The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-06-15
QUARTER CENTURY
Of FINE PROGRESS
UNDER THE KAISER
Berlin in Gala Attire to Celer
brate Anniversary Of Viii
liam's Reign
WAR LORD PROVE
BIG A FACTOR
Festivities Begin Monday
With Salute Of lOI Guns.
Socialists Refuse to
Participate

BERLIN, June 14.-Berlin is -
gala attire tonight, n Is all ready ID
honor the kaiser's silver jubiiees
which begins tomorrow. Workmef.
were busy until late, hurrying the
completion of the decoration.
Pictures and busts of the kaiser are
in every shop window. and the Prus-
sian and imperial flags are flying ev-
erywhere. The more elaborate pre-
parations are confined to Unter-Den
Linden. and q couple of other streets
and squares. Unter-Den Linden, from
the palace to the Brandenburger
Gate. Is a mass of color. The broad
venue with its famous lime trees in
fanked on either side by thirty-foot
red and gold square towers. which en-
case the lamp posts, the arc lights Of
which form a glowing jewel.
The tower belfry Is surmounted
with a huge gilt crown. At the Paris
orplatz white doric columns. fifty feet
high, form a large court Of honor to
which the GRANDCHILDREN Gate Is both
the entrance and the background.
Roses and Gariands.
The gate is beautifully draped and
bedecked with garlands and laurel
wreaths. AT the Leipziger square 4
triumphal arch supported by two hugs
towers stands across Leipziger strasse.
HOSES IOEfn the decorative SEIlGHl0 xVE
the street itself. FriedrichstraSs0 II
also artistically bedecked.
The decorative scheme everywhere
is in the hands of noted artists, who
with the comparatively small ean
at their disposal have given the CEN
ter of the city an imposing festive ap-
p~earance. The serious financial con
dition, and the prospects Ct tax bur-
dens from the military bill, tend to
curb more extravagant decorations,
and may also have checked the ms
thusiasm.
Services In Churches.
As tomorrow will also be the annf-
|versary Of the death of the kAisefsn
father. and as 1t falls on Sunday this
day will be observed by services in
the principal churches.
II the weather permits there will
be a monster open air service at Tenn
pelhoeferfeld. In which Thousands OF
veteran soldiers will participate. Tho
bells OF all the churches In Berlin
and Potsdam will be- rung at noon.
h real festivities will begin on
Monday morning at Z o'clock, with
a great fanfare of trumpets for tho
entire length Of Unter-Den Linden.
and the firing of a salute of 101 guns
from the battery at L~ustgarten. IN
front Of the palace. At noon the
| kaiser and his six sons will entertain
the entire officers corps OF Berlin ana
Potsdam at Arsenal museum. In the
forenoon Field Marshal Count Won
| Haeisler, and a deputation OF offcern
| will present the kaiser with q mag
nifcent field marshal's baton. tn-
scribed:
ITO the German kaiser from n
German army. 1SsS-1913."
Generalization Court.
A congratulation court will be held
at II o'clock in the palace. All the
ministries, the members of the fed
eral counsel, Populations from tho
reichstag and the diet, and represen-
tatives OF the army. navy. many Ger
man cities and scientific Institutes will
present addresses OF congratulations.
During his reign the kaiser has
created twenty-eight new orders ana
decorations. On Monday there Will
| be a veritable deluge of these things
which are so dear to the German
heart. All records will be broken In
the bestowal of orders. decorations
and titles.
1t Is estimated that the endowmenta
of charitable and scientific Institutions
will amount to $4,000. coo. In all.
the Populations from the reichstaE.l
the diet. and the municipalities. tbs
Socialists will be conspicuous by their
absence. They refuse to participates
In the festivities in any amer.
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