The record-union., 1896-05-21
Multitude Already Arrived Estimated at
Eight Hundred Thousand,
TO Witness the Entry of the Car and
Czarina Into the City.
Besides the Thousands of Soldiers
Gathered to Take Part in the Cere.
monies and Guard the Imperial
Party, Over Sixty Thousand Police
Are on Duty in the City.

NEW YORK, May 20.-A special ca
BILE dispatch to the Herald from st.
Petersburg says:
Tomorrow is the great day OF the
solemn entry of the Car and Czarina
into Moscow. So far their imperial
maiesties have been outside the city,
at the Petrosky Palace They have as
yet received no welcome from the city
of Moscow itself. The morning pro-
cession is the popular one. The cor
onation itself may be more imposing,
but so very few see it that, in the main,
the people look forward to the solemn
entry more than to all else
OF the people, let it be stated to give
an idea-a faint one, even-of their
multitude, that somewhere about SOO,-
600 have come, some from enormous
distances and by road, to see the sight,
hundreds of whom are content to camp
in any open space available, to honor
the Car. If they catch glimpse OF
him in the distance-and there are few
of them who do more-they will be per-
fectly satisfied To them the gilt car
riages of the procession are of massive
gold To them the gilt cupolas which
rise in their hundreds Of hundreds In
this city are of solid gold.
Early tomorrow morning the entire
Tverskaia will be crowded, and the
people will wait with sanity patience
for developments with that patience
which none but a true Russian crowd
can display. All the troops will be out.
They will form in one solid line on
each side Of the space where the process
sion is to pass from the palace to the
Kremlin- For weeks the military have
been pouring into Moscow from War
saw, from ST. Petersburg, ETC., whence.
at one moment, sixteen extra military
trains were running daily.
The troops, roughly speaking, gath
cred together at Moscow, consist of
eighty-thre and a half battaliOns, thir-
ty-six squadrons of cavalry, seven Cos
sack solnias and artillery, with 12O field
pieces. In addition to these there are
the guard regiments. which are not
counted among the ordinary troops.
These latter include a section of the
special guard of mounted police, two
battalions of the first and second divis-
ions, infantry of the guard, which to-
gether form a temporary special divis-
ion, also three regiments composed of
IIlG several VI tIS tIiil u
ion of the infantry guard and the re-
serves of the guard.
II may be added while on the subject
cf troops that there has always been
shown among all divisions of the army
the greatest desire to be present at the
coronation ceremony, and in order to
satisfy as much as possible that desire,
men and officers are drawn from all the
regiments which are within distance,
and they arrange It by lots or other
wise as to those which shall be pres
ent. There are advantages financially
which officers derive from attending the
coronation
In addition to the soldiery there are
not less than sixty-three thousand po-
lice an enormous number Of which have
been drafted from other cities-St
Petersburg, wilma, Novgorod and War
saw. 1t may be mentioned that this
enormous mass of police includes those
of the secret police and the unofficial
police, the drilled Dvornicks, the por-
ters, which are to be brought into use
for such occasions. There are many
reasons why such a large force of po.
lice is necessary.