New-York tribune., 1901-09-01

mission Of the duty on foreign wheat this year.
even should wheat and bread become dearer
! than in May, 1897, because the government and
the treasury will not consent to resort TO sud
den expedient which woad destroy the only
means i'm prospect for recouping the loooovoo
francs deficit in the Budget estimates.
Preparations to welcome the Gear and Czarina
continue with prodigious activity. Cabinet
ministers and chiefs Of the protocol pass their
time running up and down between Paris Com
piegne Rheims and Dunkrk. and the Mayor of
Dunkrk with pardonable enthusiasm, says the
meeting Of Nicholas and President Loubet Will
compare favcrably in splendor with that on
the field of the cloth of golG between Henry
VII and Francis I. near the neighboring hut
rival town OF Calais in 1920. Should the Car
come to Paris. the leaves of the trees in the
Champs Elysees. which are already falling VIII
he replaced with artificial leaves OF gaudy col
ored paper. as was done a small scale on the
occasion Of the Cars first visit Great activity
prevails at tie National Library, where a rare
collection of books that belonged TO Napolen
III is being refurblshed under the superntend-
ence of NJ. Marchall and two assistants. IL VIII
be placed in the famous library of the Com
piegne Palace for the OF the Car Many
of the books have on their bindings the crests
OF Louis XIV Louis XVI Marie Antoinette and
Napoleon l. Among them is a Tasso. magnih-
Gently DOunu IN Neau HOuCHete, WIN
tions i'm the handwriting of Napoleon l. and
three volumes of lie Theatre de Moiiere' that
once belonged to Marie Antoinette, bearing her
signature and comments in her handwriting
The most essentially Partisan feature Of the
preparations takes place daily in the Rue St
Joseph. the Rue du Croissant. which is
the realm or Paris street hawkers, over whom
Napoleon Hayard. the Emperor of the Came
lots. wieds undisputed sovereignty. Meetings of
the corporation held on the street pave
ment. and here are chosen the songs. new or
old likely 70 catch public fancy. which will be
printed by the hundreds Of thousands and sold
in the streets during the Cars visit. Napoleon
Hayard. a short thickset man, I'm fannels and
corduroys. wearing a huge broadbrimmed felt
hat. presides AZ these sessions where all the
questions Of the hour are discussed Napoleon
directs the debates and listens to all sugges-
tions. but invariably ends by laying down a plan
Of campaign himself Here the selections are
made Of trinkets, toys and puzzles appropriate
10 the occasion. The corporation decides TO
the quantities of the various articles required,
and wholesale orders placed accordingly.
On the delivery of the goods each hawker buys
from the leaders his supply. which varies with
the extent of his means the terms of the cor
poration toward its members being net cash.
These systematic administrative methods which
lack of variety noticeable in the wares sold by
Partisan camelots. Thus the corporation is pre-
pairing some three dozen different FrancoRus-
sian trinkets for the visit OF the Gar and
Czarna and a dozen appropriate songs, and
all camelots will have identically the same stock
Of goods for sale The hawker who used 70
work off his own bat" is an extinct species. and
If he existed would be boycotted into submis-
sion by the corporation. The trade programme
drawn up by Napoleon Hayard for this occa-
sion provides a few varieties in appropriate
trinkets The Franco Russian badges medals,
scarfpins small flags for the buttonhole. to-
bacco pouches pipes. cigarette holders, pencil
cases and watchguards which will be put
the market have mostly been seen before. OF
the innumerabe portraits Of the Car and
Czarina some new but It is in the literary
line that the enterprise Of the hawkArs' cor
poration will be principally shown this time
The choice Of Franco-Russian songs shows great
ingenuity the part of the emperor OF the
street hawkes.. Yesterday I was present at a
rehearsal Of the hawkers who in a few days
will be singing refrains from the songs "Marche
Franco-Rus and "Visite du Car" in Paris
and all the towns Of France The emperor
waving his huge hat and cane, directed the
rehearsal, in which two hundred hawkers took
part. The great song Of the day, according 10
the corporation, viii be lie Salut a la Tzarine."
sung TO the air Of La Paimpolaise the words Of
which follows:
Salut a Ia jeune Tzarine,
Salut puissant Empereur
DeSant G,'n t. eux or que st. le front s'incline M
Gu disc bien has.
on, ne partez pas,
Sans aVOir. amis de la France