New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-31

who. on his military campaigns twice
bsd occasion TO pass through Bayreutn'
The first time was in 1872, and he sent
an express request from hschsfenourg
that he should not be asked to pass
,iybt in the rooms Of Bsyreuth when
ver. known 10 be visited by the White
LADY. His request was granted, yet
next morning he rose in the worst o.
moods. and a. he WAS getting into ms
csrr;sc. r. was heard to mutter some
thing about "the sccursed castle" The
following wear, when he passed
4hrouoh the place, he refused to spend
+ba NIGHT there. The last time tne
White Lady was seen at Bsyreutn was
in 1922.
Another striking story Of the ghost
NJ the Hohcnzollerns, in when Ma
roloon figures. was current in ll99. a
sentinel keeping guard before the pa,
acc I'M Berlin was suddenly confronted
bv a tall woman dressed IN whlte;:
Around her neck she wore q string o.
pearls. in her hand she carried staH
OF ivory, her long, gaunt race was
crowned by jet black halr ana Diooa
red heart seemed splashed upon her
breast. On it were letters "hlch inc
scntinel could not decipner.
Tbe sentinels story made such an
Immersion on those 70 whom he re-
u. ted il that IL was published in a
booklet decorated with portrait
Gravvn IN accordance with the descrlp-
lion and not long sfterward began
fLat series OF humiiatinG defeats
which ended by laying Prussia pros
trafe al the feet Of Bonaparte.
Tho story Is fairly well known thal
Frederick i, first King Of Prussia dIed
under tho conviction that the Pniost
az the White Lady. whom he SAID ne
saw inst prior 10 his death, came 10
him and announced his approaching
Jcn,iee. while there are other more or
I ss authenticated stories a apparI-
tiors appcaring I'm Berlin IN lo4O, be
"a the death Of Frederick William II.
and again i'm 1861, previous to the
deeth Of Frederick William ~.
such, indeed, is the fear created IN
Berlin by the White Lady that years
ago court officials took delight IN mas
oucrading IN white in certain rooms 20
brighten those who came tnelr way
Once when Margrave Aibrecht the var
rior met a White Lady at Plassenburg'
he prssped her with his strong arms
and threw her downstairs, ana a. me
bottom was found the dead BODY OF M.
chancellor. who with the BISHOP OF
Bamberg had conspired against his
ruler. r.su
at Berlin and sum 'ar appsrition ~
Vienna arc given by ne Nlcomte q AT
Iiucourt I'm his cossipy volume OF me-
moirs entitled "Le Pelerin." He de-
votes many pages 20 the dramatic story
Of how. when a sister of King Fred
erick I Of Wurtemberg lay III, but IN
no serious danger, n White Lady passed
along a gallery Of the castle one night.
leaving the sentinels frozen with ter
ror. A few days later this royal lady.
who had not been regarded as seriously
I'D. suddenly died.
on another occasion, one very dark
night, when every one was asleep I'D
STUTTGART. a carriage with six horses
ratified over the pavement and drew up
before the palace. The steps were let
down in sight of the sentinels, who
looked down from the galleries; the
White Lady stepped out. The gates did
not omen for her, yet she appeared
within, passing through the portals as
il they had been a veil OF fog with
stately bearing she passed along the
great gallery Not n sentinel dared
isv his hand upon her. II was January
IA. 1884. What followed? Duke Fer
dinand. the Kings uncle, died on Jan
VARY 20.