Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-14

and the car and cZarina will drive
| through the streets. A reception will!
be held in the Kremlin palace on May
| %. The imperial regalia will be
transferred from the throne room to
the Oruzheinya palace on May %. The
foreign ENJOYS will be entertained a.
dinner at the imperial palace on May
81. On June / there will be a solemn
service at the TcEudovo convent, and
later the car and czarina will make a
pilgrimage to the Troitza convent and
go in state to the Uspensky cathedral
On June 6 they will give a dinner in
honor of the diplomatic body. This is
the czarina's birthday.
There will be a grand review of the
troops in garrison at Moscow, and a
dinner at the palace to the principal
authorities Of the city on June Z. Their
majesties will leave Moscow that even
ing and the ceremonies will be over.
Of course, the whole course of the
coronation exercises will be marked by
brilliant fetes and balls. After the
coronation there will be a gala per-
Torrance at the grand theater. The
French ambassador the count Of
Montebello, will give ball on May So
The Austro-Hungar ambassador,
Prince Lichtenstein, will next give a
ball. Then the Grand Duke Sergius.
the governor gene1 al, will give a ball
The nobility of Moscow will follow
suit. Their majesties will give a ball
in the Alexander room of the Nremlin
palace on June 4. Prince Radolin, the
cert on June 5.
1t goes without saying that the cor
onation of Car Nicholas will be the
greatest spectacle Europe has seen in
many year. First to take into ac-
count will be the picturesque city itself
Then there will be such cosmopolitan
gathering in the streets as one would
see in no other city. All Russia will be
represented this alone means a
great deal. More than ITO nationali-
ties, speaking more than 40 languages,
dwell in Russia. Films, Germans,
Poles, Slavs, Jews and Tartars will
from various parts of an empire cover
ing a seventh of the land surface of
the world, and stretching 5000 miles
from east to west and 1900 miles from
north to south. But besides this
strange mixture of the czar's own
lieges, there will be a remarkable as
semblage Of strangers in Moscow.
Every power in Europe will be repre-
sented by glittering delegation, and
there will be a swarm of ambassadors
from smaller countries. Among the
company which will do honor to the
car will be Field Marshal Yamagata,
of Japan, and the statesman Ii Hung
Chang, from China. The United
States will be represented by Maj Gen.
A. D. McCCok, retired, and Maj.
Scriven, the present military attache
OF the United States legation at Rome.
Nicholas AleXandrowitch was born
on May 16, 1868. He is small of stat
ure, pallid, nervous, delicate; he looks
like the duke of York. Clever people
who have met him say that he is clever.
The ear learned to write and speak
Russian, German, French and English.
He does not know the classics, but he
does know the modern sciences. He is
not an art lover, but constitutional
history, law, administration of Russia,
finance, political and social economy.
have been made familiar to him. He
should be logical, if not instinctively
brilliant; practical, if not at all mag
NATIVE.
The czarina was Princess AliX Of
Hesse, Darmstadt, e, granddaughter of
Queen Victoria. IL entering the Greek
church she was baptized with the name
of Alexandra Feodorovna. They were
married on Nov. 26, 1894. Their only
child is baby girl. The czarevitch,
or heir to the throne, is Prince George,
the czars dying brother.
Two hundred thousand dollars is the
cost of the empress of Russia's corona
ton robe For few hours on the oath
of next May she will wear this gown,
which has taken six months to com
pIete. 1t then becomes practically
state property, and will spend the re-
mainder of it's existence in glass
case, labeled Coronation Robe of Her
Imperial Majesty Alexandra Feodo-
rovna, Empress-Consort of Russia"
Two hundred thousand dollars will by
no means complete the cost of the en-
press coronation costume. There is
also the ermine-lined mantle of burn
ished silver brocade. And the state
jewels, the coronet of which is esti-
mated to have cost $1,000,000. The
necklet contains some of the finest
crown jewels in Europe, and in addf-
ton to these state gems she will wear
all the gifts of jewelry which her hus-
band has given to her since their mar
riage. Surely Solomon, even in his
palmiest days, could not go the en-
press one better.
If any occasion could justify the
resurrection of that once popular
standby, battles description, it would
be an attempt to give an adequate idea
of this wonderful gown, which repre-
sents the work of so many skillful
hands. A world-famous artist designed
it, a world-famous milliner constructed
it, and a world-famous jeweler d1-
rected it's adornment. The foundation
is of white satin, the newest and heav-
lest the mills Of Paris could produce.
The cut of the coat does not differ
from prevailing styles, for it is an un-
written law that coronation robes