The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-01-24
BERLIN CABLEGRAM i.
LITTLE EXCITEMENT CAUSED BY
THE FRENCH CRISIS.
Rusv Week For NVilliam-The Emperor
Has Ordered Racing Yacht to Be
Ready for the Coming Season.

Berlin, Jan. t9.--(Copyrishted 1895 hy
the Associated Press.) The news of the
great political changes in Paris was re-
ceived in Berlin with less amazement
and disquiet than might have been tx
pected, from the peculiar relations eX-
| sting between Tha two countries.
Emperor william las cabled to the AS
ISOLATED Press Mt the time, certainly
went to the French embassy on WeGnes-
day last on foot and had a long confer
ence with The French ambassador, NJ.
Herbette durirS which he expressed his
regrets at the resignation Of NJ. Casimir-
Pcrier.
But Prince lEohanlolc, at the trlia-
mentary reception he'll the Same even
ing, discussed he political situation in
France with little group of his friends.
The chancellor spoke Qui.e freely, and in
abiding to the character of the various
candidates for the presidency, declared
that the crisis was less grave and alarm
ing than some of those present believed.
Public y, by leading politicians here, the
news from France is treated in the same
manner, the only exception to the rule
being in the case of the Socialist party,
whose members tried to create the i'm
preston that a great collapse had at last
come on France.
Emperor William has been exceed
ingly busy during the past week. A
series of court festivities has fairly
begun. The great coronation festival
occurs tomorrow and the great court re-
ception is fixed for next Wednesday.
Then there is the birthday fete of the
emperor on Sunday, Jan. 81, and prepara-
tons for its celebration are already
under way. A special program has been
arranged for gala performance at the
royal opera house, where, among other
attractions, the second act of "Rienzi"
will be given.
Since the emperor's advent in Berlin
he lives partly at the royal castle in
his own suite of rooms and partly in
the small, but coy, chateau Bellvue
in the heart of the Thiergarten, where
his two eldest sons, the crown prince and
Eitel Friedrich, are permanently dom
iciled with their teacher. Early in the
week the emperor was seen snowballing
with the two boys in the front garden.
Emperor William has sent a number
of his own drawings representing the
warships of the latest construction to
the national military academy.
The emperor has just ordered from
the Germania ship yards 20-rater racing
yacht for the coming season. A number
of the yacht clubs of Berlin, Hamburg,
Stettin and Kiel, have given similar
orders and next summer a treat yacht
meeting is to take place. Berlin yachts,
for the first time, will make the trip en-
tirely by water, which will be possible
after the raising of the Baltic canal.
The emperor, personally, will offer more
than one prize to be competed for by the
German yachtsmen.
The demand of Emperor William that
10 or II fast cruisers be added to the
navy will, judging from the feeling ex-
pressed by the members of the reichstag,
be adopted without much trouble The
Hamburg chamber of commere supports
the scheme in its annual report, in which
it declares that such an increase is nee
essary in order to strengthen German
influence abroad and facilitate the eX-
tention of the colonies of Germany.