The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-04
PEACE ENJOYS TRIP PLANNED
laps TO HAVE AN HOURS Staff
TO OYSTER BAY.
witte Goes To-day 70 Meet the President
and on Saturday Both Parties VIII
BEGIN Their warship vsysse-Hus'
sians in wall street and East Side.

and on Saturday Both Parties VIII
Begin Their warship vsysge-Hus'
SLAMS in vail street and East Side.
Seeing New York on the part OF the
Russian ENJOYS and arrangements for the
formal meeting OF the ENJOYS ON Saturday
at Oyster Bay and their introduction to
each other by President Roosevelt were
Yesterdays events In the Japanese Russian
peace conference arrangements.
Mr.. Witte the head Of the Russian peace
commission, and Mr.. Lodygensky. the Rus
alan Consult General to New York, led the
van In the New York sightseeing. 40
COMMANDED by the Consul General, Mr..
Witte made one automobile tour downtown,
visiting the Stock Exchange and the swarm.
ing East Side. That was In the afternoon.
Accompanied by one OF his suite, the Russian
envoy in the forenoon took another auto
mobile run through Central Park and along
the Riverside Drive.
The Third Assistant Secretary OF State,
Mr.. PIERCE, came to New York yesterday
morning and went to the Hotel Aston.
Mr.. PIERCE usually, on his visits here, makes
his home at the Waldorf Astoria. Whether
the presence there OF the Japanese ENJOYS
made him change his usual New York lodg-
ing house he did not say. The Third As
sistant Secretary Of State only called at
the Waldorf Astoria as he did at the st.
Regis to see the respective ENJOYS about
the arrangements for Saturday.
It was for the express purpose Of making
these arrangements that Mr.. Peiroe came to
New York, and he said yesterday afternoon
that they are now all completed.
The program laid out Is very minute In
detail and will be followed to the letter.
1t involved. OF course the wise question OF
precedence. and that seems to have been
settled on the broad general American
principle of first come first served. Tho
Japanese ENJOYS got here over a week
ahead of the Russians. Therefore it is the
Japanese who will call first for Oyster
Bay on Saturday morning and it Is the
Japanese who will first board the Mayhower
at Oyster Bay. where the formal introduce
tons are to he made. When Mr.. Peiroe
was asked yesterday why the Japanese went
first he replied:
well, they got here first
When he was asked which Of tho two
cruisers, the Galveston or the Chatta-
nooga, would take the Japanese and which
the Russian, he replied:
aNow, how car anybody want to know
which cruiser carries one party and which
carries the other? Both cruisers are ex-
actly alike in measurement and everything
else. What difference does it make?
don't know which cruiser the Japanese
ENJOYS are going on and which the Rus
eians."
As matter Of fact, the Japanese are
going on the Chattanooga. She and the
Galveston are protected cruisers OF $500
tons displacement. Thu only dAecsooe
between them is that the Galveston Ia one
year the younger. 1t ia not anticipated,
however, that international complications
are likely to arise because OF this discrep-
ancy or that it involves any question in.
volving the ultimate SUCCESS or failure OF
the pending peace negotiations.
The program as arranged is that Baron
Komura and his suite will board the Chat
tanooga at the foot Of East Twenty-third
street at Q o'clock on Monday morning.
AS soon as they are on board the Chat
tanooga will head for the Sound and steam
of at moderate pace for Oyster Bay.
where the Mayfower will be waiting.
One hour after the Japanese ENJOYS
have sailed the Galveston, bearing Mr..
Witte and his suite, will sail from the same
place. Arrived at Oyster Bay, the Jap
anese ENJOYS will wait on their cruiser
until the Presidents flag Is hoisted over
the Mayflower. Then steam launches will
take them to the Mayfower, on which
vessel the Russian ENJOYS will come just
one hour later. Then the introduotions by
President Roosevelt will take place, after
which the President will leave the May
flower, the Japanese ENJOYS will 60 back
on board the Chattanooga, the Russians
will return to the Galveston and both oruis-
ers will sail for Portsmouth, where they
are due to arrive at 10 o'clock on Monday
niorning.
After luncheon the ENJOYS will make
formal calls on the Governor OF New Hamp-
shire, and by Tuesday morning all the for
maliiics will be over and the decks cleared
for &c,ion.
Before the departure Of both groups Of
c1yoys for Oyster Bay however. there is
one formalty yet to Be gone through with,
and hat is the presentation to the President
of Mr. Witte by Baron Rosen. the Russian
Ambassador TO the United States. This
Will occur early this afternoon. Mr.. Witte
and Baron Rosen will go to Oyster Bay on
the II O'Clock train this morning. just as
Baron Komura and the Japanese Minister,
Mr.. Takahira, went one day last week.
Tomorrow is ST. Mary's day, according
to the Eastern Christian calendar, and the
name day of Maria Feodoravna. Empr ess
Dowager of Russia. At st. Nicholas Rus
sian orthodox cathedral In Fast Ninety
seventh street there will be special religious
services-higb mass at o'clock in tho
morning and De Deum at 0 O'Clock. While
1t was not announ oed positively that Mr.
Witte and his suite would attend both these
services. 1t is expected that at one or tho
other they will be present.
Mr.. Whites downtown trip in an auto
mobile yester day afternoon attracted no
attention. as he was net recognized by people
in the street. 1t was not until the big car
turned down Wall street and into Broad
and stopped before the Stock Exchange
that anybody began to notice It. Even
then Mr.. Witte was not recognized and 1t
was not until, in company with Consul
General Lodygensky, he entered the Ex-
change gallery that 1t became known den-
nitely who he was.
Business on the exchange wss tempo
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