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“Bellefonte, Pa, April 15, 1927.
Venice and the Venitians.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
By Rev. L. M. Colfelt D. D.
VENICE.
The Greek story of Eos or Aurora,
goddess of the morning, falling in love
with Tithonous has been told by Tenny-
son in one of his stateliest poems.
Tithonous asked for immortality and
Aurora, in preferring the request of
Jupiter, omitted to add eternal youth
as well and so the beautiful dream of
love and happiness was dissipated as
wrinkles and gray hairs came on
apace. Tothonous became sick of
cruel immortality and longed that the
gift should be recalled. Men came
and tilled the fields and slept beneath
them. The swan died after many a
summer and while Tithonous, no long-
er glorious in his beauty went roam-
ing about the silent places of the East
like a shadow of a dream. The condi-
tion of Venice approximates to that
of Tithonous. The Doges celebrated
the espousal of the city with the Ad-
riatic in gondolas covered with bro-
cade and moved by golden oars and
Venice was endowed with immortal-
ity but she forgot to ask for ever-
lasting youth and prosperity. Al-
ready she is gray-haired. Her very
Doges have long since disappeared
and if they ever return in spirit, it is
to haunt the deserted marts and
mourn the absence of all the former
glory. The pearly crowns, the robes
of velvet, the gilded barges,—those
lions of bronze with their eyes of
diamonds, those crocodiles of emer-
:alds and rubies, those splendid ban-
quets immortalized by Paul Veronese,
are all departed and the city sits
desolate upon her islets with a double
crown of rushes and sea-weed upon
her brow. The marble palaces remain
but like brilliant apparel on a hideous
woman, they only render the decad-
ence of her citizens more apparent. In
these self-same palaces, the stint and
beggary of “Wolfs Crag” is almost
universally prevalent. There are max-
ble floors and tables with rich mosaics
but empty dishes. The representation
of the Merovinis, the Falieros, the
Contarines and many other families
whose names appear in Iibra D Ora
still live in their old family palaces
but their incomes are wholly drawn
from small estates on the mainland.
Others iike the Da Mulas who were
once so rich that a law was passed in
the days of the Republic, forbidding
them to buy more houses and palaces
are next door to paupers now. Their
country homes are almost unfurnished
and in their town palaces they have
one or two rooms finely adorned
where they receive visitors. Their
food they manage to wring out of
their peasants on the Metager sys-
tem. Their main expenditure is a
gondolier, who is the man of all work
when not rowing. No matter how
small the income a small portion of it
is hoarded. To such an extent is this
old, gentlemanly parsimony carried
that when they receive their friends
on their weekly reception days the
lady of the house rings the bell and
orders the gondolier to bring in the
coffee. He appears with the coffce-
pot and cups. The hostess waves her
hand and says, “No one will take cof-
fee” on which the guests bow for they
know from their own experience at
home that this coffee is but a compli-
mentary myth, there being neither
coffee in the pot nor sugar in the
bowl. Beyond this the hospitality of a
Venetian patrican never goes. But if
an English visitor establishes himself
in the city and invites these nobles to
dinner we have been assured that they
have the capacity of a eamel gorging
himself for a voyage across the des.
ert of Sahara. From this degradation
of her noblest citizens let us turn to
historic Venice, to these noble children
of her ancient household who conquer-
-ed fatality, and saving themselves in
the lagunes from the irruptions of
Attila and his ferocious Huns, pre-
served the liberties of the race
through the whole of the middle ages.
who struggled with the waves and
awakened the energies of commerce
when: society was uselessly hiding in
eloisters, who terrified the Turks with
their standards and drove back fatal-
ism with its devouring career, who
had the Imperial Crown of Byzantium
30 often in their hands but repelled
by the Phryian cap of the older Re-
public, who chiselled palaces of mar-
vellous sculpture, painted pictures
with palettes to which the rainbow had
lent its colors, who decorated monu-
ments of singular beauty and majesty
—in fine, who built a city which mod-
ern: Venetians are incompetent even to
inhabit—a city on whose bronze and
marble are preserved the finest re-
mains of the three ancient civiliza-
-fions, the Asiatic, the Greek and the
Roman, lost everywhere else in a
complicate series of shipwrecks. With
such a grand past and ignoble present
we often think it had been better if
Venice had not been endowed with im-
mortality but had in the beginning of
her decay flung herself like Ophelia
into her lagunes and disappeared un-
« der her own waters forever. A tragic
ending with a curse upon her lips had
“been noble far than this life of a men-
«dicant shewing contentedly to the
“world the bones of her former pros-
perity which are covered with naught
but the tatters of pride!
The production of mesaics employs
a large number of the people of Ven-
ice. This art was discovered by an
artist whose industry Pliny qualifies
with the term of importunum ingen-
um. The invention is probably due to
the Persians from whom it passed to
the Greeks and thence to Rome in the
latter years of the Republic. It was
patronized by the various Popes until
the 14th century when Venice became
the school of the art. St. Sophia at
Constantinople and St. Peter at Rome
present famous specimens of mosaic
painting. But it was Titian who per-
fected the art when he had the direc-
tion of the mosaic decoration of St.
Marc and caused the imitations of his
own immortal paintings to be execut-
ed. The mechanical part of the art |
consists in uniting small pieces of var-
iously colored marble so that the sur-
faces may have the effect of a paint-
ing. The fragments of marble, col-
ored glass, or stones which are made
use of, vary in size. They take every
angular form which will suit the art-
ist’s purposes in working out the con-
tour of the design and at the same
time enable him to join them without
the least interval. - The artist prepares
a ground of plaster, formed of chalk
and marble-powder mixed with gum.
The stucco thus prepared is spread
upon the surface intended whether it
be a church wall or a piece of jewel-
ry. On this plaster the artist sketches
the outline of the design and then with
infinite pains inserts the small bits
of marble in the stucco, arranging
them so as to give the light and shade
and the various tints. The process
ends with polishing the whole surface
with very fine sand and water and the
artist’s labor is complete.
Venice is a series of monuments,
a wonder of wonders in the variety
and richness of its architecture.
Everywhere there is prodigality and
freedom of method and over every
style is flung the rich jewels of the
East. If you examine the Venetian
palaces with a square and compass,
demanding of them obedience to a
rigid mathematical harmony, then
you will be shocked by the sight of
a gallery supported by iron and a
heavy column placed upon a slender
one as if denying the general principle
of gravity; you will be indignant at
the spectacle of a mass of marble
weighing like a mountain and riding
a light, aerial gallery with its delicate
bracing; but then if you can fling
mathematics into the lagune and
laugh at laws of proportion and re-
member that Venice was born of
peculiar historical circumstances and
was a transition city between the civ-
ilization of the East and the West,
you will recognize that this archi-
tecture is not only suitable but is un-
matchable in the wealth of its ex-
pression, the richness of its hyper-
bole and the variety of its effect.
The Church of St. Mark resembles
nothing else in the world. The broad
and low front is divided into five
arcades not unlike the arches of a
bridge and the entrances are formed
by five gates of bronze. Stretching
across the whole front is a ballustrad-
ed gallery and in this are placed the
four famous bronze horses which were
foundered at Corinth, removed to
Athens, served to adorn the trium-
phal arches of Nero and Trojan at
Rome, accompanied Constantine to
Byzantium, transported in the 18th
century from Constantinople to Ven-
ice, and lastly under the government
of the first Napoleon, placed in the
Carrousel in Paris only to be return-
ed to their present position in 1815.
Language has no wods with which to
paint so rich and unique a picture as
this Basilica, covered with pyramids,
statues and gildings, a mixture of all
orders of architecture: Oriental, Goth-
ic, Greek, Byzantium, Moorish—an
epitome of all epochs, its blue arches
sown. with stars, its columns of vari-
colored jasper, its mosaics in the re-
cesses, its cupolas above copics of St.
Sophia, like apparitions of Asia, and
its grand altar brought with the
bronze horses from Constantinople.
Next in interest is the massive
palace of the Doges in Moorish style,
resting its mass of red and white
marble in a double gallery of arches
interlaced with capricious orioles
which harmonize with the diadem of
sharp triangles and the airy belfry
above. Around the balcony are col-
lossal statues of the Doges and the
men who epitomize Venetian history.
Here is a library of 150,000 volumes
and thousands of manuscripts. Ven-
ice is the miother of Titian and in
these galleries and on the ceilings
and walls are the masterpieces of
Titian, Paul Veronese, Corregio, and
Alberti. Further on is the great ban-
queting hall adorned with battle
scenes, where, in cups of crystal in
bacchanalian feasts and
songs and coral garlands and sea-
flowers the Doges and Patricians cele-
brated the glories of the Republic in
the richest fashion of the Renaissance.
Still deeper in the heart of the Palace
is the room of Justice, where sat the
Council of Ten, with its traditions of
traitors and dungeons, of the Bridge
of Sighs and tragic stories to excite
the imagination, half legendary nn
doubt, but in many instances only too
historically true. The Palace of the
Doges, like the Seraglio of Constant-
inople, has been more than once stain-
ed with the heads of victims exposed
on the outer balustrades and proves
that an aristocracy armed with Re-
publican laws can be as sangiunary as
a despotism armed with the Ottoman
scimeter.
The fine portal of St. Mary of
Nazareth, the Peristyle of St. Simon,
the noble architecture of St. Roche,
Santa Maria della Salute with its
graceful tower and great globe of
gilded bronze, the palace of Sanso-
vino, like a work of Cellini, San
Giorgio with its red and white marble,
the Gudeccia in all the colors of the
rainbow, San Lorenzo with its Armen- .
ian convent and oriental towers like
the curled sail of a large vessel, all are
worthy of examination by the strang-
er.
At the eventide we took our last
view of peculiar, beautiful Venice. The |
heavens were of turquoise blue, the
banks of sand were tinged with gold,
the houses on the islets were bright
and many colored and the sun, sink-
ing behind the lagunes, gilded with
his last splendors the spires of the
churches and the great domes. The
sombre gondolas skimmed the waters
like fantastic creatures born of the
night and in the distance were the
islands and between their foliage,
glimpses of stately buildings enamell-
ed by the arts and anchored in a sea
of eternal poetry. Now arose the
first stars of the evening and now
the first lights appeared in the win-
dows of the city. The songs of the
gondoliers sounded on the sweet air
and mingled with the vesper hymns
of the cloister, the serenade to earth
blending with prayer to the heavens!
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UTILITY EXECUTIVE DIES.
Mr. Albert M. Lynn, president of
The West Penn Electric Company and
!a director of the American Water
Works and Electric Company died at
the Roosevelt Hospital, New York
City, April 8, 1927, at 1:00 P. M. in |
the fifty-second year of his age after
a long illness.
For over thirty years he had been
identified in important executive ca-
pacities with the public utility proper-
ties of the American Water Works |
and Electric Company. |
Mr. Lynn was born in Indianapolis, |
Indiana, on October 12, 1875, moving
with his family to Pittsburgh in 1889,
where he attended public schools. On
February 1, 1893, he entered the em-
ploy of the American Water Works
and Guarantee Company, the pedeces-
sor of the American Water Works and
Electric Company, serving for some
years in the general offices at Pitts-
burgh. He then became manager of
the Company’s water works plant at
Chattanooga, Tennessee, and later of
that at Birmingham, Alabama. For
many years thereafter he was in
charge of a large proportion of the
Company’s water works properties.
In 1917 he was elected president of
The West Penn Company and upon
the organization of The West Penn
Electric Company he became its Presi-
dent in which capacity he was serv-
ing at the time of his death.
Among his associates and through-
out the large territory served by the
propeties of which he was the head,
Mr. Lynn was noted for the great en-
ergy and attention which he devoted
to his work.
Mr. Lynn, who resided in the city
of Pittsburgh is survived by his wid-
ow, nee Miss Ethel Sharpe, of Birm-
inghani, Alabama, and one son, Henry |
Sharpe Lynn, now a senior at Prince-
ton University; also by his mother,
Mrs. P. A. Lynn, a sister Miss Clara
Lynn and four brothers, William H.,
H. Ross, Arthur M., and Lawrence.
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STRONG FOR STATE COLLEGE
During the past two weeks the sub
committee of the House Appropria-
tions committee made an inspection
trip throughout the State, visiting all
of the State-aid institutions, and in
, their report submitted on Tuesday had
the following strong recommendations !
in favor of adequate appropriations
for both State College and the Rock- !
view penitentiary:
i “There is no place that need of new
, buildings is more apparent than at
i State College. The Commonwealth,
: through its Legislature and the Exec-
! utive, have neglected this institution
for many years to the benefit of other
. colleges and universities, and at the
present time many of the buildings in
; which the young men and the young
| women are being educated at State
| College, are inadequate and unsafe.
“The possibilities for the young men
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lege are almost inconceivable, but
they are being hampered year after
vear because the Commonwealth has
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college.
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Most of the State institutions have
quite a large acreage and most of the
{ Institutions have a dairy farm and
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jcan be greatly improved if the plan
were systematized and had some one
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tutions who could advise on this sub-
ject, and in this respect your commit-
tee, is eonvinced that the farm at
Rockview can be so operated that suf-
ficient foods could be raised and
canned at this institution to take care
of many of the other State institu-
tions. “There are 6300 acres connect-
ed with this institution. Your commit-
| tee further believes that a great
: amount of the beef could be fed upon
| this acreage and furnished to the dif-
ferent State institutions.
“In addition to the above your com-
: mittee recommends that the main cell
, building at Rockview should be com-
pleted at as early a date as possible.
This would take care of 500 more pris-
oners, and that as soon as possible
another cell building be erected which
would take care of a thousand more
prisoners, making a total of 1500 pris-
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“This would entirely relieve the con-
gestion at the Eastern and Western
Penitentiaries and would also relieve
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tentiary. This would also give the
warden at Rockview 1500 more men,
out of which he could select a sufficient
number to operate the farm and raise
sufficient food of different kinds, much
"of which could be canned and furnish-
ed to the other State institutions.
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