Show rm nn rrt SEEING SPANISH CAPITAL UNDER ROYAL PATRONAGE l HN u Special Madrid June bit of bIart bearing the royal roal crest which the thoughtful kindness of the quest queen provided has h proved an open sesame m ot of greatest tat value Before It Il all doors dOGre however looked ud and barred Ar open U b by magic mallo ud and ont one glance at t the sentence scrawled across It it face by br bythe the klags seduce the most unaccommodating custodian to abject servility Ily Its aid Id we have obtained Inside view of oC many things that are denied to the roYal panton wherein the dead dad Jill kings of Spain have been holding their silent court for centuries the throne room private library and nd picture gals 1 ItrI of living all 11 the tress uses u of antiquity In the royal Innon the House noue of and nd even the rarer privilege of El EI Congress d de loo In session HIlon The TAt beet bait time Ume for to visit th the palace l I between 10 and noon on any ny bright morning Then you may witness the ceremony of guard rd mounting see lee the crack regiments of Spain at t their evol evolutions and hear the royal band which I Ii said aid to be one of the finest In the Ule world At pr 10 oclo k th the band baad marches kilo Ino th the courtyard and up the marble stair staircase cue case between the couchant lion Hone pl plIn play In log martial al airs then stationing them themselves selves Iv m In the upper corridor outside the private privat ro o oms of tile the imperial family proceed to give en an hours hour concert worth coming far to hear the great t patio below le II thronged with and tourist ladles Idl and gentle gentlemen men of the coulx and gorgeously uni uniformed formed put peas u up and down the stain and anet vigilant sentries patrolling everywhere preserve strictest order even over the ole ot of the crowd which must oil no account be raised railed high enough to reach the rooms above When the tbt musical program le la con can eluded the bud band marches away y u as It came while SQUADRON OF CAVALRY and nd equa square of infantry man In Inthe the open apace before the palace Everybody ringers to pt get I a glimpse of the tbt youn kin king u b he goes cote out for tor hi morning constitutional Two or three carriages dash duh up to th the mla main entrance or a richly caparisoned horse bo IS I led b by grooms Troops Troop form a living lane and stand motionless all as statues bl his pleasure Presently a tall pad lad ve very straight and and nd bent on nn looking eve every Inch Inh a king despite hi his only fifteen com comes down the followed by a glit glittering II train or of officers Bowing right rbt and left to hll future subjects he seat himself lit In the foremost carrl carriage or lightly Into the saddle never before he be clatters daUn war away to turn back and nd kiss hi hand at t a certain tain veiled upper window behind which he knows that his bl mother and sisters are all standing Whatever r tau faults It and Ut the futuro fu future turo ture king of Spain ma may have bave fallen lallen heir belr to tf It Is II certain that he I Is a must mOlt dutiful ful sona eona trait not due to heredity It if history Is II true The throne thront room mom of Madrid Real I is Ii a truly trul ap all ull In crimson and gold old with exquisite alabaster column and dOor deor or of precious marbles Colossal mir Ir tOrt lint line the wall between lon long win down hung hun with lace and crimson damask the of each window Indo worth a courtiers courtier fortune as fortunes fortuM are rated In these post bell n I day The ceiling ill Is painted la in allegorical re ta lion of the tbt majesty of ke of 01 her kings king and the of her people tOple somewhat portrayed In the a apotheosis ot of T Tand anti and the Aurora and abd from Ute the esil s depends u an enormous chandelier of oC to romp crystal cryltal which Is the Angst example le of Its kind In existence At Atthe the fu far end of the apartment on a low flab under A gorgeous corMUI gold velvet canopy are two great t chairs hI d lomel carved arved and gilded and upholstered In minIOn crimson brocade These ere are the J OF SPAIN wherein tb the b kI la and hll hl mother mothr Pit It tin on loDl of most mOlt they look their hard stuffed slippery seats to too high from frum the floor for the feet Ceet of elther to h touch bottom without hassocks Hual Is II everywhere but not a hint of r lili lik t a nw or home How bl 1 and lonesome It meet hn hut t I tI the girl bride ut of the late bat d s II who diM died 10 o young and hr her the present queen qun from the gB gay or r end Ind I lees of If A great ral many marble and an oil x s table with on them art are taut th Ih rom lout but n no th re b Ing n notI n r any its fw few 1 ern H 11 ar air le III sit II In th ii n nf t f I ly Iy carved a are with rarer meat or of It the Huen Buen ware WaN made at Madrid b by the th artists whom hum harlot ill HI brought with him from th h ot of sate aJ dl di Monte al 81 huge lilli eases niu ld figures and of Jt flowers a J especially lIy being considered the most mOlt re 11 remarkable examples ever made of their style of art There Thol are nu no pictures on th the walla except a few 1111 ugly portraits portrait of oC royal roal many r busts of century the most mOlt beautiful of which are two head of the ions IOn of Agrippina looking down upon the spot Ot where dead kings and queens queen II lie In state tt before their royal I to the The windows of this historic room overlook the dry river which the native say r runs runa bottom side Id up and aDd beyond It its sleep gorge e stretch the woods wood of CUll Cua del Campo then rugged steppes and foothills to the Icy whose whOle sharp outline seems to cut the bright sky It All Is I harsh barren and Ind colorless Yet not devoid ot of a certain stately grandeur How THE MAGIC WAND of the Moor would have terraced all 11 those ragged Io el and clothed them with lIb flowers owen and nd verdure and raised hanging gardens ardent and fountains fountain In fn Imf tallon ot of those on the declivities of the Alhambra which are rt aU all thou though nature herself henelL la in lab b beauty aut Occupying an immense traCt bate bare of trees the palace is II directly d exposed to winds wind from the snowy na and aDd In winter Inter Ii Ie often so bitterly cold that Ute the Motile are almost Rosen Despite all their royal splendors the poor kIR and qu queen of 01 Spain shiver shivering In ing in ID these vast nt draughty apartment with their marb marble e Soon and no decent heating apparatus are rt not half hlf so 10 corn COlli u the servants In our ordinary State Stat It seems but a natural step from this bode abode of royalty rolt to tn the last lut rest resting lall ing place of Spanish kings though the Escorial I la thirtyfour kilometers northwest from Madrid b by railway Its Ite location le II admirably chosen consider In lag the purpose for which It wu was de designed signed both site and structure heln being eminently typical of 01 the gloomy gloom spirit ot of II 11 Standing just Juat under th threat the crest reat of the icy y Sierra U its mUll massive wall and towers looking as al If he hewn b by Titans from a single block of tone stone the Stat vw view or of the pile pro 1 a feeling ot of depression In the mind of th the visitor which fro grows apace pICe la in the gloomier Interior until It Il de develops Into a case Bile of the blues Rarely indeed does dOlI th the gun un ever ver thine upon its towers tow white the leaden Ik sky the entire absence life lICe and the bare ba rock desti destitute tute of the slightest trace of vegetation harmonise perfectly with the sombre and nd frowning aspect of this place of tM the dead Think what a victim to hypo El EI must have bave been to choose lu such li a site for lor his hll home bome In all the sunny land Ind of Span Spain Ills object WU w as to crry CottY out bf be will wUl of oC his h father in constructing a royal burial place and at the same lame time to FULFIL A VOW made at t the battle of San Ian Quentin Aug U 10 1161 1117 when hea lit M Implored the aid Id of it Ian Sur who bo wu was broiled overa over Ovel Allow a glow pre by order of Me Ito the building whose Correct title I ts EI Real de d San Baa Lorenao del Escorial the letter word supposed is 10 derived from the or dro dross of at very ancient which still exa lit It there I Is at once oace a temple a pale palace a treasury a tomb and a museum un um unlIke lIke Ike aD any other In ID the world Begun Belli In tW thousands of laborers thirty rean to tn bUild It at a cat of about million dollars dolla The Th plan plu planas as everybody knows d fashioned aftel a gridiron the Instrument ut of Lo 10 and th the gate sate lure III hi b by an any sort of orna oma a a b befitted the abode aboM of those h strict the Geron friars The central point of In ID In the Escorial is II it superb u an or ordinary cathedral ud and more In effect by ree rea sat of the of its grand pro proportion portion of the four plan pillars which the dome contain a cha chapel tl ot of sip to accommodate an any eon n IIi in Salt BaIt Like Ik City On Oa either elde ot of the altar Itar are re kneeling statues of harks V and nd II with their In glided browse elaborate vestments with the arm of oC 9 aln and la In mosaics of 01 o ous stone Most I t ot of th the dW dee of nt the altar and the Iv In its awe d ur or stolen by tie the but from the few that remain soar Id Idea ma may be gained or of the Uti f value III of tho those that disappeared The Ill chapel chapelot ot of the E more holy rel I Ice 1111 than any liny other church Ita in Christen dom dam All told th there are lour four thousand eten hundred nn and tw of them and many have hae n written I tWill them and the Ih b C the tIR lave They Tiler lea an pen bodies or of saints and mar martyr n and enough h skulls and odd bo bone to tn a grave yard ard The most venerated are kept In ot of solid gold old and there tho tit cat Inferior sanctity In caskets tit of I r The taher noel bruk a into inlo bits 11 by the Fr m h 1 I r th ft not I tit of a famous tn t h SPENT TEN YEARS In the work ork It was al In the term ferm ot of n A double Grecian temple and wu was cum m of nl gold 1101 and wit k s t I with I Slid arid ruby ot of size IU and beauty Back DacK of oC tM the altar Itar ar are the three rooms In which Philip II fur fr fourteen king half monk boasting that th the foot tit of a mountain h he govert ed l the l world both old 11 1 and new with keo wo of paper Th The rooms room I which lust all as hI he left hem are small mall lb very scantily furnished the I ot Of common eel brick The I u of th the monster we wea were a termination of hi hs career tormented orm f feW year by the lout gout pis disease at length became 11 a dell that he had no 10 rest by da day or Finally at Ida tala own request h he way w 1 laid ld upon the old cold damp bricks of the flops and here bere he died for when th the attendants wished to 10 carry cart him back lG bt bed It 11 to 10 todo do so During the last al eight aPt weeks ot of othi hi his lit he was a forced to lie m In on ono P II In delirium hs bod body covered red with ulc ulcers hi pallet Swarmed with vermin while the monks who had been III hi chosen and nd Were yOK 10 lit a applied the onlY re the they knew of ave v anti and many m ance and nd pra even ordering or dering t I r fresh b lu supply pl of holy 01 from Rome a rib of the blessed St 81 Alba lint all to 10 no purpose After a that lasted three lon long dI days hardly time enough to recount all hi his king ga up th the ghost hOlt upon lp flour Or In hl his sores and nd vermin while the ton tones of 01 the organs were We l through the chapel aisles allea and t lIol were chanting th the morning mass massBy a aBy By tl t of and net In shade had ot of reen n aM an yel yellow el ellow low bR descend to the v va lt It of the kl and queens of Spain The Ih cham I la octagonal oal only feet teet I IA and high blah and 14 hued with ALACK MARBLE TIle The trance takes take up the whole ot of one OBI sige td the altar n th r leaving scant ecat I for lor sarcophagi ere rf ot of axially alIke each MCh tt with lIh the name of Its oe l Ip gilt petters This Thle Ie a solely for monarchs who ho laMe have sat upon the Spanish throne their or of whams wham during hi his or her life time se 11 hots ta Ys urn In which the remains are areto areto to be nally deposited The stern eti etiquette queUe quette and Ad precedence of the Spanish court I even In the grave v Thus Thu the I late queen first wife of cat jUil III father having died with without out I eves U placed In one of the Ihl to 9 the left Idt of the altar The royal roal Il II Iles directly the high altar W that tbt the Illustrious dead rna rest s f nr near all as to the host Prom file t center cf r the dO cell call cellIna calling ing Ina hA l s a n k chandelier which I pa never lighted the Ibe IbeO O of s ro ml U 1 burial burlI They tell u us that ht 11 in Philip 1 IV opened the urn of f hI Y V amt found lound hit hie body to tn bt be perfectly perfect I Two hundred and andI Attlen r IR star la the Ule of 01 I the he revolution It again and a paint painter I er Mst 1111 nl made a sketch lit of v It Afterwards It wu sou photographed and aDd today you may buy the gruesome thin thing at II a book stall ot of Madrid In the street of San Geronimo for tur three pose forty cents eDtl In our money From this dark hole you ou gladly mount the stairs to life and ad sun un again In At the first break braak In the stair stairway wy way I is an Iron door leading to El 11 Pant IOn eon dt de los loa tomb of those Spanish prine princess who did not attain to 10 the dignity of the crown Among them lie Ie several queen of at France Spain and Portugal as 81 well QI as such warriors warrior of nf high degree u Do Dun Juan of Au Austria Emanuel Philibert Duke of Sao th the victor at San Qu Quentin and th the Duke Duk of Vendome natural son lion of Louis XVI who commanded Ih the Spanish armies during iN 11 Wet war Of The Span lards speak ot of this as al ll 11 the putrefying place a name which you think I is wf well applied d as you yuu pa lase the door Ioor with fingers pressed to nostrils and to It its horrors horroll I come at lat last the proudest of Spain grandees rand FAl FANNIE WARD |