The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-12
PARIS TO WELCOME
ITALIAN KING
Being Made For a Roy.
al Reception For Victor
Emanuel.

Paris Oct. 12.-Elaborate arrange
ments are being rapidly carried out
for the welcome here Of King Victor
Emanuel and Queen Helena. They
are on scale Of truly royal splendor.
The fetes will follow the style OF
those held at the time Of the recent
Visit to Paris of King Edward. and
Will include a number of events af-
ford1ng opportunities for brilliant
spectacular effects. Government arch
ltects have provided a plan for the
decoration of the streets by day and
1or 1Euminations by night. Private
residents and shopkeepers have con-
trlbuted large sums of money toward
transforming the avenues and boule-
wards of the city into masses of col
or, with floral arches, Venetian masts
and looping of flowers A large force
Of troops is being assembled to add
to the military pageant of the event.
AS measure Of precaution the gov
ernment has instituted a strict sur
velllance over the anarchists of Par
is and during his stay in the city the
Italian monarch will be well guarded
by secret service men of both France
and Italy.
King Victor Emanuel and his con-
sort arrive at noon Wednesday. Pres
ident Loubet, the members of the
ministry, and the staff of the Italian
embassy will proceed to the Bots de
Boulogne station to meet them. The
station will be hung with rich vel-
vet and Gobelin tapestries. The
meeting between the president and
the king will lake place under a silken
canopy. After the greetings the royal
visitors and President Loubet will en-
ter elaborate state carriages, with
postillions and outriders, and, es-
corted by a regiment Of cuirassiers,
they will drive through the Bots and
the Champs Elysees to the Italian en-
bassy. Throughout the entire route
soldiers will be massed on either SIDE
of the thoroghfare.
" SuhSSudS CNCLIIl1S. d DohAoSe WA
be given at the Elysee. The next day
King Victor Emanuel and President
Loubet will visit Versailles, where
after luncheon has been served they
viii inspect the palace and the park.
TO king and president will return
TO Paris by road in a carriage. A gala
~nrformance at the opera will take
I. re in the eveL.1g. The next day,
Fri. a ysit VII be paid to the
city. he Cricials reception will take
place a, tho Eotel de Vile. Thence
the royal ~ar.y will proceed to the
mint. where to the ling will be pre-
sented a medal especially struck in
Honor of his visit. IL the evening the
king will entertain the presl
dent at dinner at the ministry Of for
eign affairs. On Saturday King Vic
tor Emanuel will take part il a shoot
ing party over the Rambouillet pre-
serves at the invitation Of President
Loubet. The following morning, Sun
dav. grand military review viii be
held. followed by a military luncheon
at the ElySee. lHelI ludJo"'1oo "i1
leave the Invalides railway station
at 5 o'clock the same afternoon.
Aside from its spectacular features,
the visit of King Victor Emanuel is
leading to a wide range Of sDecula-
ton, in the matter Of its political sig
nificance. French officials state tree
" that this visit marks the culmlna-
ton of the efforts that have been
making for several years past to res
tore a complete entente cord1ale be-
tween the two nations, which were
strained for a long time by the tariff
war between France and italy. They
say, also. that it is an evidence tha'
the foreign policy Of France, l1aly
and Great Britain is to be conducted
along sympathetic lines.