The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-22

ME\TS.
IA. THE BLUE SALON largest apartment of tn
Won Klinteberg; Gotta, Thule, Edda, Viking,
Sleipner, Baats.
Netherlands -Atjeh, Alkmar; 25 officers,
Alb men.
Denmark, under Commodore Cad
Geiser, Hekla, Havhesten, Varulyen, So
loven, Storen; 80 officers, $40 men.
Portugal-Vasco di CANA.
Turkey-Fuad
Roumania- Elisabeth, Mircea; % officers,
400 men.
As soon as the naval review was finished
a grand banquet was held in the imperial
marquee at Holtenau, where 1865 guests
sat down to dinner, which lasted a long
time. The great hall in which the KAISER S
banquet took place is built on the south
side (Kiel side) OF the canal along the tor
pedo shelter, which runs from the mouth
OF the canal toward Wik Bay, and is sepa-
rated from Kiel harbor by mile. The idea
to give the building the appropriate shape
of ship originated with the Emperor
himself.
Eleven hundred guests were at the ban
quet. The Emperor sat at a horseshoe
table on a raised dais, amid German
sovereigns and other royal personages.
Chancellor Won Hohenlohe sat opposite,
with Sir Edward Malet, the British EN-
bassador to Germany, on his right, and
Ahmed Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish Embas-
sador, on his left. The other guests were
diplomats, admirals, officers, ministers,
members of the Reichstag and one news
paper man for each nation.
Upon the conclusion of the banquet the
Emperor made speech, in which he said {:
at is with delight and pride that
look around this brilliant festal gathering,
| and in the name of my high allies bid all
hearty welcome and express my heart
felt thanks for the good feeling shown us
or the completion of a work which planned
and achieved in peace, is now open to gem
erai traffic.
His Majesty described the inception and
progress of the work, and then continued: ::
The participation in the festival of the
powers whose representatives we see
among us, and whose splendid ships we
to-day admired, acknowledge the more
readily as believe 1 am right in perceiv-
ing therein a complete vindication of the
efforts we directed toward the maintenance
on the side of those accomplished in the
service of peace and will esteem herself
fortunate if the canal in this sense further
strengthens our friendly relations with
other powers. I drain my glass to the
welfare OF friendly sovereign powers"
Throughout the speech cheering was fre-
quent, and especially at those parts in
which the Emperor made references to
peace. Afterward his Majesty received the
foreign admirals, including Admiral Me-
nard. After the banquet, his Majesty
watched the ships and fireworks.
Amid the brilliancy the darkness OF the
French vessels which were under steam
ready to depart made curious contrast.
They sailed during the night. 1t was
officially declared that the only reason for
their departure was that they might be
able to be in French waters on the ami
versary of the death of President Carnot.
Many visitors were received on board
the French flagship during her presence
here. Admiral Menard, in conversation
with press reporters, declared that he was
greatly satisfied with his reception and the
festival generally. He added II am very
happy to see that this festival of peace has
| taken so brilliant course, undisturbed by
the slightest unUoward incident
Tonight the town is seething mass of
humanity. Thousands of sailors and SOL
diers in every variety of uniform are IN the
! streets or in the public resorts all mingling
in the heartiest of good comradeship. The
windows of the shops are filed with naval
devices and much of the same kind of
ornamentation can be seen in the windows
of private residences.
The hotels, restaurants and temporary
booths are feeding constant stream of
visitors, whose appetites have been sharp
ened by the excitement of the day. At
dusk the scene of the water was one of un-
paralleled beauty. All the warships were
outlined with a fairy-like tracery of lamps,
and some of them had brilliant displays of
fireworks. Altogether the display was the
most brilliant ever seen here, and probably
finer than ever seen in Germany.
The New York, temporary flagship of
the squadron, had splendid design sixty
feet long against her tunnels 1t read
America sends hearty greeting to Ger
many upon the completion of the canal"
Set pieces and pictures of the Emperor and
President Cleveland, each forty feet square,
were also displayed.
Hundreds of officers have inspected the