New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-06
ROULANGER ON PARADE.
,ays SNOWY PROGRESS TO THE CHAMBER
AMID BoNAPARTIST CHEERS

uS'A PARIS April 90
porlaneIsm is on immense fact For the
.. &c IN France the oyershadowing one.
..vsr saw the heart of Paris throb more strongly
.han IL did Yesterday in expectation oil seeing him
:. IN and take his seat as Deputy du Nord in the
T.rse Of Deputies and his return thence. The
.rowd In the Place de la Concorde and the streets
lsadnc to IL was fully as great and every whit as
.~otad What was so remarkable was that the
,oanifestation was not exclusively working class
Ia The Bonapartist world threw themselves
,n,o IL and its young men went the whole hog in
.-.,ro yiye Boulangeri" In the court yard of
.ho chamber when Deputy Arene, an Opportunist
srom Corsica cried as the popular General was
Icing aDown with Boulangerl' Baron Du-
.u, nartisan of Prince Victor, shook his fist at
49,, and those around him and exclaimed, The
aar e fast coming round when we shall pack you
all of to Cayenne
Tho Floouet Government Is honestly progressive
l.. rad,cal sense and too sincere to Get up riots
o. .be nurpose Of terrifying its enemies in putting
.horo down. Policemen are patient and so are
..,aa,rnes They alone were ostensibly employed
., ,.en order But out Of sight in barracks, in
-. .our.s OF the Hotel des Invaldes and in the
p.,.is dc Industrie, there were ready for i'm
,uoaate action line dragon regiments and bat
.or,as Of artillery The utmost liberty was allowed
o. ,he manifestants It was said that the Ferry
,tas through past Ministers Of the Interior
.ra The dismissed Director Of Public Safety,
Tevaillant. had arranged to force the Government
into rcpressive action through agents who were to
lad the mob against the Elysee and the German
Embassy. This may well have been. Such at
,srnnts were made. But as the Boulangist pa
ners in the morning warned the Generals admirers
not 70 fall into any such things the ruflians who
wanted them to invade the Executive Palace and
The German Embassy labored in vain.
The weather on April o. 1888, day TO be re-
Numbered in the annals of Paris, very threat
ening IN the morning. The sky menaced the
sicht-seers and manifestants with drenching
down-pour. and enc might have fancied that a
thunderstorm was imminent l saw General
Rouanger after his triumph. He explained to me
that he had meant to go in quiet
brougham through the Place Carrousel by
the Rue du BAG and the Rue de rUniversite to
the courtyard at the back of the Chamber But
this intention getting out, the Opportunist and
Royalist journals ascribed it to the protege OF
Bonapartists quailing before the people Of Paris
and not daring to face them in their assembled
might. In consequence he resolved to drive in
snowy open carriage, and had the way he meant
10 take announced in the papers which back him.
All Paris knew that he would start at 3. About
hundred friends implored him not to alter his
original plan. They had too good reason to know
there were plots to assassnate him. About forty
Others entreated him not to expose Paris to the
horrors OF revolution, because the Opportunlsts
were determined to get up riots and then hurry
a State of Siege bill through the Chambers and
set up Government Of stern coercion and reaction.
General Boulanger pointed TO mass OF open
letters and kilograms on side table. lie opened
them because they were marked urgent lie
then called my attention to q vast pile unopened
on central table and said: It's Impossible
for ten secretaries to go through that heap IN
single day. The letter carriers and telegraphlo
clerks ought to hate me-" He had appealed TO q
number Of his friends to help him through his
He looked fatigued after the
excitement of the day, but said, I'm so pleased"
/ answered, You have made the heart of Paris
throb and her pulses beat fast" But" he re-
Joined that's what Paris wants, now and then
She Is perishing OF stagnaton ana
prose Look out there at the Pace uu faIals
ROYAL. But don't draw back the curtains" DO
ing as the General asked me, looked and beheld
crowd mixed and dense in that wide space ana lar
as could see down the Rues de Rvoh ana 81.
Honore 1t was calling out Vive Bou-lan-ger!
Nearly ninetv-nine years ago the women of Paris,
driven by hunger, went to Versailles as guarah-
tea against corn rings keeping up the prices OF
Grain TO bring back the Baker" Louis XVD.
the Bakeress" Marie Antoinette) and " the
Kneadng-Boyn the Dauphin). I've have" they
cried lie Boulanger, la Boulangcre ct lie Mitron|
I wondered as | gazed on the multitude when
it was calling for "Boulanger' whether on
taken in National history on the centennial OF the
Revolution, which will be next year.
The General spoke in a drawing langud voice
The wrinkles have gone deeper than they used
into his face He is tired, think, of the excite
ment of his present life and would be glad OF the
quietness Of provincial quarters.
asked him what most struck him IN his
eventful progress through the thronged
streets. Z" The warmth of heart shown by the
people" he said My hand aches with shaking.
There were very few wheeled vehicles allowed INTO
the thronged streets and The Place de Ia Concorde
But an exception was made In favor OF wedoing
party. As my carriage was crossing that OF the
brides she put her head out of the window and
cried 'Vive Boulangerr and flung me her bou-
Quet Of orange blossoms. Dillon called my at-
tention to the crowded state of the windows IN
the house OF Baron Alphonse Rothschild, at the
corner Of the Rue de Rivoi and the Rue St.
Florentins / never saw the Queen OF England
on great public occasion acclaimed with as much
enthusiasm as General Boulanger was yesterday
by the surging multitude through which he
passed The carriage perfect in its equip
ment. 1t was a visa-vis landau. open, and lined
with light brown satin. The horses light chest
nut, might have COST $4,000. The servant who
sat beside the coachman wore top-bOots, and both
domestics had cocl1ades in their hats. L. G.