The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-20
TO LAST FOUR DAYS.
Celebration of Crown Princes Ap-
preaching Marriage.


Berlin. May 20.@The entertain
ments in celebration of the wedding
of Grown Prince Frederick William
and the Duchess Cecilia of Meexlen-
ourg- SehWertn will last for four days,
beginning Saturday, June 5, the day
the bride and her family arrive here
from Schwerin and take up their
residence in the Bellevue palace. The
duchess will be received at the Bran
denburg gate by the chief burgomas-
ter and the city fathers and by 100
young women Of well know. families
who have been drawn by lot from sew
eral hundred candidates and who will
present flowers to their future en-
press The girls viii be dressed alike
In Gretchen costumes with their hair
in braids down the back. Behind the
crown prince and his brother will ride
the butchers. postmen and deputations
from other trades and occupations ac-
eordtng to immemorial custom. Those
chosen to form the caValcade are now
in training at the garrison riding
schools.
The emperor has commanded that
this entrance into the city which will
be the only public celebration shall
be simple and if possible beautiful.
The three-quarters of a mile of Inter
den Linden from the Brandenburg
gate to the palace, where the emperor
and empress viii await the Duchess
Cecilia, viii be hung with garlands of
roses. Artificial ones naturally will be
the only sort used as they will have
to stand for four days exposure.
Eighty thousand garlands have been
ordered.
Seats Sell High.
Seats and windows along Inter den
Linden have been selling for from
$3.50 for the former to $125 for the
latter. Except for the numerous court
equippages and uniforms which will
be seen in the streets and the princess
coming and going from every hotel
there will not be anything for the
public to see, for the services will be
private and only members of royal
families, ambassadors and few other
important personages and government
officials viii take part in them.
The chapel of the palace where the
wedding will take place only holds
about 500 persons, but there will be
a service at the cathedral on Sunday
and a dinner at which the Hohenzol-
lern and Meck1enburg-Sch fam
lily and the visiting princes, of whom
there are fifty or sixty, will be pres
ent. There are so many princes COM
! ing, each of whom must be treated
tremendously, that the imperial court
marshaPs Office is perplexed over
questions of princely precedence. The
| am bassadors probably will be invited
to only one or two functions, so as to
avoid placing them below members OF
small German houses. The wedding
gifts will be presented in the palace
on Monday morning, June 8, when
4 Populations with congratulations will
/ be received. Later there will be a
numerously attended breakfast and
/ the state dinner will be served at 5 8 {
1 in the afternoon so as to be ended in
time to permit of the punctual ap-
pearance of all the guests at a gala
performance at the opera the same
evening. The civil ceremony of the
wedding Tuesday, June 6, will be per
formed by House Minister Won Wede
and the religious rite viii be cele-
brated by DR.. Dryander, the cour
chaplain, in the palace chapel. Tht
! procedure to be observed in the wed
ding of the crown prince fills II;
pages of the Book of Ceremonies O.
the House of Hohenzouern.'