New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-23
FUNERAL OF JULES FERRY.
IMPOSING CEREMONIES AT THE LUXEM-
BDURG.
GREAT TIfRoNG OF NOTABLE PEOPLE PRESENT
THE DEAD STATESMAN EULOGIzED .
IN ELOQUENT ORATIONs


Paris March 22.-Thousands Of strangers came
TO the city to-day TO attend the funeral Of Jules
Ferry. The weather was perfect at daybrcal, and
at an early hour the approaches to the Luxem-
bourg and the route from the Eastern Railway
Station were so dcnsely crowded that several
companies of mounted police were kept busy
clearing thoroughfare.
An immense mortuary chapel, with nave and
transepts, had been erected in the courtyard oil
the Luxembourg. 1t drapcd with black
CLOTH edged with silver lace and emblazoncd
with the monogram of the dead statesman. The
coffin, covered with a crimson and white pail, re-
mained until o'clock in the Sale dcs Gardcs,
where the body has lain in state, and then
removed to the catafalQuc. Shortly before the
body was borne up the aisle, and the nave was
Illuminated by the lighting of the enormous sill
Yer candelabra, and hundreds of flaming
cresscts. which extended to the right and left
before the platform.
At IL o'clock tho persons having invitations hau
begun to arrive. There were judges. Cabinet
Ministers generals, diplomatsts, Senator'S Dcpn-
ties authors and naval officers, many of them with
wreaths shcaves and floral crosses which thcy
laid around the coffin. The municipal author-
ties came in a body, followed by delegates from
scientific military anI literary associations EN-
cry department of the National and muhicipa
Government was represented. Outside the GAIA
falque rows Of soldier, were drawn up along
the approaches, and military bands played dr2eS
as the great thron1 filed the chapel ana gre"
dense around the entrance
At 80 Senator BardouX ascended the plat
form. In the eloquent Grafton he eulogized NJ
Ferry ae a statesman of great intellectual power
infexible character and unwavering patriotism.
Senator Bardoux was followed by NJ Caslmir-
Perier. President Of the Chamber OF Deputies
NJ Meline, and the President of the Counci'
General Of the Department Of the Nosges' all VI
whom smoke of NJ Ferry's courage, patriotism
and sterling integrity.
NJ. Ribot spoke at the greatest length and with
evident emotion He said Of NJ. Ferry: lie was
q man of mature and unerrng judgment. Hc
had a supreme contempt of underhand eNpedleh's
in public and private life. He had that eleVa''o
disdain of malicious attacks from his opponents
which made him man worthy ana quaiiheu
10 direct the politics Of his country
In closing NJ. Ribot said he expected that 'ne
hone uttered by NJ. Ferry in his inaugural ad-
dress as President Of the senate, OF seeing an
undivided France rally around the standard oil
the Republic, would be realized soon' ana Una,
IA. Nation would march forward on the ROAD
of nropress the better and the more aspiring LOT
having had a leader of such nobility as NJ
Ferry ..,, .,o .r;co,or was
placed on the funeral and escorted BY rdn IN
fantry. cavalry and artillery. was oorne ron,
,bn inxembourr. II was followed by an almost
endless procession through streets filled with ,-a un
covered crowds Balconies and windows iIoTa irom
the Luxembourg to the ran%ay pS women Sa.0 AZ the
s,atiop the troops pressed back the crowd and
formed double lines between which the comm was
carried TO the train for 81. Die. -
There was no disorder during the services OF
on the way to the railway station, ait9ousn
| the police had expected and prepared lot
hostile political demonstration