The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, June 23, 1905, Page 2, Image 2
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. It was a
vast, quaint, strange, motley, pic
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