The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-19
nelationship.
RARE WORKS SENT TO
IMPERIAL LIBRARIES

britain AT tho Department of ths
Coiohies there are nearly as many more
sun unpacked; while the Foreign ONCE
mas likewise It's share Of these test,
moniais OF regard for the late King,
and OF good Will for King George.
from British communities and socie-
Ties In foreign cities and even from
foreign bodies.
All these addresses have received N
Atereotyped official acknowledgment,
But that does not mean they have ever
been seen by King George. and ono IA
tempted 70 ask oneself what possible
use there can be in wasting the trou-
pie and money in sending such utterly
useless things. Some OF them arc
handsomely framed. others contained
In caskets. and under the circumstances
II Is fortunate that the government de.
paF;ments at Whitehall have enormous,
cellar accommodation, where they may
be left to molder and rot
In the library of the King OF tho
Belsians at Brussels. situated in an an.
mex OF the royal palace, in q two.
stored structure, hidden rnder o TO.
mantle garb Of greenery, there ars
many thousands OF addresses. rendered
TO Leopold /. and Leopold H., through.
out theIr respective long reigns: ad.
dresses from every part OF their domin.
IONS, IN honor OF all sorts of occasiona
and also addresses from the nunicipali.
" or London and OF other foreign
cities which they had visited They
are piled away there under the stair
cases, the majority OF them In boxes
and packages that have never been
opened since their receipt and which
are slowly being eaten away by weevtls.
without any attempt to preserve them,
on the part OF the Librarians. who Just
| L.,
rubbish
How little even the members of
the imperial house OF Hapsburg knew
about the late Empress Elizabeth. Is
SHOWN in a rather striking fashion In
tho "Reminiscences" of the ex-Crown.
princess of Snxony. which have Just
been published here and in Europe
She devotes a considerable amount Of
attention to the Empress in the book.
but practically admits that It is near
ly all second hand gossip, since she
scarcely knew her murdered kinswo-
man, having only seen her three times
In her life: once when she was a child
OF eleven. and she happened to en-
counter her in q corridor of the Hof-
burg, and received n kindly emile as
Elizabeth passed by without speak,
Ing. The second occasion on which
the eN-crownprincess saw the Empresa
was just three months after the tragedy
OF Meyerling. when, having attained
her legal majority, she was presented
by her mother. the Grand Duchess Of
Tuscany. to the Empress. at the Hof-
burg, in private audience, in order TO
receive from her hands the Order Of
the Star Cross. During the entire cere.
mony, which lasted about four minutes
the Empress did not speak a singls
word. constantly raising her handker.
chief to her eyes to wipe away the
tears that were running down her
cheeks The only other time that the
eN-crownprincess ever had the OBJ
por:unity of approaching tho Empress,
was when the latter lay in her coffin,
Just before the funeral
When 1T Is borne in mind that tho
eX-crownprincess was in those days a
member of the imperial family ana an
Archduchess of Austria. and that I'm
spite thereof she saw so little of the
Empress. 1t will be readily nnderstood
how Infinitely less her compatriots of
inferior rank had the opportunity OF
learning to know the Inflated consort
of Emperor Francis Joseph
Copyright. 1911, by the Brentwood
Company