Arizona republican., 1917-09-02

into curious shapes showing the Ger man imperial eagles. This grand stair way runs up three stories, through garish yellow walls covered with strange frescoes and painted mirrors These painted birds and vines on mir TOTS were pointed out by some of the visitors as an anachronism of art.
 The huge painting of the "Triun pf of Achilles" occupies the post of honor at the top of the grand staircase I, is one of those striking pictures, full of life and movement, like Gari Melchers' War in the Congressional library at Washington, and showing the same straining horses and men pushing for, ward to the combat. Achilles is 3howl in full panoply of war, driving his chariot and dragging along the bloods prostrate body of his foe, chained the chariot wheel, with the rabble bowling at the spectacle. Art con- noisseurs do not always approve Lu4. picture, but the ordinary observer i attracted by it's dash and has the feel ing that he is here in the presence ( one of those great tragedies of tn Homeric age.
 The palace garden is, however, th really remarkable feature of this estaL lishment. In originality, beauty ar extent it is probably one of the fine. gardens in the world The uniqu feature is the strict adherence to tn standards of legendary Greece. maF''- one feel as though transported into some fairylike precinct of the dim pas, At every hand are marble and bron7 statues of the old deties, heroes and muses. The palace entrance to tn gardens is formed by wide Ionic col umnade where the imperial family useo to "ss the evenlnas. Nea py IS th garden of the muses, with heroic figures of the muses before each mar ble column. One looks through long vistas with these muses stretchina away at either side of the walks. II the center is dancing bacchante, anC in the neighboring fountain the wate. gushes from the mouth of a huge dra gon carrying off young girl.
 These gardens are continued on, after another in terraces running dowl to the sea. Each has it's distinctive feature. Some are lined with beauti fully wrought marble balustrades i Others are wild tangle of giant palm. l with trunks three feet in diameter, e, of flower beds laid out like the pave ment of temple. In one of these gar dens is the chief art treasure. tn i Dying Achilles" showing the hero il the death struggle with the arrow il l his heel One turns from the artisti merit of this statue, which is cOncedet by all critics, to the colossal bronze o Achilles notable chiefly for size an, condemned by most critics This co lossus rises some thirty feet above tn modern rival t | the Colossus of Rhodes of the statue o Liberty in New York harbor. It i . striking, however, and even sensation al, planted here in this tropical garder 1 at commanding point overlooking ] vast area, and in a pose eXpress. ,t- q, imperial conquest.
 Passing out of the palace entranc | one of the visiting officers noted tn i tall ornamental lampposes lighting tn | ln= enl4dli. tney wee a3 ! parently of bronze. but as the office
 struck his cane on one of these rich i ly carved posts it did not give bac {, the ring of genuine bronze. And o closer examination the officers ar
 tistic taste was greatly shocked ] find that these elaborate lights at tn
 very entrance of the emperor's palac
 were of some base metal colored i initiate bronze
 As the party withdrew, it was ot
 served that the military automobil
 which had brought us up the steo
 ascent, bore on it's doors the imperi;
 crest of Emperor William. This wa
 but one of the many accessories of h
 summer place which had now passe
 out of his hands. While it was or,
 an automobile, yet it seemed to |
 typical of the extent to which this i'm
 perial disaster had become personal ,
 the emperor-not only lost colonies an
 palaces, like this summer playthin
 symbolizing Achilles, but even the at
 tomobile with the Hohenzollern arm
 now passed beyond his reach.