Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-08
SUCCESSION OF EDIFICES
Imposing Public and Private Con.
struction in Budapest.
MULTITUDE0F MUsEUMsTHERE
National University, With History
Dating Back Three Hundred
Years, Rebuilt in 1900.
BY WILLIAM E. CURTIS.

| ears, he0u1lC In 1SOU.
BY WILLIAM E. CURTIS.
Written for The Star and the Chicago Record
Herald.
| On the opposite side Of the square from
the parliament house at Budapest is
noble building of the renaissance school
for the use of the supreme court OF Hun
gary. 1t is q model which the United
States might well copy, for there is no
more appropriate building for the purpose
in all the world. It's dignity of appear
ance and its arrangements for conven-
fence are both admirable, although. per-
haps, the ornamentation Is a little ford
| to please the American taste. Above the
1 portico, with its six columns. is a chariot
with three horses in wrought copper,
driven by Justice; at the top of the mag
nificent staircase is another figure OF JUS
| tice in marble. and the walls are deco
rated with scenes suggesting the same
idea. The courtrooms are large digni-
fed and appropriate. and each judge has
suite of apartments for study and con-
sultation. There is large law library,
with rooms for the lawyers so arranged
that they have immediate access to the
books.
| On the adjoining block is large build
ing, equally imposing, for the ministers
Of justice and agriculture and for nearly
mile along the banks Of the Danube
is a succession of splendid edifces, pub
lie and private, all built within the last
quarter of a century. Other public build
| ings are scattered about the cfty-mu-
seums. libraries, art galleries. courthouses
and offices for the several executive de-
! partments, every one of them fronting
upon an open square, which Is orna-
mented with statues and monuments.
Multiplicity Of Museums.
You never saw such a place for mu-
seums. In addition to those of the
Academy of Sciences, of which told you
the other day, there are the Agricultural
Museum, the Museum of Industrial Arts.
the Museum of Fine Arts, the Ethno-
graphic Museum, the National Museum
of Hungarian Antiquities and Natural
History the Historical Museum, the
archaeological Museum. containing ma
chinery, electrical apparatus and the new
| est inventions of a mechanical sort; the
Museum of Traffic, which contains object
lessons in transportation on land ana
water; recently a department of bal
looms, aeroplaneS and other facilities 1Or
locomotion in the air has been added, as
well as automobiles of all kinds; the
Educational Museum. which contains ex-
hibits to illustrate the best methods OF
teaching from the kindergarten to the
university, with displays of text books,
school furniture and everything that per-
tains to the science OF educatlon; the
Geological Museum and the commercial
Museum, which has connected with 1t a
school known as the Export Academy, de-
signed to train and educate young men
for the export trade, and to qualify them
to deal with foreigners in an Intelligent
manner.
The Itchy Museum is in a private
house. the property of the late Count
Eugen Itchy, and contains about 20
paintings of the old masters, a COLLECTION
of Chinese and Indian curlos, oriental
weapons, Hungarian furniture and Orna-
ments, and various other objects of in
terest which have been donated to the
city.
There are four other art galleries-the
National Gallery with about 800 pictures
and 10000 engravings, the Museum Of
Fine Arts with collection OF modern
pictures, gallery of historical paintings
and the Neue Kunstlerhaus, built In
1894. where exhibitions are held annually
every winter for Hungarian artists only,
and in the summer international exhibi-
tons.
1 may have missed some of the
museums, but there are enough to keep
visitor busy for several days. and the
libraries are equally numerous. The
National Hungarian Library has 100000
volumes, 10000 manuscripts and 10000
documents relating to the history OF the
King Koloman in 100. The state
papers are said to be exceedingly I'M
portant to HungarianS
An Imposing Structure.
The University Of Hungary is i'm
posing building dating back 800 years,
but entirely rebuilt in 1900. The library
| building is separate and contains between
| $4,000 and 100000 volumes. There is a
| beautiful chapel connected with the uni
versity which is entirely modern. There
are numerous other public institutions
| for various branches Of education, some
| Of them connected with the university
| and others independent. There are sew
| eral hospitals and infirmaries under the
care of the medical department of the
| university, the largest and most i'm
| portant, which is 200 years old, being in
| charge of Dr. Ladislaus V. Farkas, who
well known in the Limited states n6 6otn
recognized as one OF the most eminent
surgeons in Europe. Dangling from his
watch chain is gold medal bearing his
! bust in relief on one side and upon the
other an inscription announcing that 1t
was struck to commemorate his 6OOth
| duel, but that was several years ago
| and he has fought many since-that Is,
duels with death, as MS surgical opera
tions are called.
The intense jealousy and hostility be-
tween the Hungarians and the Austrians.
and, particularly between the citizens
of the two capitals. Budapest and Wen
ma, involves legal, medical. scientific. lit
erary men, and all other professionals.
The mayor will tell you with emphasis
that there are no poets, or artists, or
turists, or surgeons in Austria: that
those who pretend to be such are i'm
posters and the Viennese will say the
same of Hungary The same bitterness