New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-31
TEN DAYS IN SPAIN.
MADRID.

xy;,hort the customary warning OF enVlrons' WIN
. -.monit,ons of human existence louno "yeo''
~, into the capital Of Spain, which seems TO nave
S.sr dropped into the middle Of PLAIN law iee'
hove the level Of the sea- for no better reason ''
.onoruity The eternal fitness oil things uio NOV p
80 the founding of Madrid. How could III
su' - tbo divine right of kings The dirty sta
49,, Looked as though il had been put mp temporary
uo" hfore and didn't intend 20 be of any more
". IN II eeuld help. The day being FESTIVAL
W. a, 81 neasants stood about waiting 10 go INTO
going into the country meaning 'Isl'-
'"N ~ rscorial and Illuminating over the bones "
80 phi1n the Second. They eouid ho' w !"
- 90 trees because there are none ihiiu-'i''
,aosencers. packed like saIdines, MOVIE" DC 'n'y w
,ovtod and addressed the multitude III 'o'o'i'-
eoa,;uan AT fret thought they were oie"h'@'''e "
,ovoIution but | soon discovered u'a' 'n'' WV
merely insulting lookers-on H., 10
U,rr,irg away. we were driven TO the ho'ei NC
por;s in the Puerta del Sol square "uion i' az
,,,,ob the center of Ma&rid as Madrid is 'no ''"'
At sna;n. All roads lead 10 It, and "ha' oo'e nv
Io,,ooD tbere IL not worth happening at all ol' !"
,ho cafs under the Hotel de PARIS and SPAN WIZ ~
yolye around you, particularly at o0o'" -.
morning Tbeu citizens begin to feel Tue oii'i'1n
.n affects of countless cigarettes and innumerape
ga. m. breakfasts at l p M, takes sleS'a Oeioio
.one 10 the Bull ght at g. drives afterward' dines
- ? .nd later begins business. There are 'noso
ahect enough TO retire at night and rse IN the oi
no They are shopkeepers and secretaries o' "s"
,;o,, uossossed of conscience Conscience emuI"'es
She lark IT rises early.
I,vae m Madrid eating real breakfast thousands
Of miles from home, and MOI knowing soui ""'
nod come fort To look Spain IN the lace' anu soe
castelar, Az ate pondered, and as pohdeieu
ate handsome Italian 0arsOH< STOOD py' anu VIC
discussed Spain in Ia HHgid del 81. Ihe ho'eI-lhe
,o.t On the country-is kept by an Italian. and his
mos, faithful servants are cOuntrymen. what dld
Che oay.oae think of the republic "Ah, SIgnora,
what would youf The Spaniards are ignorant ana
ernel They are not republican Nobody that see
wants arepublc. Everybody wants something else;
but ~ all are Quarrehng among themselves, senior
CASTELAR, maintains his position. tie is a good man.
n, writes fine books and makes beautiful speeches;
hut tbe end of it Will he that we shall have king.
lam sick oft all and Idlike TO 90 TO America where
people are intelligent and the poor have chance to
rise" This was at eleven o'clock in the morning,
Wben wondered what should be done first. -Four
hours later all the rough places were smoothed out
by kind Americans. To discover people il far more
delightful than to discover things. If more money
were spent on human and less geographical ex-
pIoratons the world would be a deal happier. What
,ynpathv can Won extract from the North Pole or
Tie sources of the Nile Both throw cold water on
Won NV discoveries will be entirely confined TO
people: and because of such discovery five hours
after breakfast was driven to bull-hght. ought
not to mention the fact ought to have been too
vIrtuOus to 90. But as American cergymen visiting
Spain always attend bull-bghts, making the self
,acr6ce in order to warn Their tecks against them,
j had no scrupes might assert that was actuated
by the noblest motives; but think my real reasons
were curiosity and desire to see Spain in her glory
If her glory be that of the slaughterbOuse TO the
slaughter-house will go-onee
II was the feast of Our Lady Of Sorrows What
more fitting than a bull-6ghti Everybody by the
name of Dolores and everybody by any other name
less bitter filled the sunny Streets all Fastening
much as their nationality would permit, in one
direction. There was startling unanimlty of
opinion. There were no two ways about 1t. Ii the
Spaniards could only as cordially about gov
.rnment as they do about a bull-fght, the world
would Vaze upon such happy family as never yet
reared in menagerie. Alssi unanimty among
SpaBiards means butchery-either of horses. bills,
Cuban students, or Cnban patriots The taste OF
the InquisitiOn still remains in their mouths.
Making our way through the human Understanding
III the Puerta del Sol, down the Gale de Acala
across the Prado deserted even by dogs through the
Fuerta de Alcala we slowly drove and stopped at
she Plaza de TorOs We were welcomed by regi-
ment of beggars-all in their holiday dirt, the
women bearing their holiday babes--ready to hold
the horses doors that did not need to be opened
show us TO our entrance relieve MS of our pocket
books. and pray for our salvation. ! saw more in
teresting cases for surgical operations than gladden.
professional eyes in American hospitals from
years end to another. saw more iilthyi children
being trained mp in the way they should not go-to
Z buli-hght or anywhere else-tban would have sup
pied ragged school.
But enough of beggars is as good rs a feast of
tthCe-seekers, and finally succeeded in mounting
very rlekety stairs and seating ourselves in box
excellent for sight and sound. We were thIee-a
Rhode Islander Yorker, and it may be super.
fuous 80 add, myself felt proud Of my company
They did credit TO their country and their SEX
Their sex not mine. If the eyes of America
had fallen upon them she might have exclaimed, as
did Cornelia under similar circumstances These
are my jewels~ First, / saw q great wooden circus
open to the sky, with one row of boxes above an
smphitheater below. and an immense ring separated
from the amphitheater by a barrier and an alley
about five feet wide. Then / saw 1900 Spauiards
the men wearing civilized trowsers and chimney
pots, the women occasionally varying boDne;s with
mantillas There no effect of color saving
such as was produced by the waving of cheap
and badly tinted fans ntha part of the circle ex-
posed TO a blazing sun. Everybody appeared ex-
cited and cries of Agad. asuaw added to the pam
demonium. The Spanish thirst for blood is diluted
in water. a most unusual European beverage. Per
hsps Spaniards steep themselves in water because
there little of it in the country. Human nature
f. born perverse. Thanks TO that wise forethought
~
dried up most of the streams, Spain is arid as
Anar;oa will he the nresenf suicidal forest de-