The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-20

Herbert Bismarck died yesterday morn
ing at 1915 O'clock. Death resulted from
cancer Of the stomach. The end was
painless.
Herbert Nikolaus Won Bismarck Schon-
hansen, who has been called chip OF
the old Bismarck block. was the eldest
son OF Prince Otto Won Bismarck to whose
title he succeeded on his fathers death
in 1885, He was born in Berlin. Deem
bee IS. 1s49, and was educated at Frank
fo.s, Berlin and Bonn, taking his univer-
sity degree at the latter. The Franco
& Prussian war broke out when he was
twenty-one years old, and he. saw active
service, being wounded at Mars-la Tour,
81 and being appointed all officer on Septem-
Der 2, 1870. He began his political career
+ in 1873, and was attached to the missions
at Munich and Dresden. and later was
secretary of legation at Berne. His fatn-
er early began the training Of his elue5t
son, for whom he had the greatest a =
lection, to succeed himself and Herbert
served as private secretary to the Cham
cellor from 1877 to 1881. He was one
of the assistant secretaries at the great
conference Of European .dplomatsts at
Berlin in 1878. In 1852 he was made coun-
sellor Of the German Legation in London
and in 1854 served In a similar capacity
at the Russian court. Later in the same
year he was made ambassador at The
Hague. In 1885 he became Under Secre-
3tary Of State and Secretary of State In
1856, his diplomatic position ranking next
q to that of his ia ther. His public career
was one Of great promise and it was ex-
pected that he would be the successor
of the Iron Chancellor when the latter's
sudden retirement In March. 1890 cut 1t
short. When the Chancellor was dismiss
ed no one took the matter more to heart
than Herbert, who insisted on at once
resisning oil his offices, being unwilling
TO remain any longer in the service of a
monarch. who, in his eyes, had been
guilty of such base; ingratitude as Will
liam. He had seen the latter reared.
SO to speak, in his fathers house, draw
ing his lessons of statecraft and AS
knowledge of men and Of the /, world
from the old Chancellor, in whose home
he was treated more as a son Of the fam
lily than as a prince of the blood William
frequently turning to the Chancellor for
advice and consolat.on in hs numerous
bitter conflicts with his parents. The luea
that William, of all other people, could
turn against the statesman who had been
his mentor, and sort Of second father
10 him, destroyed every spark OF affec-
ton that Herbert may have entertained
for the Kaiser, and 1t may be doubted If
the latter had a more bitter or relentless
enemy than PRINCE Herbert Bismarck.
The son retired to Ills private estate.
ing elected by the Conservatives to the
Rcichstag, and being reelected In 1895.
JIG negotiated the treaty between Ger
many and England on the colonial bounu-
AIRY question in 1886. and presided at the
Samoan Conference In Berlin in 1889
1t was while he was connected with the
legation in London that he carelessy fred
q charge OF birdshot at Sandringham
Which took effect in the small clothes OF
the Prince OF Wales, but not seriously
harming the future King. a dark spot
in the career of Prince Herbert was his
treatment Of the Princess Carolath, whom
he persuaded to abandon her husband and
children for his sake and with whom, ..e
/ eloped to Venice. where, In obedience to
mingled entreaty and peremptory COM
1nands of his father. he deserted her,
without making any provision for her flu
ture. Her husband divorced her shortly
afterward, and the princess, who had been
one OF the most brilliant beauties of the
court OF Berlin. became thercupon ae-
pendent upon the charity Of her own
family the HatZfeldts. 1t was expected
for time that Herbert would marry the
princess after her divorce. But his fatn-
er refused for one moment to hear of
any such alliance, and 1t was only many
years later that he welded the Countess
Marguerite Hoyos. In 1892 They had two
sons and two daughters. Prince Bismarck
was described as a handsome man, over
Six feet In height and OF fine proportions.
Like his father, he was irascibe and short
tempered There was much talk at one
time OF his being appointed ambassador
at Washington after his reconciliation
with the Kaiser, which followed his faith
er's death.