The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-07-05


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ers. Above its heavy altar hangs the
banner of countless Spanish victories,
and under its pavements many celebrat-
ed persons are buried, including Gener-
al Prim. General Concha. the first Mar
quis del Dnero, Castenas, who was
created Duke of Bailen, for his victory
over the French at that place: Navaez,
and scores of others revered in the mil
itary annals of Spain.
Secure a position toward the end of
street, but not too near the chapel door,
about four o'clock on Saturday after
noon. and you may witness the passage
of the royal calvacade to its devotionS
The young king. slim, blond YOUTH
now in his fifteenth year, generally rides
with his sisters in the last of several
open carriages, the others occupied by
his relatives and officers of the palace
Possibly in one OF the closed carriages
may be the Queen Regent. but if So
she is not visible behind the drawn black
curtains. The body-guard with their
shining helmets. snowy plumes and blue
and white uniforms, the sunlight gilt
tering Oh their drawn SabreS, make a
gallant show AS they gallop by on
Thoroughbred Arabian horses: while the
footmen and outriders. wearing powder
ed wigs and iveries of gold and scarlet
increasing the shining pageant, amid
the :'Nivas,' of the people and the
music of the military band rendering
the Ilymno \aciOnal inside the chapel
The royal palace at Madrid is con-
ceded by all authorities to be one
OF the most beautiful structures in
the world and certainly none occu-
pies a more superb situation. over
looking the entire city the royal gar
dens along the dry river-bed Of the
ManZanares and commanding a view of
the Guadarrama mountains. often COW
cred with snow. eternal summer Smil-
ing at their feet. 1t occupies the site
of the .Alcarzares, which date from the
eleventh century and We're destroyed
by an earthquake. Another palace was
erected here by Henry ", enlarged by
Charles ", whose successors, Philips
H. and II embellished and finished it in
truly royal style. On Christmas night,
in 1874, fire consumed the splendid edi-
fee. with all its countless treasures:
and then eXtravagant Philip V. deter
mined to build upon its ruins a struc-
trre which should throw Versailles and
all other palaces completely in the
shade. 1t was twenty-seven years in
building and the mere shell cost up
wards of five million dollars. You re-
member that the great Napoloan said
to his brother Joseph he made
king of Spain in lS0S-''My brother
you will be better lodged than | am. -
The material employed is snow-white
Carrara marble and the main building
extends 40 feet each way, with an inner
court yard 240 feet square, rooted with
glass. 1t is 100 feet in height, contain
ing three Stories,-the lower massive,
the upper ones lighter, with Doric and
Ionic columns. A wide cornice runs
around the top, over which is a stone
balustrade, whose pedestals are crowned
with vases, in place of the clumsy stat
ueS that formerly ornamented the rail
Oriente some years ago ON account of
their weight. The southern facade has
five noble entrances to the patio, which
is surrounded on all sides by an open
portico of arches. The second gallery
is enclosed with glass windows, and
doors open from it into the royal apart
ments and the magnificent chapel A
grand staircase of black and white
marble ascends to this gallery. In the
court are statues of four Roman EN-
perors, who were natives of Spain-Tra-
On the first floor are thirty salons, with
elegant French furniture and marvel
lous frescoed ceilings. The most pre-
cious marbles are lavishly used in floor
ings and doorways, and once the walls
were hung with glorious pictures, which
are now mostly in the museum. That
queer king, Ferdinand VII, whose
special hobby was clocks, had the pic
lures elected in order to put up silken
hangingS. There were multitude of
clocks of all designs and nationalities,
the hated French predominating When
Charles V. fell heir to the palace and
its treasures, he had the clocks packed
away in the cellar, wittily observing that
if king could not make any two clocks
go precisely alike he need not expect to
make mems brains think alike. When
the grandfather of the present king ac-