The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-08-23

was a fine view of an Odd Obelisk and the
church of St. Nicholas Turning again
to the interior, in the entrance just OPP
one of these was presented by Krupp TO
Emperor William |. In this palace we
went through twenty-nine rooms One
was the private dining room of Frederick
the Great. This is a cabinet with double
doors from which a dining table or dumb
waiter could be let down by means of a
trap door, and where the king occasion
ally dined with his friends without the
danger of being overheard by his atten-
dants. In the flower room was a table,
belonging to Frederick the Great, which
Napoleon l carried to Paris and Butcher
brought back. In the white and gold
room is a crystal chandelier that cost co.
900 marks or $15, 900. The green bed
room was the one occupied by Napoleon
l in 1S06'07. Some, of the ladies of u
party seemed much surprised at the primi-
tive simplicity of the sitting room, library,
bedroom and toilet room Of Queen Louise,
consort of Frederick William III, 1897
1910.
Once through this much of the Stadt-
Schloss, we drove through a long beauti-
fully shaded street over a bridge SPAN
ming the Havel-here the scenery is lovely
ON through many windings Of the
bOWery drive by several palaces, and
finally the carriage stops at the gates of a
densely wooded park. A long walk
around a slope, the ideal green prone
made of the Germans, brings US to Babels-
berg SchlOss, so sweet and simple. In
artistic situation it rivals the Herren-
have been the place above all others where
the old emperor, Wilhelm |, who had it
built about sixty years ago, enjoyed quiet
homelife in it's purity and without pOmp.
He always spent the latter half of the
summer here. This chateau is simply but
tastefully decorated, and contains many
works of real art, mainly of the early
Berlin and Dusseldorf schools. The
rooms were small and coy and just fitted
up for the immediate family of the old
emperor. In the dining there were
two champagne glasses in the shape of
very slender tunnels. These were each
about seven feet long. The rooms occu-
pied by the ex-Empress Victoria, the few
weeks before she was married to Emperor
Frederick III, were upholstered in pretty
bright Scotch plaid linen. In the hunt
ing hall among other trophies of the royal
chase we saw and held in our hands a
very plain but neat stick cut by Emperor
Wilhelm /. Perhaps the most striking
features in the palaces frequented by this
monarch are white candles, and cOrn
flower there ever present. This grand old
man in his noble simplicity would nave
none of the tiAnan /2o-~~
Gt~feetttncfty.
From this place we drove back to a
restaurant by the river and took lunch
before proceeding to the palace Sans
Sonci. In this palace Frederick the Great
lived forty,six years. In the park at the
east end of the highest terrace is the place
where eleven of his greyhounds and some
of his chargers are buried Many terraces
form the descent from tn palace to the
bottom of a basin which is occupied by
the great fountain. The water of this
rises to the heighth of 112 feet, and there
are several smaller ones around it. En-
circling the great fountain there are
twelve marble statues. There is also of
Frederick the Great an elegant equestrian
statue In Carrara marble. The park of
Sans Sonci is the most indescribable of
all the royal haunts we have yet seen.
Surely there can be nothing of the kind |
surprising it. The palace is a long, low,
one story building. The rooms occupied
by its illustriOus founder are still pre-
served unaltered from their condition at
The time Of his death, which occurred at
his place. On the opposite side of the
palace from the terraces are two large /
semi circular galleries on the same plan
those in front of St. Peters at Rome. |
N the open space between the main build |
ng of the palace and the galleries is the
where once each year the present
emperor gives a grand dinner to his Off
;ers. The interior of Sans Soncf looks
Tery old but still elegant. After the yes
lbule we entered () A dining room. o.
Art gallery where there are two paintings
~ Vatican and a portrait of Madame
'ompadour. (3) Concert room in which
5 the clock that Frederick the Great was
n the habit of winding up. 1t is said to
lave stopped at the precise of
us death, 2:2O p. M, August l., 1896.
y Writing room with olive tapestry
walls. In this room we saw btsts of
frederick Wilhelm III and Frederick Will
lem ~, and a portrait by Pesne of Fred
rick the Great in his both year. This is
aid to be the only likeness for which he
yer sat. (5) The library, the finest room
the palace. All the books are French.
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