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Show NICE EASILY TOE GEM OF THE RESORTS OF EUROPE The Most Beautifu: Spot of the Mediterranean Is Here Carnival One of tht Recognized Joys of the Season One Grand Round of Ecj ryment for All in the City. (Special Corresoonrienrp " Situated at the foot of Mt. Albano, with a fortified castle guardir g it, is Nice, one of the most beautifv.l cities in all Europe, the queen of Rivierian resorts. The foothills that slope up from the sea to meet the offshoots of the Maritime Alps are shaded with de la Gare, and at. 2 p. m. the cavalry caval-ry began to make way for the procession, proces-sion, of oars and masqueraders. , This imposing cavalcade was repeated in the evening, starting at 8 o'clock, and was the largest, most brilliant one that has been seen in many years. ' 5 r' ' " ' ' ' Pyramid Erected in Memory of Qambetta. thickets of olive trees, and the tropical tropi-cal plants, the palms and brilliant flowers that bloom all the year in this land of perpetual summer, make it, indeed, in-deed, as someone had called it. a fairyland, fairy-land, a second Garden of Eden. Nowhere - along the Riviera does the Mediterranean seem more be."nf ful. Just "above Nice is the principality principal-ity of Monaco and the city of Monte Carlo, and all along the nine miles of roadway ' skirting the cliffs between the wonderful turquoise-blue sea caresses ca-resses the rocky cliffs that ' jut out "here and there into the water, the whitecaps sparkling like silver in the brilliant sunlight and the yachts skimming skim-ming over the bay looking like white-winged white-winged birds in the distance. The carnival of Nice dates from 1821, but was recognized in 1873 by a committee of gentlemen who have taken for their motto, "Pleasure and Charity." The first fete of carnival had its formal opening in the grand charity ball which was held in the Nice town hall on. Saturday at 10 p. m., the dai.o-ing dai.o-ing continuing until nearly 6 o'clO'''-i on Sunday morning. And because a was given for charity, no one thought of Sabbath-breaking. It is inde 1 The following day came the second battle of the flowers, and on Tuesday the second carnival procession, which "is the principal one of the fetes, and when, after the battle of the confetti, the prizes were awarded. Fifty thousand thous-and francs in money and banners was 3 ' er. j -fta fiiccosci'iii competitors, f.25,000 to the large and small car6 in proportion to their merit, f.8,000 to four cavalcades in proportion of their merit, f.3,500 to donkey riders, f.5,400 to single maskers, f.5,900 to groups on foot and f.1,850 to illuminations. illumina-tions. The decisions of the committee commit-tee are without appeal, and are awaited await-ed with breathless Interest by thous. ands of people. In the evening there was a grand display of fireworks and burning of the carnival with torchlight retreat. This was followed by the second veg-lione veg-lione at the opera house. The children's fete comes April 13 and 14, and this is as interesting as any of those preceding it. including battles of flowers and confetti, a parade pa-rade and ball, So, with all these attractions, coupled coup-led with the fact that the expense of a winter's residence in or near Nice s - . t 'ti " In the Cemetery. thought, in this city of pleasure, any-: thing but breaking the seventh day.: On Thursday His" Majesty King of the Carnival XXXI arrived with his luillialit' Vufte'and" 2tt"8' p.'m." Sunday was scheduled the fete on tie avenue is not more, and in most cases really less than at American winter resorts, if is small wonder- that every year ! finds more American residents in this j wonderful "Dream City of the Medi-I Medi-I terranean." |