New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-06
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THE NEWS OFTWO CAPITALS
PARIS.
NATION EAGERLY AWAITING THE TRIAL
OF DREYFCS
ALL OTHER SUBJECTS IN THE BACKGROUND
THE sCHooLRoOM AT RENNEs-
NEWSPAPERS PREPARATIONS.

fBY CABLE TRIBuNE.I
Paris Aug 5.-France awaits the opening OF
the trial OF Captain Dreyfus which, according
to official information will take place in the
spacious schoolhouse at Rennes at o'clock
On Monday morning with the nervous tension
like that OF Paris audience Just before the
curtain rises upon the occasion of some memo.
rable first night. Frenchmen never fail to re.
spond to their Unborn national dramatic in.
stincts. To-day by common consent ordinary
politics are momentary laid aside and the the
atrical note predominates over all else. Dru-
mont Rochefort and Mllevoye have at last
found time to draw their breath in order fully
to take in the artistic situation to discuss the
acoustic properties Of the Rennes schoolroom
and to criticise the arrangements to secure the
highest oratorical effects for the counsel and
witnesses Even Quesnay de Beaurepaire makes
a brief pause in the impersonation OF his self
imposed burlesque rendering of the role Of q
judicial Tartuffe.
Ultra fashionable women exerting every
influence to secure seats at the trial All the
actors who have parts allotted to them in the
greatest cause celebre OF the century are now
Fastening to the capital OF Brittany, which for
the next fortnight will become a corner OF Paris.
Rennes is already full to overfiowing. The
most primitive sleeping accommodations CONF
mand exorbitant prices. varying from So to SO
a night. 1t is estimated that the influx OF visi-
tors will put into the pockets OF the Rennes inn
keepers from 5000 to $1,000 day.
The leading Paris papers making extraor-
dinary preparations for the great event The
Figaro" while the trial lasts will issue two
editions Of six pages each. and promises It's
readers TO supply TO them gratuitously full
stenographc reports Of the trial each day at 3
o'clock Never before has there been such
boom Of enterprise in Partisan journalism, which
has impressed into its service carrier pigeons,
special wires and special telephones. All the
newspapers put their best descriptive writer's
to the front one Of whom, Charles Chinchole.
Of the Figaro" in reply to my inquiries this
morning telephoned from Rennes as follows:
The centre OF interest just is the hall In
the schooroom. which resounds with the noise
OF hammers and saws The hall is an admirable
one for the trial. There is raised platform at
one end Just like the stage OF theatre. The
proscenium Is being extended in length and
widened by carpenters. so that the prisoner can
be placed prominently in view the side Of the
stage toward the courtyard, while the Govern
ment Commissioner will have his seat directly
facing him on that portion of the stage near
the garden at the back In the centre OF the
stage is a huge statue Of the Republic, about
which are inscribed on scrolls the names Of the
great men OF French history. The authorities
at the present moment are discussing whether
or not to place a large crucihx at the top OF the
stage behind the Judges, as is the custom In
French courthouses. but they have not yet de-
cided about this. The acoustic properties have
been tested and are excellent the light is first
rate and quick, intelligent observers ought not
TO lose single word. expression OF countenance
or gesture during the trial"