The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-14
GO OYER PLANS FOR
PEACE PACT SIGNING
Officials Brush Dust From Pa
pers Prepared for Use
on June 5.
ELABORATE CEREMONIES
Chateau Of Versailles to Be
Seem Of Historic Gathering
Expected This Month.

PARIS. June f4.-Pians for the great
formal ceremony Of the signing of the
peace treaty at the Chateau OF Yer
sailles have been withdrawn from the
pigeon holes In which they were gather
ing dust when no definite date for the
signature was IN prospect and are being
brought up to date It Is probable thew
will soon be submitted to Premier Gle
menceau or the Council of Five for the
necessary approval before being put into
effect.
French off1cials entrusted with the ar
engagements were informed originally
that everything must be ready for the
signing on June s. They worked out an
elaborate project with diagram, sketches,
time tables and suggestions for sample
tickets for the plenipotentiaries, repre-
sentatives OF the press and spectators
They also laid out the routes for the
automobiles which will replace the state
carriages of the former peace congresses.
The project was forwarded almost q
month ago through the proper channels
for approval. .....
Historic Table to BE Used.
The officials even went so far as to
select table on which the treaty shou,d
be signed-a splendid example of buhl
OF the 'chateau-and to build barriers
In the great Place d'Armes in front Of
the chateau behind which the general
public will be permitted to witness the
arrival OF the delegates They also tried
out the great fountains in the park at
Versailles. which will be played in con-
nection with the ceremony.
Unexpected delay arose and the prof.
ect for the ceremony disappeared from
sight. II has been resurrected now for
possible use about the end Of the month.
The actual signing. as originally an
nounced. will be staged in the historic
Hall of Mirrors, 50 often described. The
delegates, who will arrive by automobile
after traversing the Bots de Boulogne
and the historic park Of St Cloud where
the favorite residence OF Napoleon once
stood. will enter Versailles by the Ave-
nue. de Paris q boulevard almost one
hundred yards wide leading directly TO
the main entrance of the Chateau.
Beyond the enclosures reserved for the
general public they will pass between
the tribunes erected for the members
Of the Senate and the Chamber OF Dep
uties They will descend from the car
riages at the doorway OF the chateau
through which the Paris mob on the
momentous day OF tho French Revolu-
ton broke into the chateau, massacred
the Swiss Guards and compelled King
Louis and Queen Marie Antoinette to
return to Paris.
To reach the Hall of Mirrors the del
egates will traverse the state apartment
at one time occupied by the monarch
and his queen. A space at either end
OF the Hall Of Mirrors will be rallied
off. At one end will be the privileged
spectators, while at the other will
be the correspondents representing the
newspapers OF the world.
The German delegation will approach
the Chateau from the other side. They
will be conducted by a different route to
the Hall OF Mirrors and will pass the
guard of honor drawn Up in the Court
OF Marble OF the Chateau to render mill
itary honors to the arriving delegates
and will see the battle flags representing
the armies of the Old and New Worlds.
Great Display of Flags.
Probably only the French flag will
float from the Chateau at the opening of
the ceremony. but when the pen OF Pres
ident Wilson. as the FIRST delegate, is
placed TO the document. the standards
Of the twenty-three nations associated
in the war will be broken out upon the
Chateau in gay display OF triumphal
bunting.
It is expected the ceremony will be
timed 70 begin about o'clock in the
afternoon. There will be speeches by
Premier Cleme nceau as chairman OF the
conference and by the head OF the Ger
man delegation. The actual work OF
appending the signatures OF the repre-
sentatives OF all the belligerent nations
will occupy well over an hour, but 1t is
expected that at least two hours Of day
light will remain OF the long summer
evening during which the fountains dis
trbuted over many acres OF the Cha
tesu park will play for the admiration
OF the delegates and spectators
The plenipotentiaries, after the cere-
mony, will leave the Chateau by a por-
tai opening on the terrace, from which
many OF the fountains are visible. The
German delegates. no longer regarded as
enemies. will walk with the other pleni-
potentiaries.