The herald., 1896-10-05
LOTS OF POWDER
WILL. Be BURNED
When the Rulers of Russia
Visit France
! @EA1 FL0T|LLA OF MEh-0F- WAR
Is Gathered to Convoy the
Royal Yacht
THE cnERBoURd ARSENAL
Nest DaistlIy Decorated for the Royal
Ceremonies
Avsst Nsnber Of Police Provided for lie
ty's Sake
The Banquet Hall Will Be rs Secure as
q Railroad OIL Tank With the
Manhole Plate Riv-
THE cnERBoURd ARSENAL
Nest Daistlly Decorated for the Royal
Ceremonies
A Vast Number Of Police Provided for S .ie'
ty's Sake
The Banquet Hall Will Be rs Secure as
q Railroad Oil Tank With the
Manhole Plate Riv-
eted On.
A.sociated Press Special wire

All Is now in readiness for the arrival
of the car tomorrow. The French
northern squadron, gathered to honor
the Russian guests of France, comprises
twenty-one vessels and includes the
Charles Martel, first-class battleship;
the IFoche, battleship with Vice-Ad-
miral Regnaut; the Promesnile, the
Jean Bart, the Descartes, the Jemmapes
and fifteen cruisers and torpedo boats.
This fiotilla leaves Cherbourg little be-
fore 10 o'clock tomorrow and will meet
the Pole Star, which has on board the
czar and czarina, conveyed by the
Standard and English men-of-war, at
the edge of the French waters. just the
extreme of the three-mile limit The
man-of-war Dupuy de LONE will con-
vey M. Faure, president of the French
republic, to the meeting point of the
czar's yacht and the French squadron.
President Faure, after the salutes are
fired, will then return to Cherbourg and
await the arrival Of the czar at the land
ing stage.
On approaching the English fleet the
French fleet will fire an imperial sa-
lute followed by salute to the English
vessels, which will be returned by them.
The czars yacht, after saluting the
British ironclads, will steam ahead in
the center of the French fleet and in this
order the vessels will proceed here, the
Pole Star being expected to be in COM
pany with the French vessels for about
an hour and to arrive in Cherbourg har-
bor about noon.
For the purposes Of the reception.
when the czar puts foot in France, the
geat naval magazine of the Chefeourg
arsenal, which 1t situated opposite the
landing stage, will be utilized.
From the landing stage to the hall on
the magazine, a covered way, richly
decorated with silk hangings, shields,
banners and flowers has been erected.
The landing stage is also beautifully dec
GRATED and every preparation made to
police the harbOr and protect the land
ing stage, covered way, magazine and
its appropaches with walls of uniformed
soldiers and gendarmes. while every
where will swarm French and Russian
secret agents. The czar dislikes to see
them, but acknowledges they are more
necessary than the uags and festoons,
and will testify to French and Russian
friendship.
President Faure, surrounded by M.
HanotauX, Admiral Besnard, Minister
Billet, the minister of war, and all the
generals and field officers and subalterns
who are to be in attendance on the en-
peror and empress during their stay in
France, will await the Russian rulers
on the landing stage. After the well
come for which President Faure has
prepared some fervcnt sentences, the
glittering crowd of notabilities will pass
along the covered way to the hall of the
magazine, while thunders from great
guns, ringing of bells and the excited
cries of a French crowd will greet their
majesties' ears.
The interior Of the magazine has been
decorated and arranged with all the
exquisite taste of French masters and
WI the amazing liberality of their
pr, mt enthusiasm for all things Rus
>,tan. The interior Of the magazine has
been divided into reception hail. a
diplomatic hall and a banquet ROOM The
first of these is hung in rich crimson
satin and the decorations consist Of a
wilderness of exquisite blossoms, from
which peep out flowers and devices
formed Of bayonets, swords, ramrods
and other Implements Of land and sea
WdTIdTe.
The diplomatic hall is draped in yell
low satin and decorated with bewild-
ering array of beautiful mirrors which
reflect at thousand angles, exquisite
pot plants and the fairest blooms of
French greenhouses. Two sumptuous
retiring rooms adjoin this hall.
The third room wherein the imperial
pair are to partake of French bread and
salt. is hung In pale green satin, set Off
by heavy velvet portieres and priceless
tapestry The ornaments here are also
suggestive Of the warfare that the
Franco Russian alliance may be pre-
pared against, lustres and panoplies In
which military and naval weapons.
models OF torpedoes and torpedo de-
stroyers, great and sman guns appear.
unobtrusively but none the less signtfic-
antly.
Within the hall are three tables. one
raised higher than the other two, which.
with thirty seats, will accommodate
those in necessary attendance The
principal table has seats for fifteen. In
the center are three beautiful chairs of
the period Of Louis XIV. for their ma
5esties and President Faure. The ser
vice Of China and glass is most exaui-