The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-16


 less, and although not so extensive al
 the two thousand acre estate of Chats
 worth in England the property of tn,
 Duke of Devonshire, still the broad cul
 tivated fields with forest, stream ant
 lake, render the surroundings of en
 trancing loveliness. Potsdam boasts {
 population of sixty thousand, and there
 are fully ten thousand soldiers in gar
 rison here. Its situation is one of great
 beauty, as it is an island in the Havel
 which here is quite wide with it's series
 of lakes; wooded hills surround the
 place on all sides, making the whole
 scene one of surpassing beauty. Pots
 dam is the seat of government for the
 province of Brandenburg, and place
 of general importance.
 We went to Potsdam on a day in ear ly June, and such a lovely day! Just
 after gentle rain, when the sun was
 so bright as to render Potsdam a shin I HIS JGWClg ellld nO NT4 ottIb NSAN N4AS
 fields and hillsides that the whole place
 seemed to us like the Garden of the
 Gods, with the bright palaces, the shin | ing lakes, the velvet lawns, and the | long vistas through which we could see
 the drilling Grenadiers in their glitter l ing uniforms. On the lakes were pret-
 ty steam launches gliding quietly hith-
 CT and thither, fast sailing yachts
 were stretching their courses far away
 with large white sails swelling with the
 breeze. Beautiful lawns with marble
 steps extended right down to the lake side, and giant beeches and sturdy oaks tossed their branches high in air
 and the chateau on the ''PfaweninseP (Peacock isIanO built in imitation of ruined Roman villa, reminded us forci- bly, of the days of the old Romans, car rying us back to the glorious ruins of ancient Rome.
 Alighting from the cars we drove over the long bridge leading into the town, passing the 'Lustgarten' en- closed by two rows of columns where are to be seen bronze busts and statues of Butcher. York and many other dis tinguished Prussians In the Lust garten" is the Parade Platz," where the Giant Grenadiers" used to drill, for here was their home long ago in the days of Frederick Wilhelm l. The "old palace" is an interesting spot, as there is so much to remind us here of Frederick the Great. His rooms are preserved in their original condition, adorned with pictures of Pesue and Watteau. Here we see his ink-stand, writing table music stand and books, A large piece of his writing table, it is said, was cut off by Napoleon, using his pocket knife in this act of vandal- ism. In this palace is a cabinet with double doors, a small room in which Frederick the Great used to consult his field marshal and ministers in secrecy, the round dining table in the center of the room could be let down by means of a trap door, and as the king dined here with his friends no one, not even his attendants, could overhear the state see crets. The study of Frederick Wilhelm l. is seen here; it contains those singu- lar pictures which he painted fin tor mentis," for he was the victim during many years of the gout, and an in clined plain extends to the rooms be- low. down which that gouty monarch used to be wheeled in rolling chair There are many rooms in this "old pal ace," and a very massive silver balus- 1 trade separates the library from the bedroom of Frederick the Great. | Strange it was not melted down to pay | the soldiers in the seven years war; | -;T, +oJ Irc i handsome works of art went that way | when Frederick the Great, with zeiten, Seydlitz and Keith were fighting on the fields of Targan and Leuthen, There are many beautiful tapestries here and | pictures of great merit, with furniture of ancient days and of great beauty, | things which came down from the old 'IIohenzollerns," those "high" duty collectors of over thousand years ago. Even in that remote time the Hohen- were men of such force and power as to demand high duties and taxes. and thus they were called the 
 The present emperor has two or three small plainly furnished rooms in this palace, and in the winter he occasional y runs out from Berlin to spend the light here on state business. In one of he great halls stood the standard or measuring machine on which the great 5renadiers were measured at the time # their enlistment Those giants about four thousand) were collected rom all parts of Europe, even from Norway and Sweden; not one was un- Ter six feet, and many were seven feet; few from Ireland and Norway were aller; with their Grenadier helmets hey must have looked like veritable ons Of Anok. The first act performed by Frederick he Great, the day after the decease of is royal father, was to disband these earthly expensive troops, thus reliev- I 1g the state from a great burden of I ost. From the "Old Palace" we drove ight through Potsdam, passing the 6 lrge military barracks, where we met I regiment of mounted Royal Hussars i nd Uhlands with their bright uni ,rms, with lances upright, galloping r l from the hills beyond Potsdam. ! egiments of Grenadlers Che kings T ody guard) were drilling on the pa- f lde grounds, and the whole scene was n ne of special liveliness. No soldiers in f ,,,or1J oa,, 1.yifI, +l,1,o oF 1 '