Show madrid Is T s hub b T 0 of modern M 0 dern spain spa n now up to pate with little of traditional span ish flavor 1 t washington s hant an A bloodless revolution in spain I 1 madrid hns just witnessed passing assing ait of the military directorate of th L b last two yo years ars its replay replacement el I 1 kimt by the civilian government find and a all I 1 I 1 with the calmness and dispatch of on nn american business con coil corn orn recovering from a receivership madrid Is however a thoroughly modern el city IY with very little of tile the tr traditional flavor of ol old dSpain spain and with ith nearly till all tho luxuries urles and conveniences of other E european ur and american capitals says a bulletin frondi the Wh washington ington headquarters of tho aitio national geographic I 1 e society leti with a background 1 adt of line buildings wide streets the waters liters educational and scientific insel tiit hit Ioney lonH anu and rands and anaf railways reacel reaching ng t to 0 every part of the kingdom it la Is easier eagler to understand why madrid should today follow 6 a moderate co course urse in governmental procedure subways and boulevards visitors who go by tho the fast direct trains from I 1 paris aels t tp p madric Madr lc and ex hect to ice see alo colorful cos tunes 1 and 1 ad striking architecture one usually associates chates with the life of the country arc a re disappointed in capital city madriss Mad rids streets swarm with motor trucks and aai pleasure cars underground brejwo aro two By stenis ot of speedy subways w nys connecting the railroad stations and the tho principal suburbs of the city its boulevards resemble thoo thoc of parl anil and with their bordering t and imposing hotels public chops and in place of tile alio poncho and sorn bom brero the visitor will mid the tailored suit and straw lot hat of a hustling business man of tho the new york stamp tile tho latest carls creations make it difficult to distinguish the spanish cenora and senorita from their latin aisters in parla havana anti and buenos A alarca ires tho languorous strum ieng of th the ord nn alle cukor the castanets if they could be bc i found off the stage in ih madrid would f today oday 6 be e drowned by the incessant whan lc of of its importunate taxis madrid Is the youngest of the 9 great root cities of spain it owes its present importance to political creation until the middle of the sixteenth century it was waa nn an obscure little village of sunbaked sun baked adobe houses clustering around the former moorish outpost called 11 II seeking at till tills I 1 s time a capital for his bis newly united spain rejected one by one the lie aragonese CRY city of saragossa Sara goasa t the he castillan Castl llan burgos attic th e toledo and the moorish cordova and seville rit was in the exact geographic 1 cl center anter of the kinat kingdom laib it had and n no sectional ties so philip declared it tb alio a unica corto corte or royal its name naino to madrid with hardly any of the natural advantages that contribute to rapid growth 31 Mad adrias rids early days as a ca capital were its as troublous loua and uncertain ns a those of our own national capit capital nI excepting its central location madrid btag as denied by nature of almost every suitable condition for a 11 metropolis it perches on oil an elevated elein ted steppe in tile midst of a filst rolling plate plateau ati bleal aleal and tr treeless ecles about a half mile above sea level two hundred feet below it winds the insignificant river man za narles rles while the surrounding tracts tire are unproductive except fur for s mail quantities of corn another element clement to be reckoned with in madrid la Is tile climate still suddon changes chonge of weather often bring great extremes of temperature within a short time tho city grew slowly but sten steadily dily stimulated by royal encouragement and subsidy and gradually began to take a part in the lifs life of spain outside the realm of f governmental activities madriss Mad rids real prosperity and nat national tunal importance how ever dates dales from tile lie construction ot of railroad systems system it it Is nov cow tho the greatest creat cst railroad center iri id tile country and would probably figure as a 0 greater international crossroad if the spanish lines lind the same gauges gaug es as those of the rest of europe largest city wealth industries and population have conio conic tn in tho the wake of tho the railroads aronds madrid with more than so SOO OW rest resi dents Is 13 the largest city in spain vine burls purls have been laid out over wren berren hills wide tree lin lined ed st acts ta have pushed into tho the suburbs to anle till e care of additional homes anti and buildings they have done ft great deal to take away tile the impression of barrenness some say they hey have even mitigated tile tho heat beat of if summer irrow from the puerto del sol tile brond way and forty second street of siad rid ten streets radiate carrying ii a network of surface anti and subway lines to every part of the city los acsa than lindt a mile away Is tile I nulo rildo a 0 boulevard lined alne buildings and from live to el eight rows rowa of trees rees along this bromena promenade 10 which Is one ot of tile tho show streets of the world Is tho the museum of the same name containing a collection ot of art which rivan that of the louvre madrid also tins lias one of the largest hull rings in the lift world its plaza ilas a de toros modeled after tile roman co los seats people bull fl how efte lias tits fallen from its high estate tn in bt atti today and spectators tire for tho most part tho the sporting element anti american tourists |