New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-15
ROYALTY AT BERLIN.
THE TWO WIDOWED EXPRESSES

VRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNAL
Paris. June 90
/ had long conversation with DR.. Evans on
the day on which the news arrived in Paris of En-
peror Fredericks death He was then expecting
- Nammons 10 Berlin to attend the Emperor, who
was his patient for dental affections for q long
number of years thirty-fve 1 think he said DR..
Evans is Quaker by birth and breeding comes
from the City of Brotherly Love, and keeps TO his
Quaker virtues Of peacefulness, prudence indie
pendenee and being never above his business, so tina
he has few enemies anywhere; and in the long years
during which he has been attached TO most of the
courts of Europe, without ever becoming courter.
lac has gathered around him many friends When
ever he loses friend you may be that death
is the cause. The Doctor has very high opinion
Of the intellect Of the Empress Augusta, which is
that of a literary artist and heightened lady reso-
lutte in the discharge of all her public duties, and
never yet known 10 finch though she has long been
seriously invaded and is seventyeight years old.
j was shown letters from her to the Doctor which
shows that she quite accepts his American and
Quaker point Of view and sinks in writing to him
the character of surgeon-dentist to her Imperial
Majesty and nearly all her relatives, and treats him
really as a personal and family friend He denies
that her extreme old age has rendered her nsensble
TO the blow which has been inflicted on the House
of Hohenzollern and on the German Nation and
Prussan people in the death of the Emperor Fred
eriek Her years merely place her above the tries
of life, TO which she now pays small at
tention unless in the public discharge of duties
arising from her position But her impression
able nature remains easy to stir an aspen, ard
she showed capacity for emotion during the illness
Of her only son which her doctor thought would
make an end Of her even though she combated
feeling and bowed her head TO the inevitable with
grand stoicism. The Empress and late Emperor
William greatly looked after the education of the
present Emperor and had him much more with
them than perhape his father or mother wished
But Frederick, when Grown Prince, looked upon
himself merely as the first subject and set an ex-
ample of obedience to the late Emperor, never
standing in his way in any respect.
As 10 the Empress Victoria, Dr. Evans thought
her case sad one One way or another her
lite was one of disappointment, with, however, the
immense satisfaction of lcal loving husband who
was her ideal of man. and who even in dying de-
velopcd such grand qualities rs TO render him
source of greater pride and object of deeper love
The fearful affection which came upon thom lifted
up their hearts and made her capable Of writing
that immortal telegram in which she announced his
death to the Empress Augusta. She was always
rght-minded but self-willed The pride Of spirit
was for years brought out by her drop down from
England where in her youth every one was wildly
loyal to the Queen and her children, to prOsac,
harsh, mattcr-of-fact Berlin. capital bcreft OF
poetry without antiquity, and having no tradition
but that of drillscrgeantism. Women were not
held in honor although the PrinceSseS Of the
House Of Hohenzollcn had for generations shown
fine mental qualities This to Queen Victorias
daughter was uncomfortable. She respected
her mother, herself and her sex, and she set
before her the task Of ameliOrating the con-
dition Of girls as a way to the future eleva-
ton Of Prussian women. Her Victoria Real
Schulz was founded when she was quite a young
woman. She found the model in Paris when she
came here at the age Of twcnty-cight to study
the Universal Exhibition held in 1861 She also
sedulously educated herself to play great part
Liberal Prussian Queen and German Empress.
Nobody took more pains with her mind and
motives and so far as she could she carried
theory into action. She felt that women were
great through true wifehood and motherhood.
and was her husbands companion in all but his
military duties, and not only the instructresS but
the fellow-studcnt Of her daughters The con-
ciousness of her capacities was strong in her
She was too good and upright to wish for the
death of the old Emperor. But she looked for
ward to il and had great ambition, as well as an
ambition in itself great to ill with renown the
station Of Empress-Consort.
In the ordinary course Of things she would
have come 10 the throne before she was middle
aged. But the abnormal longevity of Emperor
William kept the crown from her reach
until she was forty-eight and more than
fifty-eight in feeling. This was deprcss-
ing and Disappointing. At any rate it
was not what she or any OF her relatives counted
upon. The Imperial Crown was only crown of
thorns However, she gained through the corona
ton of sorrow moral position which she could
have never otherwise had. Even in harsh Berlin
there is reaction in her favor and all in sym
pathy with her. She is very rich. As Princess
ROYAL Of England, Empress Dowager, Empress
Mother, a wife of sorrows, woman Of a right mind
and an upright heart, she is perhaps a better in
strument for doing good than were she an Empress
Consort fcttered with ofiicaties and butt 10 the
hatred of ballcd ntrguers. With her rank,
money intellect. experience prestige and mind,
she may win for herself glorious name in patron
izng arts and promoting works of charity and
social reform
Emperor Frederick has left his widow for life
the schoss at Homburg as well as the palaces they
lived in at Postdam and Berlin, and the palace Of
Charlottcnburg.
DR. Evans is a shrcwd observer Of men. He
thinks the new Emperor will be amenable TO the
force Of things and will feel the weight of respon
sibility keenly. Being secord from the throne
lc3t him in semi-obscurity. Many eyes not
upon him his life, unless a soldier, having been
private He thus escaped being hecllled by crti-
csm and by persons of fault-fnding or malig
part disposition. &c.
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