manage to collect good
amount Of Chicken feed" They
worked us for some tips.
Venice is built on III small is
lands. The foundation Of the city
was laid in 421. When Attila invad-
ed Italy, the refugees from his ter
rors, sought an asylum on this group
Of islands, low and marshy. Other
cities were surrounded by walls
They decided that water should be
their protection. That was before
the days of gunpowder and steam. TIC
support the buildings piles were driv.
en- down into sandy soil and on these
masses Of solid masonry were con.
structed. We were shown one of the
THE PASSING OF THE JORRER.