Show Artistic Europe has received a shock They are funning gondolas now In Venice by electric motors That makes all the artists of that country get on the Bridge of Sighs and sigh for the glories glo-ries that have passed away Think what those old chaps that used to gather gath-er on the finite when all the merchants mer-chants of Venice were merchant princes would have thought had some man from a foreign land come up ono of the canals In a gondola run by electric elec-tric motors Thr gondoliers In despair would have declared that St Peter was dead and those merchants would have said What manner oC thing Is this If this canbe done with gondolas It can be done with great ships and Venice Ve-nice will cOasc to be the worlds commercial com-mercial center It ceased to be that long ago but possibly the motors themselves them-selves may bring back part oC the splendors which made that city famous for so many years |