Show I 1 iv in I 1 ats 1 N 0 ua it x I 1 i fa Z gate of the lion seville spain prepared by the ho N national a dional society agton D C CI spain latest R republican among ancient monarchies to cast ast off royal traditions can best ace be visualized through its leading cities for it was the spanish urban dweller not the peasant of the countryside country side who kept aliv alive e the long fl fight lit for political reform first F in importance comes madrid the capital it Is strikingly modern in many aspects it quite upsets upset the geography students mental picture of a typical spanish city for madriss Mad blad rids city planners long ago gouged broad straight streets where narrow tort tortuous bous byways once ran and low red roofed houses whose emes nearly met over overhead herd I 1 have given way to modern structures now and then an oxcart ox os cart from the rural district rumbles toward the market place dark eyed serio seno rilas ritas in in mantillas cantillas man tillas and brilliant colored shawls venture in iii the streets beside coped swains with gay vests and trousers and bull fights still are popular pastimes but madrid for the most part Is a bit of aaris london and new york set down on in a spanish plain within eyeshot of medle medieval viii castles and within a hundred miles of toledo and other more typically spanish cities and towns subway trains roar over a network of tracks beneath madriss Mad rids streets CrUs cruising Dg taxicabs are at the visitors beck and call huge motor busses may be hailed to take him to a neighboring city over paved roads and modern cars of more than fifty tram lines with mall mail boxes attached course the city streets cables that carry the human voice and the tick of the telegraph key to all the capitals of europe have recently been placed underground an underground sewage system and an underground water supply system carrying sufficient water to enable street cleaners to wash down the streets several times a day assure public health shop windows like those of fifth avenue display the latest fashions from london and paris radios and electrical equipment from american fac factories bobbed hair shoppers trip from detroit made automobiles the national sport when the bullfight Is on abarge a large part of madriss Mad Alad rids sporting population still flows toward the ring or toward the newspaper bulletin boards for minute by minute reports just as americans gather about our newspaper offices watching play by play a worlds series game recorded on an electrical I 1 baseball diamond Ilo however wever the movie with the lie names of holly woods celebrities em blazoned in electric lights and on gaudy posters also enjoys the hie popularity of amusement seekers numerous parks and playgrounds have been laid out new subdivisions lanc risen above the surrounding plains and the city fathers are busy tearing down the old old and and building the new but with all the charges changes the puerto del sol the co called hub of the city remains the center of everything that it was a century ago Al mingling inglIng with the city folk are stocky basques from the pyrenean can country ruddy skinned gypsies olive live complexioned individuals from the south a sprinkling of frenchmen englishmen italians and a few representatives from nearly all other european countries and america one of the spokes of the hub leads to the royal palace the palace yard has long been a public park und and playground where throngs of men and women strolled on royal walks and children plowed garnes games madriss Mad Slad rids oldest pages of history are newer than of its spanish lip 11 II chose it as the spanish capital in when hen he sought to satisfy the various races of spain Sar saragossa gossa was aragonese burgos was castilian Cast llian toledo was as and cordon and seville wore were moorish from a city of about inhabitants it has steadily gron groin until it now is almost us as large as Clev cleveland elaud ohio madrid Is the geographic center of spain and in the same manner that dot all the main avenues of washington from the capitol building so in spain do all the principal railways radiate from madrid to the chief cities on the it Is always a nights ride in the sleeper or a hot days journey on oil the gapido trains from almost every important city to another point on the opposite side 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 eyes and but very few could go through madi id and resist the temptation to stop for at least a few hours so perhaps little harm Is done by the alie lack of through trains next to be considered is barcelona so individualistic listis that it long has threatened t to 0 become the capital of an independent catalan state Barce lonas life may be sald said to be dominated by the rambla lathe the cites chief avenue for several blocks along the rambla hambla the curb stone is lined with ith open air shops flower shops emit the scent of violets roses and lilies until the stroller pisses a doughnut list fish or toasted san sandwich dIeli booth there ther e are booths of professional letter writers magazine stands with a corn line of periodicals and lot tery tickets stands where women can buy bay silk stockings and other wearing apparel and stands of bird sellers whose warbling merchandise is concealed in tiers of cages in the street humanity 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 red sash and red and white handkerchief tied about his neck and the uniforms of mer from perli perhaps lips a dozen different countries add color to the throng the bullfight bull fight tight arena accommodates about spectators and on sunday afternoons every seat seal Is occupied the remainder of the cites inhabitants throng the well kept promenades and parks harks back to middle ages barcelona Is modern in appearance although the port dates to the second century and ranked with genon genoa and venice in medi trade in the middle ages the spacious harbor into which the phoenicians Phoenicia ns sailed balled in quest of new peoples with whom to trade and which columbus triumphantly entered after his return from america now Is pierced by long modern vh wharves arves each accommodating several large ocean going vessels at a time the old quay now well paved Is lined on its inner side with modern buildings and a promenade flanked by two to rows of palm trees occupies its center the old part art of the city once surrounded by a wall still has some ot its canyon like streets many so narrow that the wheels heels of carts nearly serape scrape both curbs as they pass and balcon balconied led windows of bordering buildings nearly meet but many of these crooked lanes open into ade wide streets for in tance stance the aforementioned rachla which bisects erts the city from the harbor northward Is a tree lined boulevard and the site of the old wall now is a park culled called the one can walk in this parkway from one end of the quay through the center of barcelona and back to the other end of the quay among lowering low erinn hardens gardens and under shade trees the rondo konda fred fre opens into public squares one of which Is the plaza de cataluna the hub of barcelona litre here trams automobiles busses and wagons running into the square from a dozen directions are bewildering to the pedestrians who crowd upon numerous surety zones but the appa apparent reut traffic tangle seems not dot to alarm the well ell trained barcelona traffic olli officers cers one has to watch ones step in the plow hut hilt when the Arneri american call gets a chance to talie take ills his eyes olt off the strict he be Is greeted with two huge signs that make him think of home one advertises a popular make of american automobile and the other Is that of a lanz lini runee ilage school w alch Is w ell known in nil american cities barcelona barcellina Barc eliina has a magnificent gothic cathedral catli edril a many historic churches add new buildings s of the pine pate barcelona school tf of architecture the lines lilies or of illel Ill ll simulate e ocean wines wiles but the outdoor life fire of the lie inhabitants Is the line itne of the spanish city |