Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-10-31 | Page 4 | Venice, the Commercial

I VENICE THE COMMERCIAL It i is customary for some people to talk about V Venice enic as old and infinitely sn sad to think of ot it sitting alone meditating ing Ingon on its r past 1st glori glories s and all the time the tho great transformer steam has bas been at work changing changins tho the landscape and its people to the now life of a modern world The visitor wh who lives in one one of tho tha hotels on the Grand hand canal will probably never wholly think of of Venice Venico as other than a I show city a tourist city where travelers from all over tho earth come cometo cometo cometo to wonder Sn Su eh h a person will never nover realize that Venice today toda is a n. modern port pmt To realize this iu fully lr one should live for a time on tho the where one ono will see the cit city a magic background back back- ground for all the ships snips of the tile earth For lor or a time timo Venice Venico was a backwater Her ancient glories as queen of ot tho the Adriatic had hart departed from her but the rutting cutting of the Suez Suc canal canale gave pavo e her ber back her position In the Giudecca there thero is always a n. wash from tho wake wako of the big steamers coming from the ports of the cast coming coining from England bearing coal and and nu from other countries grain an and aDd food for the factories ant and workshops of northern and eastern eastorn Italy The Tho making of delicate lace and the blowing blowin of fra fragile are arc tho tho- industries indus tries that one naturally a associates with Venice o. o On the Giudecca canal h how boss however over ever t tho to e work vork of g the the big steamers go goes s on Over by br tho the Marina they h are aro building not gon gon- dolas lola but big iron steamers and if you live li there ber you must look at the white domo demo of tho the Sal Salute tit o through h tho trailing smoke of tho the steamship stack And this aspect of Venice has a special ape ape- cial beauty and why wh should one one shut one ones one's 8 e eyes es to it itt There is one thing certain that the more your Jour our life is cast to brin bring you in touch with ith the tho people of Ve Venice ice who work the more you von will understand Venice of today Marc Marv l Yo Vorse Vore e- e in iu Harpers Harper's Magazine for r November I