, 1896-06-06

more. most of which will be hired, and that
at prices which are remarkable. In addition,
the French Embassy Will give a dinner party,
at the famous Hermitage Restaurant, of five
hundred persons, and contract price for
which is % rubles per head, making up the
neat little total for the one meal of 1900
rubles, or 4 $4,000 francs.
The club house which the French have
taken is situated on the Maisnitskaia and is
known as the Dom Bakhrouchins
THE AUsTRo-HUNGARIAN BALL.
Next in seniority in the diplomatic order
comes the Austro-H Hungarian Ambassador,
and the Tsar, having one other evening at his
disposal besides that which he gives to the
great reception and ball at the French En-
bassy, accepted the offer Of Prince LichteA-
stein to a second ball on the 18th. The Aus
TRANS have, like the French and for exactly
the same reason, taken q club house-that is
to say, the Kupeschki or Merchant Club
and like the French they found the premises
in a condition which would need a great deal
Of additional decoration and a great scarcity
of bedrooms, Like the French, also, they
will have the walls covered with tapestries.
A great deal has been said about the coaches
Of the Austrian Embassy, among other thing
that the famous Mlrie Th6r6se coaches of
the Lichtensteins' were to be used. That is
not the case. Those coaches do still exist,
but they will not figure in the coronation pro-
c~ession. On the other hand, there will be
for the use Of the Embassy a couple of the
state coaches Of the LichtensteIn family. The
horses come from the i pprial stables. The
ball of the Austrian Emb ssy, 50 far as is
known at present time, is fixed for the 18th.
Like at the french, there will be about a
thousand guests present, and we shall see
exactly The same flc 1T each.
One other and third invitation the Tsar
has accepted fro IL the Diplomatic Corps,
and that is for a c ,acert ut the German EN-
bassy.
AT THE ENGLISH EMBASSY
The English Embassy has obtained by far
the most desirable house of all. Although
not so large as that of the French or the Aus
TRANS, it is situated on the Tverskala-that Is
to say ON the direct route of the great pro-
cession, whicll is the sight of all others to see
in the coronation ceremonies. So we'll is the
Embassy housed that its members have one
large balcony and two smaller ones facing
the TVerskala and no less than twenty-six
windows from which to see the procession
pass. This is The same house that the En-
basSy had at the last coronation. What the
English will do in the way of entertaining is
not yet known owing to the absence Of the
Ambassador, but it is hoped that the Tsar
will be able to pay the Embassy the COM
pllment Of a visit at one time Or the other
during the festivities. The house they have
hired is the Dom Morozova. 1t is rather we'll
supplied with reception and other rooms
with professions in the way of ceilings paint.
ed by Markovsky. Al the present time great
disorder reigns inside the premises caused by
a general cleaning and clearing.
THE AMERICAN LEGATION.
The American Legation has found quarters
in a very suitable anil neat little house in a
broad avenue, the Rojdestvenka, in which
Mr.. and Mrs. Breckenridge, the United States
Minister and his wife, and the Secretary of
Legation, Mr.. teirce, "and Mrs. Peircs, will
find room to live. For the occasion, the France.
Russian United States Naval Attache, Com
mander Raymond Rogers and Mrs. Raymond
Rogers, will also be here. The sum which
has been given by the United States for the
coronation is so meagre as to give the repre-
sentative of our great Republic but the
smallest scope for entertaining. This is a
great pity, as it causes much comment in a
country like this, where it is necessary to
spend so much money and where money is
spent so lavishly.
But the fact is that as France and Austria
are going to do such great things, and as the
Tsar can probably only go to those two houses
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