By three o’clock the number of the guests had increased to nearly six hundred. They amused themselves with all sorts of games, to which the drawing of prizes lent an especial charm, and with dancing round the lofty maypole erected on the grass plot, or with wandering through the park, which was entirely thrown open, while the band charmed the ear with its performances. In the midst of this lively scene of rejoicing, which partook of the appearance of a national gathering, the Master of the Factory _L. Faber_, together with all others present were surprised in the most agreeable manner by the arrival of a gracious autographic missive from _His Majesty_ the King, which read as follows: “On the 16^{th} inst. you celebrate, as I am given to understand the completion of the first Century of the existence of the manufactory founded by your ancestors and whose well earnt fame both at home and abroad redounds to the honor of Bavarian industry. It has likewise given me special pleasure to observe the care, with which you watch over the moral and temporal affairs of your workpeople. The festival which you are about to keep, affords me an opportunity of offering my best congratulations to you and the establishment conducted by you with so much success and at the same time of expressing the hope that the manufactory will be blest with continued prosperity. With the sincerest good wishes Hohenschwangau 14. September 1861. Your affectionate King =Max.= To Mr. _Johann Lothar Faber_ Manufacturer.” With joyous emotion _L. Faber_ communicated this gracious mark of honour to all assembled, by reading it aloud from the tribune, concluding with a triple cheer for His Majesty King _Max_ in which every one joined with the greatest spirit. He then gave the health of his two brothers, who so faithfully and energetically seconded his exertions, which was received with joyous acclamations echoing again and again from the vast assembly; then his fellowworkers for the manufactory outside its pale, as also all his business friends and especially the artists, who, by patronising his manufactures and appreciating their value for art had so materially contributed to the extension of his fame. _L. Faber_ thereupon recited a poem the fundamental idea of which was the motto of the manufactory: “Truth, Respectability, Industry.”