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DRESDEN, September 27, 1882.
Qliet. easy going Dresden has been on
the patriotic qui vive for the past week.
''Tke Kaiser is coming" was heralded
throughout the kingdom sorne months ago,
and every Saxon heart beat with Joy, from
the King on his throne to the poorest
peasant, boy. Soon busy hands went to
work to beautify their capitalize Ger.
man Florence-and prepare hearty well
come for their dearly-beloved Emperor.
Standards appeared on the Augustus
bridge, over the Elte, and over which it
was announced the royal procession must
pass oa its way from the Sshlesian station
in Neustadt TO the castle in Altstadt. These
were decorated with stars, shields and
wreaths while high over all foated the
black, red and white stripes of Germany,
the pretty green AID white flag of Saxony,
the black and orange Of Austria and the
weapons and black eagle of Prussia.
on THE CASTLE SQUARE,
Between the bridge and the entrance to
the castle of the Saxon Kipg, a magnifi.
cent triumphal arch was erected at an ex.
pense of 10000 marks. This, beyond
question, was the most gigantic effort
made in the province of decoration. From
an immense buttress, on each side of the
passage, rose two graceful Corinthian col
umns. These were beautifully ornamented
with fruit, flowers and the German eagle.
and each surmounted with the golden
crown of the Emperor, symbolic of the
four generations of the royal family united
in the person of Wilhelm l. Between the
columns, both at the right and left Of the
thoroughfare, flags filled the space. These
display ed emblemetical figures on the in
side, and the black eagle and weapons of
Prussia on the outside. On the right,
Vesta, with her festive torch, scattering
flowers over the way, represented love,
under which was inscribed in golden let.
tiers, "Liebe Dein Lohn" Iove, Your
Rewari). Victoria on the opposite side
with her laurel wreath, which she ex-
tended to the Kaiser, represented fame,
under which was rs2ribed, "Rhum Dein
Leben " Fame, Your Life. On the in
side of the pedestals was the well known
watchword of Graf Moltke, "Allezsit
tTeu sereit fur des Reiches Herrlichkeit"
(Ready at all times for the glory of the
Realm). Bstween the columns bearing the
fcur royal crowns was stretched q golden
netting thickly studded with the Kaiser's
favorite flower, korn blumen bachelors
buston), This netting was decorated on
both sides by beautifully. draped lsmbre.
quins Of purple and gold, with fringe and
tassels 20 match. Behind the high col
unDs, between four candelabra, were
smaller columns bearing basins of choice
flowers, while within balustrade on either
side was . small garden. The portals
were richly decorated with eagles, weapons
and German flags.
THE SPECTACLE
Streets were swept and garnished, win.
dows were secured, decorated and rented
at fabulous prices. Show windows fairly
bristled with Kaissrs, Kings and Princes.
In some bust of the Emperor appeared,
crowned with laurel, together with the
King and Queen OF Ssxony; in others a
painting of the Kaiser, sitting in his palace
at Berlin, surrounded by the various OBJ
jects of his well-known room. Now he
appeared in marble lavishly decorated with
korn blumen, then in chocolate crowned
with laurel. In window of a cafe stood
a mammoth cake surmounted by the EN-
peror Wilhelm and the Crown Prince,
Frederick William, both on horseback.
The Panopticon displayed the Kaiser and
Saxon King side by side, both wearing
innumerable badges and orders. Picture
stores We'd with each other in decorative
ingenuity. Generally a copy of the peer.
!ess Sistine Madonna occupied the center,
around which clustered all other cmana-
lions OF the artists brain. Tribunes and
stages were erected near the station and
bridge. The Albert Square was put in
readiness fer the school children. These
were taught their song of welcome and
promised a holiday. "Kaiser blumen {"
were peddled from one end of Saxony to
the other. Although it has rained in Ger.
many nearly every day for the past year,
no approximations of bad weather were en-
terSained for the eventful I4th of Septem-
Der, for the people said, 1--WE shall have
Kaiser weather ; good luck always follows
the Kaiser" And 30 they all worked on
to make their city beautiful for the coming
of the King. The nearer the day, the
higher mounted the enthusiasm of the peo-
PIE. Many, however, felt a subdued Joy
in the anticipation of this great event in
the history of Dresden, for said they, SIN
all probability our good Kaiser will never
come to see us again"
THE EVENING ARRIVES.
Finally the evening of the 18th arrived :;
the work was done, and the Queen of the
Elbe shone in all the beauty of gala uni.
form. Both A!tstads and Neustadt literally
strea ned with bunting of every sizs aud
color. Germans came from all quarters of
S:xony eud Germany, and strangers from
all quarters of the globe. Every hotel and
private boarding house was crowded. The
children said g If you're waking, call me
early" and all retired with glorious visions
OF the morrow. Alas Thursday morning,
September 18th. came; the wind sighed
mournfully and the rain battered dismalIy.
Sadly the flags dropped and silently the
people moved about under their dripping
umbrellas. And still some persisted, :. It
must be fine the Kaiser is always lucky /"
Noon came, and still it rained. About |
o'clock the people began to assemble on the
bridges, on the terrace over the Z be and
on the beautifully tagged steamboats, and
gondolas near the bridges. Fifteen differ.
ent associations and as many more
Singing Vereins, with flags and
banners, stationed themselves in their
appointed places; the school children in
white raiment gathered on the Albert
Square ne.r the station, and before 3
o'clock-for the Germans can outstand any
nation ON the face of the earth-there was
solid phalanx of human beings on each
side Of the street from the station in Neu.
stadt to the castle in Aitstadt. Soon the
windows were filed, then the tribunes
and stages, and still it rained not pour.
ing, driving rain, but miserable drizzle,
which made the people look wilted and
crestfallen as they shrunk under their
dripping umbrellas Even then some hope.
full sunny souls reiterated Kaiser weather
yet; the Kaiser is always luckyl" And
sure enough, at quarter before 3 o'clock,
just as the united peals of all the church
bells in the city had announced the arrival
of the train, the rain ceased and the mists