Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-10-14

Madrid, the CaplUal anu SGCOuu
city Of Spain, contains over 500, 600
inhabitants. 1t is situated in the
northwestern part of the province
of Castillo Nueva New Castile.)
The old section of the city is to the
south and west of the new section.
In the former may be found the
narrow, winding streets that we as
sociate in our minds with oriental
cities. Here too are the old build
ings rooted with thing and having
the balconies where the senOritas
tand to say "Buenas noches' to
their lovers or to hear them sing
songs with the guitar accompani-
ment. In the modern section are the
broad, straight streets such as may
be found IN Paris or New York.
Throughout the city there are
numerous ''puertas" or open spaces,
sometime formed by great num-
Der of winding streets coming to-
gether, and s )metimes by the widen
ing of boulevard, thereby forming
a square, a circle or an oval. The
most important of these IS the
Puerta del Sol which is Oval-shaped.
1t is from here that the principal
streets (calles) and street car lines
(tranvias) of Madrid branch off.
From here goes the broad Gale de
Alcala toward the east past the
Grand Hotel de Paris, the building
of the Equitable Life Insurance
Company, the Bank of Spain
(Banco de Espana,) the palace of
the Minister of War and the Parque
de Madrid. Toward the north the
narrow Gale de Montera goes past
the building of the New York Life
Insurance Company having on its
front in large letters the words LA
New York" In this building are
also the Madrid Offices of the steam
ship company, La Compan1a Tran
satIantica. The narrow Gale de
los Recoletos leads to the northwest
where it soon comes to the Puerta
del Santo Domingo from which also
many streets 60 in various direc-
tions. From the Puerta del Sol
there go many other streets too
numerous to mention. To the
north of the Puerta del Santo Dom
lingo the Gale de San Bernardo
goes, past the Universidad Central,
to the city limits.
The Unive1sidad Central or Cen
trail University consists CT two
buildings one of which covers an
area Of two blocks while the other
covers only one block, Both
buildings contain three stories and
are of red brick.
Where the Gale de Alcala passes
the Banco de Espana and the palace
of the Minister Of War it crosses
the Boulevard or Paseo de Castel-
lana. Walking to the northeast
along this paseo one soon reaches
the Plaza de Colon where may be
seen a statue of Columbus holding
aloft in one hand a sword, in the
other a globe. Below it is the in
script1On.
"A Castillo y Leon,
NuevO mundO do Colon"
''To CASTLE and Leon, Columbus
gave a new world" Two blocks
northeast of this the pas9o crosses
the Gale de Fernando del Santo.
If one should turn into this street
here and go two blocks to the north
west he would see to the left q four
story stone building, covering a
half block On a shield over one of
the words ''E Pluribus Unum." In
the vestibule there is a card bear
ing the sign-''La LegaciOn de los
Estados Unidos de America" This
is the United States legation where.
during Office hours, one may find
Mr.. Cantero, secretary Of the lega-
ton, Don joaquin, assistant secre-
tary, and Don Enrique, private Sec
rotary to the minister, Mr.. Collier.
The minister moved, in July, from
his apartments at the Grand Hotel
de Paris to some rooms into the
same building with the legation.
1t is to the paseo where the popu-