New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-21
ROYAL WEDDING PLANS.
Berlin Preparing for the Marriage
of the CrOzCn Prince.

Berlin Nav 20-The entertainments in celebration
of the wedding of Crown Prince Frederick William
and the Duchess Cecilia of Mecklenburg- Schwerin
will last four days, beginning Saturday, June
the day the bride and her family arrive here from
Schwerin and take up their residence in the Belle
vue Palace The duchess will be received at the
Brandenburg Gate by the Chief BUrgomaster and
the city fathers and by one 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 Of right the
butchers pOstmen and Populations from other
/ trades and occupations according to immemorl
custom. Those chosen to form the cavalcade are
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 II possible, beautiful.
The three quarters OF a mile of Inter den Lin
den 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, they will have to stand four days
exposure. Eighty thousand garlands have been
ordered. Seats and windows along Inter den Lin
den have been selling for from 81 30 for the former
to 1925 for the latter. Except for the numerous
court equlpages and uniforms which will be seen
in the streets ami the princes going and coming
from every hotel there Will not be anything for
the public to the festivities will be private
and few other important personages and govern
officials will take part in them. -
The chapel of the palace where the wedding will
take place holds only about three hundred persons
but there will be a service at the Cathedral on
Sunday and a dinner at which the Hohenzollern
and Mecklenburg Schwerin families and the visit
ing princes, of whom there are fifty or sixty will
be present. There many princes coming
each of whom must be treated tremendously, that
the imperial court marshas office is perplexed over
questions Of princely precedence. The Ambassa-
doris probably will be invited to only one or two
functions, so to avoid placing them below MEM
beers Of small German houses
The wedding gifts will be presented IN the pal
Monday morning, June ., when populations
with congratulations will be received Later there
will be a numeTOusly attended breakfast, and the
state dinner will bs served $50 p. m, 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 ceFe-
mony Tuesday. June 6, will be performed by
House Minister Wedel, and the religious rite
will be celebrated by DR.. Dryander, the court
chaplain, in the palace chapel The procedure to
be observed in the wedding of the Crown Prince
fills rs pages Of the Book OF Ceremonies Of the
House of Hohenzollern."