The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-31
ALL spain REIO|CES ON
EVE OF ROYAL Wedding
MADRID HAS SEEN NO SUCH
SCENES DURING PRESENT
GENERATION.

Whole City AgIOw With Fireworks and
Electrical uminatiOns--Signing of
the Marriage COntract--Bride Pro-
vided With Annual Income of 100000
and in Event of the Kings Death,
$5O,OOO-RenOunces All Right of Suc-
cessiOn to British Throne.
Madrid, May 9O.-All Spain is reoijc-
ing on the eve of the wedding of King
Alfonso and Princess Victoria, and the
capital has not seen such tumultuous
hilarity during the present generation.
Tonight the whole city Is agloW with
fireworks and electrical illuminationS,
while the streets are thronged with
dense masses of people. All the central
points from the Puerta del Sol to the
Prado are literally packed. AS the
decorations and illuminations take on
their lurid hues, the lights reveal a
motley throng with tourches almost
barbaric. There are swarthy Moors
wrapped in flowing robes and with red
turbans on their heads; Asturian dane
ers performing their native jtoa; gyp-
sizes from Cordova and Seville; Sala-
nlancan hordes in red velvet and tin
selled gold, with many representatives
Of Spain's clergy and hordes of blind
begars singing the melancholy music of
old Spain At the corners bands play
for the street dancers. The municipali-
ty has given free rein to the popular
rejoicing.
The schools and public institutions
have closed and the whole population
has given itself up to celebrating the
kings marriage.
The chief events to-day were the
kings reception to the foreign envoys,
including the representative Of the
United States and the signing Of the
wedding contract. The latter ceremony
took place at the Pardo palace in the
presence of Premier Moret and the
other cabinet ministers with the solem-
nifty befitting great state ceremonial
affecting the future succession to the
throne. The witnesses for Princess
Victoria were Sir Maurice Bunsen, the
British ambassador at Madrid; Poloy
Bernabe, the Spanish ambassador at
London, who was the Spanish minister
to Washington when the war between
Spain and the United States broke out;
Lord Hugh Cecil; Marquis de Viana,
an intimate friend of King Alfonso, the
Marquis de Villalobar. The witnesses
for the king were Premier Moret, Senior
Maura, former president of the coun-
cil General Azcarraga, former premier;
General Montero Rios, former premie;
the duke of Sotomayor, chief Of the
royal palace; the Marquis de la Nina,
chief of the royal hunt; General Pache-
co, chief of the royal halberdiers, and
the Marquis de Borja, intendent gem
eral, these representing the statesmen,
the royal household, the army and the
nobility
The marriage contract appears to-
night In the Official Gazette. Article
two gives the bride an annual income
Of 100000, and in the event Of the kings
death, $4,000. In article three Princess
Victoria renounces all right CT success
sion to the British throne. The other
articles relate to the marriage.
Preceding the signature of the con-
tract the Spanish journalists presented
to King Alfonso a golden pen With
which to sign the document. The king
laughingly accepted the gift, declaring
that he always had defended the Span
ish press against criticisms.
Many receptions were held tonight,
among them those at the British en-
bassy to the Prince of Wales, at the
Italian embassy to the Duke of Genoa,
at the German embassy to Prince AL
brecht of Prussia, at the French en-
bassy to General Dahlstein, and at the
American legation to Special Envoy f.
W, Whitridge This latter reception
was attended by many prominent per-
sonages in diplomatic and court circles,