The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-04-01
GIFTS FOR BISMARCK.
Every Train Bears the Germans
Tokens Of Esteem.
VAST CROWDS ELECTROMAGNETIC



the Veteran statesman's Birthday-Fires
Burning on Every Elevation.
FREDERICKSBURG, April THE Bis
marck celebration is in full swing, and
every day seems to add to the enthusiasm
displayed by the German people over the
60th anniversary of the birth of the old
chancellor. Every train arriving at Fried
rlchsruhe is loaded with presents for the
aged statesman, and every post brings
hundreds of congratulatory letters, not
only from people in Germany, but from
Germans and others throughout the civil
lied world, Thousands upon thousands
of the special Bismarck post cards have
been sold, and u great number have been
mailed to the United States. Those in
Germany who have received them have
put them carefully away to be preserved
as mementoes Of the iron chancellor and
the great outporng Of the public heart in
his honor.
Today, the actual anniversary of the
princes BIRTH witnesses such popular
demonstration as has not been witnessed
since the return to Berlin of the Prussian
army from France. Every preparation
had been made at Freidrlchsruhe to ac-
commodate vast crowds. The decoration
of the station had been concluded and
the roadway from the station to the Schloss
had been transformed by willing hands
Into yeritable triumphal arch.
A beautiful work of art, the gift Of in
habitants OF Anhalt, who took up sub.
scription for the purpose, has been erected
In field overlooking the princes home.
The work, which is in bronze, represents
q large stag keeping two dogs at bay.
For the first time siura the bppinninp of
the celebrations in his honor Prince Bis
marck on Saturday was somewhat fatigued
md indisposed his old trouble, neuralgia,
troubling him slightly. A good nights
sleep, however, restored his health, and to-
day he is as bright rs ever
Thousands of visitors arrived here yes
terday, hoping that they would get
glimpse Of the prince. Quite fair has
been established in the vicinity of the
station. Refrcshment booths have been
erected, and here, there and everywhere
are itinerAnt purveyors of Bismarck post
cards, medals, portraits and mementoes
of every description.
Yesterday the prince received his first
congratulatory telegram from crowned
head outside of Germany. 1t was from
King Oscar, of Sweden, and contained
graceful expression Of his majesty's in
terest in the occasion and hearty well
wishes for the princes welfare and lon
gcvity.
One of the features OF the Bismarck eel
ebration at Hamburg was the holding on
Saturday night of 'commers," organized
by the reichstag electoral union. Sixteen
hundred admirers of the prince were pres
ent, and hundreds had to be turned away
from the doors, owing to lack of room.
Several senators, the president of the
house, burgesses, officers and tho elite of
Hamburg society were present. DIR. Sic
geking, president of the supreme provin-
cial court, proposed "hochs' for Emperor
William, His majestys popularity has
been greatly increased here by his graceful
attitude towards tho prince, and the
"hochs" were given with hearty good
will. DR., Sievcking then made an clo-
quent speech, in which he highly eulogized
the services Prince Bismarck had rendered
the empire. The speech was received with
storms of applause.
Yesterday all the public and majority
of the private buildings in Hamburg were
decorated with flags and bunting in honor
of the occasion. Last night there was a
general illumination on IA scale that had
not been attempted before in a quarter of
q century. In the window of every shop
there was displayed either wreath, por.
trait or bust of the great reiohskanzler In
addition some of the windows contained
historic scenes and portraits Of Emperor
William. photographs of the meeting of
tho emperor and Prince Bismarck last
Tuesday are being sold in large numbers.
The streets are thronged with stran gers,
and everywhere can be seen the vari- col
ored caps OF the students, with whom there
Is no greater favorito than the prince.
The students last night gave commers,
ut which scventy-ninc corps and every Ger
man university was represented. Many
'old boys" grey boards of from 80 to 20
years of age, were also present. The pro.
ccedings Were OF the customary boisterous
character.
The view of the city last night from the
Aussen alster and Binnen. alster was q
beautiful one. The Lombards bridge,
which spans the connection between these
two bodies of water, wiIs change of glow
Ing light. The Neuer Jungfernstieg, Al
sterdamm and Jungfernstieg, the wide
Streets fronting the Binnen-alster, were
nblaze with myriad lights, while back or
them the city, like gigantic fire opal,
white, red, green and other colored lights
flashed in every direction All the ship
ping in tho harbor and the small boats on
the many canals of Hamburg We're also il
Illuminated There was II grand display of
fireworks.
The main streets Of the city were until
late hour almost impossible. Many Wis
itors to Hamburg We're early astir to start
for Friedrichsruhe
kilograms poured in last night from all
parts of the empire, announ ing that tho
Bismarcklan fetss had been commenced
with great spirit There was specially
interesting gathering at the national
monument Of Germana in the Nieder-
wald in Berlin, whittier thousands of per-
sons travelled from all parts of tho Rhine
land. Among those present were repre-
Bentatives of thirty-six cities in the Rhen-
lsh district.
Throughout Germany last night joy fires
burned on The highest mountain peaks
and bills rom tho Baltic and the North
seas ON the north to the Swiss and Aus
TRAN frontiers on the south, from the Rus
sian frontier on the east, to the frontiers
of France, Belgium and the Netherlands
on the west. Never before in the history
of the empire has there been such a heart
felt and spontaneous exhibition Of love by
The German people.
To-day all the schools and most of the
civic and state offices are closed in honor
of him to whom the empire owes its ex-
.stenee
The Berlin papers comment upon the
enormous number of gifts of eatables that
have been sent to Prince Bismarck. These
arc Of every conceivable kind, including
sausages two yards long cheescs weighing
from i2O to 100 pounds and masses Of
horse radish.