Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-22
WEDDING FESTIVITIES.
German Crown Prince and Duchess
Cecilia Of Mecklenbure-Schwer

BERLIN, May 22.-The entertainments in
celebration of the wedding of Crown Prince
frederick William and the Duchess CeciIia
OF MISUNDERSTANDING will last four
days, beginning Saturday. June 4. the day
the bride and her family arrive here from
Schwerin and take up their residence In
the Bellevue Palace. The Duchess will he
received at the Brandeburg gate by the
chief burgomaster and the city fathers and
by 100 young men 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
VIII be dressed alike, in gretchen costumes
with their hair in braids down the hack
Behind the Crown Prince and his bride will
ride OF right the butchers, postmen and
Populations from other trade and occupa-
tons. according to immemoriaI custom,
Ihose chosen to form the cayalcade 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 II possible, beautiful. The three-quar-
tiers of a mile of Unter Den Linden from
the Brandenburg gate to the palace. where
the emperor and empress will await the,
Duchess Cecilia will be hung with gar
lands of roses. Artificial ones, naturally.
VIII be the only sort 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 for from 81. so for the
former to S125 for the latter Except for
the numerous court equipages and firms
which will be seen in the streets and the
princess going and coming from every
hotel there will not be anything for the
public to see as the festivities will be pri-
vate and only members OF royal families
ambassadors and a few other important
persOnageS and government officials will
take part in them The chapel Of the pal
ace where the wedding Will take place only
holds about 800 persons, but there will be
a service at the catchsdraI on Sunday
and a dinner at which the Hohen-
zollern and Mecklenburg-S chwerin fami-
lies and the visiting princes, of whom
there are fifty or sixty, will be
present. There are so many princes COM
ing. each of whom must be treated cere-
shaPs office is perplexed over questions of
princely precedence. The ambassadors
probably will be invited to only one or two
functions so as to avoid placing them be-
low members of small German houses
The wedding gifts will be presented in
the palace on Monday morning, June 8.
when Populations with congratulations will
be received. Later there will be a numer-
ously attended breakfast, and the state
dinner will be served at $50 IN the after
noon so as to be ended in time to permit
of the punctual appearance of all the
the same evening. The civil ceremony of
the wedding Tuesday, June @. will be per-
formed by House Minister Won Wedel, and
the religious rite win be celebrated by DIR.
Dryander. the court chaplain, in the palace
chapel The procedure to be observed In
the wedding Of the crown prince nils ll3
pages of the Book OF Ceremonies of the
House of Hohenzol1ern."