The morning call., 1894-10-20
CLOSE TO DEATH.
Admitted That the Car
Is Dying.
RED TAPE CAST ASIDE.
To Inform the World of the
Truth.
RELATIVES HURRY TO LAvIDIA
That They May Be Present During
the Last Moments of the
Emperor.

LONDON. Oct. 19-The last red tape
Gordon that is always drawn around the
truth by diplomacy was broken to-day
when NJ. de Staal. the Russian Embas-
ssdor to Great Britain. admitted TO the
representative Of the Associated Press
that kilograms received at the en-
bassy preclude any hope that the i'm
perial sufferer would ever again rise from
his bed.
Baron Mohrenheim, Russian Embassa-
dor to France, this morning furnished the
Paris Figaro the same unwelcome news.
if this is not sufficient the flight of court
officials, the forced and hurried Journeys
of members of the Russian imperial FAM
lily across Europe, the alarm of the various
courts, the shivering bourses and the pray
ers offered UP in the churches are IRE
futable testimony of the fact that the Car
is dying.
Throughout the day and evening
rain of telegrams has fallen in this city.
Compiled and sifted they show the follow
Ing facts: M. Benkendorf, the Russian
Court Chamberlain, has countermanded
every order that has been issued in con-
nection with the proposed visit of the Gar
to Corfu. Many officials have started for
Lividia. Princess Alix, the CZarewitch's g
betrothed, will arrive at Yslta, where the
Gar is sojoUrning, on Monday, and she
will precede by few hours Grand Duke
Vladimir. The Grand Duke Alexis arrived
in Paris this morning and left tonight on
the Oriental express, which is due at Yalta
on Tuesday.
Around the palace at Liyidia there have
been placed triple cordons of police and
soldiers in order that no access could be
had TO the palace from without and that
nothing from within could escape TO the
world unless it first passed through the
crucble Of censorship. So grave are the
issues depending upon the Cars life that
even the people of Russia are obliged to
be satisfied with curt bulletins so meager
as to suggest in every carefully chosen
word the theory of the worst. This is the
reading by the bourses. to which the Lon
don stock market furnished a prompt
echo. Russian securities declined from
weakness, but it seems the markets every
where were checked later by heavy pur-
chases which. it is reported. were made
on account of the Russian treasury in Or
der to prevent panic. Thus the uneasy
feeling among fnanciers found its end.
Dispatches received from st. Petersburg
report that the city tonight wears its
usual aspect, except that crowds of people
are grouped about the places where the
bulletins are posted.
The keenness of English sympathy has
been deepened by the news that a nerve
specialist has been called to the side of the
CZarina, sister of the Princess of Wales,
who is herself threatened by the strain of
nursing the dying Emperor.
From CettiDje, the capital of Montene-
gro, Prince Nicholas this morning tele-
graphed the Czarewitch saying: "In the
deep anxiety and pain which the news
from Lividia causes me, can only unite
my prayers with yours for lengthening
of the precious days of my great and noble
protector"
To-day the churches throughout Russia
held special services for prayer for the re-
covery of his Majesty. At ST. Peters burg
the highest officials joined in solemn petit
tions to God to save the Gar.
In the Russian church in Paris services
were also held and were attended bv
Grand Duke Michael Nicolaivitch, the
staff of the Russian embassy, President
CasimiT-PereE. Prime Minister Dupuy
and number of other notables. The SER
vices were marked with deep emotion.
The thoughts of those present must have
flown ahead, asking. when the Car is
dead. what then?"
lie Temps tonight answers the question
thus: "On the day when his Majest y
passes away beyond dispute the prestige
of Russia will not be diminished; neither
will the reasons which have drawn her tc
France be weakened nor the sentiments
uniting the two peoples be altered, bu
Europe as moral entity will have sus
tanned an appreciable loss. She will lacl
portion of her conscience. This is grea
praise for Prince. Alexander alone ha
merited it."
This question which the French an(
Germans, and even the Russians them
selves, are asking hourly, and to which
the bourses to-day suggested the common
answer, was not put in London quite 81
sharply, but London admits that a serious
crisis is pending.
PARIS. Ocf. 20.-The consistory of tn,
Reformed Church has ordered that prayer
be offered for the Gar On Sunday in al
its temples.
HIS CONDITION DESPERATE.