The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-08-14
Faure's Coming Visit to
ST. Petersburg.
Public Disguised With DOingS
at Hyde Park.
Anarchists Allowed 10 Hold a Meet
iDg--Women Prisoners Abused.

London, Aug. 14-The arrangements
for the visit of President Faure to st.
Petersburg are practically completed. He
will leave Dunkirk on Wednesday after.
noon on board the French warship Pot
huau. escorted by the Bruix- and -SgreeHf
and will arrive at Cronstadt on Monday.
Aug. %. The first dav OF the French
Presidents sojourn in Russia will be de-
voted Co bis reception at Cronstadt and
at Peterhof TO the exchange of official
visits a banquet mt the Peterhof palace
and gala performance at the Imperial
Theatre.
The president and the czar will start
for ST. Petersburg on August "a At the
Russian capital, NJ. Faure will be well
coined by the municipality OF St Peters
burg and will receive in audience deIega-
tions from che principal cities of the en-
pire. He will also, on Tuesday, lay the
cornerstone OF the French hospital. In
the evening the president will give ban
quet at the French embassy for tho czar
There will be grand review at Krasnoe
Selo on August 20, followed by grand
military dejeuner. AT night there will be
a fete in the gardens OF the Feterhof
palace.
After review of the combined French
and Russian squadrons in Cronstadt
roads, the president will bid farewell TO
the czar and czarina and will return on
board the Puthuau. which will start inn
mediately for France reaching Dunkirk
on August 81.
MAGNIFICENT decorations are projected at
st. Petersburg. including a Faure foun-
tain in the middle OF the historic kaZan
square. which will remain permanent
memorial OF the presidents visit.
A medal which President Faure will
distribute TO the guard OF honor and TO
attending
during his visit to Russia bears on ono
side the profile OF an efligy of the republic
and the words "Republiuue Francaise. -
On the reverse side is u wreath of laurel
surrounding the date August, 1897.
Three hundred medals or this descrip-
ton in gold and platinum, eighty OF
silver gilt and twenty OF dull gold have
Leen struck.
Referring TO the visit of President
Faure, the Russian newspapers are full
Of scheme to benefit France by sending
stalwart Russians TO inter-marry in
France ana stem the falling birth rate of
that country.
The Novoe Vremya has thrown a wet
blanket over the visit of the French presi-
lent by denying that NJ. Faure will pe
accompanied by his wife and daughter.
This recalls tho unpleasant discussion
during the visit of the cZar ana czarina
to Paris, relative to tho precedents TO
entitled.
The municipal authorities of st.
Petersburg will present three immense
silver loving-cups to the visiting French
warshirs.
DISLIKES WILLIAM
Tho Prince of walos' vsit.to Marienbad
was not due 10 any necessity TO take
stronger waters for his gout, and gossip
hns 10 that his trip was due to his strong
and increasing dislike of Emperor Will
liam. TRUTH however. says the princes
trip was duo TO the arrangements made
by the emperor Co entertain the King and
Queen OF Italy ana host Of princes and
princcsses az the Schloss OF Homburg,
beginning in September, and to the
Prince of Wales desire 20 escape the
Inevitable round OF functions during the
autumn manoeuvros. for which the Duke
and Duchess Of Connnught have accepted
tho emperors invitation.
LOVE MUSIC.
Among those present at the musical
feast at Bayreuth this week nre the
Princess OF Wales, the Grand Duke OF
Hesse Ladies' Lonsdalo and Battcrsea
aud MIR. A. j. Balfour.
The performances of 1897 have been
by tho presence and in.
iuenco of many of IoudOn's smart set
Tho charms of the i-convetionalism
OF The earlier wears have largely vanished
and with them the cheap prices, which
this year are 80 TO 90 per cent above those
of 1886.
LORNE WRITES A PLAY.
Tho MARQUIS OF Lornc. son-in-law Of
Queen Victoria. is engaged in finishing
n four act play of Scottish historical
character. in which the Argyll Campbclls
figure.
LADY SOMERSET REMAINS
Lacy Henry Somerset as result Of
the vote OF the executive committee Of
the British Women's Temperance Asso-
citation, requesting lRr TO do 80, has