Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-04
For Reception Of Peace:
ENJOYS by the President
Is Complete, With Impartial
Courtesies for Each.
N. White Passes Entire Day in Sightseeing
in New York City.

New York, Aug. 3.-Acting for the
President. Third Assistant Secretary of
State Pcirce, today, communicated to
Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassador,
and Mr.. Takahira, the Japanese minis
Ter, the official program for the formal
presentation to the President Of the
Russian and japanese plenipotenta-
ries to the Washington conference.
This program has for weeks been
subject of much study on the part OF
the President and Mr.. PIERCE.
AS the Presidents representative, Mr..
PIERCE will accompany Baron Komura
and Mr.. Takahira and their suite to the
pier of the New York Yacht Club at
East sd street, at 8 o'clock, Saturday
morning, where the delegation will
board the protected cruiser Taco
ma. Commander Alexander Sharp
commanding, and the vessel will start
for oyster Bay, steaming at mode
rate speed.
Half an hour later, Mr.. PIERCE will
perform a similar ceremony for NJ.
White and Baron Rosen, the Russian
plenipOtentiaries and their suite. who
will go aboard the protected cruiser I
Chattanooga, Commander Reginald F.
-NltslOlSOII MI. ftlrCc
will then board the converted yacht
Sylph. which, steaming rapidly ahead.
will pass the Tacoma and Chattanooga,
taking position at the front of the col
umn.
Arriving at Oyster Bay about noon.
the peace squadron" will anchor, its
arrival being loudly heralded by the
firing of an ambassadorial salute of 10
guns for each mission from the GAL
weston, Mayfower and Dolphin, which
VIII be in waiting to convey the plepi-
potenriaries to Portsmouth, Mr. Peirce,
on leaving the Sylph, will board the
Maytiower and will await the arrival
of the President. The President will
board the Mayfiower about l o'clock.
He viii be given the Presidential salute
of q guns from all the vessels In the
Earbor, and as soon as his Gag is
hoist I'd ON the Mayfiower, the Japanese
rlenpotentiaries will come on board
from the Tacoma ard be presented by
Assistant Secretary PIERCE.
Half an hour later, the Russian en-
voys will come aboard ana be pre-
scented.
Immediately. the President will for
mally present the Russian and Japa-
nese plenipotentiaries TO each other.
a buffet luncheon in the cabin of the
Mayfiower will follow. AT its conclu-
sion, the Japanese mission will take
leave of the President and board the
Dolphin; Mr.. PIERCE will go aboard the
cruiser Galveston, and the President
will then take leave of the Russian
mission ard go ashore. against receiy-
ing a salute of u guns.
Under convoy of The cruiser Calves
ton Commander Cutler commanding,
the Russians on the Mayfower. and the
Japanese on the Dolphin. will sail for
Portsmouth. The squadron will steam
slowly. sn as not to arrive there be-
fore 10 o'clock Monday morning.
DESTROYS of being strictly neutral in all
the arrangements for the presentation, it
was decided at the outset by the wash
ington government that the President
would recognize no precedence based on
successes in the present war. Because
Baron Komura was presented to him first
ut Sycamore Hill almost a week before
Mr.. White arrived in this country. IL was
decided that for this reason Baron Ko-
mura must take precedence over n.
White. This. however. will be recognized
only in the half hours difference In the
time of the presentation of the two mis-
sions.
The question as to which ship should
be assigned to the Russians and which
to the Japanese to take them to Ports
mouth solved itself. The servants on the
Dolphin are Japanese; those on the May
flower are Chinese.
Mr.. Witte had an active day. today.
He has seen more of New York than
most visitors see in n week. Accompanied
by Mr.. Wilenkine. Russia's financial agent
at Washington, Mr. White left his hotel
at O'Clock in an automobile on a ride
through Central park. then to Grants
tomb where Mr.. White insisted on getting
out of the car and went into the mauso-
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