The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-25

| were d4A uil budbu. l Au slcaAIA 4duA&CAACS of Russia's oldest regiments. flying the naval flags granted 10 them by Peter. followed the vessels of the Admiralty, the regiments of the PreObrazhensky Guards and the Semenovsky Guards. ! AS the procession passed the fortress of Peter and Paul. the Imperial Standard was broken at the main on board inc steamer carrying Peter's boat, and the fortress fired a salute Of thirty-one guns. After the first gun from the fort ress, all the ships, both those belonging to the navy and the mercantile marine and yachts. commenced firing a royal salute.
 Thus in solemn state the reyered relic of the great Czar was borne in process sion along the mile and half of gaily decked shipping, past the new Troitsky Bridge, past the palaces, and the state ly houses where are lodged the en- bassies of the greater part of the world; past the magnificent facade of the winter palaces, now further adorned by the rich artistic railing and wall of the | garden which has been creand there, that the empress and her children may enjoy fresh air, even in the winter months of residence; past the most an- cient site in St. Petersburg, the Admir- atty, where the founder of the city, working often with his own hands. at 1 the craft he had learned in the dock ! yards of Depttord, built Russia's first fleet. On slowly and solemnly, amid the ceaseless din os the saluting cannon from the fortress opposite, and the music of all the ships along the route, to the strains of chanting priests and the deep boom of all the bells of St. Petersburg passed the procession to the Square of Peter the Great.
 This square presents at all times one of the finest views in the City of Palaces. In the foreground is the great equestrian statue of the Czar, the enor- nous granite pediment of which was dragged to its place from the barges which conveyed it by thousands of men, a few inches every day, until it stood in place, about thirty yards away from the river. It will be remembered by all visitors to St. Petersburg as a most daring attempt in bronze, representing the horse rearing at the edge of the precipice represented by the block of granite, which it has evidently ascended at the gallop. The backgrounds is filled in by the Alexander Garden behind which towers St. Isaac's Cathedral. Three sides of the Square were lined with grand stands, only the front to the river being left open. Around the statue were erected tasteful pillars, sur mounted by plaster wreaths, bearing the Imperial cipher and richly gilt. The Czar's cavilion stood a little in front and to the left of the statue--a massive structure of considerable height, sur mounted by the Imperial eagle.
 The two sides of the square formed I fine frame to the magnificence within, the long line of the Ruling Senate" oh the right, and the western face of the Admiralty, which Is a little town al- most in itself, closing in the view to the left. From the St. Isaac's Cathedral, a procession of the cross, headed by the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg, and followed by the banner bearer, came out to the cuay to meet the river pro- cession. The two squares of St. Isaac's and of Peter the Great were held by troops, company chosen from each of the regiments of the garrison of St. Petersburg, On the arrival of the river procession the two assemblages of priests joined and bore in state the sacred eikon to the Cathedral, where a service was conducted by the Metro politan
 During the solemnities in the Cathe- dral the new Troitsky Bridge over the Neva was formally opened by the Elm peror, who with the Empress, dressed in white, the Empress in primrose trimmed with black and the heir apar- ent, the Grand Duke Michael, arrived at eleven o'clock. There was a pro- longed religious service in the open air opposite the bridge at the conclusion of which the Emperor touched button, setting in motion the eletric turning power. and the bridge which had hither- to been open, was closed in about four minutes. Then the DoWager Empress, followed by the Czarina, cut with a special pair of scissors ribbons of the national colors which barred the road way, and were afterwards secured by the distinguished assemblage as mementoes of the occasion. The em- peror, with the Dowager Empress on his arm, followed by the Empress with the heir apparent walked after the priests across the entire length of the bridge, and received congratulations in the pavilion at the farther side.
 The new bridge is of handsome design the piers to high-water level being of red granite. It has a strikingly bold curve, and is painted light pea-green color. The river is bridged in six spans, the one nearest the south side being made to swing on a central pivot, and on the north side there is an approach of stone, with three arches. The swim ging span, which is of light steel con- struction, is operated by electricity. The bridge was built by the French Compagnie de Batignolles, and the elec- trio power arrangement have been supplied by the Central Electric Con- pany of Moscow. The movement is operated from the centre of the pivoting pier, the bridge running on steel rollers round a pivot of great diameter.-S Petersburg Correspondence of the Lon don Standard.
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