New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-13
patty of all Berlin was a perfect ovation. There

psthy Of al Berlin. was perfect ovation. There
were few dry eyes about the open coffin when
the eulogium was pronounced. In the procession
thousands Joined, and several hundred carriages
followed him to the grave, while throngs gathered
either side Of the street or viewed the ccrtege
from roofs and windows Berlin has not paid
such tribute to its great dead as to this poor
Hebrew. the victim of comrades bullet Eich-
lcrs life is ruined, too. He cannot be tired for
murder, according to the German law, but he
will sit for years in military prison and there
feel the awful sin: Strong steps will De taken
to abolish the system, which has long since oeen
degraded to its proper level among the students
Of other countries
The guards standing again ut the entrance to
the palace of William !, opposite the statue Oh
Frederic the Great, since the return OF the En-
nress Augusta, recall the changes which have
taken place within its walls. People still stand
in small groups about the historic window where
the old Emperor was won't to come, because
a Baedecker said So" as though watching Tor
the once familiar face which appears not But
the throngs have dispersed, to assemble no more.
The life has died out Of that part Of the Linden
The regiments which daily came marching be-
hind the stately commanders to the stirring
notes Of Hell Der I'm Sieger Kranz," or Die
Yacht am Rhein," to deposit their standards IN
the keeping of their chief now pass by with
mufled tread to the old castle where their young
master has taken up his abode. The Berhners
sigh for those good old days" The young
Emperor cannot establish like precedent HIS
suite of apartments does front upon the Linden,
as did the audience chamber OF William 1, IN
his small palace. The people cannot venerate
him as they did his grandfather IL was the
sight Of the aged hero, standing or stopping WITH
difficulty the white locks, and the wrinkled
face, which touched them, in his midday greet
ings They looked upon the meetings as the
gathering of family about the parents, and
many called him grandpa The conditions
are changed, and the young Emperor, in his
endeavors to initiate Frederic the Great the treat
ment Of members Of the city council, his at
tacks upon. the press, his desire for
display, his ultra-love for the army has not made
himself popular. And though people gather
about the Schloss," cheer him when he drives
along the historic street in Che gay equlpages,
still years will 20 By ere they feel that affection
for him which they all had Tor his grandfather.
The library Of William ] is stu unchanged,
all the numerous pictures photographs ana paint
jngs of his mother still retain their places. But
beyond the recepton-room, in the white chamber,
where the tattered flags OF the regiments were
placed in other days, guarded by the tall cursss
In his white uniform with the golden-topped hel-
met, the broadsword, and the heavy breastplate
much is changed: these trophies are gone In their
stead rests a beautiful silk standard, the poles
capped with golden eagles placed there by Empress
A,irusta. Printed upos it. In flashing golden let
ters. are the words: " Here stood the laurel
crowned standards Of Germany"