The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-04
PRINCE BlSMARCNS BIRTHDAY
THE CELEBRATION APT TO LAST A
WHOLE WEEK.

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Representative of other Bodies
Also 10 Parade During the Week.
The Big Celebration OF the People
OF the RhfneIand 20 BE Held on
the NeiderwaId-Fears of IA Big
Flood.
Berlin, March 3.-The arrangements for
the Bismarck birthday festival are nearing
completion. They show that the celebra-
ton viii exceed. all previous expectations.
They have been planned on such an enor-
nous scale that DR.. schweininger has
become alarmed for the princes health
and has taken steps 10 spread the recep-
tions and professions over a week or ten
days. He has been aided by Herr PAueg-
er. the organizer Of the student demonstra-
tion, and by the Hamburg admirers of the
prince.
Herren schweininger and Pheuger gave
the United Press correspondent last week
an outline of the programme as adopted.
on April Is, Prince Bismarck will receive
the German students, addressing them be-
tween II and u o'clock. In the afternoon.
he VIII welcome delegates from the cities,
among whom there will be many from
European countries and America. After
a dinner there win be a grand demonstra-
ton by the voters Of the Hamburg parlia-
mentary election district. The original
intention was that a torch-light process
sion should follow this, but upon DIR.
schweininger's recommendation, it will be
held on the preceding evening.
The North schleswlg delegation will go
to Friedrichsruhe on April 4, and the rep
resentatives of German guilds. 1900
strong, will arrive on the 18th. The Pom
oranians probably will pay their respects
to the old chancellor on Easter Monday.
The homage of the students will be the
greatest feature of the festival. About
thousand of them win appear in full re-
gala with swords and sashes, some 400
with banners, and eco without uniforms.
the majority from schools below the un-
iversity grade-will march behind the
corps. All viii assemble in Hamburg on
the 30th. On the morning of the LIST they
will take special trains for points about
a mile from Friedrichsruhe. They will
leave the trains there and march to the
castle with eight bands of music. They
march. Prince Bismarck, standing on the
castle terrace will receive them and re-
view them as they march past After de-
filing before him the students will be led
to their allotted places on the lawn and
will cheer their host in the proper uni-
versity style. Herr Phueger will deliver
the address for them. After Prince Bis
marcI's speech to the students the young
men will return to Hamburg for the
cOmmers in Sagebiels hail. The students
who can not so to Fredrichsruhe will
have Bismarck drinking bouts in all
the university towns on the same eve
ming. By Prince Bismarcks request the
Berlin academy of arts will choose some
day in April to send it's deputation with
the address comforting honorary member
ship on him.
A birthday banquet will be held in the
Philharmonic hall in Berlin by the Lied
ertafel, Cecilia, Melodia, Lehrerverein,
Erksherverein, Saengerbund and SEN
gerschaft glee unions.
At a date convenient to the prince all
these societies win send a deputation to
Friedrichsruhe.
The people of the Rhineland will have
their main celebration at national mon
ument on the Niederwald This monu-
ment, erected in commemoration of the
union of Germany, will be to the Rhineland
what Friedrichsruhe is to North Germany
convey thousands from Cologne, Strass-
burg, Mayence, Frankfort and smaller
cities to the foot of the hill, from which
Prof. Schilling's Germania overlOoks Bin
gen. There viii be speeches. music Rhine
wine and beer all day, and fireworks and
illumination of the Rhine at night
The city of Cassel will send an address
to the prince, but instead of giving a big
Bismarck banquet, as was planned at first,
the council will present 900 marks to the
poor in the old chancellors name The
faithful Jervites will send the traditional
l01 plover eggs and a palm.
The present indications are that the
whole first week of April will be given up
throughout Germany to honoring the old
chancellor and that at Friedrichsruhe the
arrival of presents and congratulations
and the reception of Populations are likely
to reach over well into May.
Prince Bismarck has requested the Sty-
rian deputation to postpone their jour
ney to Friedrichsruhe until Easter Mon
day.
The only protest against the Bismarck
demonstration comes from the Vorwaerts
the organ of the social democratic CEN
trail committee. The editor speaks Of the
celebrations as a Festival of All Fools, -
and ridicules the sudden Bismarck wor-
ship of the conservatives and national
liberals. "A year ago." he remarks, no
body friendly to the government would
have dared boast of his his acquaintance
with the depOsed chancellor"
The Upper Rhine is still firmly ice
bound. Hundreds of persons crossed on
the ice Wednesday near Worms and Mann
helm On the central Rhine, the ice has
begun to break up, but is forming an
enormous pack at which blasters are
working with powder and dynamite The
inhabitants of the low valley lands are
preparing for the inevitable floods, which
threaten to be more destructive than for
years In other valleys the prospect is
hardly less menacing as the heavy snow
falls were general throughout the en-
pire.
The empress and her staff of charitable
workers have been busy for a week in
warning the womens societies in all the
valley districts that they must prepare
refugees, kitchens and clothing for the
emergency. At the empress instance,
moreover, local officials have begun col
Iecting flood funds and stores of cast off
clothing.
The Countess Perponcher, arrested for
perjury. in denying her intimacy with DR.
Voight, is still in Jail, although 1000 marks
bal was offered for her on Friday Dr.
Voight has been arrested for perjury and
conspiracy.
Emperor Williams refusal to interfere
IN behalf of Armenia seems TO have won