The Cordova daily times., 1920-01-21
n YEWS comes from Bavaria that
 N the new government there is negotiating with the ex-king,

INA the new government there is J negotiating with the ex-king,
 Ludwig HI, now living as an exile in Switzerland, for legal settle ment on the state of his landed prop erty in Bavaria. If this is so, it doubt less involves the most gorgeous trio of palaces built by any European mon- arch in modern times. These struc- lures, says the New York Times, were well known to tourists before the war; in fact, so large and sumptuous are they, so hopelessly beyond the modest needs of the Bavarian royal family did they prove that for a long time their only use was to provide a little revenue through the fees charged to the thousands of visitors who passed yearly through their spacious halls.
 The palaces in question are Neu- schWanstein, Linderhof and Herren- chiemsee, all three built by the mad king" Ludwig II of Bavaria, who reigned from 1864 to his tragic death in 1886, and cost Bavaria such huge sums by his extravaganza that he was finally deposed and locked up as in- curably insane.
 During the time that Ludwig was pouring out his own and the states funds in rebuilding old castles and building the new ones that were to make his name synonym for extrav- agance he was bound in intimate friendship with Richard Wagner, the famous composer. The signs of this friendship may be seen in one of the castles, Neuschwanstein, where there are many paintings of scenes from the legends upon which Wagner based his world-famous operas.
 Neuschwanstein Most Remarkable.
 Of the three great palaces which may revert to the Bavarian state as result of the negotiations between the exiled Bavarian king and the govern ment which overthrow him, the most remarkable, both in location and archi- lecture, is Neuschwanstein. It is about eighty-fve miles south of Munich, in the Bavarian highlands, three miles from the quaint old town of Fussen, and close to the old castle of Hohen- schwangau, which originally belonged to the house of Guelph and was pur- chased ain 1567 by the dukes of Bava- ria: Acknowledgment was the favor >zte residence of the mad King Ludwig, but, tiring of staying long in one place, he conceived the idea of building an other castle-palace in the manner of the kings of the middle ages. His eye fell upon precipitOus crag close to Hohenschwangau, and there, between 1869 and 1886, arose the splendid pal ace which ranks as the greatest of all the many monuments to LudWig's building mania. Its name, Neusch- wanstein, is due to the fach that the nearby castle of Hohenschwangau was formerly called Schwanstein.
 Ludwig set three of the best-known Bavarian architects-Dollman, Riedel and Hoffman-to work on this creation of his wild fancy, and they reared for, him a grand structure in the Roman esque style, planned somewhat after the style of the Wartburg. Here the influence of Wagner on the king may be traced, for the Wartburg, in Thur ingia, is where Tannhauser and other singers meet, in the Wagnerian opera of that name, to compete for the land graves prize.
 Neuschwanstein, however, was built on a much larger and more magnif- cent scale than the Wartburg. It is splendidly fitted up throughout, and from it's windows there are surpassing- ly beautiful views of the Hohen- schwangau, the Alp-See, a little lake far below, and the wild gorge of the POllat.
 Visitors ascend to the shOwroOms, which are on the third floor, by means of stairway in the main tower, which iuts up to height of nearly 200 feet.