The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-19
MONUMENT TO WILLIAM |
Thousands Witness the Laying Of thu
Corner Stone.
GRANDSON KING PRESIDES
Emperor william II Joins In the Im.
pressiyo Ceremonies and Makes an Ad.
dress to the Multi udcs Asse mbled.
The kaisers Name llOnOred.

Berlin, Aug. 1S.-The foundation
stone of the monument to Emperor Will
liam was laid today by his grandson.
Emperor william. H., with the most
imposing ceremonies. The former
Schloss Fregeit. where the monument
Is to be erected, was converted into a
closed arena for the occupancy of the
many guests. who had been invited to
attend the ceremony. Huge galleries,
for privileged spectators, fianked the
norta and south sides of the arena,
while on the west side, which borders
the River Spree, a high wooden board
ing had been erected, draped with the
German and Prussian colors. From
the Imperial tent a stairway descended
TO the Schloss, where the stand was
placed within a semi-circle OF Venetian
maize, trimmed with bunting and BAN
ners, and connected with festoons OF
live oak. The whole fest platz was sur
rounded by soldiers. who kept the great
crowds back from that part of the
grounds set apart for the use Of the
emperor and his guests.
At 7.3O O'Clock the royal personages
assembled in the position front of the
emperor. There We're also present men,
bers of the Bundesrath and the Reich
stag. AS his Majesty appeared he was
greeted with a flourish of trumpets. AS
he came out and stood by the stone,
Chancellor Won Hohenlohe rendered to
him an address, which his Majesty
read. After he had read little time
the bells In churches in the vicinity
struck the hour of 3, and this drowned
part of the text.
EmpcrOr's Address.
The address read: I'm the name of
the sovereigns and free cities of the en-
N w 10 ha Hat Of h.,
memorial to Emperor william the
Great, which was voted unanimously
by the Reichstag. He gave to Germany
not only her army and navy, but her
trade, commerce, arts and sciences also.
To his enlightened initiative Germany
owns the first step towards the prac-
| tlcal furtherance of the interests of the
working classes. May this monument
ever look down on a happy and con-
tented nation If such he Gods will"
Court Serchenfeld, the Bavarian min
lister at Berlin, then handed a trowel to
the Emperor, saying: "Twenty years
ago foreign force threatened King
William. This prince of peace led Ger
many's sons from victory to victory.
What Germany thanks the great kaiser
for Is engraved on all German hearts.
May Germany's sons ever stand to-
gejther for the emperor and the en-
pire."
His majesty then threw some mortar
into the bed of the stone, and was fol-
lowed by Baron Bual Won Berenberg,
president of the Reichstag, who made
dn address. In the course of his re-
marks he said:
This movement will be an everlast-
Ing landmark that wherever German
hearts beat or the German tongues are
q pys nd t.,
l will never vanish. May Gods bless
Ing be on your majesty's hopefully com
| menced rule"
Monument Dedicated.
He then handed a hammer to EN-
peTor William, 'who SAID amid the
thunder OF cannon as the stone was low
cred into Its place: ITO encourage the
living. ITO tha memory of the fallen,
and as an example to coming ages. |
dedicate this monument to the memory
of Emperor william the Great"
As he spoke he tapped the stone with
a hammer, and Ut was also tapped by
the Crown Prince. the Grand Duke Of
Baden, THE president of the bundes-
rs'th, the president of the reichstag,
and others.
The court chaplain then said the ben
ediotion The troops then marched
past the emperor. after which his ma
Jesty walked into the castle. In the
| evening the emperor attended a ban
Quet given by the First regiment of
Foot guards at Foatsdam, after which
he "''r's1 to join the empress at Will
hclmshohc
1t Is slated that the emperor Is much
vexed az the outbreak of Anglophobia
In the German press, especially as II
occurred while he was sr,,ualy a guesr
In England. The prediction is ven-
tured that he will take an early occa-
| sion to publicly deprecate the outbreak,
as 1t is generally conceded that his re-
la.ions wath his grandmother Quenn
Victoria. have again assumed their old