Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-14
PRIDE OF THE NAVY.
MAKARoFF's DEATH
MoURNED ALL OVER RUSSIA.
Grand Dukes Injuries Reported Serious
Romance Connected With His
Naval Ambitions.

A cablegram from st. Petersburg, dated
April 10, says:
| Vice Admiral Makaroffs death is really a
greater loss than would be that of several
battle ships. He was the pride of the
navy and enjoyed the implicit confidence
of his sovereign as well of the officers
and men of the service.
Speaking of his death, officers here all
remarked upon the strange fatality that
he should lose his life upon a heavily ar
mored battle ship to which he had par
ticular aversion. This morning for the
first time he raised his flag on a battle
ship Previously he had gone out on board
the cruiser Novik or the cruiser Askold.
1t at the urgent request of his friends
that he did not risk his life in this fashion,
and transferred his flag to the Petropav-
lovsk
1t is now open secret that Vice Ad-
miral Makaroff was not anxious to resign
his command of Cronstadt to go to the far
east, thus necessitating his leaving his
wife and family. but the emperor held
such a high opinion of him that he de-
clined to consider other candidates, al
though it was pointed out that Rear Ad-
mral Rojestvensky, chief of the general
staff of the navy who had just been ap-
pointed to command the Baltic squadron
and who is now destined to succeed Maka-
rolf, well others, were anxious to
distinguish themselves.
The emperor in his summons to Vice
Admiral Makaroff said: My choice has
fallen on you, and l will not take re-
fusal, and the admiral went to the far
east. The emperor's sorrow is doubly keen
on this account.
Requiem Services for Dead.
BY imperial command a requiem service
will be celebrated at the admiralty church
at noon tomorrow for the emperor's favor
lite admiral. Tonight the grief-stricken
widow, according to the Russian custom.
had requiem service celebrated at her
residence She had been much worried
over the health of her husband, who SUI
fered from diabetes, reference to which
was made in recent telegram from the
admiral, in which he said he was COM
PEELED to disobey orders as to taking regu-
lar sleep
The admra's death is also mournad by
his daughter Lille. beautiful girl of nine
teen, who was the belle of CrOnstadt. Both
mother and daughter will attend the re-
QUEEN service at the admiralty church to-
morrow.
The coincidence is generally commented
upon that the ice-breaker Yermak. of
Vice Admiral Makaroff's greatest trumphs,
steamed majestically up the Neva today,
having cut through the ice from Cronstadt,
her enormous black hull dwarfing the war
ships moored alongside. There's Stefan
OSipovich'S ship cried the MOujks, who
knew and loved Makaroff so well that they
called him by his patronymc.
Rear Admiral Rojesvensky is man of
utterly different mold from Vice Admiral
Makaroff. He is very able sailor and
man of talent and ability, but he is not 80
popular with the jackies was the dead
commander-in-chief.
Admiral Makaroff Is believed to have been
in the coming tower when the Petropav-
lovsk was blown up.
Grand Duke Was Fighting for Bride.
According to later reports, Grand Duke
~ ly ir,iII at
first believed. He has been removed to a
hospital at Port Arthur for treatment. De-
spite the statements in the dispatches, the
Grand Duchess Vladimir believes that her
son is dead. saying: Everybody has been
killed. and l cannot believe that Cyril was
saved
Grand Duke Cyril probably owes his life
to the fact that he is a fine athlete and a
splendid swimmer. Count Grabbe, aid-de-
camp to Grand Duke Vladimir, will leave
tomorrow to bring the Grand Duke Cyril
home.
There is a romantic story connected with
the Grand Duke Cyril's anxiety to go to the
front. He waited to win his spurs and then
marry the woman with whom he Is very
much in love. The match was opposed by
his parents. 1t is an open secret that the
grand dukes lady love is his cousin, the di-
vorced wife of the Grand Duke of Hesse
and a daughter of the late Duke of Sake
Coburg and Gotha who married a sister of
Alexander III.
When the news of Grand Duke Cyrils
miraculous escape reached his parents here
a te deum service was held at the Vladimir
Palace.
The correspondent of the Associated Press
was informed there this afternoon that
Grand Duke Boris was going to accompany
his brother to Mukden According to the
aGvices received there Grand Duke CyriPs
injuries are slight.
1t was announced from Berlin December
L. 1893 that the engagement of Grand
Duke Cyril to the former Grand Duchess
of Hesse, who was divorced from her hus-
band had been broken off. the emperor
having forbidden the grand duke to marry
the grand duchess. whose former husband
is a brother of the czarina. 1t was said,
according to the dispatch, that the grand
duke was deeply in love with the Hessian
grand duchess before her marriage. One OF
the objections of the emperor to the mar
riage. 1t was said. was the fact that the
Grand Duke Cyril is of orthodox Russian
faith, while the grand duchess is Luth-
e,an. In addition. there seemed to be
personal objection on the part of the en-
peror to receiving the princess at the Rus
sian court,