The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-02
MILLIONS FOR FLOWERS.
Among Them Wreath From the
Martyrs Mother.

Among Them Wreath From the
Martyrs Mother.
Paris, July 1.-[Copyrighted, 1894, by
the Associated Press. l-The heat today
was tropical, but there were mitigating
zephvrs.
Over 100000 people must have
crowded into the great thoroughfares
by which the funeral procession ac-
companying the remains Of the late
President Carnot to the Pantheon
passed.
Paris is city of great funerals.
Those of Prince Jerome Bonaparte and
Victor NOR, the journalist. who was
shot and killed by Prince Pierre Bona
parte; President Theirs, Louis Blanc,
Gambetta and Victor Hugo were never
to-be forgotten sights
But the funeral of President Carnot
eclipsed them alone saw in it a mani
festation of feeling in the streets and in
the Pantheon, which is SeculariZed
church built in the irreverent century,
It was pagan and treated death with
airy levity.
I At Notre Dame, there was a deep
ness of Christian emotion. The church
lent all the beautiful poetry of it's cere-
monial to the obsequies; but the bells
of the cathedral did not ring out a
dirge in concert with the muff1ed drums,
the bugles and other wind instruments.
The harps and violens in the organ
loft seemed to pierce the heaven with
their tones in the supplicatory pas
sages.
Fifteen bishops, whose esteem Pres
ident Carnot had won in The course of
his many visits to cathedral towns,
aided in the celebration.
The ceremonial at the Pantheon was
pagan and laic and appealed merely to
the eye and intellect. 1t was the
apotheosis of the virtues and sensibi!G-
ties of Carnot, the most simple ac-
cessible and affable of French citizens,
whose seat in the domestic circle was
an example to every family, and who
preached by the practice of Republican
virtues. The universal heart-throb
which the tidings of his death occa-
stoned had, however, died out during
the past week. Eight days of deep
mourning was more than France could
bear, and to a certain degree, a holi-
day feeling prevailed today at the
funeral. People ordered wreaths, while
they were genuine mourners and they
bore them in the cortege today in hol-
iday mood.
The French are a saving people and
the Americans are apt to charge them
with being mean. They lavished money
on today's funeral rites The obse-
quies cost a very large sum of money,
but it is said millions of francs have
been spent in Paris alone in orders for
floral wreaths. The heaviest spender
in view of its size was Mustaph, the
European suburb of Algiers. It's
wreaths, for it sent many, were drawn
on a wagon draped in black and silver
cloths, drawn by six horses.
What the provincials spent on
wreaths is incalculable. On Thursday.
Friday and Saturday and this morning
the thoroughfares leading to the Ely
see palace resembled a flower tourna-
ment. There were open carriages and
railway wagons loaded with such en-
blems.
At the palace the courtyard was
filed with wreaths, and palisades were
set up in rows in the gardens, to sup
port the wreaths, and along the Dor
ders of alleys the turf of the grounds
was entirely hidden by these floral en-
'blems.
The wreaths sent by Queen Victoria.
the Gar, King Humbert, the Prince
of Wales, Emperor William, King
Christian, Queen Christiana, and
other sovereigns, were placed beside
President Casimir-Perier's floral trib-
ute
The palace courtyard. where the am
bassadors and official deputies met to-
day, was entirely hung in black; the