. St. Nicholas [serial]. ill find hardly atrace of a noble landmark that has greeted everyChristmas sunrise for a thousand years. For,as our older readers will remember, the famousCampanile, or bell-tower, of St. Marks Cathe-dral, in Venice, fell crumbling into a heap of ruinson the 14th of last July. It was three hundredand twenty-two feet in height, and it was begunabout 900 — though its marble top, and thefigure of the angel which surmounted it, wereadded in the fifteenth century. The citizens ofVenice deeply mourn its loss — and all Christiannations regret the destruction of the statel
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ill find hardly atrace of a noble landmark that has greeted everyChristmas sunrise for a thousand years. For,as our older readers will remember, the famousCampanile, or bell-tower, of St. Marks Cathe-dral, in Venice, fell crumbling into a heap of ruinson the 14th of last July. It was three hundredand twenty-two feet in height, and it was begunabout 900 — though its marble top, and thefigure of the angel which surmounted it, wereadded in the fifteenth century. The citizens ofVenice deeply mourn its loss — and all Christiannations regret the destruction of the stately towerwhich rose above the chief square of Venice,alongside of the wonderful Church of San Marcoand the superb Palace of the Doges. Our readers will be interested in the followingaccount of the disaster, written by a young Ameri-can girl who, with her sisters, was present whenthe tower fell, and who was fortunate enough totake photographs showing this historic catastro-phe at almost the very moment of its MARK S CATHEDRAL, VENICE. a drawing by J. D. Woodward.) Monday the 14th of July was a beautifulsunny day, and all Venice was happy and ex-pectant on account of the grand festa whichwas to take place on the following Saturday. and calm were about to be shattered by such anawful disaster as the falling of St. Marks beauti-ful Campanile. We started from the hotel rather early, in- No one could have imagined that this peace tending to go to the bank for money. Our 164 THE FALLING OF THE VENICE BELL-TOWER. IS5 gondolier landed us at the Piazzetta, and as wewere about to walk between the Cathedral andthe Campanile a guard stopped us. He madesome remark in Italian which I only half under- as it sought its way to the top by jumping fromone window to the next. I dont know why I took a picture then, un-less it was because some one suggested that it would be fun to have a picture of acrack. I certainly never thought itwould be perhaps the last picture takenof the Campani
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