The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-05-23
ATHREE , EMPERORS
DINE WITH PRINCES
Many Secret Service Men
in Plain Clothes Keep
Watchful Eyes Upon
the Crowds While the
Royal Personages Proceed
to the Sehloss Palace,
Warnings Having Been
Given of Undesirables
tspecIal cable to The CAM

BERLIN, May 22.-Tonight three en-
perors and the most notable princes of
the fatherland dined together in the
great banqueting hall OF the Schloss.
With the arrival today at Anhalter
depot of the imperial armored train
bearing to the royal wedding the Czar
Nicholas OF Russia, the great state GER
emonies incidental to the marriage of
Princess Victoria Luise assumed pro-
portions of grandeur which even the
greatest courts OF the world seldom
afford to the spectator. The Schloss.
one of the finest modern palaces for
the presentation of an imperial pa
geant. is the chief scene of the pre-
liminary functions
But it was to the depot where the
principal trains come in from the
northern frontier that all eyes were
turned. crowds swarming upon crowds
earlier on the scene. and regiments
upon regiments of soldiers. cavalry and
infantry, dragons. hussars. laneers,
uhlans. guardsmen and battalions of
the line, flashing lanes of sabers. bay
onets and guidons and standards. with
magnificently accoutered officers and
order1ies in haste. galloping here and
there, adding life and movement to the
garlanded coneourse. Great are the
decorations. Never did Berlin look so
beautiful
ROBED IN WAVING FLAGS
The route lay through Koniggratz
street. Victory avenue and the stately
Inter den Linden. Shops and houses
were veritably robed in waving flags.
The dowager duchess of Baden. aunt
of the kaiser. was the first to arrive.
She was already on her way to the
schloss while the kaiser was hurry
ing to meet her His majesty had
been detained passing upon the final
program for Saturday, several changes
in which had to be made at the last
moment. The aged duchess rallied
William upon his tardiness, but she
accepted his excuse. If. as Talleyrand
said. 'punctuality is the poIiteness OF.
princes" William is the most polite
sovereign on earth. He never breaks
and IS seldom minute behind in
keeping an appointment. Today. how
ever, the kaiser worked harder than
any laborer in Germany
kAISER'S QUICK CHANGES
He had to make many quick changes
of dress-in fact, after the arrival OF
the duke and duchess of Cumberland.
father and mother of his future son in
law, he had to rush into a dressing
room, hurriedly made ready at the
depot. and transform himself from a
German field marshal to colonel in
chief of the Russian imperial guards
The czar arrived in the splendid
uniform OF colonel in chief of the Gar
Alexander regiment of imperial German
England, who drove with the kaiser to
welcome the car. wore the uniform
OF his colonelcy in the First dragoon
guards of the fatherland.
The English and Russian sovereigns,
wearing very similar uniforms. looked
like brothers. Nicholas. however. seem
ing more careworn and less clipper of
walk. George was smiling. the kaiser
grinning, the czar trying TO look pleas
ant, as the three emperors embraced in
turn. The Russian emperor was fol-
lowed in the imperial coach by a great
retinue of superbIy dressed officers and
court officials. Their fine caps of
white lambs wool, fur lined shoulder
capes and jeweled decorations made a
superb show. The czar wore very few
decorations. but he was notable fig
ure none the less.
POLICE On GUARD
Standing little apart from the em-
perors were many men in plain walk
ing clothes. These were the famous
international police. the grave secret
service veterans of Moscow and ST.
Petersburg, the ruddier and more at
case man hunters from London's new
Scotland yard and the German detect
ives, watching everybody, and particu-
Haarly the eye of their chief. DR.. Eugene
Renniger, who was present in person.
There were no less than zoo of the
ablest detectives in Europe gathered
in and around the depot. The cars
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