The San Francisco call., 1896-05-04
Tumultuous Enthusiasm at the
Opening of the Industrial
Exhibition.
ENGLAND AND THE TRANsVAAL
The Vossiche Zeitung Says That
Hammond AMI His Associates
Ought TO Be Executed.

DEhAirB 0EhMANY, May -1ue CeIc-
monies which took place at the Berlin
Academy of Arts yesterday upon the occa-
sion of the bicentepnial cele bration of the
founding of that institution possessed ex-
ceptional interest from the TACT of the
presence of so many art and literary celeb
rites, besides the large number of official
dignitaries. The affair, too, was in marked
contrast, as far as order was concerned, to
the opening of the Industrial Exhibition
on Friday. when, despite all of the efforts
OF the police, the carriages of the Minis
ters, state functionaries, ambassadors.
generals and other persons of rank and
title who had been invited to be present
were so mixed up and retarded in their
progress that many guests, including DR..
Won Boetticher, Vice-President of the
Council of Ministers, and Herr Thielen,
Minister of Public Works, left their vehi-
cles and walked through the crowd.
The throng inside the exhibition build
ings, though they were composed of the
better class of Berliners and maintained
fair degree of order until after the impe-
rial party arrived, gave startling exhibi-
tion of bOorishness the moment the EN-
peror and b is party arrived. As soon as
his Majesty entered the crowd they rushed
like an immense flock of sheep to secure
places behind the imperial cortege, with
out the slightest regard for the comfort or
convenience of the imperial circle.
The function of the Academy of Arts on
the other hand, was a stately and well
regulated affair, and seemed to please the
Emperor and Empress greatly.
Both of their majesties, after the brief
formal ceremony. conversed freely with
the political and artistic pei sonages pres
ent. The Emperor especially sought out
Herr Won Puttkamer; DR.. MIGUEL, Prus.
sian Minister of Finance, and the Italian
and Russian ambassadors, and engaged
each of them in conversation for some
time, while he passed Baron Marschall
Won Bieberstein, Minister of Foreign AZ
fairs, without even shaking hands with
him. This act on the part of the En-
peror may not have had any particular
meaning, but in view of the present
period of recurrent crisis it looked as
though he had purposely sighted the
Minister, and the act is regarded as con-
firming many of the rumors which have
been in circulation of late that the dissen-
sions in the Ministry have gone so far as
to involve the Emperor in the differences
alleged to exist.
Apropos of these rumors Baron Won
Berlepsch, Minister of Commerce, who
was reported on Thursday as being about
to resign in consequence of his discomfort
at the failure of his measures in the Reichs-
tag, toasted the Emperor at the Exhibi-
tion banquet in terms and tone which
could have been employed only by a
thoroughly contented Minister, and at the
same banquet Herr Eugene Wolff, the Ger
man explorer. agreeably disturbed tn
pacidity of the official oratory by sud
denly calling for cheers for Prince Bis
marck. Most of those present rose to
their feet and cheered Justify. after which
they sang deutschland ueber Allies, and
resumed their seats amid another burst of
cheering.
The Industrial Exhibition opened in q
better state of perfection than was ex-
pected, in view of the difficulties which the
managers had to encounter through the
arbitrary attitude of the wor kin gmen and
from other causes. A special view of the
exhibition, arranged for the press through
DR.. Horwitz, the manager of the press de-
partment of the exhibition, disclosed the
fact that vast strides had been made
toward getting things into state OF order
within the past week, and the general
opinion is that the exhibition will become
a popular success, and that those who ha We
seen the great international exhibitions
held in Europe and America can come to
Berlin with the assurance that they Will
see something new.
The latest advices direct from Pretoria,
the capital of the South African republic,
remove all official apprehension that there
vvi ha M p haf ha Tro,, at
lie and England. The feeling here is that
President Kruger's diplomacy has rem
dered England powerless to trespass upon
outraging the opinion of the world and
justifying the powers in intervening.
DR.. WI. Leyds. the Secretary of State
of the Transvaal Republic, who recently
spent some months in Germany, will re-
turn to Berlin in July in some new official
capacity, and Germany will soon send an
important diplomat to Pretoria, and this
will certainly be done, too, without asking
the opinion of England.
| The utterances of the Right Honorable
Joseph Chamberlain. British Secretary of
State for the Colonies. against foreign in.
tervention in the Transvaal have made no
impression here and will not in the slight
est degree affect Germauy's action. The
revelations which have just been made in
Pretoria, showing the duplicity of the
British officials, may have startled the
German public. but they have not sur
prised the German Government. whose
communications from Pretoria have kept
the German Foreign Office advised of even
more than President Kruger has as yet
chosen to publish.
The unanimous voice Of the press
strongly condemns Mr.. Chamberlain 3
want OF tact and the clumsy and arrogant
style OF his treatment of President Kruger.
whom Prince Bismarck described as the
mostastute diplomat he had ever met.
The remission by President Kruger OF
the sentence of death pronounced upon
the leaders of the Johannesburg Reform
Com mittee has only found approval here
as having been dictated by political pru-
dence. The National Zeitung in an article
on the Snhiect t1a