Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1904-04-16
WOOSIOCK w. SATURDAY, APRIL l6. N
succeed Makaron, as well as others,

We're to distinguish themselves.
The emperor in his summons to Vice
Admiral Makaroff said: MY choice has
fallen upon you and | will not take
refusal" and so the admiral went to
the far east. The emperors sorrow is
doubly keen on this account.
BY imperial command a requiem
mass will be celebrated at the admiral
ty church at noon tomorrow for the
emperor's favorite admiral.
Tonight the grief-stricken widow,
according to the Russian custom, had
a requiem service celebrated at her
residence. She had been much worried
over the health Of her husband, who
suffered from diabetes, reference to
which was made in recent telegram
from the admiral, in which he said
he was compelled to disobey orders as
to taking regular sleep.
The admirals death is also mourned
by his daughter Lille. beautiful girl
of 10, who was the belle of Cronstadt
Both mother and daughter will attend
the requiem service at the admiralty
-hurch tomorrow.
The coincidence is generally COM
mented upon that the ieehraa,sar Vor-
max, one of the Vice Admiral Makar-
offs greatest triumphs, steamed ma
jestically up the Neva today, having
cut through the ice from Cronstadt.
There's Stefanos:povich's ship"
cried the moujiE1 who knew and loved
Makaroff SO much that they called him
by his patronymic.
Rear Admiral Rojestvensll..', who will
assume command of the fleet at Port
Arthur, is man of an utterly different
mold from Vice Admiral Makaroff. He
is very able sailor, and man of
talent and ability, but he is not so
popular with the jackies as was the
dead ommander-in-chief.
Makaroff is believed to have been in
the coming tower when the Petropav-
lovsk was blown up. Grand Duke Cy-
ril probably owes his life to the fact
that he is fine athlete and splendid
swimmer.
Count Grabbe aide-de-camp to Grand
Duke Vladimir, will leave tomorrow to
bring the Grand Duke Cyril home.
Nothing is known as to the character
Of the grand dukes injuries.
There is a romantic story connected
with the Grand Duke Cyril's anxiety
to go t0aAe front. He wanted to win
his spurs and then marry the woman
with whom he is very much in love,
but the match had been opposed by his
parents.
The grand dukes lady love is his
cousin, the divorced Wife of the grand
duke of Hesse, and a daughter of the
late duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,
who married a sister OF Alexander III.
1t was announced from Berlin on
Dec 70, 1908, that the engagement of
Grand Duke Cyril to the former grand
duchess CT Hesse. who was divorced
from her husband, has been broken off,
the emperor having forbidden the
whose former husband is a brother of
the czarina.
1T was said, according to the dispatch,
that the arand duke was deeply in love
with the Hessian grand duchess before
ier marriage.
Onc of the objections of the empcr-
Or to the marriage, it was said, was
the fact that the grand duke is of or
thodox Russian faith, while the grand
duchess is Lutheran.
In addition, there seemed to be
}arsCaal objection on the part of the
'mperor to receiving the princess at
he Russion court.
According to later reports Grand
Duke Cyril was more seriously injured
than at first believed. He has been
emoyed to hospital at Port Arthur
for treatment.
Despite the statements in the dis
catches the Grand Duchess Vladimir
believes that her son is dead, saying,
Everybody has been killed and I can
lot believe that Cyril was saved"
1t is stated that Viceroy Alexieff will
lssume command OF the naval forces
n the far east, presumably pending
he arrival of Rear Admiral Rojestven-
ky.