Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1892 — GENOA THE PROUD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GENOA THE PROUD.

The Home for Many Years of the Great £olu tn bus. The fact that the United States is going to celebrate the discovery of this country by Columbus has awakened a new interest in that great man’s life.. Every incident in it is traced with religious care and every place associated with him is of importance. Of all the places, however, Genoa, associated with Columbus’ early life, if not actually his birthplace, is most interesting from the slight change which it has undergone since that time. The city is built on sides of hills sloping down to the sea and covered with gardens tilled with dark green orange trees, while still further back the mountains rise lightly into the air. From its tine harbor the city looks extremely grand and well deserves its Italian name, Genoa the Proud. In reality its streets are na-row, tortuous lanes, impassable, m 'St of them, for any vehicle except a hand cart. On either hand high buddings tower aloft, many of them tine architecturally, but the ettect is - spoiled by the narrowness of the street and the consequent gloom. The city boasts many splendid palaces, magnificently constructed of finest marbles, and adorned with paintinrs and smlp ure. These are rented to travelers or turned into hotels. The v< stibules, often adorned with marble

are thronged with booths of petty trades-people. The city has lately erected a monument to Columbus, and his house Is preserved by the government. It is in a narrow street, the end of which is filled by the venerable arch b'uilt to resist Frederick Barbarossa several hundred years before Columbus’ birth. The lower part of the house is boarded up, and the whole place is in very bad repair.

MONUMENT TO COLUMBUS AT GENCA.