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THE MARRIAGE IN BERLIN. Col. Bacon is Not Pleased With the Enthusiastic Demonstrations of the People at the Sight of the Emperor and Royal Fam:'y. N. ws and C:,:"rikr. Berlin, june 7.-The marriage of a Crown Prince of the gre.i German Empire-in God's providence,-and wc may well say in fGod's mercy takes piece only cnce in about twenty five year:, but the pomp and circum stance of a single transaction of this sort are enough to stretch over a hun dred years. The first emperor of the great German empire that the great Bismarck unfixed and so successfully established was "Wilhelm der Grosse" -William the Great-whose memory is absolutely worshipped by these people. He was a man, a great states man, a great soldier. As simply king of Prussia-not emperor of Germany -he and Bismarck worked together wisely and indefatigably for the uni fication; and it will be remembered by all readers of contemporary his t -ry how Bismarck, in the great hall of the Palace of Versailles, after the battle of Sedan and the fall of Paris, proclaimed him the first emperor of unified Germany. He reigned vigor ously and wisely until 1888. His son was Friederick III, the poor fellow, noble, beautiful and good, who died so painfully of cancer of the throat after reigning as emperor only ioo days. He was the first Crown Prince of unified Germany, and was married in 1859 to Helena Victoria, the old est daughter of Queen Victoria, of Great Britian. Then in 1883, twenty four years later, his oldest son, the present powerful emperor, was mar ried to the Princess Augusta Victoria, of Schleswig-Holstein. This brings us to the slender blonde boy of 22, the third Crown Prince of unified Ger Germany, who was married in the royal palace in this city last night to the Duchess Cecelia, of Mecklenberg Strelitz, one of the smaller German states, to the northward of this. She is a slender, sweet-looking young girl, midway between 17 and 18 years of age, and her dowry from her own country is 20,000,000 marks ($5,000 ooo) several mountain castles and sev eral palaces in different German citi es. Her mother, Anastasia, the Dow ager -Grand Duchess of Mecklenberg and a beautiful woman, is an aunt of *the Czar of Russia. She is a proud and imperious woman and it is said that she confronts the present arbi trary and absolute emperor of Ger many holdly on all occasion and gives him to understand that she is by no means elated. It is predicted that she will breed trouble between the Crown Prince and his wvife, and between the emperor and his daughter-in-law. Another case of too much mother-in law. The Mother-in-law's Friend. Not that we join in the blind out cry against the mother-in-law, for we solemnly believe that, in nine cases out of ten, the mother-in-law is the most putraged person in the world and has more to put up with. There fore we earnestly hope the haughty Anastasia will teach the haughty em neror some salutary lessons. The Crown Prince is the oldest of the present emperor's seven children.1 His name is Frederick William i George Leopold Victor Albert Er nest Edward, and heaven knows what 1 others. His marriage began Satur day last, and was pushed, with a good deal of energy, off and on, until yes terday, Tuesday afternoon, when it culminated in the actual religious cer emony in the great chapel of the royal palace. The ceremony was performed by "Excellenz" Dryander, the chief of the ten or twelve royal preachers. The Lutherans have no Bishops, and the1 word "Reverend" is not used, but simply the prefix "Excellenz." Thet preacher, when in clerical attire,t wears the double white ruff, the black t surtout, black knee-breeches and I black silk stockings that we see in the pictures of Luther. Berlin is emphati- f cally a Protestant city. t The marriage of the prince began i on Saturday last, but the preparations i and decorations and marching of troops, and thronging of people had f begun full two weeks before. In fact. I ever since emperor returned from his Mediterranean trip, about the middle t of May, these people-sleek, slimy, c itteriv and disgustingly crazy. For !ight days previous to the beginning >f the marriage, sometimes in the morning, sometimes at noon, some :imes in the afternoon, sometimes late .n the night, the emperor, empress or :rown prince generally the emperor !iimself has been driving through the streets to the many different railroad stations to welcome the many men and women generally royal persons, sent by all foreign governments to represent them at this imperial mar riage. And all this time-we mean exactly what we say-one million and a half out of Berlin's two millions and a half of people have been perma nently and patiently planted on side walks and in public parks and places, watching, pushing, hustling, scroug ing, perspiring, staring, starving, dy ing, to catch a fleeting glimpse of lear, idolized royalty. And only a glimpse it is, for all the royal carriag es, especially the emperor's open phaeton, are driven through the streets at a rapid, hurried, clattering rate. Hundreds of thousands of peo ple, tw,-ve rows deep, have waited for ten and twelve hours to catch, final ly only a panoramic view of the exter ior of a royal coach and its outriders. But even that much has seemed to translate them into the seventh heav en. On Saturday, the day the Duchess Cecilia entered Berlin, and, with hundreds of artillery salutes and end less magnificent ceremonies, was ten dered the freedom of the city, we re mained a close, but restive prisoner in our hotel, on the Unter den Lin len. We could make no egress from the front or the rear, so great, com pact, wild, eager, demented was the slavish crowd. There were many of the royal representatives in the hotel, and whenever they and their suites wished to go forth the throngig and splendidly uniformed police promptly and quickly made a way for them, and the cringing, fawning, de lighted people bowed down before them and seemed to say: "Please do us the honor to wipe your divine feet upon us." But, being only a plain A.merican sovereign, no police clear ed the way for us, and we spent the day hanging out of a second story front window, commenting upon the revolting obsequiousness of the Ger man people. Every rank is profound y, smilingly obsequious to the rank above, and there are many, many ranks. The hotel-keepers and their rrmies of underlings are grotesquely, Fanatically obsequious, and as to re ::eiving tips we verily believe the em eror himself, if you were to offer aim a twenty-mark gold piece, would oyfully accept it, and bow and say: 'Dankeschon." Before this we have tever felt and known what a good, trong republican we are. The Wedding Sermon. On Sunday, the day after the young Duchess entered Berlin and was plac ed under the care of the emperor, 'the wedding sermon" was preached n the Royal Dome church, from a ext chosen by the emperor. The em >eror chooses and names and directs everything, great or small, that comes .o pass in the German empire. The reachr was Excellenz Dryander, md his iext was Ruth to Naomi. Then n the evening-these good, faithful evangelical Lutherans do not seem to hink it the slightest sin the world *o devote their Sunday afternoon and evenings to almost every form of leasure and amusement-there was f extra gala performance in the Roy I opera house, the opera rendered, Lgain, by order of the emperor-be ng the ever-popular, "Lohengrin." lery near us. at this magnificent per ormance, the most magnificnet we iae ever seen or heard, sat Excellenz )ryander, in a white satin chasuble, nstead of the black surtout. Madam nany's greatest soprano and tenor, ang Elsa and Lohengrin. After he performance the emperor sent for hem to come to the royal box and hanked them for the splendor of their endition. Consequently, Madame 'laichinger and Herr Kraus, Ger rom this time forth forevermore in he Kingdom 'of Heaven. And appro os of this man Kraus, Conried, the :reat operatic imperesario of New ork has offered him $250,ooo a year or ten years to sing Wagner roles a America. He is young. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon Sat rday-after we had been hanging out f the second-story window for eight who had arrived from her home in Schwerin at noon. left the quaint old castle of Bellevue, in the extreme northern suburbs. to make her official entrance into Berlin accompanied -by the Emperor. Neither the Em peror nor the crown prince went to Bellevue. On the contrary. as is the royal etiquette, they waited the young Duchess in the vast and endless royal palace. Enter the Bride Elect. The young Duchess wore a very decollette corsage of pale pink with a white veil on her head. We could 1 see her very distinctly through the glass panels of the golden coach. The wheels body and top of the great coach were heavily gilded and very artistically carved,. the upper panels were of clearest glass. The empress, a slightly stout and very sweet-look- I ing woman, wore a white corsage and a white hat profusely trimmed with enormous pink roses. On the front seat sat the mistress of the court of the bride, the Countess Von Tiele Winkler-far the prettiest and most graceful looking of the.three women. And now for the wonderful proces sion itself. First came a large trum peter corp with long gilded trumpets. And well and lustily did they blow. They marched at the head of a squad ron of the First Dragoon Guards. Following each horse led by a uni formed piqueur, came a six-horse coach, containing the chamberlain of the empress and the chamberlain of the future Crown Princess-two very high noble-men. Indeed, the chanr berlain of the Crown Princess is the Count Von Bismarck-Bohlenberg, a son of Bismarck's daughter, and sot far as we could learn the only living male descendant of the great Iron Chancellor. Both of his sons died without issue. Poor old Bismarck laid on the shelf contemptously by his haughty and self-reliant young master and leaving no man to perpet-I uate his name. What a commentary upon the uncertainity of human zlory! However, these Germans idolize, wor ship the name of Bismarck. Then came another six-horse coach, with the two chief marshals of the em peror, Count Von Hohenthal-Dokan and Ci unt Von ~ Kilmaren-Kilberg. Then followed still another six-horse coach with Baron Von Reischeich, the famous marshal of the court of the late Empress Friedrich, the daughter of Queen Victoria. Then came yet another six-horse coach with Count Von Passewitz-Levetzon, marshal of the grand ducal court of Mecklenburg Scherwin. Then followed in foot 8oo young girls of the Duchess Cecelia's age, clad in white, wearing white shoes and white veils and wreaths Then one hundred butchers in full dress suits, and riding black horses. Then companies of one hundred of all the different trades, callings and pro fessions in Berlin, including bicycle riders and chimney sweeps. 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