Show wit 0 V P I 1 E M gate of the lion seville spain by tho the national society washington D c spain latest R republican among ancient monarchies to cast olt off royal traditions can best be visualized through its leading cities for it was the S spanish urban du dweller eller not the peasant of the I 1 countryside mho he kept alive tile the long I 1 fight for political reform first in importance comes madrid tile the capital it Is strikingly modern in many aspects it quite upsets the geography students mental picture of 0 a typical atypical spanish city for madriss Mad rids ally planners long a ago go gouged broad straight streets where narrow tortuous byways once ran and low red roofed houses whose eaves nearly met overhead have given way to modern structures now kow and then an oxcart ox cart from the rural district rumbles toward the market place dark eyed senoritas seno ritaa ritas in mantillas cantillas man tillas nod and brilliant colored colore a r shawls alq venture in the streets beside swains with gay vests odd and trousers and bullfights bull fights still are popular pastimes but madrid for the most part Is a bit of parts london and new york set down on a spanish plain within eyeshot of medieval castles castle sand and within a hundred miles of toledo and other more spanish cities and towns subway trains roar over a network of tracks ber beneath leath madriss Mad rids streets cruising taxicabs are at the visitors beck and call huge motor busses may be hailed to take him to a neighboring city over paved aronds and modern cats cars of more than fifty tram lines with mail boxes attached course the city streets cables that carry the human voice and the tick of the telegraph key ICY to all the capitals of europe r drope have recently been placed underground an underground system and an underground water supply system carrying sufficient clent water to enable street cleaners to wash down the streets several times a day assure public health shop windows like illie those tho so of fifth avenue display the latest fa fashions salons from london and paris radios and electrical equipment from american factor les lea bobbed hair bair shoppers choppers trip from made automobiles j the national sport port j when the bullai bullfight lit Is on a large part of madriss Mad rids sporting population still flows toward the ring or toward the alie newspaper bulletin boards tor for in minute 0 by minute reports just as americans gather about our newspaper offices watching play by play a worlds series cries game recorded on in as electrical baseball diamond Ilo however wever tile alie laople la ovle bilth the names of flolly woods celebrities emblazoned em blazoned in electric lights and on gaudy posters also enjoys the popularity of it amusement mu seekers numerous parks and playgrounds t have ben been laid out veir new subdivisions have risen above the surrounding plains and the city fathers are busy tearing down tile the old and building the new but with all the chan changes geso the puerto del sol the so called hub of t the city remains the 08 center of everything that it was a century ago mingling Z with the city folk are irocky basques froni the pyrenean country ruddy skinned chinned gyp les olive individuals from tile the south a sprinkling of frenchmen lIngl ishmen It italians allans and a few representatives nearly all other european senta tives from countries and america one of the spokes of the hub leads to the royal palace the palace yar yard has has lon long g been a public of park and playground where throngs tuen and women strolled on royal kg and children played games madriss Mad rids oldest pages of history are bewer ewer than those of its spanish neighbors rs philip 11 II chose it as the spanish lie he boug sought ht to sat capital in 1500 when tofy afy the various races of spain sargosa was cast casall burgos was aragonese ian an toledo was as and cor lova dova and seville were vere moorish from inhabitants it 4 city of 0 about in bal k steadily grown until it now DOW Is cleveland elaw LI ohio almost as large as Clev madrid it is tile the goar geographic aphia center of spain aln and in tile the same saine manucl thin that nj of all avenues the main lr aate from the capitol building 6 0 12 spain do nil all the principal railways radiate from madrid to the chief cities on the coast it Is always a nights ride in the sleeper or a hot days journey on the hie gapido trains from almost every important city to another point on the opposite side bide of the country generally arrive in madrid a few minutes too late to make the connection focus of spanish eyes of course the capital Is the focus of all spanish ees nail and but very few provincials could go through madrid and resist the temptation to stop for at least a few hours so perhaps little harm barm is done by the lack of through trains next to be considered in barcelona so individualistic that it long has threatened to become the capital of an independent catalan state Barce lonas life may be said to be dominated by the rambla the cites chief avenue alvenu e for several blocks along the rambla the curbstone Is lined with open air shops flower floser shops emit tile scent of violets roses carnations and lilies until the stroller passes a dou doughnut libut fisli or toasted sandwich sand nich booth there are booths of professional letter writers magazine stands with a complete line of periodicals and lottery tickets stands where women can buy silk bilk stockings and other wearing apparel and stands of bird sellers whose warbling merchandise Is concealed in tiers of cages in the street humanity la is so thick that it Is difficult for traffic to pass the rambla Is not only a shopping district but a meeting place a loafing place and an employment office the spanish sailor with his bis red sash and red and white handkerchief tied about hla his neck and the uniforms of merchantmen merchantman merchant men from perhaps a dozen doze n different countries add color to the throng the bill poster looking tor for a job Is singled out by the long pole with brush attached which lie he carries on his shoulders and no one could mistake the public porters whose caps look like turnover rolls with tile the folded side over the forehead harks harka back to middle ages Par barcelona celona Is modern in appearance although the port dates to the second century and ranked with genoa and venice in mediterranean trade in the middle ages the spacious harbor into which the Phoenicia ns sailed in quest of new peoples with whom to trade and which columbus triumphantly fly entered after his return from america now Is pierced by lung long bodein uba tt hanes res each several large ocean go 90 ing lck assels sels at it a time the old quay now well paved Is lined on its luner inner side with modern n buildings and a promenade flanked by two rows ot of prim palm trees occupies its center the old part of tile the city once surrounded by a wall still has some of its ita canyon lIke streets Bt reels many so narrow that hat the wheels of carts nearly scrape both curbs as they PUSS pass and balcon balconied led windows In dows of bordering buildings nearly meet but ninny many of these crooked lanes open into wide vide streets alts for instance tile the aforementioned rambla nai ulila which bisects the city from tile the harbor northward Is a tree tined lined boulevard and the site of the old wall wal I 1 now Is a park called tile the hondas non dils one can walk in tills this parkway from one end of the lie quay through 11 ll the center of barcelona and back to the other end of the quay among lowering flowering gardens and under shade trees the ronda frequently opens into public squares one of which Is the r plaza laza de cataluna the hub of 0 barcelona here trams automobiles busses and afons running into the square from a dozen directions are bewildering to the pedestrians who crowd upon numerous safety zones but the apparent traffic tangle seems not to alarm the well trained barcelona barcelo no traffic officers barcelona has a magnificent gothic cathedral a university university many historic churches churi hes museums and new buildings school of barcelona or of the pure architecture the lines of which simu but the outdoor lute ocean w waves aves Is the lure ot of life ot of the inhabit inhabitants auto the spanish city |