New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-18
TIE KAISER'S OBSEQUIES.
HONAGE TO IMPERIAL CLAY.
MAGNIFICENT BUT SOLEMN SPECTACLE.


GA1HFDEAL- HEvrRLNr CROWDS AND
EFF TENT GUARDS FREDEaICK Ill.
BISM .ECk AND Won MOITKE IN
ABLE 70 ATTEND THE SERVICE
TIE EMPRESS AID CROWS
PRINCE PRESENT THE
LAST SCENE AT
THE TOMB
Part OF the following dispatch appeared
only IN our late edition yesterday and part of
il was received too late to Appear III any edition
We therefore print this morning the whole of
Mr. Smaliey'S brilliant description of Friday S
imposing pageant i'll Berlin:
lnI CABLE TRIBUNEi
sssyrisM lsss: sv The N,,e- York Tib,m.
BrnLiN March l6-1hcy have buried the great
German Emperor becomes the great German
people. To-days pageant has been one of sub
ducd. but Oh the whole SURPRISING, spcndor If
anything were wanting To mere spectacular ef-
feet it was amply made up by every circum-
stance impressive to the imagination. Not Bcr-
lin, but Germany buried him. half the world
ION ng IN homage. For wherever rides an English
feet or flies an English flag the thunder of Eng
lish cannon in homage to the German Kaiser was
heard. The Queens order for sautes Of ninety
one guns las profoundly gratifcd the German
people. What only wanting today was the
presence of those two men who had been the En-
Count Won Moltke. Both were at Charlotten-
burg but invisible, like all there save TO the priv
ileged few.
1t is almost twenty-five years since / the
King of Prussia ride up Inter den Linden at
the head Of the army. victorious from the Aus
TRAN campaign. To-day his body has been borne
back along the same street, beneath the insignia
Of Imperial Germany. In S66 he was surround
ed by what was even then the most brill head
quarters staff in Europe Apart from The STAFF, IN
a line by themselves. rode Bismarck, Won Motke,
and Won Room, then War Minister and the Carnot Of
Prussia. They three, next after the King were
the greatest figures among those 5000 troops
All are absent to-day: Won Room. dead; Won
Moltke too weak with age for the long foot
march from the Dom to Victory Avenue; and Bis
marcS i'll. Their chief and comradc starts on
bis last campaign without them.
The doors of the Dom Church were not 70 be
opened till IL; but the streets Of Berlin were
throngcd from daylight In Unter den Linden
uultitudes were in their places waiting for the
procession, which expected to pass between
j and 2 o'clock The police were carly IN strict
possession of this broad thoroushfate. At 10,
when | drove the whole length, every entrance TO
it. whether on foot in carriage, was closed to
everybody who had not pass. The street was
In a tumult. Troops were moving IN masses. l
came first on a company Of the fHst X giLleut
of Guards who alone in the Prussian Army wear
the mitre- shaped gilt helmets OF the great Fred
erick's day, 10 be seen in Iogarth's prints I'm
perial carriages were dashing along. Many Am
bsssadors were there. But except where Imperial
livery was visible, there no one without
printed pass six inches square, In the coachman's
hat. Snow still lay on the streets
A singing north wind blew. The sky was al
most as gray as in England AL that part OF
Berlin near the Cathedral was, as 1t has been
snce Monday in the hands of the military El2ht
squsdrons Of cavalry, nine battanons OF infantry
and twelve guns were drawn up in the Lustga-
ten These, and these only were TO form the
escort Of the Emperor. All the other troops forming
tie garrison Of Berlin, 900 strong lined the ROAD
through the Thiergarten TO Charlottenburg. lhe
steps. windows and roofs OF most buildings roht
ing on the square were filled with spectators III
black. The windows only Of the Old Palace were
filed; but trbunes were elevated IN lIonV ior sO'
hundreds Of guests.
The front of the church was at this hour ~
still mass of scaffolding Royal carriages were
setting down guests of every degree. AT noon
they were arriving more rapidly still II looked
rs if il were impossible that things could be
ready for the Emperor's exit when the service
yos over CARPENTERS stuff Of all kinds was
thrown about, and you could not get near the
entrance without driving through bodies OF BUSY
ss if they were mailing down a hundred collins.
l,,,ngcments for entrance TO the Dom were per-
feet There was no crowding and no confusion
Each card specified the door and the part OF the
building TO be occupied by each lot OF guests.
A. / came into the nave at the north eno 1
looked instinctively for the Emperor, whom i
had twice seen lying in state. lie had Vahished
forever from sight. The coffin was closed Oh
Il rested a gilt helmet, medieval in shape, the
visor down. and black and white feathers isuihs
In Prince Of Wales plumes over IT, The closed
visor WAS sign Of the royal rank OF him De-
meath Black and white the Prussian colors
Then. as often during the day, Pfussian seemed
more visible than Imperial insignia The
banner which drooped at his head was
black and white. Candles were still burning by
hundreds Huge single tapers famed against
the walls of the chanceL crucihx rose over
the altar A painted picture which l could not
make out. rested against the south wall There
seemed no essential difference between this and
y Catholic chapel. Gone also were
those giant soldiers who, in ordered array RepC
guard about the coffin. The Whole choir was
hlled with soldiers; with kings, princes gfanu
dukes, imperial officers OF high gfades' gic"'
Ministers Of State the Lord Lieutenant OF Alsace-
Lorraine al seated in front Of inc cohn
They are brilliant group, more brilliant SUI
when seen against the sombre, black tunes ana
white plumes Of those knights OF the b"ck h"s'e
who stand nearest the coffin. Diplomatis's are
somewhere in a box. The Empress, princeSses ana
other ladies Of prncely rank, are in box oppo-
site.
The nave has been built up into long
Hope from outside of the choir to the north sac
There stands Germany. Whatever is dlstin-
guished important, whatever makes 6er-
many Germany, is here by its delegates