The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-30
His Quiet Visit to the Tomb of the
Elder William, Whom He
Loved.
Berlin En- Masse Does Honor to
the Great Chancellor De-
parting.
The Man of Blood and Iron Affected to
Tears-A Brilliant Gathering at
the Depot.

The correspondent of the London Times
at Berlin, writing on the goth of March,
gives the following account of Bismarck s
departure from Berlin:
"The ex-chancellor had already taken
personal leave Of all the royal princes, but
on Friday there still remained one member
of the Hohenzollern family to whom he
owed his devoir, and this was the Emperor
King William l., now lying in marble state
beside his royal parents in the mausoleum
at Charlottenburg.
"Quietly driving out here towards the
cleaning, the chancellor entered the soil
tary vault and laid few roses on the tomb
of the monarch whom he had served so
long and nobly and loved 80 we'll. Sad and
overpowering must have been his thoughts
as, rising from his knees, he took final
farewell of the man whom he had
made an emperor and who had
kept his vow to cling to him to
the last. That was touching fare
we'll, but a more overpowering leave
taking still awaited the prince when, in his
accustomed cuirassier uniform, with his
son. Count Herbert, at his side, and his wife
and daughter and their son in carriage
following, he yesterday left the Radziwill
palace and began his progress through the
densey crowded and excited streets to the
Lehrter station, here to take train for Fried
richsruhe.
'As if the funeral of some great and
deeply mourned man were afoot, Berlin had
poured out all the best elements in its pop
ulation to weep and wildly wave their hats
and handkerchiefs, to scatter flowers, and
to struggle to shake and kiss the hand of
the man who was about to pass from their
midst and be lost to them. This is not the
language of exaggeratlon which am using.
but the sober record of incidents which
saw with my own eyes. have never seen
SO respectable a crowd in Berlin, which con-
tanned none of the usual constituents of a
mob, but was recruited from all the best
circles in Berlin society, especially the Of
fetal world. nor could have believed that
so severe and sombre class of people could
ever betray SO much downright emotion.
at was only with the utmost difficulty
that the mounted constables escorting the
chancellor's open carriage could cleave a
passage for it through the encompassing
throngs of those who pushed towards him
to offer him the choicest spring flowers and
seize his hand TO shake or kiss It.. 1t was
no wonder that all this spontaneous demon
stration of popular devotion almost I'M
manned its object and made the man of
blood and iron almost melt in tears. This
was the scene which presented itself all
along the princes route between his for
saken palace and the railway station. and
at this latter point the excitement was sim
ply overwhelming. Vainly did the police
attempt to keep the multitude out
Of the station In they ~ burst and
around and behind the dismounted squad
ron of cuirassiers of the guard, which, witt
standard and trumpets, had been sent BY
the emperor to act as guard of honor tc
the departing prince, who, it must be re-
membered. carries with him into his rural
raf1ramanf nf l-nh nf
cavalry and feld-marshnl- general, what
ever he may yet do as regards his other new
title of duke, about which the statements
are still at variance.
But in addition to this unusual guard of
honor, the emperor had also sent his per
sonal aids-de-ca and equerries with his
final adieus, accompanied by magnificent
and suggestive device in flowers. The high
officials formed the nucleus of brilliant
crowd of all that was foremost in the Of
fetal world OF Berlin-all the ministers and
ambassadors, including those of England
and France, and the whole array of those
who had ever owned the chancellor as a
friend, or master, or heA or all three in
every one sought to get final word
hand, but in the midst of all this overflow
ing emotion and enthusiasm it was too
much to expect anything like appropriate
or coherent answers from the prince, who
really looked as if, for the very first time
in his life. he had fairly lost his head.
"Cheer after cheer, each louder and more
thrilling than the other went up and made
the vaulted station ring. as the prince
showed himself at the window of his car
riage, or in converse with some friend. In
the intervals of the cheering the crowd
struck up the 'Wacht am Rhein' O,
Deutschland, Deutschland, ueber Alles
At last the excitement reached it's culmina,
ton when the whistle shrieked the sigma
for departure, and when, amid a final salvc
of frantic cheers blended with the sounc
of the cuirassiers' trumpets, the train
slowly steamed out of the station, Primo,
Bismarck shaking hands from the window
The crowd slowly dispersed, and as some o
its members neared the BrandenburCe
Thor they encountered the young emperor
placidly trotting home from his Afternoon
ride in the Thergarten.