The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07

strength in Turkish waters the adj
miralty of Germany have UP 20 this
time taken no steps to increase the
strength and number of the German
war vessels there, but apparently
goaded by the utterances of the press
into doing something, they have now
ordered the training ship Gneissnau
to SMYRNA and the guniboat Ersatz to
replace the old and worn out Lrelei
on the Constantinople station. These
measures are extremely poor, indeed
little better than none at all, if Ger
many is to figure in the Intervention
of the powers in front of CONSTANT
nople.
The fetes at Breslau in honor of the
car and czarina bear a close resen-
blance to all of the preceding demon
STATIONS of the kind. The streets of
the town are thronged by people who
cheer
IN SEASON AND OUT,
and persistently press upon the long
lines of troops who occupy the borders
of the streets to keep the crowd from
impeding the progress. of the imperial
visitors and the kaiser and kaiserin
with their suites, as they pass. The
heat yesterday and today was intense
and served to increase the general dis
comfort of the people. High prices for
every conceivable thing for which there
was the slightest demand was the
rule.
The grand old city was draped from
end to end and the main thoroughfares
were profusely decorated with every
kind of drapery, banner etc, that
could be found suitable to the occasion.
Flags, festoons of bunting and rough
but striking pictorial shields of Silesia
and Germany, paintings of the kaiser
and the czar, and rudely painted mot
toes and expressions of welcome were
to be seen at every street corner.
Some of the decorations, however,
were very handsome and artistic. The
municipal council voted the sum of
100000 marks for the purpose of pro
viding decorations, and those pur-
chased under these auspices were very
fine.
AS a whole the decorations OF Bres-
lau were far more elaborate than those
seen by the Russian imperial party in
Vienna. The thousands of visitors to
Breslau, including the army of press
the limited accommoda tons of the
city. The military and civil officials
filled the few small hotels that were
available, and the visitors had
TO SHIFT FOR THEMSELVES
as best they could. 1t was originally
intended that the car and czarina
with their suites should occupy the
royal castle, but the emperor's court
marshal, who was in charge Of the
arrangements, found that the castle
would be too small to hold both of the
imperial visitors and their attendants,
50 the new house of the Silesian land
tage, in course of erection, was hur-
riedly ordered to be completed within
the three weeks remaining prior to the
reception of The car. Accordingly a
force of 800 WOrk1nen were employ ed
night and day in getting the building
and it's approaches in a passaible and
fit condition, and it was only on Fri
day, the day before the cars arrival.
that they ceased work. A representa-
tive of the United Associated Presses,
who was permitted to inspect the in
terror of the building on Friday, found
a dominant sense of newness every
where, and the raw odors of new
wood, paint, etc, pervaded the place
STILL the imperial apartments were
gorgeous with the tapestries, pictures,
etc, which had been transferred to the
building from the royal palaces Of
Prussia and presented a beautiful
spectacle.
The grand reception room, which
was constructed wishin the central hail.
was adorned with statuary and tropi-
cal plants. In this hall the czar and
czarina held reception Saturday
evening,
RECEIVING THE KAISER,
the kaiserin and the Siiesian MOBILES
and here also the Russian visitors
gave a luncheon today Sunday, at
which the kaiser and kaiserin and a
select number of members of the Off
cial circle were present.
The nature of the friendship of the
two emperors as cemented by the
meeting of the nonarchs in Breslau, is
shown by the fact that the kaiser will
go to Darmstadt ON October 8, when
the czar and the cZarina are there
family conclave, and several impor-
tan't functions will be held, functions
that VIII be very elaborate, for Darn
stadh, at least. The imperial parties
wiz stay at the Residenz Schloss.
During their visit to DaITnstadh the
czar. the emperor and the Grand Duke
of Hesse wild go on hunting trip ON
October 10 to Jagdschloss and VOLTS
gagrten. From the latter place they
will return to Jagdschloss for another
days hunting, and then they will go
to Romroed, in Upper Hesse, for the
same purpose.
The czarina will remain with the
Grand Duchess of Hesse, her sister-in-
law, for ten days, while her husband
is absent
ON HIS HUNTING TRIP.
The czarina, during her stay with
the grand duchess, will, as a rule. re-
main quiet, but her visit will be var
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