| Show I ITS PEACEFUL I SMNIFICANCE I I Emperor Williams Speech at Kiel Was Gladly I Welcomed OUR WARSHIPS PRAISED None Others Excited Such General Gen-eral Interest Critical Comparison Made By an English IVaval Expert An International Inter-national Monetary Conference Probable Characteristic Visit I By thc Emperor The Bismarck and Gladstone Episode New I Religious Seet Arsenic and American Amer-ican Meat Berlin June Copyrighted 1S95 by the Associated Press Public interest j I in-terest as might be expected has been I I monopolized during the past week with the festivities at Hamburg and i at Kiel upon the occasion of the opening open-ing of the Kaiser Wilhelm canal and 1 l Berlin has been deserted by nearly all the prominent menThe men-The newspapers have devoted pages every day to the canal celebrations I and everything done and said has been liberally commented upon Emperor Williams speech at the Hamburg banquet was enthusiastically enthusias-tically received here and ithe stress laid by him on the peaceful signifi I cance of the event caused general pleasure So has the fact that a most i amicable entente seemed to exist between the emperor and all the German Ger-man sovereigns At the Hamburg banquet ban-quet the emperor the moment the King of Bavaria arose to speak poured wine into the latters glass and his cordial attentions to the King of Saxony were favorably noticed His majestys pacific utterances have also been very well received in Austria Assurances of Pence A dispatch from Vienna states that Herr Dumba reporter of the budget committee speaking to the Austrian delegation today referred to the speeches of the emperor saying These assurances of peace by our august ally find a mighty echo in Austria Aus-tria which is in perfect harmony with those words of peace The creation of such a work of peace as the Baltic canal is proof that both states and people peo-ple nowadays are engaging in a widely different struggle and that the competition compe-tition in the worlds trade is now I purely confined to the domain of economy econ-omy I Emperor William took itwo of the leading marine painters Herren i Borhdt and Saltzmann with him to the opening of the canal and indicated I to them during his four days stay the best moments and occasions for sketches They will execute a serifs of paintings representing the most striking views of the c rem Jnies which paintings will be presented to the national gallery During the fetes a corps of picked detectives of this city surrounded the I emperor night and day These precautions I pre-cautions were taken on acount of the cautons fact that threatening letters from I anonymous anarchists and oht > rs reached his majesty during the previous previ-ous fortnight Some of these letters came from France and the writ > rs threatened the emperor y ith death A score or more of buspiciou3looking persons were arrested by the detectives detec-tives Among these were tvo Fiench men and a Russian The naval correspondents of the German and Austrian newspapers have highly commended the appearance of the United States war vessels and I I crews They praised the ease of motion mo-tion and exactness of their manouvres I according them the first place in this respect They style the New York the finest vessel of her kind at Kiel Our Warships Praised The officers of the United States squadron showed wonderful good nature na-ture in welcoming everyone and in trying to talk German The German visitors were considerably puzzled by the fact that the Marblehead and others I oth-ers of the American squadron have Japanese stewards and negroes among I the crew In this connection the critical criti-cal comparison of the various warships war-ships at Kiel made by an English naval na-val expert made there is especially interesting I in-teresting Omitting the British fleet from comparison in order to avoid a semblance of partiality he expressed the opinion after taking careful notice no-tice that in respect to value and efficiency ef-ficiency the various crews might be placed in the following order FirstThe Germans SecondThe French ThirdThe Americans FourthThe Austrians Fifth The Russians SixthThe Italians SeventhThe Swedes Eighth The Dutch NinthThe Danes TenthThe Roumanians EleventhThe Portuguese Twelfth The Spanish The French Sunndron The French squadron he says containing con-taining the flower of tha French navy made an excellent and Impressive show The men were neat and smart and the boats crews excited general admiration But the ships especially the hideous ironclad Hoche flagship of the French squadron are unfavorably criticised All of the French vessels carry so much top hamper that in the event of the latter being shot away during an action it would fall and disable the guns beneath A German officer commenting on the French squadron said that both the French ships and the French people were a trifle extravagant and exaggerated exag-gerated The Russian ships have the same defect of too much top hamper although al-though in a lesser degree than the French ships while the personnel of the Russian vessels was pronounced to be far inferior to that of the French As to the Italian squadron tile ships were pronounced to be good and their officers efficient The boats were well kept and the men looked clean and well dressed Yet it was added that the Italian ships inspired no confidence I con-fidence as fighting machinesthe prevailing pre-vailing opinion the naval vaing among men at Kiel being that they would prefer Ito I-to be without the active help of the Italian fleet In time of crisis than with i i as the men who are the most important im-portant fighting element do not give j the expert critics the impression that I they are likely to possess all the coolness cool-ness and method necessary for the proper working of the ships guns in time of need I Among Emperor Williams special guests at Kiel were Lord Lonsdale I and Mr Poultney Bigelow The latter I lat-ter went to Kiel in his canoe from the city in five days sailing or paddling I pad-dling and sleeping in the canoe or on barges down the Havel International Monetary Conference I is expected that an international monetary conference will be called by Germany before October 15 The bun desrath after receiving replies from the various federal governments stands 16 to 42 in favor of such a conference I con-ference The opposing 16 members come from the three south German states and the h nse towns of Hamburg I Ham-burg Bremen and Lubeck while Persia Per-sia Saxony and the middle states favor j fa-vor the calling of a monetary conference con-ference The only point still unsettled as to what extent Germany in calling the conference is to engage herself I whether she is to state the purpose as being the ultimate restoration of I bimetallism or only to fix upon a new ratio between gold and silver A Characteristic Trip The emperor took a characteristic charcteistc j trip to Munich Bavaria on Monday i last in order to determine on the site j and the necessary arrangements for the building of the new Schack gallery gal-lery of pictures etc which he has presented to that city Count Adolphe Fredrick Von Schack the millionaire author died on April 16 1894 and bequeathed be-queathed his large picture gallery to Emperor William with the stipulation I that it be added to the Berlin museum i mu-seum But the Emperor decided that the gallery should remain at Munich as that city was proud of it and its removal would have fostered antiim perial tendencies in the south German states The people of Munich were so delighted with the action of the emperor that they have decided to place a statue of his majesty in the famous gallery with the wording of the telegram conveying his determination determina-tion to the Munich authorities inscribed in-scribed In the pedestal His majestys visit was quite unexpected unex-pected and consequently there was nobody no-body at the railroad station to meet him He jumped into a common hack and while he was being driven to the palace of the regent Prince Leopold he was saluted being in plain uniform uni-form as a comrade by the officers of the garrison whom he passed on his way Among the latter was Prince Arnulph youngest son of the regent and leutenantgenerl of the first division di-vision in the infantry of the Bavarian army and the husband of Princess I Theresa of LIchtenstein who would be supposed to be well acquainted with his majesty but nobody recognized the emperor and it was more than an hour later when he at length met the prince regent in the studio of some painters The art world of Munich however is delighted at this visit and with the emperors keen judgment and unaffected unaf-fected bon homme H Bismarck and Gladstone According to the Dantizzeitung Mr Gladstone during his stay at Hamburg I Ham-burg expressed a desire to visit Prince Bismarck but the latter declined de-clined This report however is probably prob-ably only a distorted version of the I story cabled exclusively to jlme Associated Asso-ciated Press on Sunday lAt that Sir Donaid Currie upon TtJ > steamer Mr Gladstone was a guest visited Friedrichsruhe with others on Saturday Satur-day Prince Bismarck excused himself him-self from receiving them owing to the state of his health and Mr Henry Gladstone left a card on behalf of his father who did not accompany the party A New Sect In Lichtenfeld a suburb of Berlin a new sect has been formed under the sec I leadership of Princess Von BJncher and other high born Berlin dames The new sect is spiritualistic rejects the clerg as being unconverted and pretends I pre-tends to believe in visions and ecstatic I ec-static prophesy The regular clergy demand the suppression of the new sect |
