The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-12
MOSCOW'S OF MOURNING.
The City Draped in Black for The
Coming Of The Dead Gar.

to Complete the Draping of the City
and 1000 Men at Work Paving the
Route for the Cortege-The Crowd in
the City the Most Enormous Since the
Coronation Ten Years Ago-The Cor
tege the Most Imposing Seen in Eu-
the Kremlin.
Moscow, Nov. 1.-THE imperial party,
with the body of Alexander III, arrived
here to-day in typical Moscow weather.
The sky was dun, the thermometer was
degrees below the freezing point and a
north wind blew itfully throughout the
day Although thousands were busy all
night putting the city in mourning for the
late czar, the streets a daybreak looked
as if some great festival was to be cele-
brated But for the heavy folds of black
which hung high and low on all walls, a
person would have thought that the
crowds thronging every corner and open
space had come to celebrate a national
holiday, rather than to lament the death
of a powerful monarch, Such ceaseless
universal activity and such enormous
numbers of peasants, tourists and soldiers
had not been seen here since the corona
tion of Alexander III, more than ten
years ago.
Ten thousand men worked all night to
complete the draping of the city. More
than 1000 men were employed in paving
with cobble-stones the streets through
which the body was to pass. They laid two
and a half miles of pavement and scat
tered over layers of sand to smother the
rafting of carriages and the clatter of
cavalry. The route was marked, not only
by the newly-laid pavement, but also by
the density of the black and white drap-
cry which covered the fronts of the build
ings 1t extended from the special sta
ton, erected about a hundred yards from
the large ST. Petersburg station, through
Kalantschew ewskaya street, via the Red
Gate, which is a, permanent arch, through
Niasmitiskaya street along the wall of the
inner town, across the Great Theater
square and passed the town hall into the
Kitagoroda, or inner city. From the town
hall the way led through the Resurrection
Gate, where the Iberian chapel stands,
and through the Nicholas Gate into the
Kremlin. In the Kremln the route lay
past the treasury and arsenal to spot
midway between the small palace
and Cathedral of the Assumption. and
thence to the Cathedral of the Archangel
Michael, one block off.
Aside from the lrapings of the build
ings, the decorations in the streets along
the route consisted of high poles wound
with black and white, and joined with
| mourning streamers and crossed strands
of evergreen.
The opera house was covered with dense
folds of black The bronze horses and
chariot on the roof were enveloped in a
single black banner. Hundreds of draped
| portraits of Alexander III were displayed
I
houses The streets near the route, al
ready crowded before day break, had be-
| come wholly impossible by S o clock, when
all traffic in the adjacent districts was
stopped and the way was cleared for the
| procession.
The train with the body arrived at 1O:40
| o'clock Car Nicholas II was saluted as
soon as he alighted by the Grand Duke
/ Sergius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and
! Kolomna the higher clergy, the cCmman
| dant and civil governor, members of the
| court, officials of the court, the chief no.
/ bility Of the third class, the mayor, many
! generals and other officers, All stood bare
| headed The procession was then formed
/ in groups as had been arranged, and the
| generals carried the coffin to the Dais in
! the temporary chapel near the station.
! -Four of them removed the pail and the
| Metropolitan read a short service The
/ four generals who had removed the pail
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| the station yard. There was a pause, then
three guns from the Kremlin gave the
! signal that all the 1s0 groups TO be formed
! in the column fall into the fifteen divisions
| of the procession. Three more guns and
the division took their places in the line
three more, and amid the tolling of a
| thousand bells, the head of the huge col
umn moved off slowly toward the Red
! Gate.
The master of ceremonies rode first on
a black charger. He wore fun uniform,
| whose Rorgeousness was not half hidden
with the black and white sash across his
breast Behind him came the second and
third companies of the MOSCOW household
dragons, with a band of trumpeters; two
companies of gupnadiers, with enormous
antique helmets, their marshal mounted
and in the deepest mourning; the first
company of Dragons, company of cadets
from the Emperor Alexander Military
Academy; court lackeys, the family stan
dard of the Romanoffs, the red war stan
dard Alexander IT'S charger, richly ca
parisoned and led by two staff officers In
mourning, the stable servants of the i'm
perial household the banner and arms
! of Moscow the imperial naval nag, car
ried by an admiral and supported by cap
tains, an immense black silk mourning
! banner and an equally large white banner
each carried by staff officers, assisted by
subordnates the grand escutcheon OF the
] empire, DOTne Dg iouF mayor EthtIalst Nlt
| grand standard of the double eagle car.
ried by two major generals and two col
onels: n deputation Of city officers, numer
Gus societies and delegations Of merchants
shop keepers, workingmen and peasants
| all marching abreast; the mayor Of Mos
| COW and the mayors Of all the other towns
in the government Of Moscow; noblemen
| conspicuous citizens and head marshals
| all three abreast and In heavy mourning
| the governor and vice governor OF Mos
COW; delegates from local assemblies aut
ministries and the judges Of the district
| "a squadron Of dragoons two heralds, -four
| colonels with reversed swords and on
cials carrying on cushions OF gold Dor
dered with silver. the decorations Of The
late emperor; the imperial regalia. includ
| ing the banner, shield, sword, ball, scep
| ter, great crown. borne on golden cush
ions, also the crowns Of Poland. Siberia
| Taurla and Astrachan; the emperor's wal
sword brought from st. Petersburg u
| Moscow, the historical insignia OF Mos
-cow the clergy In the long robes and higi
hats Of Office. with the metropolitan o
Moscow and Kolomnia, an carryinl
lighted tapers; the court clergy and con
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