Abstract

Emperor Wilhelm's Return

The article presents information about the return of the German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm after an absence of more than four months. He formally resumed the imperial authority, which in the interim had been in the hands of the Crown Prince. The former had expressly requested that there be no military display, and that the total cost of the civic ovation be no greater than when he returned from France with the army in 1871. Despite the hard times, however, the latter request was disregarded, and it is estimated that more than a quarter of a million marks were expended in festoons, banners, cartoons and gas-jets candles. Many places or business were closed, a holiday was decreed for the University and all the schools; and students, with more than a score of citizens' clubs and societies of veteran soldiers, with banners and music, marched in procession.