The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04
MAUS0LEUM SITE CRITICISED
ARTIST Won LENBACH'S ACCOUNT OF
HIS VISIT TO THE CASTLE.
Emperor Williams Rescript on the
Death of His Ex-ChanceIIOr-State
ment from Herbert Bismarck.


tional obsequies have been postponed till
that time. Count William Bismarck will
return to Koenigsberg 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 Dobersdorf, near Kiei A great
memorial meeting was held this evening,
in which all the representatives of the Ber-
lin universities participated. Professor
Wagner was the chief orator.
An extra edition of the official Reichsan-
zeiger, just published, contains an imperial
rescript addressed to the imperial chancel-
lor, Prince Hohenlohe, and dated Friedrichs-
ruhe, Aug. 2. 1t says:
With. my high allies, with the whole
German people, 1 stand mourning at the
bier of the first chancellor of the German
empire, Prince Otto Won Bismarck, duke of
Lauenburg. We who witnessed his splendid
labors, who looked up to hum with admira-
ton as the master of statecraft, the fear
less fighter for peace, as the most devoted
son of the fatherland and as the most
faithful servant of his Emperor and King,
are deeply affected by the death of the man
whom God, the Lord, fashioned as His in
strument to achieve the realization of the
undying aspiration of the Germans for uni
ty and greatness.
This is not the moment to enumerate
all the achievements of the great man who
has gone to his rest nor to refer to all the
cares he bore for the Emperor and the en-
are too mighty and too manifold History
alone can do them justice and will engrave
them on braZen tablets.
II am, however impelled to give express
sion before the whole world to the universal
sorrow and grateful admiration which to-
day animates the whole nation, and in the
name of the nation to vow that what he,
| the great chancellor, under William the
Great ereated will maintain and develop
ure. In this may God help me.
II instruct you to make this rescript pub
Minister Westphal, in the course of his
sermon on Bismarck, said:
Mourning love stands at the bier of the
dear departed: The Emperor has hastened
hlther from afar to pay one more tribute of
thanks and veneration to the faithful serv-
ant of the grand Emperor When such a
blessed life comes to a close we feel God
Almighty speaks and through His church
transfigures mortality. When what was
mortal of this immortal passed hence he
was lost not only to his family, but to the
whole German people He reaped laurels
although overshadowed by the death of his
wife, was consoled by the honorS plentifully
bestowed by the Emperor and the father
close of his life his firm Christian belief in
the device in trinitate robur This helped
him bear his burden through life and made
him fearless toward men and unyielding in
whatever he considered right
The Hamburger Nachrichten publishes the
following statement signed by Prince Her
bert, Bismarck:
THE numerous expressions Of deep af-
T1Ct1On ana cordial sympathy, which TESTIFY
to the imperishable memory of my great fa-
Their, 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 sympa-
thy, and it grieveS me to be unable to an
swer every manifestation of this feeling.
beg the German newspapers to grant space
est relatives, thank wi with my Whole heart
all who, by words of comfort or floral trib
utes from those we have never seen have
given expression to the SplendOr of sorrow
which fills our land.'
Ambassador White sent the following
cablegram to-day to Washington: Il am re-
| QueSted to convey the sincere thanks of
Emperor William and the German people
to the President and people. Of the United
| the occasion of the death of Prince Bis
marck."
The influx of kilograms, letters and
wreaths at FREDERICKSBURG is unceasing. Al
! ready 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 Emperor's visit for
silent prayers in the. death chamber and
| where the body will remain until pro-
| visional repository is prepared in the park.
| The site selected for the mausoleum does
not give universal satisfaction. The North
German Gazette in a curious note says:
Our attention has been directed to the
| fact that the site chosen is in potato field
| and close to a railway. where trains pass
almost without intermisson. One would
think the noise of traffic would be. a dis
| turbing element in the vicinity of the Bis
| marck mausoleum. In the words of the
poet INLAND, the resting place of the dead
is wont to be the abode of SILENCE 7 -.
The Frankfort Gazette says: I'VE don't
| think it could have been in accordance with
the desire of the departed that his mortal
remains should be withdrawn from the pres
ence of sympathetic mourning and respect
and also from the intended tributes of the
highest officials of the empire which he
cd nj Nff he afo 70 fnh hos Tn6s
Prof. Won Lenbach the painter, thus de-
sscribes to the Lok 5a Anzeiger his visit to
the prince is quite untitled to be the scene
of any national or public ceremony in con-
nection with his burial. Thousands of let
answered. and partly still tin covered
all the tables. Many were from soveriegns
and illustrious personages. 1t would have
been impossible to admit any but the most
intimate friends to the house. The MEM
bers Of the, family were quite exhausted
and confused by the excitement, as well as
by their sorrow, and their difficulties were
rot diminished by the telegrams Of the EN-
intentions of the deceased and those of his
Majesty. Although the features were I'M
altered and the face looked as though Bis
marck was about to speak, there was moth
ing that would inspire in a painter a desire
to perpetuate the scene with the brush. The
aspect of both the dead and his surround
ings seemed to afford too realistic picture
for reproduction. 1t must have been for
the same reason that few great men have
of Rubens was undoubtedly surrounded by
great pupils of the master, but none paint
ed him. The dread majesty of death cannot
be reproduced by art. The only eminent
man / ever desired to portray at such
moment was DR.. Dollinger, who in death
resembled Dante In the case of Bismarck
it would have been impossible to catch the
characteristic profile, and the, speaking,
flashing eyes were forever closed"
Professor Won Lenbach considers the pro-
posed site for the mausoeum, with the
noise of the trains and the row of tele-
rorN11 ffoI.I nd
he expresses the opinion that Bismarck
| fought to be buried with his forefathers in
Schoenhausen Park"
1t now turns out that as their Majesties
were leaving the death chamber the EN-
press touched the Emperors arm and said
William, there is the aged sister Of the
prince" and thereupon the Emperor turned
aside and shook the hands of the Frau Won
Arnim, expressing his sympathy.
When Prince Herbert declined a second
time the Emperors proffer of a grave in
the Berlin Cathedral. his Majesty Indicated
a plan for a national monument. 1t is I'M
derstood that he proposes TO place in the
with the figure of Bismarck in the uniform
Of cuirasseur.
Emperor williams rescript which is be-
lieved to have been written by Prof. Kosser
director of the secret archives gives uni
versal satisfaction as fitting expression of
his Majesty the highest credit. In face of
the rumors of friction between the Bismarck
family and the imperial court Rather an
unseemly wyangle has arisen in the press