The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-13
Remains of Kaiser William
Mother Laid to Rest
Beside Her Husband in the Maui
solemn at Potsdam.
OUR MR.. WHITE THERE.
Attired in Plain Black, Looking
Pale and Weak.
Occasion Was One of Elaborate
and Gorgeous Display.

Potsdam, Aug. 13.=The remains of
the Dowager Empress Frederick were
inferred today beside those of her hus-
band, in the mausoleum of Frieden-
skirche, near Potsdam.
Between 8 and 9 O'Clock this morning
the bells of all the churches in Pots
dam were tolled with two intervals of
rest. Shortly before half past 10 EN-
peror William, the other members of
the imperial family and the visiting
princes assembled in the royal hall at
the Wild Park railway station. The
high court officials, military dignitar-
les, Count Won Buelow and other men,
bers of the cabinet, the knights of the
Black Eagle and the members of the
reichstag assembled at 1925 o'clock in
an adjacent hall. Soon after 10 o'clock
the special train ordered by the emper-
or to bring the invited guests from
Berlin reached Wild Park station.
Among the guests the foreign ambas
sailors made a striking figure, wearing
their highest official uniforms. The
United States ambassador, Andrew d.
White, however, was attired in simple
black. He looked pale and weak and
showed traces of his recent bereave-
ment by the death of his son.
At 1890 the signal was given that
the funeral train was approaching
carried on in suppressed tones, entire
ly ceased and an air of solemnity pos
sessed the assembly. The train rolled
in slowly and noiselessly-
Twenty non-commissioned officers of
the DOWager Empress hussaTS, regi-
ment No. 2, came forward and bore the
coffin to the royal hearse, which in the
meanwhile had arrived from the new
palace. Chamberlains and courtiers
with the royal insignia participated in
the transfer of the coffin from the
funeral car to the hearse-
Slowly and solemnly the procession
formed Eight staff officers seized the
reinS of the eight splendid black horses
attached to the hearse and four
knights of the Black Eagle took hold OF
the points of the pail cloth, while
twelve royal chamberlains held the sup
ports of the canopy covering the
hearse, and four other courtiers held
the cords from the corners. Thanking
these, to the right and left, were two
staff officers and twelve captains
The procession formed in the shady
avenue extending from Wild park to
the new palace The public had there
the only opportunity to see the pro-
SQuadrOnS of soldiers, and marSnalS
bearing the various insignias and or
ders of the dead empress Among them
was General Won Waldersee, who car
ried the dowager empress crown Nj
merOuS members of the imperial court
and the court of the deceased empress
also marched in the procession. Fol-
lowing the hearse came Emperor VIII
liam. King Edward, the crown prince
of Germany, and the other royal per-
sonages.
Then came the foreign ambassadors and
ministers and personageS from the en-
perors and empress encourage, members
of the government parliamentary bodies.
The procession moved through the avenue
to the new palace and then through the
park to the San Souci garden, all OF
which were closed rigidly against the
public.
When the procession started the bells
in the F'riedenkirche Church of peace
began tolling and all the other bells IN
POtsdam Joined in When the procession
reached the mausoleum. adjacent to the
Freidenkirche. all those by the procession
in advance of the hearse took up posi-
tons opposite the church.
When the coffin was borne across the
threshold of the mausoleum the cathed>
raj choir from Berlin intoned a solemn
stroppe.
Only the emperor and empress, the other
members of the imperial family, King
Edward, Queen Alexandra and the other
members of the British royal party ana
the princes of the highest rank entered
the Inausoleum, which is small
DR.. Perszius. the chaplain, offered a
prayer. after which the choir again sang.
When their nlajesties left the mauso--
leum the procession dissolved. The ems
perors, Queen Alexandra and the othcf
ladies went in carriages direct from Wild
park to the mauSoleum-