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Riga's Grand Welcome 



EXTENSIVE preparations had been made by the 

 authorities and citizens of Riga for a patriotic 

 demonstration on the steamer's arrival, and this 

 was carried out on the afternoon of Friday, the 

 1 3th of May (Russian date May 1st), a bright, 

 beautiful day. At four o'clock a flotilla of nine- 

 teen steamers, well filled with people, sailed out 

 from the city to welcome the Conemaugh. On the 

 Government man-of-war Strasch were His Excel- 

 lency General- Lieutenant M. A. Sinowzeu, the 

 Governor of the Province of Livonia, and his 

 wife; the Vice- Governor; the resident Consul of 

 the United States, Niels Peter Bornholdt; the 

 Mayor of the city and others of the most promi- 

 nent officials, together with many ladies ; also Count 

 Andre Bobrinskoy, executive of the Czarovitch 

 Famine Relief Committee; and United States 

 Consul-General, Dr. J. M. Crawford. The mer- 

 chants of the trade guilds, with the ladies of their 



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