The San Francisco call., 1905-05-21
WEDDING PLANS
ARE COMPLETE
Berlin Is Making Extensive
Preparations to Welcome
Bride of the Crown Prince
LAVISH ENTERTAINMENT
Ceremony Will Take Place in
the Chapel of the Palace
and Will Be Private

in celebration of the wedding of Crown
Prince Frederick and the Duchess Cecilia
OF Mecklenburg-Schw will last four
days, beginning Saturday, June 8, the
day the bride and her family arrive here
from Schwerin and take up their resi-
dence in the Bellevue Palace. The Ouch
ess will be received at the Brandenburg
gate by the Chief Burgomaster and the
city fathers and by a hundred young
women of well-known families, who have
been drawn by lot from several hundred
candidates and who will present flowers
to their future Empress The girls will
be dressed alike in Gretchen costumes
with their hair in braids down the back
Behind the Crown Prince and his bride
will ride the butchers, postmen and dep
utatons from other trades and occupa-
tons, according 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 will
await the Duchess Cecilia, will be hung
with garlands of roses. Artificial ones
naturally, will be the only sort used, as
they will have TO stand four days ex-
posure. Eighty thousand garlands have
been ordered. Seats and windows along
Unter den Linden have been selling for
from 81 so for the former to s125 for the
latter.
Except for the numerous court equip
ages and uniforms which will be seen on
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 mem
bers of royal families, ambassadors and
a few other important personages and
Government officials will take part in
them. The chapel of the palace, where
the wedding will take place, only holds
about 300 persons, but there will be a SER
vice at the cathedral on Monday and a
dinner, at which the Hohenzollern and
Mecklenburg- -Schwerin families and the
visiting Princes, of whom there are fifty
or sixty, will be present. There are so
many Princes coming, each of whom
must be treated tremendously, that the
imperial court marshal's office is per-
picked over questions of princely prece-
dence. The ambassadors probably will
be invited to only one or two functions,
so as to avoid placing them below mem
bers of small German houses.
The wedding gifts will be presented in
the palace on Monday morning. June s.,
when deputations with congratulations
will be received. Later there will be a
numerously attended breakfast, and the
state dinner will be served al $50 in the
afternoon, so as to be ended in time to
permit of the punctual appearance of all
the guests at a gala performance at the
opera the same evening. The civil cere-
mony of the wedding, Tuesday, June 6,
! will be performed by House Minister Won
Wedel, and the religious rite will be cele-
brated by DR.. Dryander, the court chap
lain In the palace chapel. The procedure
i to be observed in the wedding of the
/ Crown Prince fills thirteen pages of the
book of ceremonies of the house Of Ho-
/ henzolIern