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Show THE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1915 HERALD-REPUBLICA- N, 7 w uarc aid f GREATEST PRECAUTIONS TAKEN TO SAFEGUARD HER TREASURES Tn-S- 1 '. . . W K r . ' . ' ' ' -- ' . 1 . . ,.-- J 4 .1 . I f ; r x I - J - Scenes in Venice, which v give an idea of the wonderful architectural beauty of its structures. Top, left, the Pwialto and the Grand Canal in days agone, but which today is practically deserted whenever an airship draws near. Top, right, the famous St. Mark's cathedral; lower, left, the Bridge of Sighs; lower, right, the Plaza of San Marco and the famous Campanile, which now are piled high with sandbags as a protective armor against bombs. ' xS j AX 5 wi i w :' i y n v.' .. v x iff i f 'v - ft. --- ssftWf r v Vr t)i lit I v r If M i 441 Ilr 1 rr igflr Ith sii I j k$K I - ixf i .fee r.. mate 9fcjM riri- -I With the Austrian Frontier Only Two ":-- Palace of the Doges; Another Bomb Made Havoc and fi. Y t4 While the Famous Campanile V f. and Square of San Marco Have Taken on the Grim 4II illI 1 Visage nf War; Sandbags Piled Thirty Feet High Around lT ? ?. 1 j .k. vfetl the Base Protect the Former Against Bomb Attacks. Wnr h.n 2.i. fhane-- y If :0rf lnu?ht f- - ?- - - . i- j -"- storc-Tiou5- n-n- -rj; ;t -- - l,''r - f. If .1-- t- - V Tearing Great Hole in Roof and Destroying Ceiling Done Y. ;.v-:-.- by Tiepolo. : 4- -i ife-si&- s Titian's or Tintoretto's, for these .T-- v av, O.f jf zk. fr n!-ir.a- hakt - Im-1"- . -- trian borders.- That win these from local war fountains, emergency Venice. now nil over arc dotted well, The liridpre of Sihs, which crosses one of the canals flanking the Doires palace. alo rivrs evidence of the war, as lied Cross Hairs are hanyin from its windows am! one of the principal Ked Cross hospitals is in the old prison to which the Kridjre of Sichs leads. to see the dest me An opportunity , t At me uvr erieci oi Dnnrj ranis on v was to of sme the Associated Ihr itut of arroplane.. cnicc piven when an under of Press, on the are the was havoc made of retto nr.d Paul Veronese, ficjal escort ceiling JU.d side wa'ls and cannot be and ruiu in the famous old church of removed. The splendid cathedral win- - the Scnlzi, one of the art monuments ilow around the rrnni council rliam-- r of the world, now u wreck with its nf th Ioccs are bearded up. rMif blown off. its massive walls totwit!i an ouide fhealliin? of panas tering, anil the famous ceiling1 fresco A- a whole, the ftruftur look more by Tiepolo, valued at a million francs, Hie a fortrcs titan one of the art lyinir in heaps of rubbish in the ruins of the buiblin?. There have been mo jumer.ts of the world. raids on Venice, but this wes Mmb The church of Sats Marco, next to and tlie lusionc cnurcn Ilo-the e worst, and the. "... palace in the Campanile . . , , Hi frill britnl tr if. I,nr : i r.: I or lance and ucauiv, js similarly Approachinz the massive edifice stripped like a battleship ready for at'tion. Tiie fotr bronze horses, of one sees a capinz hole in the roof, heroic m?c. rttandin? above the main extending from front to rear. The entrant e. have leen taken down and facade, fronting the Orand canal, is are temove.l far form the frontier. intact, and three sculptured figures Ti Ihvaritine front of ?an Mar- standing alo.nz the coniice remain unthe co's church has been :tven a defen- touched. But back of the ficrures downlino curved a sive armor of heavy timbers, protcct-i- r roof sas away iu acain to the rear the corner, pinnacles and domes. ward nnd then up had some piant handwhole The movable pictures and mosaics of wall, as though out the the interior have leen removed, but reached down and torn the lie re a in the Poces palace many of top of the church, leaving only Mill the rickety side walls the finest art works arc on ceilings front andWorkmen can be seen hijrh intact. and side walls and must stay to take above work of salvage the bejrinnintr th" chances of bomb raids. nnd and repair, heavy timbers arc tr Plaza Deserted. tho paping hole left across laced is which The pla7a of San Marco, by the bomb. tho center of life and praietr in peace Havoc and Ruin. at and almost now is deserted, time, Entering the historic church a At .5 in darkness. shrouded is nii'ht scene of havoc and ruin is presented is front store window and twisted beams and arches, panels and p. m. every min two for heavilv curtained and columns of alabaster crushed into bits utes everv electric li:;!it in the city and lyinp: around in heaps, the richly Ls extinguished, while jcopIe stand in lparvpli pulpit blown to pieces with a warning to keep only a faint outline of its former awe and tlarkr.e ever thinr shroudeil and that the city wonders remaininjr. and above, the lisht platit may be extintuiheil nt roof wide open to the sky. with the any moment. Out in the middle of wonderful frescos of Ticpolo dumped the'sottare are two little "war foun- in hu;re masses of debris on the stone tains.' One run brwn 104 meters in pavement. Faint ed-- es of the grand tlse - round : the other 2S0 meters. Fine old frescos still elinpr to the side fresh water gushes from them. They walls, jrivincr some idea of the beauties are another war emergency, so that if of tho work torn away. Six enormous the regular w.'tcr supply of Venice is arches spanned the edifice meeting in cut off, th"e rmcnrcnpy fotintaitw the middle, and trivinz an intervening-spacfor these frescos. Not a vestize will keep people in water from the deep wells lelow. This water supply remains of the main subjects, the of Venice is a serious war question. visit of the Virgin to I,oretto, hundreds of biblical and the veatcr i brought from Castel-franc,i t went four miles to the north fizures, the razzed edzes and within a few miles of the Aus- - showinz only cloud effects and the 12-ine- 'r, T 4 I f " I ; Ca. pir.ilc Protected. Tami to th farro::tl;? qnare of San Marc. rvt - r.irr-.paru'- f ry-thir- .ir t.kri ;nfri VMir of war. Th Cftnip.vr:i. ne of t!.' th hi'tM, w won.ir? rea'hi:v 'il'd with sar.db.ic thirty a base' tl. a round htzh fet pn?ec. ti? amor azaint txrr.bs. A crat wwi!fn rnck had Wen b'.itll t hlil th sandbar sn.t thv t.vol" a o!i.l watt ter.lv i thick art uul han i i thv E ' prfe:m;s r;inn.ent. All of the farr. rrlief thi armor Wll tower br".r and r::nr-b- n er shut off fron view by the irreat rf anlbaci. b'-.- t the bn;b-o feet, still an oprn r,;ark Thw arrpani!e. ti - till y open to visitors. 15 now rigidly r. d. and th only ones coin? to the top art military observers, wafhm iay and nijrht. It i well this defensive, armor h.vs been thrown around th- - CArptni!c. for one of the Austrian bob-- i has already struck ody -- i)''' ft vt and 3i" fret away. TI I $r- -t trtick on the tor.e quay. .siuartdy between the crnr.ife cdurrn by the wiued lion of San Marco, the emblem of Venice, and the other column with the statue of The ore, patron of th" Venetian republic. ThU bomb did ro-- e a-v- fr . ar-oth- rr Ix-ir.d- topl If it had. it probably shattered the would have eo!u:r.:; and mu'Iit have reat hed the Campanile. The cthr !ml fill in the pram! canal and exploded under water. These (no bond were within fitly feet of the rot explode. pulaeo of the Iop:s. And so th ace alo wa i armored, even more -- ifc VaPij S trills' -- 4 I l,vpr ,liWB?w, is :' -- -- -- ''M-''.'Ci,-;.i'A-; " ---j-- V -i5. V-.-V- V--- '- -, pal- solWauti-fu- f idly than the Campanile. The build inr, ranking with the Alh.i rube recoirni.cd in its bra, would not war dress. A -- oli-l lri k wall ten f t through ha Iwen btult around each corner, thu d'fndii' th.e eulj tnres of Adam and five, which Huskin in of Venice ay are the fin-T- t hi-'Sto- in Kurop. Alt tho oth'r famous !sctj!pturrs are imitrlyTh-sheathed with the front of remarkable Arcade ha brtefc. teen solidly built in with brick, so t t :l: V";-- -. , -, -: -- V""-" -- j ii h Ifs -. an d -- l, - A .TC . - - 1 j1 t rin -- - . ff ' - a" Monuments of the World, C fTss fvv Hfe?i?s"i ? t j-;- ..- - ,t war-.vhip- irj XAa- l n-'- i- Wreck of the Famous Church of the Scalzi, One of the Art ?S!:aA -- -' -- an.l ,w o situ! tn thi vnnlerfttl ct.l of artr the greatest probftlily in all Kurofr, now in the Lcart of the war on ar;l in a $tatf of sirre. With ti)r;;h attarks frrurr.t, ctn! tho encray fnntirr only thirty mil?: away, th llnm! canal lokH totay lik a va.t the wiiIe city ha navy yarI taken on a warlike of irt,jKira-t!f- i -, and f!ffensf. Three hu a'? I in one a flrr alr.ut:htf stvi;t; . V off th" arsenal tl.f rrar.'l ranal on the !fft. A dtrnycr a- nearby Austrian rrafy to I.irt out a. Iitiri from t!ic arnal u.n a hnz captivr hall:i on th at!i that evrn if a lHmh ilefnolihe.l the top a thi faniMii inonnrr.cnt the foundatfor rr,?my aeroplanes. iltriu"iH!c, ion.- are ure to stand for two ;torie It sa i;o a h":. like a Zppeiirj, h it a hmIike rratt, up. Ahove. little , timbers are laced and han'if.'- at an anil with a IIk a a am- - the alierie-t- a lti tt rc-F.m-or Quatre-Foutlie and the- military .;) rver in support. ru!ler, , window-.olid have center? fo irdeaf a J; an trtitv et timbers. At the Jan time, t v. o Itiilian mno- - of contents of the t!i movable ' All i frrvfm S t. ,.)!- f it smit collection of palaetthe jlar.d. cirelinr"1 ovrr the raiuU and . have :t taken to r ThT r.a r;. iren alarm j p.v.ntitr ,r etioti.'h oth and nee r far t.iiits that t,.:!e know the rTPd . . away, ' t oe 01 rrani win n the trom tlie ironiier to thrv were t'rirr.Hv ntrer.ift sort: Have Already Fallen Within Fifty Feet of the Thirty Miles the Grand Canal Looks Like a Navy Yard, TTflNICn. Pro. Bombs lor-fro- ni . t- A I 1 lst . " 1 m-pcrt- ion - be-in- con-taini- e. -- nz alle-zoric- al The and arches crashing upward and type of the Venetian baroque style and hizb altar, with spiral alabaster col- over, while masses of debris settled next to the church of Santa Maria was umns and rich decorations, is not down between the walls. The frescoed' the best example of this style in the touehed. and another curious feature ceiling had disappeared in an in- world. The fresco by Tiepolo, coveris that the electric cnndles circlinz the stant. Particles of the bomb dug ing the entire ceiling, was, of course, church are undisturbed, the electric deep into the alabaster facing the the greatest loss, as next to Titian, bulbs shininz as brightly as ever. But walls, cracking and wrenching the Tintoretto and Paul Veronese, Tiepolo with these two exceptions the high marble pillars and side walls from was accepted as the greatest of dealtar far in the rear, and the circlinz floor to roof. Even the marble floor, scriptive painters and the last of the candles cverythinz is a ruin, frescoed made of huge slabs formed in mosaics, older school of famous Venetian masccilinz. inlaid marble sidewalls, sculp- was torn up in chunks. One huge slab ters. The destroyed fresco was his tures, confessionals, memorial tablets, of the floor covered the tomb of some most representative work and probbaptistry and marble mosaic pavement of the famous Venetians of olden ably the largest. After nearly 300 all lyinz about in fragments. days and this was wrenched out, ex- years the painting was in an excelthe vividposing the tomb below'. The explo- lent state of Monoplane Appears. numthe and of the ness was sion church when occurred the great coloring It was about 11 o'clock in the mom-in- z loss-owork recolossal in the of ber so life no that figures deserted, when the explosion occurred. This sulted. 100 feet acrossgiving it a spenearly was the busy hour, when the gondolas cial interest and value to the art An Irreparable Loss. were crowding the Grand canal, and To the art world the damage to the world. the Venetians were shoppinz and marOnly by chance, too, is it Tiepolo s ket inz- - Suddenly a monoplane was famous old church is an" irreparable work that is d est roved instead of seen in the northern sky, coming from loss. Evervwhercit was known as the baekerround with a few figures. the direction of the Austrian frontier. It was flying very high about 2oU0 meters. People at first did not recognize this speck as an enemy bent on destruction. Soon, however, the steam syren at the arsenal gave a long w ail the signal of warning and the people scattered to cellars and any available cover. The aeroplane was now in full view, heading straight for the big railway station of Venice, the center of a network of railway connections. Just above the station the aeroplane began to circle round and round. Clearly it But was going to bomb meters is at 2500 height the aim, not good, and besides there was mist adding to the difficulties of a sure shot. Down came the bomb people could see it fall but instead of the station, it struck square on top of the famous old church. It did not explode immediately' as itstruck the roof. Instead, it made a clean hole through the roof, and then, shooting downwards, exploded just above and in front of the pulpit. This internal explosion is what caused the terrible destruction, as besides the flying fragments of the bomb and its shrapnel contents, the d sudden expansion of air in the interior of the church literally lifted the roof from the supporting walls and blew it skyward. One side of the roof was bent over to the right, tho other to the left, beams the-statio- eon-fine- Warsaw house-cleanin- ters are similarly represented on the ceilings and Avails of manv of the churches and historic monuments ol Venice, and while paintings can be removed to places of safety, the irescoed ceilings must stay to take the chance of bombs. TJuskin in his Stones of Venice says Titian and Paul Veronese can be judged only by the ceilings of Venice. The sculptures and carvings of the high altar are by another Venetian master, Pozzo, but these escaped serious damage. Besides the destruction of the Scalzi church, the chief effect of the bomb raids has been near the Arsenal. It is clear that the chief purpose of the raids is to reach the Arsenal and the railway station, the former being the chief defensive work of Venice, with large stores of ammunition, while the railway station is a junction for many lines for strategic military movements toward the frontier. The bombs thus far have fallen outside the Arsenal, in narrow side streets, tearing up the streets and riddling the houses, hut not causing much loss of life. The canals are everywhere and many of the bombs have fallen in the water. The nearest approach to the famous Campanile and Doges' palace was a bomb which fell midway between the column bearing the winged lion of Sun Marco and tho column of San Tlieo-dorboth on the Piatzza San Marco, but this bomb did not explode. A t'other bomb fell in the Grand canal just in front of the Doges' palace. Both of these bombs, which fortunately were harmless, struck within 1(Q yards of the most famous monuments o, in Europe. Deems to Like tli e Ckange (Continued From Preceding Page.) ure to comply with the 'new regulations. Even the schools were discovered to be disease breeders, through the medium of teachers who were sick. Great as the shortage of instructors was and is, many had to be forbidden attendance on their schools in order to check epidemics. A thorough g of hospitals, schools and houses throughout the length and breadth of Poland was immediately begun. Smallpox was the worst thing with which the Germans had to combat. They found an epidemic of it that ran in a northeasterly direction and which was checked only by the vaccination of between 400,000 and 500,-00- 0 persons. The epidemic is broken now, but the vaccination of all the population is impossible, because of a lack of personnel and of vaccine. Typhus to a smaller extent existed, principally in Lodz, where strict German methods were introduced. Cholera was prevalent along the right bank of the Vistula, practically all of . mas- which has been stamped out by this been shot and the hospitals have beei time. To prevent the disease from supplied Avith the very latest and traveling into Germany via the water most effective hydrophobia preven- tives and curatives. . Since the German medical forces not only must handle disease, but also prevent it where possible, the strictest possible watch is kept on all foodstuffs. A bureau has been estabGermany. lished Avhich maintains veterinary Such hospitals as existed in Poland surgeons, examines- slaughter house-an- d were in part destroyed when the Gerprosecutes purveyors of impure mans arrived and the latter had to foods. erect- new structures in addition to In order that needs might putting the old ones in commission be supplied, the existing ban in again. Some 200 hospitals, six disin- Germany on certainexportation medicaments Avas fecting establishments, each capable lifted and Poland today is in a poof handling 12,000 persons daily, sition to receive all that it needs in fourteen smaller institutions of the the pharmaceutical line. Pharmacists same sort, and countless improvised in Poland are required to list all sterilizers have been built during the their supplies and speculation in such past few months. supplies has been reduced to a minimum The Germans found an astonishing by heavy penalties. number of mad dogs, wdvieh appar'German hygiene," declared the ently had acquired the rabies by star- physician in charge of all the Avork vation and by feeding on the stagnant in Poland, remains as a heritage to remains of food not destroyed by fire. wiiaiever go erjiiueuu LUives ciuirgr.. Many soldiers were bitten and in- We have established a basis on which fected. Dogs by the hundreds have others in the future can build.' cholera prevention stations were installed all along the Vistula from Warsaw to Thorn. Only infected wounded prisoners not far enough advanced to give evidences of the disease have ever carried it into route, - 1 |