Arizona republican., 1900-08-27

great age have survived the neglect to
 which they had been subjected. But ft has required the planting of no less than 30000 new trees. including eco palms, in order to carry out the plans
 of the landscape artists designs. pre-
 pared under the personal direction of the queen.
 The entire cost of the work has Teen
 defrayed out of the queens private fer!
 tune It is her gift to the Spanish na-
 tion. and, closed for the past ten years
 to all save the laborers engaged in the
 work of laying out the grounds, it was
 not until the Sunday preceding the de-
 parture of the court for San Sebastian
 the other day that the queen gave
 sort of monster garden party to signal
 ize the completion of the undertaking
 and the inauguration of the park.
 The royal commands" met with al- most universal obedience. For every
 body was curious to see the change that
 had been effected in the Campo del
 Moro. and when the regent, the young
 king and the princesses arrived at
 o'clock they found assembled every
 body of note in the royal town" of
 Madrid. Madrid. strangely enough, al
 though the capital of Spain and the
 seat of both court and government, ranks officially as villa" or town and not as a "ciudad" or city.
 In the suite of the queen regent who. 1
 as usual, was garbed in gray silk. !
 trimmed with priceless lace, was the
 young French Duke of Montpersier. ] sixteen years of age. and who. arrayed in the natty uniform of naval cadet of the Spanish navy, made his first ap- pearance at the Spanish court He is | the hope of France in so far that owing l to the childishness of his elder brother. | the disreputable Duke of Orleans. he is ! heir to the latter's pretensions to the French throne and on the death of the Duke of Orleans will become chief of the royalist party in France.
 Strictly speaking, the title of Duke | of Montpensier should have been inner ! ited by Don Antonio, the only son Of i the late Duke of Montpensier. and now ! separated husband of the Infanta Flu | lalie. But the dukedom in question is ! a French one. and when. at the death | of the late duke. his son was called | upon to choose between his rank as a l Spanish prince of the blood and that of | a French prince of the house of Or leans, he selected the former status. whereupon the Montpensier duksdom | was assigned to the younger son of his . sister the widowed Countess of Par.s.
 In order to understand how Don An tonic comes to be a Spanish prince. it must be explained that when the h. fanta Louise of Spain married the late Duke of Montpensier (son of King Louis Philippe of France) at the same time that her elder sister welded Don Francis of Bourbon. everybody was so convinced that Isabella's marriage would remain childless that a decree was enacted conferring upon the lat Duke of Montpensier. as well as upon the children that might be born to him. the rank of infant of Spain, and as members of the sovereign family Of spain. Of course, when Queen Isabel la. contrary to expectations. gave birth to number of children, thus cutting )lf her younger sisters offspring from it was too late to repeal the law making them infants and infantas of spain. That is how the widowed Countess of Paris. mC,her of the Duka of Orleans, is a Spanish infanta. and how her brother, Don Antonio. is an infant
 Now that Don Antonio. by his judi -ial separation from Princess Eulal.e las virtually closed the doors of Spain against himself. he must regret that he lid not choose the status of a French prince. rather than of a Spanish one. |
 The young Duke of Montpensier. who inherited most of his grandfather's vast fortune. needless to say. dozs not inherit his mothers status as a msm- ,a, of tI,a rpy-a1 Ip11sa of Sspa in and is purely as an act of kindness and courtesy on the part of the queen regent hat he is allowed to receive his train nG in the Spanish navy, precisely in he same way that Prince John of Or cans was trained in the Danish army, he Duke of Chartr6s in that of Italy. he Duke of Orleans in that of Great Britain. the son of the Duke of Alnncon md the boys of the Royal Count Eu, in he army of Austria Hungary. In al owing the Duke of Montpensier to erve in the Spanish navy. the queen 'egent marks the distinction between himself and his cider brother, for she esolutely declined to permit the Duke f Orleans to join the Spanish army. ither in the last MoOrish campaign or n the war against the United States. The young duke seemed to be on eXcal- ent terms with hls cousin, King Al ,hOnsO.
 The Escurial will eternally be associ- ted with memories of King Philip IT, AranjueZ with memories of Philip " "a Granja with Philip V; so in the anne way will the Campo del Moro ark and lovely garden constitute to ( uture generations of Spaniards a sym athletic memorial of the blameloss and | dmirable Queen Regent Christina larquise de FontenOy in Washington ( lost. s
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