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SAINT MORITZ 



1904 commemorated the acquisition of Louisi- 

 ana Territory by the United States. In 1914 

 a great historical pageant was given in Forest 

 Park, and was attended by more than 100,000 

 people. The spectacular parade and ball of the 

 Veiled Prophet, which have been held annually 

 in October since 1878, attract large numbers of 



rs to the city. JJ>.L- 



Consult Spencer's Story of Old Saint Louis; 

 Stephens' Saint Louis, the Fourth City. 



SAINT MARK'S, CATHEDRAL OF, a church in 

 Venice, named from the patron saint of the 

 Mark, the apostle. The first church on the 

 was built in the ninth century, when the 

 supposed remains of the apostle were brought 

 to Venice, but this structure was destroyed by 

 fire, and in the tenth century a second was 

 built. Originally this second church was a simple 

 structure, in plan, like the modern one, a Greek 

 cross. Gradually alterations were made and or- 

 namentation was added, until it became what it 

 ,_d a y one of the most gorgeously beauti- 

 ful buildings in the world. In the days of the 

 republic of Venice there existed a law compel- 

 ling every merchant who journeyed to the Orient 

 to carry back something to adorn the sacred 

 edifice; and the building as it stands is practi- 

 cally a museum of art. 



The church faces the Square of Saint Mark's. 

 In form, as stated above, it is a cross, 250 feet 

 from east to west, 170 feet in greatest width; 

 over the center there is a dome forty-two feet 

 in diameter, and over each arm a smaller dome. 

 In part the style of architecture is Byzantine, 

 and the little cupolas resemble the minarets of 

 a mosque. Five porches which open upon the 

 Square of Saint Mark lead to five doors, over 

 the central one of which are set four colossal 

 horses of bronze which were brought from Con- 

 stantinople in 1204. 



Within the church, the decoration consists 

 chiefly of mosaics, set in a gilded background. 

 The vaults of the ceilings are comparatively 

 low, and these mosaics, with their exquisite 

 color schemes, are easily seen. The chancel 

 en is crowned with marble statues of Mary, 

 Saint Mark and the Twelve Apostles, and vari- 

 ous statues of marble or of bronze decorate 

 other parts of the church. At certain seasons 

 there is displayed the wonderful altar screen, 

 accounted one of the most beautiful pieces of 

 gold and silver work in the world. It contains 

 hundreds of precious stones. 



Previous to 1807 Saint Mark's was merely the 

 royal chapel, but since that date it has been 

 the cathedral of Venice. 



Consult Ruskln's Stones of Venice; Goodyear's 

 Architectural Refinements of Saint Marks at Ven- 

 ice. 



SAINT MARYS, a town in Perth County, 

 Ontario. It is on the Thames River, and on 

 the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific rail- 

 ways, twenty-one miles north of London, and 

 ninety-nine miles by rail southwest of Toronto. 

 Saint Marys lies in an agricultural district, and 

 its principal factories produce agricultural im- 

 plements, dried fruits, butter and cream. There 

 are large stone quarries in the neighborhood. 

 Population in 1911, 3,388; in 1916, about 3,700. 



SAINT MARY'S RIVER, the stream which 

 carries the surplus waters of Lake Superior into 

 Lake Huron. It is about forty miles long, 

 and forms a part of the boundary between On- 

 tario and the Upper Michigan peninsula. A 

 number of islands divide it into two main chan- 

 nels, each of which expands into several lake- 

 like bays. Near the upper end of the river are 

 the Saint Mary's Rapids, where there is a fall 

 of nearly twenty feet within a mile. To avoid 

 these rapids canals have been constructed, both 

 on the Canadian and American sides. Though 

 sometimes called the Saint Mary's Canals, these 

 are better known as the Sault Sainte Marie 

 Canals (which see). The rapids furnish power 

 for manufacturing and are crossed by a railway 

 bridge a mile long. 



SAINT MAURICE,mawr'is, RIVER, a river 

 of Canada, lying entirely within the province 

 of Quebec. It rises in a chain of little lakes 

 near the southern part of the province, flows 

 for 300 miles in a generally southeasterly di- 

 rection, and empties into the Saint Lawrence 

 at the city of Three Rivers. For about twenty 

 miles above its mouth it is navigable, but at 

 that point navigation is interrupted by a water- 

 fall 160 feet in height. Above the falls there 

 is a stretch of seventy-five miles navigable for 

 small boats. The scenery along the entire 

 course, and especially in the falls region, is 

 beautiful, and the stream is important as the 

 means of transportation for the logs cut in the 

 forests about its source. 



SAINT MORITZ, mo'rits, a famous resort 

 and watering place in Switzerland, 6,037 feet 

 above sea level. It lies in the upper part of 

 the great valley known as the Engadine, and 

 is the highest village in the valley. Its per- 

 manent population is less than 1,700, but both 

 in summer and in winter this is largely in- 

 creased by the health-seekers and tourists. In 

 the summer the visitors come from many parts 

 of Europe and America to benefit from the 



