Show REJOICING ON ONEVE I EVE OF WEDDING I I 0 Spanish Pe pl l Given Free Rein to Celebrate Nuptials of Their King SCENES ALMOST BARBARic OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT 1 Madrid y AU Spain Is r rejoicing on the eve of the w of King l 1 toso a and Princess Victoria and aDd the thi asp p ba hn not seen such scenes of enthusiasm durl during the present To Tonight night the whole cit city Is aglow with fire fireworks works and electrical 6 w while le lethe the streets are thronged with dense nas of AU All the central points paints from the Puerta Del Solto to the Pardo are literally packed As the decorations and illuminations take on their mo most t hind hues It Is a motley throng with touches almot SI moat wrapped r in flowing robes and with red ned turbans ns on fin their heads dancers per perform performing form forming their festive jota fr from m Cordova and Se Seville IP herders In red velvet and nd tin tinseled led gold with r representatives of clergy clugy and hordes H or hUed blind beggars gf singing ing the mel m music of Spain At th the corners bands pia play for street dancers The mu has baS i giren ren free fre rain to the popular popular lar s The schools schoola and lUId public In Institutions have been n closed and the whole hAS given iven itself up to coin rating heating the kin 5 marriage Marriage Contract Signed The chief events or of today we were the k kings s reception t tt the foreign envoys in eluding the cf cc the tRe United States bind And the signing of the we wedding contract The latter ceremony mony took place at the Pardo palace in the presence of Premier Moret and the oU othOr r e cabinet inters rs with Ith the solemnity a great l tate atte ceremony affecting the future sue suc cession to t te e throne ne neThe The witnesses for Princess S Victoria were i Sir M Maurice urlce Bunsen the British ambas ador at Madrid Polo Bernabo Bernabe the Span Sp n nish ink ish ambassador at London woo who was the Spanish minister to Washington when the thear thear ar between Spain and the United States broke out Lord Hugh Cecil Marquis De Be Viana an intimate of King Al Alf f nO and Marquis De Be The for the king v He Premier Monet Senor nor Maura Manna former president of tM the council General former premier General Montero lbs former premier the Duke of Sotomayor chief of the royal roal palace the Do De La 1 Mimi cb chief f of the royal hunt General Pacheco chief of 0 the royal halberdiers and the MArquis Dt Do Borja dant ge general l these representing the statesmen n nth th the royal roal the army and the nobility income of The marriage contract apPEars tonight ts n th the Official Gl tte Article gives Yes the bride an annual income of and anel andin in the event of tM the kings death MMe itiS In Article Z S Victoria ren Y all ri right ht of lJ succession n to the British I throne The otier articles relate to the I Preceding the signature of the contract the Spanish journalists to King Kine Alfonso a golden pen with which to sign the document The king laughingly ac accepted the gift declaring that ho be always had Aad defended the Spanish press resa against V V criticisms Many r receptions were hoid Jd tonight among them those at the British embassy t to the Prince of Wales ales at the Italian embassy emoy to the Duke Duk of Genoa Jit at t trman the German embassy to Prince Albrecht of Prussia at the French embassy to Gen General oral eral and at the AmericAn k Jo gation atlon to Special Whitridge e The latter reception was attended by many prominent es in diplomatic and cowl court circles |