Show I American Venice VeniC Ito to Forego Canals VENICE Cal Dec 11 it AP The AP-The The The network of canals canals which gave this beach resort its name nam twenty years ago Is to be sacrificed to the demands demands de de- mands of progress City trustees have order ordered d the waterways filled and transformed Into streets because of the increasing increasIng increasing ing need since the development of the automobile automobile- for more parking space and owing to the gradual movement of Venice's business section section section sec sec- tion over the district traversed by bythe bythe bythe the canals The city was founded about two decades ago b by the late Abbot Kinney Kin Kin- ney who hoped to mal make e it the Venice of America and accordIngly accordingly accordingly accord accord- laid it out with canals re resembling resembling resembling re- re those of its Italian proto proto- type Connecting with the Pacific ocean at Playa del Rey the canals wind windor windor or 11 er miles q through the tie residential residential residential district under causeways fashIoned fashioned fashioned fash fash- after those of Venice between palm palm bordered bordered banks into a large oon aj east of the a It series of electric railroad tracks that mark the boundary of the present present pres pres- ent n t business section In 1906 the Venice amusement zone zona centered about this body of water but in ensuing years it gradually gradually grad grad- moved toward oward the beach to cluster on and about piers that jut ril 11 hundred feet Since their Inception the canals have been used exclusively for pleasure boating with moonlight voyaging over ovel the placid placed waters A miniature railroad which at atone atone atone one time surrounded the canals and afforded a It survey surveyor of their beauty at night was constructed simultaneouslY simultaneously simultaneously simul simul- with Ith the waterways but was removed last year as another Impediment to progress The new streets will connect with several leading to Los Ios Angeles which recently annexed annexed annexed an an- this city |