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Show uu CATALONIA BUILDS SUMPTUOUS PALACE BARCELONA. Nov. 11. The new palace tindei construction here for the King is expected to be sufficiently advanced ad-vanced this fall to permit 01 Its official offi-cial inauguration by bis majesty n the presence of the queen and the other members of the royal family, and the representatives of all foreign nation accrdited to the Spanish court. With the exception of the palace in1 .viaurid which Is regarded as on.- 01 ;thc largest and finest in Europe the .royal residence presented by Catalonia I to the reigning family will be the most IsumPUOUS in Spain. It contains four j floors the ground floor for the Installation In-stallation of the kitchens and stores; the first floor for the office, reception recep-tion and guard rooms, chapel, ordinary ordin-ary dining-room, antechambers and thorne room, the principal floor for the royal living and sleeping rooms; and the top floor for the domestics and other attendants. Knurnious interest Is being taken in (the building of the palace by (fvery class of folk in Catalonia. Notable Catalan artists have undertaken to Ideeornte the various apartments, fur- nlsiiers to provide the necessary fur-; niture. rugw ea v,-rs to supplv tli" car-( pet, crystal workers to Install the hanging lamps, librarians to fill the library, musicians to glv,; the music. These voluntary gift are estimated 10 I be worth over a million pesetas.' The future royal seat is being built entirely of materials produced in Catalonia Cata-lonia Itself, the Idea being to make it, .a permanent exposition of the manufactures manu-factures and products of the region. When their majesties come fur the formal Inauguration, they will already I bo able to make iioir temporary resl-, resl-, donee in the hew palace, but the work cannot be complotd in all its details until the coming spring. Advantage Is to be taken of th-presence th-presence of the foreign representatives representa-tives to make official announcement, Of tho universal electrical exposition of 1925. |