The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
FAURE TO VISIT RUSSIA
FRANCES PRESIDENT TO FOLLOW IN
THE WAKE OF THE KAISER.
Elaborate Preparations at st. Peters,
burg for Entertaining the Cars
Guest-Tramps in Hyde Park.
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leave DUnkirk Wednesday afternoon
aboard the French war ship Pothua, es-
corted by the Brlix and Surcouf, and will
arrive at Cronstadt Monday, Aug. g. The
first day OF his sojourn in Russia will be
devoted to his reception at Cronstadt and
at Peterhof to the exchange Of official Wis
its, banquet at Peterhof Palace and a
gala performance at the Imperial Theater.
The President and the Car will start for
St Petersburg Aug. a. There NJ. Faure
will be welcomed by the municipality of
st. Petersburg and will receive in audi
ence delegations from the principal cities
Of the empire. He will also, on Tuesday,
lay the cornerstone of the French Hospi-
tai. In the evening the President will give
a banquet at the French embassy in honor
of the Car. There will be a grand review
at Krasnoe-SeIo on Aug %, followed by
grand military dinner At night there will
be a fete in the gardens of Peterhof Pal
ace. After a review of the combined
French and Russian squadron in Cronstadt
roads the President will bid farewell to the
Car and Czarna and will return on board
the Pothua, which will start Immediately
for France, reaching Dunkirk on Aug. 81
Magnificent decorations are projected at st.
Petersburg, including a Faure fountain in
the middle of the historic Ka2ans square,
which Will remain a permanent memorial
of the Presidents visit.
The medals which President Faure will
distribute to the guard of honor and to
the W rious functionaries attending him
during his visit to Russia bear on one
side the profile of an effigy of the republic
and the words "Republique Franchise" On
the diverse side is a wreath Of laurels sur
rounding the date August, 1897" Three
hundred medals of this description, in gold
and platinum, eighty OF silver gilt and
twenty of dull gold have been struck.
Referring to the coming visit the Rus
sian newspapers are discussing a scheme
to benefit France by sending stalwart Rus
slams to intermarry in France and stem the
falling birth rate of that country
st. Petersburgs municipal authorities will
present three immense loving cups to the
visiting French war ships.
The straw manufacturers of Luton have
been doing a big business in sunbonncts
for horses, owing to the instigation Of the
government and the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals. The hats
are shaped on the Bordeaux model having
a nigh crown and broad brm, like the
straw bathing hat used in the United
States, with holes for the horses ears.
The use of the bonnetS has greatly de-
creased the summer mortality among
horses in France.
The annual scandal about the tramps
loafers criminals and their female COM
panions in Hyde Park is again being Ven
tilated. The park is positively dangerous
after dusk, and almost so in daytime.
Owing to the great number of assault cases
occurring in the park which have found
their way into the police courts recently
the newspapers have again taken the mat
ter up. Last year, as a result of the pub
lie disgust which followed similar expo
sures. new regulations were issued for the
police control of the park, and Parliament
voted &1,20o toward its lighting by cleo
tricity, and also voted 81, 400 for a refresh
ment kiosk but owing to the opposition
of the Duke of Cambridge, who is the ran
ger of Hyde Park, nothing was done The
movement now on foot is to wrest the con-
troll of the park from the duke and give
it TO the County Council.
The British postoffice authorities are ex-
perimenting with motor cars with the view
of their use as parcel vans and for the
transport of the mails from the substatiOns
and railroad depots.
Since the Canovas assassination last Sun
day the authorities of Scotland Yard have
been exercising the most active supervision
over the Anarchists of Great Britain, and
they have been in constant communication
with police authorities of Paris, Rome,
Madrid and other capitals The number of
detectives stationed at the various ports
has been doubled, and new arrivals are
constantly Swallowed. But, despite these
precautions, the commissioner of police
Sir Edward Bradford, has authorized a
public meeting in Trafalgar square, on
of torture in Spanish prisons" The au-
thorities declare the commissioner did not
know that it was the Anarchists who had
applied for it. The newspapers say it is
certain there will be trouble if the meet
ing is held, as the people here are waking
up to the necessity of a stern repression
Of the anarchists.
A long existing scandal has been ended
by a complaint on the part of Sir Jonn
Drummer the well-known philanthropist, of
Liverpool and member of Parliament for
the Nor,hwich division Of Cheshire, who
drew the attention of the home secretary.
Sir Matthew White Ridley, to the habit of
transferring the women prisoners from the
Liverpool jail to Knutsford Prison in big
gangs, chained together like slaves. 1t de-
veloped from the inquiries made by the
home secretary into the subject that as
many as twenty-five women in one gang
have been thus paraded orders have been
issued to stop this. practice.
The Berlin chess tournament, which is
expected to rival the recent contest at
Buda-Pesth, will begin Sept u. Prizes
range from 91OO to e5 and a "brilliancy'
prize will be awarded by Baron Rothschild,
of Vienna, who is a chess enthusiast.
Lady Henry Somerset has withdrawn her
resignation of the presidency of the British
Women's Temperance Association.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Curzon have rented
BalGorey Castle, Banffshire, for shooting
and fishing.
The Bayreuth festival closes next Thurs
day with the hundredth performance of
"Parsfal." Receipts exceed $780, 600. Among
those present there this week We're the
Princess Of Wales, the Grand Duke of
Honsdale and Battersea and Mr.. Balfour.
The performances of 1897 have been charac-
terized by the presence and influence of
many of Londons smart set The charms
Of the nti-conventionalism of the earlier
years have largely vanished and with them
the cheap prices, which this year are 80 to so
per cent. above those of 1896. The festival
was supported mainly by Americans and
English. The drift OF public taste toward
Wagner has impelled many singers whose
regulations have been acquired in the Ital-
ian school TO the study of the German mas
ter.
a stroke of very good fortune has befallen
enc of the Abbott sisters, American girls,
who have had considerable success here in
drawing rooms and in music halls as sing
ers of plantation melodies. Jean De Reszke
has offered to defray Bessie Abbotts ex-
penses in educating her for opera and eX-
poets TO launch her on that stage.
Alfred KSnrick has been engaged to sup
port Julia Marlowe in America next season.
A parliamentary committee of France,
which was appointed to investigate the sub
ject of theatrical passes, has recommended
to the Chamber OF Deputies the adoption of
a law TO abolish season tickets for all dra-
matte and musical entertainments and for
imposing Il heavy stamp tax on all free