Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-04-16
Interesting Accounts of the Manner in
Which the Kaiser Dimes in
State.
Spirited Revolutionary "reminiscences
of Brave Attempt TO Occupy
the ScblOSs.
Graphic Pen Pictures of the KaiseT's
Reception, and the Royal
Apartments.

creation of royal Prussia by Frederick |,
| in 1901, who recognized the Berlin
/ Schloss as his official residence and there
spends the social season. Indeed, he
makes the immense pile facing the Lust
garten his headquarters during the whole
I of the year. whenever he visits the Capt.
/ tai, either on returning from his summer
Jaunts or when running across from Post
/ dam, where he inhabits a place almost
similar in magnitude and granduer, the
| Neues Palais, so called.
| Frederick l., who in the year 17l6 fur
nished the Schloss, founded in the 6f
tenth century, left it a bad name 1t
was at this castle his court spent one-hfth
of the Kingdom s entire revenue in aping
/ Louis XIV. And this revenue was at the
time only 1000 900 thalers, 900, 900 less
| than the present sovereign's annual
salary He successor, Friedrich William,
the parsimonious, detested the place
where his lordly father hao entertained
! l42 different classes of servants on the fat
of the land.
He never set foot into it except on state
occasions. Frederick the Great hated the
Schloss almost as much as Berlin and sent
all his grandfather silver treasurers
stored there the immense chandeliers,
massive tables and chairs, etc, into the
mint. Frederick William II. and III.
also kept aloof from the Schloss, the one
because he preferred the air and country
lassises of Potsdam, the other for econ
omys sake.
REVOLUTIONARY "REMINISCENCES.
Frederick William ~. made brave
attempt at occupying the Schloss. bu5
when the revolutionists Of lS4S made him
appear on the grand balcony to doff his
chapeau before the victims of his sCldiery,
he became so Disguised with the Inflated
pile that be never dared look at it after
ward for fear Of bringing on appopexy.
For the same reasons the late Kaiser Will
helm was opposed to "a residence in the
Schoss. He had attended the balcony
scene in his disgraced brothers suite and
deeply felt the significance of the event,
which ferdinand Freihgrath thus de-
sCribes in his great poem, The Dead .
Appeal to the Living"
"OH came his h8t-he crouched-
Ihe royal puppet, who but yesterday appeared az
! o comedian
BIT that wasn't ALL William had also
grave personal reasons for disiking the
palace. On March %, lS3S, he, then
prince of Prussia, was forced to hide in
one of its inner chambers 10 elude the en-
ragged populace, who stormed the castle
| gates TO secure bis person. Ire rioters
failed to find him and in their anger threw
the gates into the Spree. where they had
Intended to deposit the prince. Some
years later these gates were hsred ont of
the river and regretted a standing re-
minder of Hohenzoiien's weakness. The
present Emperor caused them to be remoy-
ed and replaced by magnificent specimens
of the wroughter' art.
THE KAIsER 3 APARTMENTS.
Not until the last trace Of them had dis.
appeared did the proud kaiser make his
entrance into his ancestral halls, where he
OCcupiis the appointments formerly inhabi-
ed by his late uncle, Frederick Charles,
the famous Red prince and conquer0r of
Metz, a gentleman whe never cared a rap
for the historical and revolutionary rem
lniscences that made the SchIOss odious
to the other members Of the royal fsmi s.,
! but considered it good place to live in
as he had no place OF his own
The building itself has undergone no
! alterations since II became once more the
royal eeadQ1arttrs. Emperor William uas
/ begun the constr 1cti0u Of an annex 10 the
! Write Hall, it is true, but as it will not
/ be finished for the next twelve months it
must NOT DO taken into consideration
: here.
] "HE WHITE NALL.
4 The hail is one OF the most beautiful in
/ the world. Like an stated apartments Of
! the Scbloss It's appointments and ,decora-
! ti0ns ore of the Erst FFedariek's period,
/ VIXEN 100000 of dowurtrodden people
/ we're reduced to abiaet poverty IN oruer
/. 10 equip the ngwmade Kings new resi-
( 6snCe with regal splend0r.
/ On the While Hall especially was
money spent W ifh a lavish hand, for didn {
the king. duriag tLe course Of its erection,
secure the services of Dominica Caetano
C8uts de Ruggiers, .bhe alchemist, who
claimed to have invented process Of
masking goldt What WAS the use of
.stinurg oneself for the saae Of a few pal
,ry millions from one S peoples pockets
If the Italian promised 20 create untold
oceans OF god az viii When the Whlj5
Haii was finished and bis majesty con.
fronted with national bar kruptcy, Caetago
was aJiu6Ged q fraud. and hanged 90 a
glrded galiows, together with hls mis-
fTass wnou he had recommended Is the
kings mercy. Frederick thought 10 a
most ma2uan4nnDs act TO allow her, a
u4ere CouluOner, TO die ca a giiled gal
lows. Ihis was in 1908 Poor Caetano
and his strangely enobled mistress are for
gotten long ago bat his great work,
"Dar AeIS,e Saal, continues as The ALL
adllgcJ and far.iamei banquet ball OF
kings lts ancient crystal and silver
chandeliers are now provided with
|thcosands Of inaadascaut lights: there are
,ea ral modern paintings en- the long
stretched walls and statues of new
men iu the marble inches. bat the general
taspo1t has remained unchanged for yearly
twc centuries.
state banquet, heli by the kaiser IL
the White Hail, ls a spectacle never To bs
forgotten even from the standpoint az 4
locker en- in the musicians gallery
That was my standpoint a short time
ago.
\ had been advised to climb up into the
. loft about Ole hour before the ceremony
1 ta4nmepced. ana mad tu just seated my.
self in The front row when an army OF
privileged officials, with their kith and
Kin. invaded the limited precincts end
completely sled the rest Of the available
] sp4ca While these ladies' and gentlemen