Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-07-07


All day Saturday Paris was EN- fete
Visitors were arriving and crowds
thronged the boulevards until a late
hour in the night purchasing mourn
ing decorations and inspecting the
wreaths, which the florists had placed
upon the sidewalks, tagged with cards
bearing the names of the donors,
awaiting transportation to the palace.
The Cafe Chantantes and the Punch
and Judy shows in the Elysee, which
was jammed with people, and in the
palace gardens the bands blared and
played all day Saturday to enormous
crowds.
a great number of persons secured
advantageous places on the sidewalks
Saturday evening and remained IN
them all night in order to bold them
All of the windows along the route OF
the procession were let out at fabulous
prices, and i'll many cases they were put
in possession of caretakers until the
lessees came to occupy them, lest they
should be seized by Others less forum
ate. There was a total absence o.
stands along the route, though thou
sands of chairs and stepladders were
renting at franc a head.
Throughout the city, and especially
along the line of march, thousands OF
laborers worked all night decorating
buildings with Grape and other EN-
blems of mourning. The decorations
for the most part were tasteful and ex-
pensive. Most of the public buildings
were heavily draped, and the front OF
the pantheon was entirely covered
with black cloth. bordered with white.
The cathedral of Notre Dame was also
draped, though not SO profusely as the
pantheon, and an immense tricolor
banner with Grape borders and drap-
cry, hung between the pillars of the
edifice. The Palaise Bourbon. wherein
the sessions of the chamber of deputies
are held. was profusely decorated with
Grape, and tricolored flags at half
mast protruded from many of the win
dows.
Hundreds of becraped American flags
hung in front of the American shops,
and the Stars and Stripes were also
conspicuously displayed in front of
American residences. The street
lamps on the line of march from the
Elysee palace to the cathedral of Notre
Dame We're also draped with Grape and
were kept lighted throughout the day.
The statue of Jeanne dare in the Rue
de Rivoli held dropping tricolor
draped with black. All of these deco
rations forcibly recalled the Russian
fetes, though they were not nearly SO
extensive.
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TRIBUTES.
AT an early hour in the morning del
egations began marching to the
Elysee palace, bearing wreaths and
other emblems of mourning. The
streets leading to the palace were cor
doned with police at : o'clock in the
morning, and those who held tickets of
invitation entered through the door Of
honor opening into the courtyard, the
doors of which were completely COW
cred with black hangings, bordered
with white, together with tricolors
and medallions bearing the letters
"R. F."
FORMING THE PAGEANT.
Although o'clock was the time ap-
pointed for the beginning of the
funeral exercises-the moving of the
procession-delegates were still arriv-
ing at 10 o'clock completely filling the
tree-lined gardens surrounding the
pond and the bird house Mt the lower
end.
| LN RoUT TO NorRE DAME.
AT 1918 the band of the Republican
guards outside played Glaciers Carnot
Funeral March, especially written for
the occasion, while in the courtyard
the curate of the Madeline church said
the customary prayers, sprinkling the
coffin with holy water. AS the bearers
lifted the coffin to their shoulders the
first gun doomed on the Esplanade de-
Invalids and continued at intervals o
two minutes until l0l salvos wer,
fired,
From the Rue Saint Honore ext
down the avenue De Marigny ant
through the Champs Elysees the pro
cession entered the Place de la Con
corde headed by Gen. Saussier, th'
military governor of Paris, who wa
escorted by the Republican guards
Ten cars piled full of wreaths fol
lowed. The first contained the wreath
sent by members of the senate
composed of orchids and asters, with
mauve background. In the second ca
were the wreaths of the chamber G
deputies, consisting of superb roses
orchids and lilacs. These cars wer
followed by those containing the col
tributions of the provincial authoritie
! and the foreign representatives