The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05
an IMPOSING SCENE.

1nG Atmosphere Oh 1aF1S 141ueD with the
Perfume of Flowers Plucsed for Victor
Hugo-The Streets of the City Thronged
with Many Thousands Who Revere the
Dead Poets MemOry-His Remains Laid
to Rest In the Pantheon-The Great Pro.
cession-No Disturbance.
PARIS, June although rain fell dur
ing Sunday night, and there was every in
dication in the early morning of more rain
yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people
were abroad at daybreak, crowding the
streets and boulevards through which the
great procession was to move that accom-
panied the remains of Victor Hugo to his
last resting place in the Pantheon. Owing
to the crowded condition of the hotels thou
sands were compelled to biyouac in the
open air all night.
Around the Arc de Triomphe the space
was early filed with the chief officers of the
State, the members of the diplomatic corps,
Senators and Deputies. From all directions
came Populations with draped banners and
bearing flowers and gigantic wreaths, and
all moving in the direction of the Arc de
Triomphe. Never did Paris present such
scene.
The funeral procession started punctually
at noon. The threatening clouds of the
morning had disappeared by this time and
the sun shone forth brilliantly. Many We
hicles, heaped up with the offerings of the
| people of France, followed the hearse
in the procession. Enormous crowds
of people lined the streets
that formed the route of the procession.
while other masses of people possessed tie
| intersecting streets for great distance.
The buildings were black with people, as
was, indeed, every point from which might
| be had a view of the unparalleled spec
| tacle.
The procession as it left the Arc de
| Triomphe moved in the following order:
First, squadron of the Republican
| Guards; then the General command
| ing with his staff. After these
| came regiment of cuirassiers, headed
by its band and the drum corps of
the three regiments. These formed the
| while along its line on both sides were
| constantly heard the roll of muffled
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 rep
resentatives OF foreign newspapers mem
berS OF the Dramatic Society, and delega-
lions from the National and other theaters.
Following the hearSe were the relatives and
Immediate friends Of the family of Vic
tor Hugo; the representative of President
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-
lions, the Projects of the Seine, the police
and military and naval authorities,
contingent of the army OF
Paris and squadron of the Republican
Guards. The procession followed the route
from the Champs Elysee through the Place
de la Concorde, the Boulevards ST. German
and st. Michel, the Rue Sauffiet 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 enormous masses in
the streets maintaining an exceptional
quiet. The police arrested several bearers
OF red flags, which were unfurled at the
starting-points or headquarters of the sew
eral revolutionary societies.
Six orations were delivered under the
Arc de Triomphe, in the presence of nearly
all the illuStriouS men of and in France
M. Leroyer, President of the Senate, said
Victor Hugo constantly pursued the higher
ideal of justice and humanity, and
thus exercised an immense infu-
ence over the moral feeling of
France. M. Floquet said that the cere-
mony was not funeral, it was an apotheo-
sis. He hailed Victor Hugo as the immor-
tai apostle who bequeathed to humanity that
gospel which could lead the people to the
definite conquest OF liberty and equality.
M. Angler, a member of the
Academy, elaborated the fact made
evident: ITO the sovereign poet France
renders sovereign honors." NJ. Goblet,
President of the Chamber of Deputies, de-
clared that Victor Hugo will remain the
highest personification of the nineteenth
century, the history of which, in it's contra
dictions, doubts, ideas and aspirations, was
best reflected in his works. The character
of Victor Hugo was profoundly human and
represented the spirit of federation and of
peace.
The singing of revolutionary and patri-
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 eulo-
gies, but beyond this there was nothing to
mar the beauty or detract from the inn
pressiveness of the spectacle.
During the procession vast scaffolding
on the Place Chung collapsed. Many per-
sons were injured, but none were killed.
The fall caused a great panic, but the pro-
cession was soon reformed. Another plat.
form fell on the Rue Royale
M. 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 owners
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 so.
This leniency left the extremists very
little opportunity for provoking dis
turbances, At the close of the ceremonies
the people in the neighborhood of the Arc
de Triomphe made a rush which the police
were pCwerless to resist, and seized and
bore away the decorations as mementoes of
the occasion.