The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-07-16

a hand; for the hearts of the people are
always with disappointed lovers, whether
Toyai or piebelan. They also told us that be-
tween haiI past one and two, the Crown
Prince with his three little boys, sometimes
accompanied by the Crown Princess, was in
tne habit OF visiting the Emperor At six
oci4ck they said the three Princesses
, NAKED alone distributing aims to the poor
little children in street near by, before the
castle. There was something very touching
ana quite pathetic about the whole scene
before the palace at Charlottenburg. 1t
lacked every element of coarseneSs and gave
one an Impression of the great refinement of
mixed German crowd which could so deco
rousiy and so delicately deport itself on the
confines of their sovereigns' private domain.
Had he lain there dead as he now lies at
Frederickskron, instead of going back and
forth before our eyes in the GOODNESS of a
late afternoon, the hush could not have been
greater or more solemn. But the people
have ever felt that his feet were on the
threshold of eternity and that any morning
might announce that he had softly fallen
asleep" as the journals of to-day bring the
sad news to sorrowing people. With him
tney nave almost seen inside the "pearly
gates" while his tired body has fingered,
inspired by soul pure and unfettered, to
paclfy and moderate the councils of an
empire, hot blooded and rash, on whose
dictates the world waits for peace or war.
His patient soul in his almost WORKOUT body
has still held in check the turbulent spirits.
VINO would throw nation after nation into a
whirlpool Of strife, and his hand has still
been mighty to put down oppression, intoler-
ance and injustice. Well is he named Fred
erick the nobel Reluctantly we left what
seemed real hall0wed ground and took again
the way back to the city.
The next morning we started off bright
ana early Tor day among the palaces at
Potsdam. The town is delightfully."- sitr-
ated on an island in the "Havel" The river
az this point becomes series of beautiful
lakes ana IS surrounded by charming forests
ana wooded hills: 1t is of ancient origin,
but was place of no Importance until the
Great Elector, Frederick the Greats grand
father, founded palace and park here but
lts more recent magnihcence is due to Fred
erlck the, Great himself. Indeed, there is
nothlng about Potsdam in which he did not
have hand. He built Sans Souci and the
New Palace, or Frederickskron, as it is now
called. This name was given to it by the
late Emperor in honor of Frederick the
Great, who lived In both, but Sans Souci was
ms nome. This lastIpalace, Sans Souci, is
building OF one story, but its grounds are
lald out with so much taste, and the whole is
SO picturesquely planned that after seeing il
one peglns to have a taste for this style of
arcnitecture. Many flights of steps lead up
70 Erod A., ,ihte i by numerous terraces.
FREDERICK the Greats greyhounds and char
gers are buried at the end of the highest ter
race. This was the fayorite resort of the
King, who expressed wish to be buried
her! here at the foot of the statue of Flora.
loSt aanq Je Serda la le serdi sans souci."
lMnen am there shall be free from care.)
HIS rooms are still almost as he left them.
though William ". lived here for long
time with his wife Elizabeth in some Of
them. One room is said never to have been
U Wa IN one hundred and forty years.
we saw the chair near the window In which
frederick the Great died, beside the table
when holds the clock which he ALWAYS
wound up, and which stopped at the mo-
ment Of his death-''twenty minutes past
portrait Of him is in this room, with Some
tapestry by his .'hebling" sister, and some
manuscript in his own handwriting. There
was also here room fitted up for Voltaire.
Win many OF his glaring faults symbolized
broidered birds representing each disagreea-
pie quallty-the peacock for his vanity. the
owl Tor his coneeit, the parrot for his To-
q1aclty, &c:, &c, The room and bed in
which william ~: died were quite anti
Ike. The palace of Sans Souci is the most
domestic palace l have ever visited. and
seemingly the most tolerable for a home.
Inc Inc back Of it IS embraced, by an elegant
seml-clrcular colonnade, and is equally as
picturesque as the front. We afterWard
visited the Orangery and saw the famous old
windmill which the owner refused to sell To
Frederick the Great, but which is at present
royal property.
After lovely walk through the garden of
Sans Souci, which is very extensive park
but cool even in the hottest day of summer.
we came suddenly upon the New Palace.1
Frederlckskron, to which Emperor Freder
lex went by steamer the other day through
s s 1ayel, LANDING at the Potsdam station,
ana driving through the park of Sans Souci
Here he was born. in the chamber which
Dr. Mackenzie has just occupied the door
OF which we passed before sliding through
the elegant suite of apartments, over floors
s Wnlcn rejected our grotesqne image, in felt
tub, or big vase, which it is now thought to
have been. We began with the "Grotto or
jasper Chamber" where Emperor Freder-
lex II. has just lain in state. This is amost
Wvonaeriul room and suggests the descrip-
ton in the Bible of what future Heaven
may be, as seen by st. John, in vision. The
streets paved with gold and the gates so
many pearls, amethysts and diamonds" it
IS indeed grotto of wonderful stones. |
nad only dreamed OF such place; the walls
are iniald throughout with shells of pearls.
the frlezes of costly minerals, amethysts and
sapphires, and the room is really aglow with
thelr light and reflection. For the first time
my childish aversion to living in such hea-
y, yen almost vanished, little impracticable to
be sure, to always find oneself in arctic shoes
ana Ior an eternity to glide, but with the
music OF the Spheres" and with congenial
associations, the time, perhaps might pass
with the comparative swlftness with which
~ y, new tnat DAY among the palaces of Pots
Dam. The marble saloon which we saw
next seemed colder, and not so desirable, but
very stately and magnificent, and the Spiegel
chamber, room wainscotted with mirrors.
was very wonderful, These apartments are
said to be just as Frederick, the Great, left
them; the living rooms at present being
mostly above and farther along towards the
other side. of the palace. Both this and
sans Souci are very habitable places, and
really the only palaces l ever saw which
seemed desirable to live in. The beauty of
tnelr surroundings, the practicability of
their construction, their ease of access. and
still their seclusion, make them very desira-
Die places for the abode of sovereigns. OPP
posite is the temple of Friendship. erected
Baireuth, by Frederick, the Great, which is
also connected by some beautiful architec-
ture with the antique mausoleum. The tout
ensemble OF this whole edifice, with its fine
carvings and sculptured figures, strikes one
In It's exterior as more elegant even than the
palace itself.
But the palacesiat Potsdam are too numer-
GUS even to mention. There is Baltsburg.
Emperor Williams summer palace, some
what nearer Berlin. and which ex-Empress
Augusta has ordered to be left as he had it.
There is also the palace at the Potsdam sta
tion with many "reminiscences and appurte-
nances of Frederick the Great There is the
room here in which he used to dine alone,
uie1 Ai9 iLiCHuo, NltuUut StTfdubS. so con-
structed that the table could be let down |
through trap door, between the courses. |
On the way from Sans Souci to the. New Pal |
ace is Charlottenhof, scarcely more than a |
large country house or villa. Then further |
away near the Heiligen Sea is the Marble |
Palace, where the Crown Prince, now EN- |
peror, with his family at present live. ON the |
balcony of which. the Crown Princess stood |
with the three little boys, the Young Prin- |
cess, dressed in Hussar uniform and sa- |
luted the Royal Fleet as the imperial Marty |
passed on their way to Frederickskron, To- |
day more mournful procession bears him |
10 his final resting place in Fredenkirche at
the entrancelof the Garden of Sans Souci.
AT Glelnicke there is also the Palace of
Prince Frederick Charles with a garden and
large park. There is near by a hunting
lodge of the Great Elector, who formerly
lived here, and it was fitted up more recent |
~ Tor Prince Frederick Charles. After |
having spent one of the hottest days L ever |
knew, we left all the grandeur here behind |
Win all the mosquitoes and went back TO |
Berlin. 1t seems an excellent homily on the |
levelllng which nature makes in the distri- |
button OF its!ills, alike to Prince and peas |
ant, that wherever we found signs of royal- |
W we found abundance of mosquitoes. those |
pests which render life so insupportable |
that suffering under their infliction. one |
would rather be the peasant, which Alfred |
the Great perS0nated, as the servant of the |
old woman who boxed his ears for burning |
her cakes, and free from them, than the mo- |
blest descendant of royal line under their |
t0rmentS. Such is our humanity and crino-