The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-04
EMPEROR WILLIAMS GRIEF
IMPERIAL REscRIPT ON PRINCE
BISMARCK'S DEATH.
What the Great Chancellor Created,
the Young Emperor Will Maintain
National Obsequies Postponed.

/ Berlin. Aug. s-Yesterday's services at
FREDERICKSBURG will be the only obsequies
until the mausoleum on the right o. the
famous stag group near the Schloss Is
completed. The national obsequies have
been postponed until that time.
| Count William Bismarck viii return to
Koeningsburg on Friday. Next week
Prince Herbert will go to Vienna, where
his children are. The Count and Countess
Won Rantzau will soon go TO their estate
at Debersdori, near kiel
A great memorial meeting has been ar
ranged for them in which REPRESENTATIVES
of all the Berlin academies. and universe
ties will participate. Professor Wagner
Will be the chief orator.
AN IMPERIAL RESCRIPT.
An extra edition of the official Reich
sanZeiger, just published, contains an I'M
perlal rescrlpt addressed TO the Imperial
chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, and dated
from FREDERICKSBURG August q. 1t says:
with my nigh allies, with the whole
German people, l stand mourning at the
bier of the first chancellor OF the Ger
man empire, Prince Otto Won Bismarck,
duke of Lauenburg. We who witnessed
his splendid labors, who looked up to MN
with admiration as the master of state
craft, the fearless fighter in war and
peace, as the most devoted son OF the
fatherland and as the most faithful ser
want of his emperor and king, are deeply
affected by the death of the man whom
God, the Lord. fashioned as his inStru-
ment TO achieve the realization of the I'M
dying aspiration of the Germans for unity
and greatness.
This is not the moment to enumerate
all the achievements of the great man
who has gone to his rest or to refer to
all the cares he bore for the emperor and
eile empire and all the successes he won.
They are too mighty and too manifold.
History alone, can do them justice and
will engrave them all on brazen tablets.
Il am, however, impelled to give ex-
preston before the whole world to the
universal sorrow and grateful admiration
which today animates the whole nation
and in the name OF the nation to vow
that what he. the great chancellor under
William the Great created, L will maintain
and develop and if need be defend with
blood and treasure. In this may God help
me.
7 instruct you to make this rescript
public
PRINCE HERBERTS MESSAGE.
Hamburg, Aug. 3.-The Hamburg Mach
richten publishes the following statement
signed by Prince Herbert Bismarck:
The numerous expressions of deep ar
lection and cordia! sympathy which testify
to the imperShable memory of my great
father are becoming so overwhelming in
their extent that it appears impossible TO
thank the mournerS Singly, even to the
end OF my own life.
From all five continents of the globe
the sorrow of the family bowed over the
coffin is re-echoed in touching sympathy
and it grieveS me to be unable to answer
every manifestation of this feeling. l beg
the German newspapers to grant space
for these words:
g In the name of the nearest relatives,
thank with my whole heart, all who.
by words of comfort or floral tributes
from those who have given expression to
the splendor of sorrow which fills our
land. -
The influx of kilograms, letters and
wreaths at FREDERICKSBURG is unceasing.
Already the Schloss overf1ows with
wreaths, and those arriving later must
now perforce be placed in the garden. 1t
is asserted that the family assembled at
midnight after the empress visit for 81
lent prayers in the death chamber and
that then Prince Herbert locked the room
where the body will remain until a pro-
visional repository is prepared in the
park.
SITE FOR TIE MAUSOLEUM.
The site selected for the mausoleum
does not give universal satisfaction. The
North German Gazette in curious note !
says: Our attention has been directed to
the fact that the site chosen is in a po- !
tato field and close to a railway, where !
trains pass almost without interruption. |
One would think the noise of traffic must |
be disturbing element in the vicinity of |
the Bismarck mausoleum. In the words |
of the poet INLAND, the resting place of |
the dead is wont to be the abode of 81 !
lence."
The Frankfurt Gazette says: I'VE do
not think it would have been in accord |
ance with the desire of the departed that |
his mortal remains should be withdrawn |
from the sympathetic mourning and re- /
spect and also from the intended tributes
of the highest officials of the empire /
which he founded and of the state which /
he served
LENBACHS VISIT.
Professor Won Lenbach. the painter, thus
describes to the Lokal Anzeiger his visit ,
to Friedrichsruhe: THE simple dwelling /
of the prince is quite untitled to be the /
scene of any national and public cere- /
mony in connection with his burial. Thou |
sands of letters and kilograms. partly ar
ranged and answered and partly still I'M
opened. covered all the tables. Many
were from SovereignS and ilIustrious per-
1t would have been impossible
to admit any but the intimate friends to
the house. The members of the family
were quite exhausted and confused by the
excitement as well as by their sorrow.
and their difficulties were not diminished
by the kilograms of the emperor and by
the divergence between the intentions of
the deceased and those of his NASTY.
Although the features were unaltered
and the face looked as though Bismarck
were about to speak. there was nothing
which would inspire in a painter desire
to DerDetuate the scene with the brush.
The aspect of both the dead and his sur
seemed to afford too realistic.
a picture for the production. It must
have been for the same reason that few
great men have been pictured on their
biers. The deathbed of Rubens was I'M
doubleday surrounded by great pupils of
the master. but none painted him. The
dread majesty of death cannot be repro
1uced by art.
When Prince Herbert declined the en-
Deror's offer of grave IN the Berlin ~
Ihedral, his majesty indicated a plan Tor
L national monument. 1t is understood he
proposes to place in the cathedral an i'm
nense sarcaphagus with the figure of Bis
narck in the uniform of a currassier.