Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-28
ROSES TO LINE
THE BRIDAL PATH
BERLIN PREPARES TO RECEIVE
FUTURE EMPRESS
ANCIENT RULES TO GOVERN
Entertainments In Honor Of the Royal
Couple VIII Continue In Elab-
orate style for Four
Days
specIal cahle 10 rhe Hera1d.

Special cabls TO The Herald.
BERLIN, May Entertainments
in celebration of the wedding of Crown
Prince Frederick William and Duchess
Cecilia of Mecklenburg-S -Schwerin will
last four days, beginning Saturday,
June 3, the day the bride and her fam
lily will 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 burgo-
master and the city fathers and by
100 young women of known families
who have been drawn by lot from sew
eral hundred candidates and who will
present flowers to the 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
deputations from other trades and oc-
cupations, according to ancient GUS
tom. Those chosen to form the caval-
cade are in training at the garrison
riding schools.
Roadway of Roses
The emperor has commanded that
this entrance to 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 en-
press will await Duchess Cecilia, will
be hung with garlands of roses. Arti-
fetal ones will be the only kind used,
as they will have to stand four days
exposure. Eighty thousand garlands
have been ordered.
Seats and windows along Inter den
Linden have been selling from $3.50
for the former to $125 for the latter
Except for the numerous court equip
ages and uniforms which will be seen
in the streets and the princes going
and coming 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, ambas-
sadors and few other important per-
sonages and government officials will
take part in them.
Precedence a Problem
The chapel of the palace, where the
wedding will take place, holds only
about 300 persons, but there will be a
service at the cathedral Sunday and
dinner at which the Hohenzollern and
Mecklenburg-S -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 marshaTs of
flee is perplexed over questions of
princely precedence. The ambassadors
probably will be invited to one or two
affairs so as to avoid placing them
below members of the small German
houses.
The wedding gifts will be presented |
in the palace Monday morning, June
5, when deputations with congratula- !
tions will be received. Later there will |
be breakfast, and the state dinner
will be served at $50 in the afternoon,
so as to be ended in time to permit |
the punctual appearance of all the
guests at a gala performance at the
opera the same ever ..
The civil ceremony tuesday, June G.
will be performed by House Minister
Won 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 113
pages of the book of ceremonies" of
the house of Hohenzollern.