Morning journal and courier., 1890-04-18

BI0m0fCkSo Ex1B FRO" 00klAAs
The correspondent of the London Times at
Berlin, writing on the s0th of March, gives
the following account Of Bismarck's depart
ure from Berlin:
ssThe ex-chancsllor had already taken PSF
sonal leave of the royal princes, but on Fri
day there still remained one member Of the
Hohenzollern family to whom he owed his
dsvoir, and this was the Emperor-ktng
William ], now lying In marble state beside
his royal parents in the mausoleum at Char
lottenburg.
,"Quietly driving out here towards the
cleaning, the chancellor entered the solitary
vault and laid few roses on the tomb of the
monarch whom he had served so long and
nobly and loved so we'll. Sad and overpow-
ering must have been his thoughts as, rising
from his kness, 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 a touching farewell, bat a more
overwhelming 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 a carriage following, he yesterday left
the Radziwill palace and began his progress
through the densely crowded and excited
streets to the Lehrter station, here TO take
train for Friedrichsruhe.
GAS if the funeral of some great and deep
" mourned man were afoot, Berlin had
poured out all the best elements in It's popu-
lation to weep and wildly wave their hats
and handkerchiefs, to scatter flowers, and 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 exagger-
alton which am using, but the sober record
of incidents which saw with my own eyes.
have never seen so respectable q crowd In
Berlin, which contained none of the usual
constituents of a mob, but was recruited
from all the best circles in Berlin society,
especially the official world, nor could have
believed that SO severe and sombre q class of
people could ever betray SO much downright
emotion.
SIT was only with tho utmost difficulty
that the mounted constables escorting the
chancellor's open carriage could cleave pas
sage for it through the enoompassing throngs
of those who pushed towards him to offer
him the choicest of spring flowers and seize
his hand to shake or kiss it. 1t was no won-
der that all this spontaneous demonstration
OF popular devotion almost unnamed its OBJ
| ject, and made the man of blood and iron
almost melt in tears. This was the scene
which presensed itself all along the princes
route between his forsaken palace and the
railway station, and at this latter point the
excitement was simply overwhelming. Vain-
| ly did the police attempt to keep the multi
| tudes out of the station. In they burst and
packed themselves on the platform around
and behind the dismounted squadron of
| Cuirassiers of the guard, which, with stand
ard and trumpets, had been sent by the
emperor to act as guard OF honor to the de-
parting prince, who, it must be remembered,
carries with him into his rural retirement the
rank of general-oberst of cavalry and field
| marshal-general, whatever he may yet
| do as regards his other new title of duke,
| about which the statements are still at vari-
anee.
"But in addition to this unusual guard of
| honor, the emperor had also sent his personal
aides de camp and equerries with hts final
adieus, accompanied by magnificent and
suggestive device in flowers. The high of6e-
ials formed the nucleus of brilliant crowd
of all that was formost in the official world
| of Berlin-all the ministers and ambassa-
dors, including those of England and France,
| and the whole array of those who had ever
| owned the chancellor as friend, or master, OF
hero, or all three in one.
"Every one sought to get Anal word
with him, or, at the very least, to press his
hand, but in the midst of all this overdowine
! emotion and enthusiasm 1t 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 lie, hs
had fairly lost his head.
ssCheer after cheer, each louder and NOR
thrilling than the other, went up and made
the vaulted station ring, as the prime
showed himself at the window of his car
riage, or in converse with some friend. Il
the intervals of the cheering the GROVE
struck up the Wacht am Rhein' or 'Dsutsch
land, Deutschland uber Alles.' At last tn
excitement reached its elimination when th'
whistle shrieked the signal for departure
and when, amid a final salvo of frantic
cheers, blended with the sound of ths
Cuirassiers' trumpets, the train slowly
steamed out of the station, Prince Bismarck
shaking hands from the window. The crowd
slowly dispersed, and as some of its member
neared the Brandenburger Thor they encoun
tered the young emperor placidly trottinl
garten.