Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-01-27
Celebrates FOrty-Seventh
Anniversary With
Great Eclat.
GERMANY GENERALLY GALA
EneIand'S Intention Not to Be
Represented at Marriage
Celebration
CAUSES CHANGE IN PROGRAM

Berlin, Jan. 27.-Emepror William
is forty-seven years old today, and the
anniversary of his birth is celebrated
throughout the German empire. Ac-
cording to a conservative estimate,
twenty thousand thanksgiving service
were held in the churches in all parts
of Germany this morning. The Of
ficial celebration of the day took the
form of military reviews, of which
there were probably more than one
hundred in all parts of the empire,
official receptions and banquets.
In this city the Bourse and nearly
all business places were closed to-
day in honor of the day and not even
the newspapers appeared. The city
was profusely decorated with flags,
evergreens and bunting, and the
streets were crowded with people, all
day, particularly in the vicinity of
the Palace Inter der Linden. There
was great deal to see, state car
riages bearing members of the royal
family and representatives of other
German courts driving to and from
the castle at short intervals.
The emperor was an extremely busy
man all day, and his whole time was
practically taken up with receiving
his royal and other visitors and their
congratulations. During the morning
hours the emperor received the con-
gratulations of the members of his
family, and of the members of his
immediate household. Then came the
members of his cabinet, the heads of
the two houses of parliament, men,
of fnIn ol
ENJOYS from various European
courts, reigning and other princes and
deputations of the army, the navy.
the various branches of the civil gov
ernment. and of the various federal
governments, and, finally. deputa-
tions of various civic and military
organizations from all parts OF, Ger
many.
AS usual, there will be a grand court
reception in honor of the emperor's
birthday, this evening, which will be
attended by about one thousand
guests, The empress and all the
members of the royal family will be
present. and the scene will be unus-
ually brilliant.
In honor of the day several diplo-
matte dinners will be given, among
them one at the United States EN-
bassy. This evening there will be
many hundreds of banquets and cele-
brations by the officers of the army
and navy, government officials and
hundreds of civic organizations. 1t is
an interesting fact that "Kaiser's
Birthday" is the only day in the year
when military etiquette excuses of
ficers of the army and navy for be-
coming intoxicated. 1t is not con-
sidered improper to become intoxi-
Gated by drinking the kaiser's health.
Emperor William II was born on
January 81, 1859, and succeeded his
father, Emperor Frederick III, on
June Is, 1888. He is the ninth mon
arch of the House of Hohenzollern
TO rule over the Kingdom OF Prussia,
and the third of the same house TO
rule over the Empire of United Ger
many. He is Hohenzollern by his
father; Guelph by his mother, who
was a daughter of Queen Victoria;
while French blood flows in his
veins through one OF his ancestors,
Louise de Coligny, daughter of the
great admiral. On February 27, 1881,
he married Princess Victoria of
SchIeswig Holstein Sonderburg Au-
gustenburg (born October 22, 1859,
with whom he has had six sons and
one daughter.
The twenty-fifth wedding anniVer-
sary of the emperor and empress will
be celebrated on February 27. of this
year.. It had been intended, at first,
to make the celebration a magnificent
state affair and preparations were al
ready made for the reception OF d
number of royal visitors. This pro-
gram has been changed, however, and
il has been semi-Ofiicially announced
that no invitations to take part in
the celebration of the event would be
sent to any European court. This
change of the original program was
very clever maneuver of the emper-
or, which automatically took all the
wind out of the sails of the British
court, which had decided not to be
represented at the celebration, as a
pointed rebuke of some of the things
that Emperor William did and which
displeased his majesty, King Edward
VII. Notwithstanding this change in
the original program the celebration
will be on magnificent scale and
throughout the German Empire ex.
tensive preparations are made now
for the grand festivities which will
be held in honor of the Silver Wed.
ding Jubilee of the imperial couple.