The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-08-17
The LAST SCENE.
Remains of Germany's Ex-Empress
Placed in the MausOleum-
The Funeral.

Remains of Germany's Ex-Empress
Placed In the Mausoleum-
The Funeral.
Potsdam, Aug. 14.-The remains OF
Dowager Empress Frederick were in
tered Tuesday beside those of her
husband, in the mausoleum Of
Friedenskirche, near Potsdam.
Between eight and nine o'clock Tues
day morning the bells of all the
churches in Potsdam were tolled, with
two intervals of rest. Shortly before
1o:3o Emperor William, the other
members of the imperial family and
the visiting princes assembled in the
royal hall at the Wild Park railroad
station. The high court officials. mill
tary dignitaries, Count Won Buelow and
other members of the cabinet, the
knights of the Black Eagle and the
members of the reichstag assembled at
1925 o'clock in an adjacent hall.
At 10:30 the signal was given that
the funeral train was approaching.
Conversation, which had hitherto
been carried on in suppressed tones,
entirely ceased and an air of solemnity
possessed the assembly. The train
rolled in slowly and noiselessly.
Twenty non-commissioned officers
of the dowager empress hussar regi-
ment No. 2 came forward and bore
the coffin to the royal hearse, which
had in the meanwhile arrived from the
new palace. Chamberlains and cour-
tiers with the royal insignia particle
pated 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 pall-cloth, while
IL 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 10 captains.
Following the hearse came EN-
peror William; King Edward, the
crown prince Of Germany and tic
other royal princes and royal person.
ages.
Then came the foreign ambassa-
doris and ministers and personages
from the emperor's and empress en-
tourage; members of the government
parliamentary bodies.
When the procession started, the
bells in the Friedensklrche Church of
Peace), began tolling, and all the
other bells in Potsdam Joined in.
When the procession reached the
mausoleum, adjacent to the Friedens-
kirche, all those in the procession in
advance of the hearse took up posi-.
tions opposite the church.
When the coffin was borne across
the threshold of the mausoleum the
cathedral choir from Berlin intoned
a solemn strophe.
Only the emperor and empress, the
other members of the imperial fam.
lily, King Edward, Queen Alexandra
and the other members of the British
royal party and the princes of the
highest rank entered the mausoleum
which is small.
DR.. Persius, the chaplain, offered
prayer, after which the choir again
sang.
When their majesties left the mau
soleum, the procession dissolved.
The empress, Queen Alexandra and
the other ladies went in carriages
direct from Wild PARK to the mau.
solemn.
London, Aug. IA memorial serv.
ice was held Tuesday in the Chapel
Royal, St. James palace, stimuli
taneously with the funeral OF Dow.
ager Empress Frederick at Potsdam
Among those present were the duke
and duchess of Argyle, Lord Sails.
bury, the United States ambassador
Mr.. Choate, Sir William Vernon-Har.
court and Lady Harcourt, Lord and
Lady Wolseley, Lord Lansdowne, Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, Mr.
Balfour and many members of the
diplomatic corps. AS the opening
sentences of the service were chanted
royal salute was fred in St. James
park, followed by the firing of e
minute-guns.
DlSpaLcneS from Ill paTtS OF Lne
contingent announce the celebration
I of memorial services in honor oil
Dowager Empress Frederick. Queen
Wilhelmina, her husband and the
queen dowager of Holland attended
!, the service in the English church al
The Hague. Services were held at all
the capitals of the German states
and were mostly attended by the
reigning princes.
H1NMAN ON WRONG SIDE.