The record-union., 1897-01-25

became the husband OF MISS Lucy CHl.
The ladies of the ambassadors party
wore court dresses Of unusual splendor.
Mrs Squiers was attired in white
satin gown embroidered with gold and
silver arabesques. Her corsage was
embroidered with gold flowers, each gilt
tering with diamond dew drops.
The movement for a common German
national fete day, which was started in
1893 by some we'll meaning folks and
considerably discussed at the time, but
without practical issue, has been re-
vived. An Executive Committee has
come to the front with a proposal that
the first celebration be fixed at l9OO.
that being the earliest year when the
gigantic arrangements contemplated
can be carried out. There are oppo-
nents to ny national fete of the kind,
who say that 1900 will find particular
ism in Germany stronger than in 1897.
The economic differences between
North and South, West and Northeast,
the old jealousies between Sudbraus,
Bavarians and Prussians, continue
wide and deep.
The Kaiser is understood to have con-
suited Minister MIGUEL on the question
OF the Turkish finances, and especially
in the light of the recent report of Sir
Edgar Vincent, President of the I'm
perial Ottoman Bank. The result has
confirmed the Kaiser in his determina-
ton to support the Sultan in his project
of a Council of Finance composed Of
Turks and Europeans appointed by the
Sultan himself, and not as desired by
Lord Salisbury under European control.
The conclusion of the Vincent report
that Turkey will soon be financially
sound and prosperous. under even mod
erately good administration, is now the
official German conclusion. The Kaiser
appears still reticent as to the Sultan
being desirouS of obtaining an honest
and effective administration Imme5i-
ate developments in the East will tend
to disprove the generally accepted no.
tion that GermanyS interest in and
influence upon Turkish matters is only
of a minor character
Upon this all important and initial
question of financial reforms, the Sui
tan, with the support of Germany, will
have his way. German policy, adroitly
passive regarding Armenia, has been
equally adroit on the leading question
before the Embassadorial conferences.
One result of this agreement between
TIL Kaiser and the Sultan will be seen
in increased concessions to German
subjects, who now have the concession
for the leading national railways, for
supplies to the officials that work them,
and to get the principal contracts for
arms and ammunition.
The Under Secretary to the Turkish
ID -loN
recently resigned rather than counte-
nance the bogus budget, is likely to
withdraw his resignation. Bertram was
sent from the Berlin Treasury nearly
sixteen years ago to reorganize the
Turkish customs. Nominally he is still
a Prussian official, holding the rank of
Sturerath (Councilor of the Taxes and
he has been told to remain at Constan-
tinople
DR.. Leipsiger of the "Kleine Journal
has the credit of instituting a novelty
among Berlin institutions in the form of
d Mart and Exchange for the unem-
ployed." The exchange has been opened
in the palatial building of the New York
Equitable Life Insurance Company and
bids fair to accomplish in a short time
cialist agitation has achieved for the
relief of the lower working classes in
many years. Clerks, warehousemen,
laborers and governesses, housemaids,
with all sorts and conditions of workers,
are within the scope of the exchange.
| The premises include reading rooms,
with writing material, a we'll assorted
| library and general hail.
The marriage of Miss Ledyard of De-
| troit to Baron Hermann Ketteler, Ger
man Minister to Mexico, which is about
| to take place at Washington, is known
| here to be purely a love match The at
tachment has overcome many serious
obstacles. Baron Ketteler would have
married Miss Ledyard several years ago
when Chancellor Caprivi was his chief
| but Caprivi declined to sanction the
match. A regulation of the Foreign Of
| flee, introduced by Prince Bismarck,
prohibits the marriage of members of
| the diplomatic staff to aliens. They can
marry, but marriage to an alien in
wolves resignation or discharge from the
service. Bismarck, who made the reg
! ulation Of the particular case, could get
over it when he wanted to. Caprivi in
his honest way made no explanations.
Prince Hohenlohe has not actually re-
scinded the rule, but interprets it liber-
ally, so Baron Ketteler is at last enabled
to marry.
Fritz Spahr the American violinist
who committed suicide in the Deutscher
Hotel in Berlin last Monday left letter
addressed to Charles De Kay, the United
States Consul-General here, in which he
| said that he wanted to die, having closed
his accounts with life. Intimate friends