Year: 1875

greeting from the Tcutoburger Forest"


II was brilliant and interesting scene all the morning
on the summit OF the Grotenburg The monument of
Hermann the Chcruscan crowns the summit OF the
hill long avenue had been cut from it either SIDE
to enable tho visitors to get good views
OF the figure. On either side Of the avenue
tribunes had been erected for tho accommodation
OF the guests and the Imperial party. Immediately op
postc the little wooden hut where Won Bandel has
spent many years Of his life the imperial tribune
was arccted, perhaps thirty yards On either
side of this tribune platforms the to the left
for ladies' the other for general guests To the left of
the Bandc hut tho tribune reserved for the press
and 10 the right for the singers and musicians
Long before the Emperor and suite arrived ON the
ground the ontre space OF the long crowded
with the guilds and students and schools, with their
banners. think many 80 900 to 40 900 persons
were there, with at least 400 banners and flags
and among the latter saw the Stars and
Stripes, borne at the head Of company OF German
Americans, who had to visit the Fatherland
1t was remarkable scene, and that will not easily
be forgotten by those who witnessed it. do not
member any impressvethe vast crowd the colossal
monuments the great monarchs OF the forest all
around us, and in front of the little hut tho aged white
bearded who built the great hero OF copper and
called all Germany thther.


FAMILY OF voN BANDEI.


And while we waiting for the Kaiser let us look
for moment at the front of that little wooden hut or
shanty. We have hour yet, for the cannon fred
from the foot of tho monument announces only the
imperial departure from Sleepytown. The fact was
known, by the way, the top of the mountain by
means of telegraph wire which had been erected
from the city at the Emperor's express wish He de-
sired to telegraph Immediately after the ceremony all
about the affair to Augusta in Berlin, perhaps in tho
old strain: -


Old Armn Is regular buster;


Praise Goa o% Sen' wSGm SG ne all PG Blessings ow


Gathered in front OF that little hut around the aged
sculptor, who Is greeted with such enthusiastic cheers
were thirty members Of his family, from all parts
of Germany and other countries The old sculptor him.
SELF who for months past has suffered from i'm
paired cyesght, stood gazing about him somewhat
dreamy MS If he could hardly grasp the thought that
at last his abors ended and appreciated and that
Germany, which had so long treated him and his work
with neglect, had gathered there to look his hero
have already told you about the remarkable life of this
very remarkable old man, who first the idea
OF making this monument to Hermann when he was but
nineteen years age how he has engaged on the
monument for thirty-soven years, and now an old
falterng of scventyf five, has just completed the
statue whose majesty and grandeur makes you un-
cover your head in admiration before its maker Many


time has the sculptors heart been sad but ho never
lost faith in the future, but told his friends the
darkest days 'wth the aid of God and of the Ger
man people will, nevertheless finish my work!'


ANECDOTES THE SCULPTOR


Ono stormy night in the year 1860 after the sub
structure had been finished fourteen years, and the
work had almost completely stopped, little money
had again been contributed to the Hanover Committee
for the erection of the monument and Won Bandel de-
to m tho
tcnburg He wandered from Belefeld through the
forest to the summit OF the mountain, intending
TO pass the night in the little hut that
he had left fourteen years ago. What was his
sorrow, however, to find that his shelter had been
torn down. he aterward found out by order of the
Detmold Hermann Committee. There, in the beating
rain the sculptor sat down and wept bitterly He
reached Detmod and entered the hotel kept by his
friend, Mr. Muller, OF the Lippischcr Hof after mid
night, drenchcd to the skin, exhausted and almost
broken hearted But when tho morning came he
started again for the mountain. new hut was built
and the work resumed The relations OF the scup-
tor and Mr. Muller have always been the most nti-
mate The people of Detmold call the sculptor sThe
Old Man of the Mountain, :" because he has appeared
among them frequently and mysteriousy during the
last thirty years. while Won BandeI styles Mr.
Muller the wadliufer, the of the forest since
he has always taken the old mans letters and
papers and kilograms up to the mountain
hut Mr.. Muller 1t who had the kind
ness to walk with me one afternoon up
to the monument and to introduce me to the old sculp-
tor and his family and during that week heard manv
characteristic traits about the old man. Herr Muller
told that Won Bande had expected to live to
his work finished but had provided in his will that
in of death the statue should be completed by his
friend the sculptor Professor Hoefer Of Stuttgart The





place. the summit of the mountain nearly under the
shadow OF the great monument To this spot nc once
took Mr.. Muller, and made him promise solemnly that
when he died he should be buried there on the noun
tain, in the forest stiffness. "And how will you place
mc9" he asked How else, but with your face to the
rising SUM-" the reply "Good!" said the old
man. and went slowly along And what better resting
place could Germany give 20 the glorious old man than
the crest of this hill and let the monument of Her
mann the Cheruscan be his


oRAvEsToSE ErrrAPn


But am forgetting the figures before the hut Th,ro
several ladies there, and old and young bows
all bearing some relation to the sculptor Frau Won
Bandc is there black k-hared slender lady, Of perhaps
fifty ily-hve years, whose faco shows the lines of
which she has suffered with her husband during
the many years of privaons and hardships She has
been for months the sculptors faithful companion in
the forest hut and many times a week she has walked
down Tho mountain 10 the town bring up their scanty
provisions. For Won Bandel was a conscientious
steward Of the moneys contributed for the erection of
the monument and after he had spent his entire for
tune, which his friends tell must have been some
Gftccn or twenty thousand thaers he paid
himself, whenever hc was working, the same wages
that he gave to his assistant workmen--at first thacr
day, and later about four marks dollar in goldl
Among the scuptors relatives present name also the
architect Iacklaendcr the cousin of the novelist his
wife and two children; Herr Meyer, OF Berlin son-n
law of the sculptor; Herr Arnulf Won Bandel who was
a long tmo in America; H. II. Ruhl young and
promising composer who is engaged to granddaughter
of Won Bandcl, now resident in London and Mrs
Henry Won Bandcl attractive English lady Tho
widow of Heinrich Won Bandcl who gained great repu
tation in London as sculptor, Professor IIocfcr Tho
sculptor, Won Bandcls intimate friend is there too
amnnr The fnmily Had Won RandnI LA 49,. ~