The daily Alaskan., 1917-02-24
THE HISTORIC sCRoENBRUNR.
Austria's Royal Palace the Scene of
 Many Dramatic EVents.

Austria's Royal Palace the Scene of
 Many Dramatic EVents.
 Less than three miles southwest of the Rlngstrasse, which surrounds the inner city of Vienna, is the impressive pile of masonry known as Sch0enbrunn, where some of the most dramatic cpl sodes in the history of Austria have been staged and where Emperor Fran cis Joseph's death brought to a close phenomenal reign of sixty-elght years. A National Geographic society bulletin gives the following description of the royal summer residence and some of the episodes which have had a regal setting there:
 with Its more than 1,400 rooms Schoenbrunn is a splendid example Of imperial residence modelled on the standard of the great palace at Yer sailles. One of the striking peculiart- ties of this home of Austria's royal family, however, Is that instead of crowning an emlnence 1t Is built on low ground, while the magnificent park of nearly 800 acres occupies the high ground, rising gradually from the pal ace doors until it terminates on hill adorned with a beautiful colonnade called the Gloriette.
 "Three important events of the Ma poleonic era were staged in the i'm perlal apartments of Schoenbrunn. The first was the treaty of 1895, signed here by Napoleon and Haugwitz, the latter acting for the king of Prussia. By this document Napoleon inflicted humiliaG ing diplomatic defeat on the Prussian statesman, who agreed to surrender Gloves, Ansbach and Neuchatel to France in exchange for Hanover, whereas he had come to see the em- peror for the express purpose of deiV' ering an ultimatum demanding the return of Hanover. In the same year Dec 2O Napoleon issued the procla- nation of SchOenbrunn, in which the Bourbon dynasty in Naples was declar- ed at an end.
 -Four years after Haugwitz's humili- ahon a second treaty of Schoenbrunn was signed, the principals this time being Napoleon and Francis l., the Austrian emperor, who less than year later was to become the father-in-law of the 'upstart Corsican.
 "On this occasion the emperor of the French again drove hard bargain, but this time his antagonist had no alternative, for the Austrian army had just sustained the crushing defeat at Wagram. The vanquished nation was forced to give up Salzburg, a portion of upper Austria and extensive terri tory in Carinthia, Carniola, Croatia and along the Adriatic Seaboard. In addi- tion, Francis was compelled to relin- quish that share of the booty which had fallen to Austria in the third dis memberment of Poland Q795).
 "One of the most pathetic scenes ever witnessed within the walls of this palace erected by Maria Theresa was the final hour in the life of the un- happy Due de ReichStadt, son of Ma poleon and the Austrian archduchess Marie Louise. The 'Eaglet,' as he was called, was just twenty-one when he died of tuberculosis in a room once occupied by his illustrious father on one of the occasions when he held Schoenbrunn as his military headquar- ters. A perhaps too highly colored and historically warped but superbly ap- pealIng picture of this deathbed has been given to the world by the distln- gulshed poet-playwright of France, Edmond Rostand, in his widely known drama of 'L'AiglOn.
 "One of the novel features of Schoen- brunn is its amazing number of kitch- ens-139."