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22 December 1903 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Tuesday. 22nd [December 1903]. Directly after lunch I went off to call on Mme Pezzè Pascolato to settle with her about the Blue Cross Society wh she & I hope to found in Venice for the encouragement of help to the sick, nursing &c. We agree that our first object shall be to have a boat for the transport of the sick & she undertakes to make all the necessary preliminary steps & to let me know. There is already a Blue Cross society at Naples begun by Dss Strongoli so that ours is to be a branch of it. I hurried home where I found Cav. Marzollo waiting to accompany us & the Prinseps to Murano to show us the actual factory of the beads we saw yesterday at Madonna del Orto. Another Sr Barbon (brother to the Sindaco) received us and showed us every thing beginning from the furnaces of molten glass—to the finest & smallest bead. In one place women in picturesque attire were sitting with sheaves of coloured canes of glass in their hands wh they were sorting into packets of different sizes– What is so attractive about the whole business is its cleanliness—no coal used only wood fires & the glass made of white sand & other clean ingredients. Sr Arbib took us afterwards to see an old Palace he has bought for himself & a charming garden & casino on the point at the entry from Venice where he intends to put shops for the new V. Murano Co works– | |
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