St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-01
HONOR FOR OLD BISMARCK
EiCH7Y-FRST BIRTHDAY cELEBRk-
7I5N FOR THE PRINCE.
ENTHUSIASM In THE EMPIRE


For the Old Warrior - One
Hundred Thousand Women
Sign an Address 40 n the
Founder of German Unity
Addresses q Deputation. u
copyright. 1894. by the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March Sl.-The eighty-firSt
birthday of Prince Bsmark occurs to-
morrow, and will be celebrated with
greater enthusiasm and more generally
than ever before. The eX-chanceIlor'
reconciliation with Emperor William
has gwen an impetus to the cefebra-
ton. which may be SAID to have coni,a
menced today and will last ,untiL
Monday. Every post is bringing Letters
and gifts to FREDERICKSBURG, and these
come not only from all parts of the em-
pire, but from wherever German is
spoken. The gifts arriving are more
handsome and numerous than ever, and
include the customary plOverS' eggs
from lever. A feature of the festivities
Will be the extensive part which the
ladies of Germany will take IN them.
AS commencement, twelve ladies
yesterday presented Prince Bismarck
with an illuminated address upon
which was the heading reading: TO
the Founder of German Unity" This
address was signed by 100000 women
maldens of Hesse, Baden and Palatinat.
1t was enclosed III an exquisite
artistic casket, and was accompanied
by gift of 400 bottles of
wine of the rareSt and oldest
vintages. Prince Bismarck, in return
ing thanks to the ladies, declared that
the lively interest taken by the women
in politics was great step forward in
the path Of progress. At the conclu-
sion of the ex-chancellor's response the
ladies competed for the honor of filling
and lighting his pipe, a proceeding
which caused, apparently. the greatest
delight to the
MAN OF BLOOD AND IRON.
Deputy Beumer. OH Thursday last.
headed deputation from Dusseldorf
which presented the prince with an ad-
dress. stating that the new life boat. at
the island of Noordernev, in the North
sea, would bear Prince Bismarck's
name. The eX-chancellor, in reply, de-
livered lengthy speech, reminiscent
of his visits to various seaside
resorts and covertly defending the criti-
cism upon the part of his newspaper
organization of government measures,
which criticism, he said, was so far
from being incompatible with monarch
ial sentiment that it would purify and
promote mOnarchlc feeling. The prince
then invited the deputation to luncheon
and chatted freely of various topics
with its members.
The 5000 tickets for the grand Bis
mark kommers, held at the Philhar-
monte hall here tonight, were all sold
before Friday, and the greatest enthu-
siasm was displayed by all present at
the banquet. Several members of, the
reichstag made patriotic speeches in
which Prince Bismarck was most SYM
pathetically referred to, all the refer.
ences to the aged statesman calling
forth loud applause. -
Emperor William has not forgotten
the eX-chancellor's birthday, and is
sending his adjutant from AbbaZzia to
convey his personal congratulations to
the prince, and, as further mark Of
the reconciliation which has taken
place between them, two forts on the
heights of ST. Quentin, near Metz, viii,
by - 7
THE EMPERoR's ORDER. -
be renamed Bismark's Heights amidst
general public rejoicings. After his
usual visit to KiSsingen this summer
Prince Bismarck will go to the baths at
Bruckenau.
All the members of Prince Bismarek's
family have arrived at FrIedrichsruhe
i'll order to take part in the birthday
celebration. So many Populations have
been announced to arrive at Prince
Bismarck'S home tomorrow, that it has
been found necessary to cOurteOusly in
innate to them that the prince will be
unable to receive all who desire to
call upon him.
The suppression, in Alsace, of the
Socialist organ Nolks Zeitung, by Prince
Won ohe-SchilIingsfurst, the
lieutenant of the emperor In AL
sace-Lorraine, is strongly condemned
by the Liberal and Radical press,
which attributes to the prince the mo-.
tive of petty desire to show that the
dlctatorial clause of the exceptional
laws, not aimed against socialism, but
against the persistent opponents of Ger.
man annexation and which has bee
dead letter for ten years past, still ex-
lists.
Failing to GUST Won Caprivi fir ON
off ri
higher game. They declare that the
Russo-German commercial treaty was
carried by the personal influence OF
the emperor, which, they claim, makes
itself felt in every important question.
They denounce this so-caIled absolut.
ism as danger to the monarchy and to
the empire. The shortness of the stay
of Emperor Francis Joseph at Albania,
together with the absence of the leading
statesmen of
THE TWO EMPIRES,
precludeS the idea that the meeting be-
tween the emperors at the seaside was
other than ceremonious. The visit of
the imperial family of Germany to Alb
bazzia is running up an enormous eX-
pense bill. Some idea of the cost of
this trip to the shores of the Adriatic
may be gathered when 1t is men,
toned that the special trains which
have been run to Albania, first with
the empress and then with the emperor,
cost 10000 marks each journey. Then
there is the expense of the trav-
cling of the people attached to
the suites Of the empress and
emperor, the hire of the yacht
Christabel; the rent of the two villas at
Albania, the expense of living there's
cost of entertainment. gifts to the poor
people of the neighborhOod, ETC.. and it
may be roughly estimated that the So
| journ Of the emperor and empress al
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