The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-24
PREPARATIONS FOR
 PEACE CONFERENCE
EVERY COURTESY AND CoNTEN.
 FENCE TO BE AFFORDED.

Government VIII Provide Any Facility
 Desired-AutomobiIes and Launches
 to be Placed at Disposal of the PIeni-
 potentiarles-state of New Hamp-
 shire and People of Portsmouth Co.,
 operatinE-The Great New Naval
 storehouse Where the Envoys VIII
 Meet--Tentative Programme.
 Portsmouth, N. H., July 2S.-Prepar- ations for the peace conference are pro- ceeding rapidly and satisfactorily, and by August 5, the day on which the plen- ipotentiaries are expected to reach Portsmouth from Oyster Bay on board the Mayfiower and Dolphin, all will be lin readiness for their reception. The Washington government and the state of New Hampshire are cooperating in the effort to make the surroundings of the conference as suitable as possible, and are receiving generous assistance from the people of Portsmouth and the; adjacent villages of Kittery, Me, where the navy yard is located, and New castle N. H., near which the plenipo- tentiaries will have quarters in the Ho- tel Wentworth.
 Mir. Pierce the third assistant secre- tary of state, who is acting for the Ipresident in directing the arrange ments left tonight for Washington, where he will provide for the shipment of the necessary furniture for the equipment of the navy general store, which Is to be used for the sessions of the conference. As this equipment will 1 be of no use to the government after the conference is, over it will be rented. Mir. Pierce will spend tomorrow in it's 1 selection, and it should be in place early next week. Before leaving for Washington MT. Pierce had confer l ence with Rear-Admiral Mead, com mandant of the navy yard, regarding the details yet to be arranged in con- nection with the reception of the mis- sions and the sessions of the confer- ence.
 The tentative programme provides that the plenipotentiaries shall land at the navy yard and go immediately to the office of the commandant officially to pay their respects.
 The arrival of the two missions will be loudly heralded by the firing of an ambassadorial salute for each mission The marine guard, which has recently been increased, will render the prescrib- ed salutes and may escort the party from the navy yard through the town tof Portsmouth to their quarters at the Wentworth, a distance of about five miles. As the navy yard is on the Maine side of the Piscataqua river the governor of New Hampshire will prob- ably receive the plenipotentiaries in Portsmouth and formally welcome them to the state. He will at the same time extend to them an invitation to be the Iguests of the state on a tour of the New Hampshire mountains on the con- clusion of the conference.
 The state of New Hampshire has al- ready requested to be permitted to Ibear the expense of entertaining the plenipotentiaries throughout the confer ence, which will probably be granted, the Washington government undertak- ling the entire expense of the equip Inlent of the quarters for the confer erlce.
 The navy store. while architectural.
 ly fine building of brick and stee
 construction, has just been completed
 and is admirably suited for use as 2
 meeting place. It has an imposing en-
 trance finished in stone and leading
 up from this to the second floor is g
 broad stairway.
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