The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-08
WILL ARRIVE IN FRANCE.
GRAND PREPARATIONS HAVE
BEEN MADE TO RECEIVE THE
GEAR TODAY.
IN ESCORT OF FRENCH BA11LESH|PS
Will Meet the English Escort at Three
Mile Limit and Take Charge of the
Royal Party-Precautions
Against Conspirators.

Cherbourg, Oct. 4.-(Copyrighted, 1896,
by the Associated Press. )-All is now in
readiness for the arrival of the car to-
morrow. The French northern SQUAD
ron, which gathered to honor the Rus
sian guests of France, comprises twenty
one vessels. This fotilla leaves Cher
bourg little before 10 o'clock tomorrow
and will meet the Polar Star, having on
board the cZar and czarina, conveyed
by the Standard and English men-of-
war, at the edge of French waters, Just
man-of-war Dupuy du LONE will convey
NJ. Faure, the president of the republic,
to the meeting point of the ears yacht
and the French squadron.
President Faure, after the salutes are
fired, will then return to Cherbourg and
await the arrival of the car at the land
ing stage. On approaching the English
fleet the French fleet will fire an imperial
salute, followed by n salute to the En-
glish vessels, which will be returned to
them. The cars yacht, after saluting
the British ironclads; will steam ahead
in the center of the French feet, and in
this order will proceed here, the Polar
Star being expected to be in company
with the French vessels for about an
hour and to arrive in Cherbourg harbor
about noon.
For the purposes of the reception,
when the czar puts foot on French SOIL
the great naval magazine of the Cher
bourg arsenal, which is situated oppO-
site Cherbourg landing stage, will be
utilized. From the landing stage to the
hall of the magazine covered way
decorated with silk hanging shields. ban
nnppttnS and Hp,ynrc hn.,
The landing stage is also beautifully
draped, and every preparation made to
police the harbor and protect the landing
stage, covered way, magazine and its
approaches with walls of uniformed
soldiers and gen d'armes, while every
where, like flies on sugar, will swarm
French and Russian secret agents. The
car dislikes to see them, but ac-
knowledges they are more necessary than
the flags and festoons which testify to
French and Russian friendship.
President Faure, surrounded by his
ministers, all the generals, admirals,
field officers and subalterns who are to
be in attendance ON the emperor and en-
press during their stay in France, will
await the car and cZarna ON the land
ing stage. After the welcome, for which
President Faure has prepared some par
ticularly fervid sentences, the glittering
crowd of notabilities will pass along the
covered way to the hall of the magazine,
while thunders from great guns, ringing
bells and the excited cries of a French
crowd will deafen their majesties' ears.
The interior of the magazine has been
decorated and arranged with all the eX-
quisite taste of the French in such mat
tiers and with amazing liberality of their
present enthusiasm for all things Rus
sian. The interior of the magazine has
been divided into reception hall, a
diplomatic hall and banqueting hall.
Here their majesties will breakfast, and
after the review of the French fleet,
which takes place in the afternoon,
which they will witness from the deck
of the Elan, Napoleon's old state barge,
re-gilded and refurnished, they will at
tend a state banquet in the magazine
hall to be given by President Faure.
A line of rails has been laid in the
arsenal grounds, the terminus being at
the doors of the diplomatic hall. Here
at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening the car
and czarina will take the train for Paris,
preceded by the special train of the pres
ident and quitting the arsenal to the roar
of 100 great guns. The state banquet
will occur simultaneously with fetes of
different kinds and general rejoicings of
the people of Cherbourg, who have 10y
ally decorated their town with lavish
hands, the dominant note of the decora-
lions everywhere being the black and
yellow of the car of all the Russias,
pleasantly intermingled with the tri-
color of France.
ARRIVE AT PORTSMOUTH.
Portsmouth, Oct. 4.-Tha czar and
czarina arrived here at o'clock this
evening on the queens special train, hav-
ing consumed nearly eighteen hours in
coming from Ballater, in the Scottish
where they took the train
last night upon leaving Balmoral. A
heavy rain was falling when the imperial
travellers arrived, but this did not deter
the crowds of sightseers who had gath
cred to catch a glimpse of the car and
witness the official ceremony of the de-
parture. The police, both English and
Russian, maintained strict watch over
every mile of the route by which the
train had come from the north and were
alertly observant of the crowd here.
There were no signs, however, of any
thing but cordially towards the nations
guest.
The car gave a dinner to the Duke
and Duchess of Connaught, the Duchess
of Albany, Rt. Hon. George Goshen
first lord of the admiralty, and large
company on board the yacht Polar Star
tonight. The vessels in the harbor
were brilliantly illuminated during the
evening in honor of the car.
The car and czarina will spend the
night in Portsmouth on board the Polar
Star They sail at a. M, accompa-
MED by the English squadron until the
French squadron is encountered, which
is to convey them into Chcrbourg
HOW THE CZAR WAS SPARED.
London, Oct. 5-The Daily Mail as
serts that the nihilists have held several
excited meetings in London in recent
days Some of the nihilists, says the
Daily Mail, were in favor of an attempt
upon the cars life, but majority, in
favor of inaction, carried the day on the
ground that England was the only
country where an asylum was eft for
the extremists.
THE TURKISH PROBLEM.
London, Oct. 5.--The Vienna cores
pondent of the Daily Mail declares that
the agreement of the powers for the
settlement of the Turkish problem,
which this correspondent announced last
week he had good authority for publish
ing. includes the formation of an Ar
menian zone in the Turkish empire on
the basis of the Jewish pale in Russia.
the powers guaranteeing the safety of
the Armenians.
The active operations, this correspon-
dpnt proceeding saws will he under