The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-07-20

years. Duke Charles Augustus who relgned
| here at this time, always kept about hlm
| galaxy of intellectual men. Welmar Was IN
| those days also visited by many other cele-
| brated men of letters. Goethe ana Schiller
are happily united in one monument here
| and there is also a Herder and Wieland
| monument. There Is a cemetery on the
south side of the town which contains The
| Grand Ducal Vault, in which are also the
| graves of Goethe and Schiller and monu-
ments to many other eminent persons.
At about O'clock we found ourselves at
| Magdeburg, but we only had time to look at
| its massive cathedrals and to see the citadel
and numerous Notifications onsthe Werder,
| an island now connected with the city by a
bridge. After still another hour we entered
| the large central station at Berlin, not sorry
to be at the end of this long though pleasant
| journey Everything here seemed SO new to
us and still like Paris and yet Of
ter all unlike Paris. 1t is much more con-
tracted in extent and elegance but quite as
enjoyable. After resting a few hours we
went out to Charlettonburg for the after
noon, and the next day we spent among the
palaces at Potsdam. The rest of our time we
decided to spend upon the sights Of Berlin.
The palaces, picture galleries, monuments,
and If possible we wished to get sight of
the Crown Prince who would so soon be the
Emperor. The sound of the cavalry going
out to Lichterfelde for drill walked us before
six in the morning. The Crown Prince usu-
ally accompanied them. They told us at
half past eleven we could see him on his re-
turn on Inter den Linden and so we decided
to take this in on the way TO the palaces. We
found dense crowd on the corner of Fred
erichs Strasse and Unten den Linden where
we waited for some time until Sergeant de
xilie, who :, was as busiy engaged IN keeping
Prince would not appear again that day. We
waited no longer but continued on our course
to the palaces, the first sign of which is the
large statue of Frederick the Great, on horse
hooly hn mid kafx
William palace and the Acadamy building.
On the other side of the street are the Uni
verslty buildings, formerly the palace of
Prince Henry brother of Frederick III. In
front of this are the statues Of William and
Alexander Won Humboldt, who lived here.
Adjoining Emperor Williams palace is the
Royal library, while adjacent is the Opera
house, back of which is the Church Of st.
Hedwig, built in imitation of tue Pantheon
Of Rome this Is the church where the Cath
for divine service before the opening of the
Reichstag under the new Emperor. Next to
the opera house is the Crown Princes palace
with an arch over 0bervall Strasse connecting
it with the $50 called palace Of the Princes.
ses." On the other side from these are the
arsenal and royal guard house. This whole
nest OF palaces and royal buildings are with
in less than five minutes walk, and form,
affords.
The only palace now open TO the public is
the Royal Palace or 'Konigs Schloss" across
Schloss Brucke, and thisthe present Emperor
William III is said to be about to occupy. 1t
has never been used as royal residence since
William Y died. Frederick the Great at
times lived here with almost his entire Court
1t is cold unsympathetic place and only fit
for kings to live in. 1t is the Oldest of the
large palaces here the original castle having
been erected by Elector Frederick III in 145l
the various. extensions and wings having
been added from century to century. 1t now
contains six hundred rooms, a large number
OF which we saw. for we seemed to traverse
miles and miles of apartments, up an incline
plane instead OF stairs, and down the longest
possible flights of stairs. There are extensive
picture galleries and rooms with crowns and
thrones, and yet there is nothing of vital in
terest, the splendor is too general and the as
ISOLATION too mixed, though it was around
this palace especially that the "White Lady,
used to hover, a spectre whose appearance
always portended the death Of some member
Of the Royal House of Hohenzollern. If she
still presents herself on such mission. her
visits must have been very frequent during
the last few months. She is supposed to be
the Ghost Of the Countess Orlamundo who
murdered her children in order to marry some
old Burgrave, an ancestor of the Elec-
tors OF Brandenburg, the last of whom was
the Great Elector There is very elegant
chapel in this palace near the top, built
by William ~. with marble Innings and
pavings Of different colors and frescoes in
gold, and its large dome is filled with stained
glass windows which fill the chagel with
their mellow light. We went to the National
Art Gallery from the Royal Palace past the
rather Insignificant Cathedral, through the
Lustgarten. This think is the most beauti-
full part of Berlin next to the Thiergarten
and Konigs Platz which are far more lovely.
Berlin is not, l believe considered an art
centre, but there are some interesting pic
lures in the National Art Gallery as well as
in the old museum, though not many by the
old masters. The frescoing on the cornices
OF the walls are series of paintings, repre-
senting scenes from the Niebelungen Lied.
just at dusk we visited the old Schiller
Platz, which is out Of the noise and hustle of
the great thoroughfare and is cool when all
the rest OF Berlin is very hot, but it seems to
be entirely forgotten. We saw no one in the
vicinity but baker. girl going to carry
Saturday night installment Of bread, and a
few strangers who only gave a passing glance
to square filed up with old land marks.
The Schauspielhaus here must have been an
elegant old theatre, but by its broken panes
of ancient-looking glass, and its battered
good state OF preservation, but the rich cary-
ings on 1t, and sculptured figures and mytho-
logical monuments are study for hours. In
front OF it is Schiller monument, and at the
the side OF the Platz are the French church
and the old German cathedral with their
towers overlapping the loftiest buildings in
the city, furnishing splendid outlook over
the country for miles around At night we
took stroll in the brilliantly lighted streets
to see gay Saturday night among the shops
which are hardly inferior to those in Paris
and London, and to the feminine instincts
furnish worlds OF pleasure in the shopping
line.
But finally the hour arrives for our last
adieus to sweet Berlin. We took the early
train from the Stadtbahn Station of the ell
evated railroad on Friedrichs Strasse, and
looking back from miles and miles away, we
could see, towering high above all else, 1.-THE
Lieges Denkmal, that lofty monument of
victory to the restoration Of the German EN-
pire. A.