, 1896-04-20
THE CARS CORONATION.
Wealth and Crowned Heads Will Be at
Moscow.

Wealth and Crowned Heads VIII Be a
Moscow.
There Is going to be q . influx Of
strangers into Russia this year, many
of them Americans. 10 attend the coro.
nation Of the Gar, say the Argonaut
1t is going to be gorgeous. The coro-
nation ceremonies of Alexander II cosl
$12, 900. 900. Alexander Ill spent &c.,
000. 900. Gar NichoIas II expects to
spend in the five hours ceremony $780,
600, 900, or more than 1900 a second
for placing~tw crowns On the heads OF
two young persons. One hundred aad
fifty thousand troops will be modified
for the ceremony; $4,000 soldiers will
be used to guard the railway route OF
the emperor and empress from their
winter home to the Moscow citadel.
The remaining 100, 900 soldiers will be
concentrated in and around Moscow,
guarding every highway, watching
every street. and forming double walls
Of armed men between which TIE car
and czarina and their glittering page
ant will proceed through the Gate of
the Redeemer to the Empress Katha-
rine apartments in the Kremlin. A pro-
~cessior OF grand dukes and grand duch-
esses, generals, and admirals will
march to the throne-room to see the
| czar and czarina oaoon1 tho thropo
which has just been re%-canopied at an
expense Of $751; The imperial pair
will leave the throne escorted by a
guard Of generals. and will go to the
cathedral, where they will take their
places on the newly gemmed throne.
The metropopolitans of Novgorod,
Moscow. and Kieff will attend them.
Members of the diplomatic corps will
have seats provided at a respectful dis
lance, while foreign royal princes and
members of the imperial Russian fam,
lily will gather at a balustrade which
sets off the throne from the rest of the
church. After the religious ceremon-
les, which will last an hour. the high
court ohicials will assist the czar to put
on his ermine mantle and his great
chain with the cross of st. Andrew, and
will hand him the sceptre and the i'm
perial sphere. The car will take his
crown and place it on his head, and
then will place the czarina's crown on
her head. He will be anointed by the
Metropolitan Of Moscow, will kiss the
bible, and will take communion. I'm
mediately after the ceremony the i'm
perial banquet will begin. This will
cost 81, 500, 900, much of 1t for new gold
table service. There are t o be 200 cooks,
with 1900 assistants. There will be no
walters: the IMPERIAL couple will be
waited upon by the generals of the
army, while the high clergy and i'm
perial princes will be served by officers
of lesser rank. The delegations from
foreign countries will number $500
members. The delegations from all
parts of Russia will number so, 700. The
foreign princes, royal and otherwise.
will number about 200. Moscow will
be crowded. The hotels have had no
rooms to let since the first of January.
The number Of visitors will exceed
800. 900. and some think half a million.
1t is said in the New York papers that
Mr.. and Mrs. Hermann oelrfchs and
Miss Virginia Fair are going to Mos
COW for the imperial coronation. They
have wealth at their command. but
they will require powerful influences as
well to secure favorable views of the
gorgeous ceremonial at Moscow. Peo-
pie Of wealth will be very numerous
there, and even b e>possessors of both
titles and wealth will find It dificult to
gain admittance to some Of the desired
places.