The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-01

Berlin, March 31.-[Copyrighted, 1894,
by the Associated Press 1.-The eighty
first birthday of Prince Bismarck oc-
ours tomorrow, and it will be celebrat- !
ed with great enthusiasm and more
generally than ever before.
The eX-chancellor's reconciliation
with Emperor William has given an
impetus to the celebration, which may
be said to have commenced today, and
will last until Monday.
Every post brings letters and gifts
to F'reidrichshruhe. and these come not
only from all parts OF the empire, but
from wherever German is spoken. The
gifts arriving are more handsome and
numerous than ever, and include the
customary plover's egg from lever.
German Ladies' Participate.
A feature of the festivities will be
the part the German ladies will
ta3e in them As a COM
mencement twelve ladies yester-
i day presented Prince Bismarck with
an Illuminated address upon which was
the reading: ITO the Founder Of Ger
man Unity
| This address was signed by 100000
women and maidens of Hesse, Baden
and Palatinetina. 1t was enclosed IN
Ian artistic casket and was accompan-
led by a gift of 500 bottles of wine oil
the rarest and oldest vintaSes. Prince
| Bismarck, in return, thanked the Ia
dies and declared the lively interest
taken by women in politics vas step
forward in the path Of progress. Al
the conclusion of the eX-chaacellor
response, the ladies competed for the
honor of filling pipe, a proceeding
which caused. apparently, the greatest
delight to the man of blood and iron
Deputy Beaumer, on Thursday last,
HEADED a deputation from Dusseldorf,
(which presented the prince with an adj
dress. stating the new lifebOat, at the
Island of Noorderne, in the North sea,
would bear Prince Bismarck's name
The ex-chancellor. in reply, delivered
lengthy speech reminiscent Of his Wis
its to various seaside resorts, and Gov
ertly defending the criticism 1pon the
tpart of his newspaper organ OF govern
ment measures, which criticism, he
. said was so far from being incompat-
, lible with monarchial sentiment that 1t
! would purify and promote monarchic
, feeling The prince then invited the
:: deputation to luncheon and chatted
freely on various topics With its mem
bers.
The 5000 grand Bismarck commers,
held at the Philharmonic hall mere TO-
! might, were all sold before Friday, and
the greatest enthusiasm was displayed
by all present at the banquet Several
members of the reiChstag made speech
les. in which Prince Bismarck was most
sympathetically alluded TO, all refer
i ences to the aged statesman calling
forth loud applause.
Renamed Bismnrck Heights.
j Emperor William has not forgotten
= the ex-chancelors birthday. and Is
sending his adjutant from Abazzia e
: lcOnyey his congratulations to the
lprince. and as a further mark of the
n reconciliation which has taken place
: between them two forts on the heights
o of Quentin, near Metz; will, by the EN-
e perors order, be renamed Bismarck
Ii Heights, amidst general public reJolc
: ing.
$ Al the members of Prince Bis
:. marck's family have arrived al Freid
g richsruhe in order to take part in tbs
t birthday celebration. So many depu
X ia tons have been announced to arrive
e at Prince BiSmarck'S home tomorrow
= that it has been found necessary Il
: courteously intimate to them that thu
: prince will be unable to receive all WHIT
/ desire to call upon him.
e The suppression in Alsace of the So
2. cialist organ Volks Zeitung. by Primo
Won he-Schillinsfurst the lieu
tenant of the emperor in Alsace-Lor
n
- Radical and Liberal press, which at
1t tribute to the prince the motive of ;
l. petty desire to show the dictate
d clause of the exceptional law is no
IN aimed against socialism, but agains
to the persistent opponents of German
n annexation, and which has been dea
n letter for ten years past, still exists.
Of Failing to Dust Won Caprivi froT
m office, the agrarians are now aiming a
g, a higher game. They declare tn
b. Russo-German commercial treaty wa
carried by the personal influence of tn
emperor. which, they claim, makes II
self felt in every important question
They denounce this so-called absolut
~ ism as a danger to the monarchy an
to the empire.
The shortness of the stay of En-
rs peror Francis Joseph at Abazzia. t.
ez gether with the absence of the leadin
lie statesmen Of the two empires, prI
en- cludes the idea that the meeting b'
MS tween the emperors at the seaside wa
Id other than ceremonious.
nc nc Imperial Visits Come High.
he The visit of the imperial family
,r Germany to AbaZZia is running up q
We enormous expense bill. Some idea OF Il
* cost of this trip to the shores Of u
Adriatic sea may be gathered when
is mentioned the special trains whil
have been run to AbaZzia, first with Il
empress and then with the enperO
&c, cost 10000 marks each journey. The
there is the expense of the travelling
49,, the people attached to the suites
aa the empress and emperor: the hire
M the yacht Christobel, the rent of Il
ey two villas at Abazzia, the expense
Ia. living there, the cost of entertainer
ID gifts to the poor people of the neig
borhood, etc, and it may be rough
ESTIMATED that the sojourn Of the er
peror and empress at the seaside reso
re- Twin amount to between 100000 and 50
On 600 marks.
he The women's movement in German
mr. lis making great progress: The congre
he Icalled by the lady delegates to t
his Worlds fair at Chicago met he
tu- Thursday last 1t is the intention
I'VE the ladies to form union Of all t
'ao charitable and humane societies in CO
many in order that the work Of the s
cieties may be conducted upon
broader plan. A thorough exchange
srs views between the different societies
lor proposed, and it seems likely that t
,se movement will have decidedly Der
ins, fetal effect. In order TO avoid polite
or the ladies' confined their discussion