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Show ' mom mm im . BERLIN IS DEDICATEE , Great Crowds in German Capital Drive Gold Nails in Statue. BEBLIN, Sept. 4, via London, 11:42 p. m. As many thousands of Berlin 's inhabitants as could pack themselves into the square surrounding the column of victory assembled today for the dedication ded-ication of the colossal Iron Hindenburg a thirty-foot wooden statue which will be sheathed with gold, silver and iron nails purchased in the interest of a fund for the rebuilding of East Prussia. Prus-sia. The Princess August Wilhelm, representing repre-senting the empress, drove the first gold nail into the base of the statue, other possessors of gold nails, bought for 100 marks ($25) apiece, then fifed up in a seemingly endless procession. It was hours before the purchasers of silver hails, which cost 6 marks each, could even get to tho statue. It probably will take days and even weeks before the iron nails, already purchased at 1 mark apiece, can be driven. The total amount realized by the advance sale is expected to run into hundreds of thousands thou-sands of marks. Although the dedication ceremony was set for 11:20 o'clock, thousands began to arrive between 8 and 9, and every available space was jammed with people peo-ple long before the princess arrived. The scene was one or brilliance, only surpassed since the outbreak of the war by the Bismarck centennial celebration at almost the same spot. After the princess had been greeted by Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, the German Ger-man imperial chancellor: Vice Chancellor Chancel-lor Del Bnieck, Field Marshal Baron von Der Goltz, Adolf Wermuth. lord mayor of Berlin, and other notables, General von Der Goltz unveiled the monument to the tune of patriotic music, mu-sic, while the Zeppelins maneuvered overhead. |