Year: 1875

1t is not from an undue sentiment Of COM
plaisance or any especial desire to see our
country honored by the presence Of high per-
sonages from abroad that we view with unu-
sual interest and qualification the coming Of
the Crown Prince Of Germany to the United
States. The announcement that he will visit
our Centennial Exhibition comes in a semi
official shape. He will be accompanied by his
son. The Crown Prince Frederick William
Nicholas Charles is the only son of the present
Emperor Of Germany. He is heir to the impe-
rial throne. He is now in the forty-fourth
year Of his age, is general field marshal in
the German army, and was a famous
commander during the wars with Aus
tria and France. His son, who is to ac-
company him, Prince Frederick William
Victor Albert, is in the sixteenth year Of
his age and is a grandson Of Queen Victoria,
whose daughter the Crown Prince married.
The great age of the Emperor Of Germany
seventy-eight- the increasing contin-
gency of his death may interfere with this
trip. But the old Emperor continues actively
in the government Of his Empire. His health
is vigorous and his mind SO strong that we
may fairly hope that his death will not
prevent the coming Of the Crown Prince.
This is the second royal prince who has
promised to visit America during the Exhi-
bition in Philadelphia. The Emperor of
Brazil has received leave of absence from
his Legislature for the same purpose. The
King Of Sweden, in an audience granted to a
HERALD correspondent at the time of corona
ton, said that he thought of sending his son,
the Swedish Crown Prince, to the United
States during the Centennial. This lad,
Prince Oscar Gustavus Adolphus, is a year
older than the son Of Frederick William.
There is a rumor also that the son Of the late
Emperor Napoleon, who was born in 1856,
will pay US a visit.


The coming Of these high personages to
America will add to the interest Of our Cen
tennial Exhibition. We shall be glad to see
them all, not merely because they are
princes, but because they represent nations
with whom we are on terms Of amity. The
visit Of the Crown Prince Of Germany will be
the most important ever made by royal per-
son to America. The coming Of the Prince Of





much older than the Crown Prince Of Swe-
den-on q round Of observation and study,
and who was taken from place to place by
the Duke Of Newcastle and a large suite.
The Crown Prince Of Germany is in the
maturity Of life, soldier Of great fame
and experience, a statesman whose career
has been tested in peace and in war.
He is the heir to the most powerful
throne in Europe. He comes to q country
largely indebted to Germany and in which
Germans have an extended citizenship. He
will find millions Of his countrymen here,
men who share his affection for the father
land, who rejoice in his race and lineage.
There could be no event more gratifying to
the millions of our German fellow country
men than the presence of the heir to their
imperial crown. The respect in which
we hold the German character is so high that
Americans will also 60 out Of their way to
show their appreciation Of the honor paid
them by this prince. His coming will be
the most striking event of the Exhibition,
especially if he can induce Bismarck, Moltke,
Won Room or some of the great statesmen
and warriors Of Germany to accompany him.
Such visit is not merely an errand Of cere-
mony or curiosity. 1t is the binding together
Of two nations in those ties of courtesy and
friendship which, after all, are the surest
guarantees of peace.