Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-26
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with N1duN 1hOubdhAuS III tt0ypra A..
Dead Poets Memory-His Remain. lug
to Rest in the P~anthcon-The Great nas
ccssion-No Disturbance.
PARIS, June 2.-Although rain fel, ill.,
| ing Sunday night, and there was every ~
| dication in the early morning of more r ny
| yesterday, hundreds of thousands of peor,'
were abroad at daybreak, crowdinp nv
| streets and boulevards through which Nv
great procession was to move that acco,
panied the remains of Victor Hugo to hi,
last resting place in the Pantheon. OWN,
to the crowded condition of the hotels thoS
| sands were compelled to bivouac in u.
open air all night.
Around the Arc de Triomphe the sn,o,
was early filled with the chief officers Of ,bs
| State, the members OF the diplomatic cor,'
Senators and Deputies. From all directianns,
came Populations with draped banners aml 1
bearing flowers and gigantic wreaths, a m,
all moving in the direction OF the ArcGss
Triomphe. Never did Paris present such
scene.
The funeral procession started punctualrc
at noon. The threatening clouds of tlss
morning had disappeared by this time and
the sun shone forth brilliantly. Many y.
ulcltS, Ictpcu up Will GLlc oiltilIISS OF tia
people of France, followed the heaya
in the procession. Enormous crowSs
of people lined the street,
that formed the route Of the processi@l
while other masses of people possessed Tia
intersecting streets for a great distanes,
The buildings were black with people, Al
was, indeed, every point from which mistt
be had a view of the unparalleled spar.
tacie.
The procession as it left the Arc Il.
Triomphe moved in the following order,
First, a squadron OF the Republican
Guards; then the General command.
ing with his staff. After thesa
came a regiment of cuirassiers, headed
by. its band and the drum corps q
the three regiments. These formed the
while along its line on both sides wera
constantly heard the roll of mutfe
drums. Cars laden with wreaths and
flowers followed, accompanied by The
boys of the public schools. The band
Of the Republican Guards here headed
the deputation from Besancon; the rem
resentatives OF foreign newspapers; mem.
bers of the Dramatic Society, and deera.
tons from the National and other theaters
Following the hearse were the relatives and
immediate friends of the family of Viz.
tor Hugo; the representative, Of Presiden,
Grevy. the Presidents of the Senate
and Chamber of Deputies, foreign AM.
bassadors, the Chancellor of the Legion
of Honor, the Military Governor
of Paris, Senators and Deputies, deputa.
tons, the Projects of the Seine, the police
and military and naval authorities,
Paris and a squadron of the Republican
Guards. The procession followed the route
from the Champs Elysee through the Place
de la Concorde, the BoLlevards st. German
and St. Michel, the Rue Sauff1et to the
Place du Pantheon. At the time the
head of the procession had reached the
Pantheon the end had not yet left the Arc
de Triomphe.
The funeral was conducted with every
mark of respect, the norm masses in
the streets maintaining an exceptional
quiet. The police arrested several bearers
OF red flags, which were unfurled at tie
starting-points or headquarters of the sew.
eral revolutionary societies.
Six o~rations were delivered under the
Arc de Triomphe, in the presence of nearly
all the illustrious men of and in France.
NJ. Leroyer, President of the Senate, said
Victor Hugo constantly pursued the higher
ideal of justice and humanity, and
thus exercised an immense intiu.
ence over the moral feeling Of
France. NJ. Floquet said that the cere.
mony was not a funeral, it was an apotheo
sis. He hailed Victor Hugo as the imnor
tai apostle who bequcathed to humanity that
gospel which could lead the people to the
definite conquest of liberty and equality
NJ. Angler, a member of tie
Academy, elaborated the fact made
evident: ''To the sovereign poet France
renders sovereign honors." NJ. Goblet
President of the Chamber Of Deputies, de-
clared that Victor Hugo will remain the
highest perSonitication of the nineteenth
dictions, doubts, ideas and aspirations. was
best reflected in his works. The character
OF Victor Hugo was profoundly human and
represented the spirit of liberation and OF
peace:
The singing of revolutionary and pair.
otto songs by bands of men gathered be.
You'd the reach of the voices of the orators
interrupted some OF the unity Of the cul0-
gies, but beyond this there was nothing 10
mar the beauty or detfact from the ill.,
pressiteness of the spectacle.
During the procession a vast scaffoldins
on the Place Chung collapsed. Many per-
sons We're injured, but none were killed.
The fall caused a great panic, but the pro-
CCoolOA Was SOOl reformed. AnOtllef pid'
form fell OH the Rue Royale.
NJ. Allain-Targe, Minister of the interior,
said last night that in spite Of the vast CON
course of people in the principal streets
there had been but few casualties reported
by the police. In cases where the police,
acting under their general instructions, at
tempted to seize red flags, the owneE'
destroyed the emblems rather than surren'
der them. The police were cautioned BY
an order to use moderation, and in many
cases they refrained from making arrests
Where they would have been
technically justified in doing 5.
Ihis l%eniency left the extremists vel?
little opportunity for provoking Gs,
~tnrbances, AT the close of the ceremonies
the people i'll the neiyhborhood of the are
de Iriomphe made a rush which the po!ces
were pGwerless to resist, and seized anu
bore away the decorations as mementoeso q
the occasion.
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