New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-13

the 18th August sacred TO St. Napoleon, did not go
beyond the Notifications The official Examinations
of last night comprised also, in addition to these
points and TO the public buildings, the Iullerles
Gardens. the Place de la COncorde. the Champs
Elysees. the Place do PEtOie, and the Avenue du
Bots de BOulogne.
THE GREATNESS OF THE DISPLAY.
Having sketched this rough and meagre outline of
the DAVIS work. l abandon all attempt at anything
like a c;:,plete account of the way in which the
plan was carried out. The reader who is good
enough to accompany me further VIII hear only OF
what saw and he will understand how absurd 1t
would be for any one man to pretend to see the
whole of spectacle, simultaneous in point OF time,
spreading over of square miles, andstretchng
along hundreds Of miles of streets each one OF when
had claims on his attention. Nor OF what saw
shall pretend to touch on the twentieth part 1t
is only of what was most striking among an infinite
number of striking objects that shall say word
No doubt 1t is very wrong to mix up politics IN
such matter but was most curious to see how the
purely Democratic quarters of Paris would behave
on the occasion of a Republican fete-whether
Belleville the tail of NJ. Gambetta-whlch he has
refused to cut of under advice OF his bourgeois allies
whether st. Antoine, whether the Latin quarter
and the insurgent section of the left bank OF the
Seine rallied affectiOnately to the Republic, when
they are supposed to despsc on account OF IT'S MOD
Grafton. To be sure of a sympathetic commentator
/ took H. with me, and we drove up the intermina-
bic Rue Lafayette to La Yilette; a world which l
should perhaps be safe in saying is little
known to tourists of the superior classes.
1t was about one in the afternoon;
not too long after the breakfast which, even
with the inferior classes is hour sacred TO repose
Half Paris no doubt had been in the streets since
six, when the great guns Numbered from Vincennes
and Mont Val6rien. The Rue Lafayette runs
for a great part Of its course through
an intensely respectable quarter. 1t was profusey
decorated. Neither on the 1st OF May nor now was
there any question that the bourgeoise-the middle
classes and especially the upper middle classes
were content with the Republic and meant to make
the best of it precisely as they had been content
with the Revolution of 1880. which was their own
work; or with the Revolution of '4S, which
was less entirely their own work, but which they
were none the less ready to exploit, had not one
Louis Napoleon got the better of them and exploited
il for himself The flags in the Rue Lafayette were
of the best quality of bunting Once past the Boui-
eyard Magenta, and still more on arriving at the
exterior Boulevard OF In Yillette, there weTo signs
on every hand that you were in
more popular. which seems TO mean some
how poorer country. Along many rhouses
the bunting replaced by paper.
The character of tho people changed at the Same
or no blouses-that is a working-day dress-but the
coats were secondhand and the women wore no
bonnets Everybody was clean, smiling and noisy.
brass band on the sidewalk was playing the Mar
seillaise. the people cheering madly. There Is n
pont ON the Boulevard de Ia Nilette where the Rue
du Faubourg du Temple comes to an end and the
Rue dc Beleylle begins it is the centre OF all that
is most radical or to the French phrase, OF all
that is most red in Paris. Both streets are narrow
and appeared to be built entirely OF flags Both
were completely in possession OF the popuace. Tho
police had not troubled themselves TO close any
thoronghfares to carriages III this remote part OF the
world The people appeared 10 have saved them
the tronble by filing every inch Of space from wall
to wall. My respectable coachman, supplied
by n hotel. and utterly unaccustomed TO con-
tact with the lower orders, hesitated TO
turn into either street. But as soon as
he mustered courage to try, the waves divided
and our chariot moved forward, though slowly, on
dry land Nobody offered 10 tear rs mb from limb;
we were in the midst Of the populace which Is the
terror the nightmare Of rich and respectable Paris.
aud remained and moved quite unmolested. More
remarkable even than this immunity was the phe-
nomenon which presently offered itself to our view
procession came marching down the HILL with
banners and music the men wearing black coats
for carmapnoles. and instead Of phTygian caps
we saw smiling faces and heard friendly words;
nor was there much surprise at the apparition Of
two arsfocrats in an open carriage. II may be that
HIS soft hat OF a most revolutionary pattern saved
our lives They showed no animosity even to the
coachman, who looked something between
a Methodist minister and a bank director, with
the most Objectionable qualities of each. These
are the people" said H., whose most ardent
wish il to shed your lfo'S blood aud divide your
property there is one Of the most blood-thlrsty
coming toward us now" looked IN alarm where
his finger pointed; being in blue-checkod irock'
with chubby checks aud laughing eyes, monster
two and n half feet high all l could see. When
nv sef-possession was restored, | reproached II.
for trifing with my fears, and testing on serious
subjects; but he grnned at me without reply
PRoFUsE DECORATIONS.
Straight down the Rue FaubOurg dn Temple into
the Place Chateau dEau, and thence to the Place
dc la Bastille, we passed, as we passed everywhere
else between long lanes Of people in the flush OF
their holiday delight, and endless rows of houses
which you could hardly for the decorations.
We passed, / think, beneath three arches
particularly dedicated to the foreigner ii. insisted
that we ought to stop and do something in recogn-
ton Of the hospitality Tins shown l offered to
stop IL he would make a speech to the crowd in
French-an obliging proposition which he unac-
countably declined Yet 1t was only that morning
that M de Marc6rc, Minister of the Interior bad IN
auguratcd statue OF the Republic in the Trocadero
| by declaration that Paris rejoced to offer the
spectacle of her unity, her riches, and her bril-
! liant fruitfulness TO her foreign guests VINO
come to visit her with abandon full Of polite con-
! fdence. In fact, the abandon is rather French
than an American quality; and that is why tho
| French were rudcly left to make the speech which
! H. ought to have made in acknowledgment of the
| arches to the strangers honor.
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