Show UR A ra CY ax die 5 it took mo me front from the gay holly boll hod q 5 ind other eng english lish gir den flowers ol of the kaiser hind hotel early one morn ing tov towards ards the end of to see that famous pink city which a math minded chief jai singh 11 II caused his architects to la Is out in rectangular blocks with straight wide streets crossed creased by others at bigit angles about the time england was lev developing eloping her monopoly of the slave trade and long before an one of the modern american Amerl cau cities had bad been planned writes A II if fisher in ahe illustrated london news I 1 had come at last to or the country of 0 the chiefs n here the pureblooded pure blooded raj put clans maintained their ence under their jovn own n chie Kalns throughout the times of mohammed ian dan occupation after the final break up of the 1 mogul empire they the were saved from destruction at the hands ot of the harithas Mari thas by accepting brit ish supremacy and its territorial guar antee and of the numerous states that ot of jaibur Is politically call one of the three most important it Is slid to hive been founded b by ahola rao from about 1128 enclosed by wall the or tiger rort fort crowned brov ned a purple hill to the left ot of us for the city ot of jaibur is surrounded by hills on an all sides but one we passed the tw two 0 store ed gray house ot of the Mahara maharajah maharajahs Mah arajah jahs s chief advisor adviser a lu batic asylum and several ch charteris chartr artrIs ls or cenotaphs of former maharajahs Mahara labs jahs NN white liate marblo domes rising irom from carved pillars among acacia like aru trees in well tended gardens on the walls nails of which peacocks were w ere sunning themselves es A crenellated crenel w wall all encloses the city which we entered by that one odthe seven gates called chand pol or moon door with turbaned cen gentries cent rles tries painted one on each side of it bear ing rifles with bayonets fixed each on a different shoulder tor for the sake of sm symmetry metr in the artists design As we walked forward three corpses were ere carried past us tor for the plague was then heavy upon jaibur in spite of its vater works and countless mod ern improvements commissioned by a lavish maharajah Mah rajab arajah with B ive ideis itose ot of the inhabitants of 0 jaibur alos tl center of trade and linking banking firms are hindu but in the courtyard court ard of a house bouse close bv sat a group or of edans someone has died there these are friends met to read rad some ot of the aphorisms of the koran ibe plague deaths in the city were vere down to 64 yest yesterday yeater erda dai but the have been a hundred per day this was mas ikley fly the roal princesses had left the jaibur p ilace and had gone out to stay at amber preferring a dead city to i city of the dead the pitiless sun only laughed end turne turned d a tree that hung over one wall nall of a red sandstone hindu temple into a ca baade cade of quivering golden erem greLl the long line of taiN tawdry dry pink colored house bouse fronts glow to a lim lam bent rose and caught every turban to brilliance ind and ever everi garment to precious raiment at jaibur the sun marks time on ol tile the larfa cst st sun dill dial in the w world orld with p gnomon 75 feet beet high this is 13 in tile the samous amous constructed between 1718 rind 1734 by the ma jal jai aln li II 11 alrea dj referred to as tile the founder of the city idich was as n lined after him in nith tile the custom of ana tests ut of his is recorded and the conclusions ho he drew flora aiom them have entitled jal jai to lank as among he areat astronomers he construct ad d a series of tables from his own ibsen aalona made throughout sev BOV n jcarl cara at allf rent observatories ind and compiled comp ired them anith the ruest bibles of dela hire among his acts was nas an order tor for the trans lation of euclid 3 elements the treat aises on plain and spherical trifono metri and napier on tho the use rise ot of 10 lo into sanskrit Sins lint Stin standing ding ng in the tile circumference ot of tile the dial I 1 could see above aboe some pink dwelling houses the clock in the pal ace tower which is regulated ted by the old dial there was a great stillness about this grass grown gronan enclosure and its gigantic instruments mst list cups hollowed out of the round ground huge arabs circles and tho the 12 the houses of the each containing a little painting of its celestial landlord lind lord beautiful sculpture it Is but a short wa na from the observatory erv atory to the gay palace of the maharajah Mah arajah with its painted cou courts arts clr is rooms over rich in gilt mirrors and modern furnis furnishings birgs I 1 its Is fine hall ot of audience and its lovely gardens it here that close to a tree of 0 jachn kachnir ir in full bloom 1 I came upon the tomb of a pet dog whose memory bad been honored with inith a sculpture caned in black marble and protected ba h a dome topped marble kiosk mun raghunath said that the i dog doe had been loved loed tor for his extreme obedience and there was a tale of some gold bangle lost in the famous royal roial billiard room and restored by the dog to a despairing owner it was a graceful monument in ful surroundings and a great contrast to that gray crowd of unpleasing lit tie tombstones in the dogs cemetery near our marble arch in london I 1 had heard of another and more famous piece of sculpture in that gar den and asked to be shown gobin dal said to be one of the most beau alful of the carved figures of brought here by the maharajah Mah arajah mon singh it Is apparently treated as it if the stone has quite corporeal needs for said munsel raghunath sabel true he lives at the bottom of this garden ile he has his hours sometimes ho he has just taken his food and sometimes he Is sleeping just now he be sleeps so you ou are not able to see him we balked on between grapevines 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the large white building of the albert hall it contains a durbar hall ball and a rich and ne well 11 dl displaced pla ned 7 collection or of examples of indian and industry indu alry at his bis bungalow not nr fir away I 1 hid tap ahr pleasure sure of a chat ith yakub sahib chimbel if sir binton lacob the veteran engineer ind architect oue one of the ver vcr few eng englishmen who hive have riot not flown from india when white hilra hars came |