Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-02
FRENCH SOLDIERS GUARD PALACE
 OF EMPEROR WILHELM AT CORFU; x
 IMPERIAL P[AYTH|NC IS NO MORE
Correspondent of the Associated Press Visits Famous Play ground of the Hohenzollern Family the Island of Corfu-French Soldiery Now Guard the Palace andAll Things Administered by the French Government

Achilles, and that the old Trojan he quest.
 The palace is of white marble, squarely and soliily built after the Greek classical design, with the sug- gestion that a German hand had mod ernized the old classical lines. Along the middle front, facing the sea runs a deep wide marble gallery or porch, and similar wide galleries are at the eastern and where the entrance is located The building is three stories high, with a frontage of about five hundred feet, and has about one hun dred rooms, including ball rooms, state dining rooms, a royal chapel, and the suites of imperial chambers. The marble columns of the galleries, the window cornices and friezes along the front, are all essentially Greek, and and majesty of Greek temple.
 Entering the main hall it was not clear whether one was in a palace, or temple, or a museum. Immediately to the right was the royal chapel, with the large fresco of Munkacsy's Christ before Pilate" back of the altar. By an ingenius electrical contrivance a flood of light could be turned on to the central figures Of the fresco, giving them a sort of luminous and living ef- feet, almost as in cinema, though it seemed a queer contrivance for a chapel. One could hear a murmur of 'boche" run among the visitors. indi- eating their view that a vandal hand had put together this mass of fresco and effect.
 Elaborate frescoes and mirrors GOV cred the ceilings and side walls of the state dining room. The subjects were always drawn from Greek antiquity, but the figures of dancing nymphs and lawns looked rather heavy as though they were the big-limbed people of the north instead of the fine and deli cate creatures of legendary Greece.
 The grand stairway was of marble, with black iron balustrade wrought into curious shapes showing German imperial eagles. This grand stairway runs up three stories, through garish yellow walls covered with strange frescoes and painted mirrors. These painted birds and vines on mirrors were pointed out by some of the vis- itors as an anachroism of art.
 The huge painting of the Triumph of Achilles" occupies the post of hon or at the top of the grand staircase. It is one of those striking pictures, full of. life and movement, like Gari Melchers' War" in the Congression- al Library at Washington, and show ing the same straining horses and men pushing forward to the combat. Achilles is shown in full panoply Of war, driving his chariot and dragging along the bloody prostrate body of his foe. chained to the chariot wheel, with the rabble bowling at the spectacle. Art connoisseurs do not always ap- prove this picture, but the ordinary observer is attracted by its dash and has the feeling that he is here in the presence of one of those great trage dies of the Homeric age.
 The palace garden is, however. the really remarkable feature Of this es- tablishment. Tn originality, beauty and extent it is probably one of the finest gardens in the world. The unique feature is the strict adherence to the standards of legendary Greece, making one feel as though transported into some fairy-like precinct of the dim past At every hand are marble and bronze statues of the old deities, he roes and muses. The palace entrance 10 the gardens is formed by wide Ionic colonnade where the imperial family used to pass their evenings. Nearby is the garden of the muses. with heroic figures of the muses be- fore each marble column. One looks through long vistas with these muses