The record-union., 1896-12-28
% trade by holding series of brilliant

banquet given by the Austrian EN-
bassador, NJ. de Szogyeny Marich, in
honor of the new French Embassador,
the Marquis de Noailles, and on Tues
day Sir Frank Lascelles, the British
ambassador, gave a grand dinner to
Prince and Princess Aribert of Anhalt,
Prince and Princess Victoria or
Schleswig- Holstein and several foreign
ambassadors and Ministers. On Thurs
day the Italian ambassador, Count
LAMA di Busca, gave a dinner in honor
of the Marquis de Noailles, at which a
brilliant company of guests were pres
ent- The city is fast filling up with
notabihties from all parts of the En-
pire. The last few days before Christ
mas brought a number of ariStocratlc
families, among them Prince Salm-
Reifferscbeit-Dyck Prince and Princess
Bentheim Tecklenburg, Prince and
Princess Frederick of Wied, Count Won
F'urstenburg gStammheim. the Emper-
ors chief cupbearer; Count Won Puck
er-BurghausS master of the hounds;
Count Won Assenberg-F Faulkenstein, the
Prince of Carolath Beuthen, the Prince
Of Schonaich- Carolath, Count Won
Lehndorff, Prince Max Egon of Furst-
enburg, who is now the head of the
house of the F'urstenburgs; Prince
George RadZiwill, and the Count Of
Lippe- Chesterfield, who is the claimant
tc the principality of Lippe.
In addition to these arrivals other So
cfety leaders, including the Princess
Bichette Radziwill. the Hohenhaus, the
Dohnas and the Assenburgs, of whose
sc la1 ~
pected. Since the scandal which re-
suited in the duel between Court Cham
berlain Luberacht Won Kotze and Baron
ven Schrader the court master of cere
monies, in which the latter was killed
tie Emperor's particular circle has
been broken up, but it now promises
to be brought together again, which
guarantees d brilliant season.
Prince Bismarck gathered around
him al Fredrichsruhe on Christmas
Day his entire family, consisting of his
son, Count Herbert Bismarck his wife
and child; his SON, Count William Bis
marck, his wife and children; his
daughter, the Countess Won Rantzau
and her husband, Count Won Rantzau,
and his physician and confidential
friend, Dir. Schweninger, who arrived at
Friedrichsruhe on Tuesday. The ex-
Chancellor is in excellent health for his
advanced age, and takes walks in the
park surrounding his castle daily
Christmas presents directed to the old
Chancellor arrived a Fredrichsruhe on
Christmas Day from all parts of the
world.
Empress Frederick, who is now Wis
iting her son, Prince II Henry of Prussia,
and his wife, Princess Irene, at Kilel.
Will arrive in Berlin on New Years eve
and remain six weeks Her majesty
has promised to attend the principal
court fetes during the season and will
herself entertain lavishly. Among her
guests in Berlin will be Prince and
Princess Henry of Prussia, the Prince
and Princess of Schaumburg-Lipp the
Prince and Princess of Sake Meiningen
and Prince and Princess Frederick
Charles of Hesse- Kassel. Throughout
the present season the court of Empress
Frederick will be the scene of the most
brilliant receptions that have been held
there since the death of her husband,
Emperor Frederick III, on June ID,
1883.
The strike of the Hamburg dock la
borers is likely to assume an entirely
new phase. The non-union laborers
who have taken the places of the strik-
ers are themselves threatening to strike
unless they are paid seven marks a day
for day work and fourteen marks for
might work. They have already made
demands upon their employers for the
payment of these rates and have been
informed that they may expect the
same resistance TO their exactions that
was given to the old hands. A meeting
of the strikers was held on Saturday,
which was addressed by a number of
speakers who advised the men to con-
tinue to hold out against the employ
ers. In the meantime agents of the
employers have sounded the local
agents of the strikers in regard to ar
ranging terms of settlement Of the dis
pute upon which the strike was made
Reliable advices from Constantinople
say that the agreement of the Powers
for the enforcement of reforms in Tur-
key is complete, with the exception of
the matters of the method to be pur-
sued and the time Of putting the meas
ures of coercion agreed upon into op-
Grafton.
Prince Hohenlohe, the Imperial Chan
cellor. will celebrate his golden wedding
on February 26th.
The ACCOMPLISHMENT of the Czarina
formerly Princess Ahx Of Hesse) is ex-
pected to take place about the end of
February. Ii has been arranged to
have the event occur at Tzarscoe- -Selo.
John Gregory Smith of Vermont is
among the Americans visiting Berlin.
Miss Leonara Jackson, the American
violinist, recently performed at a concert
in krolrs Theater and was especially
hOnored by the presence of the EN-