The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-02
BURIED WITH ALL H0N0RS.
PARIS IN MOURNING AT THE LATE
 PRESIDEyTgS FUNERAL.

Crepe Was Everywhere Dispioyed-impres'
 siye Services Were eHeid-Thousandsu Upon
 Thousands Along tho Line of Mareh-A
 Wealth of Flowers.
 Paris, July l.-Amid the intense heat
 of the sun pouring from cloudless
 sky all Paris and thousands upon thou-
 sands of people from the provinces and
 various countries of the continent wit messed to-day one of the most imposing ,spactacles the pageant-loving republic lpf France has ever seen. The streets iwere thronged from the dawn of the Iday with every species of citizen from
 the guttersnipe to the splendidlyattired
 official, all eager to extract enjoyment fSrom a typical French holiday. It was
 plainly evident thatun6er the real sym f.pathy and sorrow the French love of
 pageantry was intensely delighted and
 satisfied. Genuine sympathy was
 shown In hundred ways from the bit of crape on the arm or in the button
 hole to the draping of houses and the
 sending of expensive wreaths to the
 hall of the Elysee.
 All day Saturday was Paris en fete. Visitors were arriving and crowds
 thronged the boulevards until late
 hour purchasing mourning decorations land inspecting the wreaths which the florists had placed upon the side
 walks, tagged with cards bearing the names of the donors awaiting trans
 portation to the palace. The Cafe Chan tante and the Punch and Judy shows in the Champs Elysee were damned with people, and in the palace gardens
 the bands blared and played all day Saturday to enormous crowds.
 : A great number of persons secured / advantage places n the sidewalks last
 evening and remained all night. All
 windows along the route of the process
 sion were let out at fabulous prices, and
 in many cases they were put in. posses
 sion of care takers until the lessees came to occupy them, lest they should
 be siezed by others. There was an ab- sence of stands along the route, thou-
 sands of chairs and ladders, however, i were rented. Throughout the city, and especially along the line of march, /. thousands of laborers worked all night { decorating buildings with crepe and { other emblems of mourning. The deco rations for the most part were tasteful and expensive.
 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 i, draped, though not so profusely as the Pantheon, and an immense tri-color banner with crepe borders and drapery ! hung between the pillars of the edif1ce. i The Paris Bourbon, wherein the ses- sions of the chamber of deputies are : held, was profusely draped with crepe, ! and tri-color flags at half mast pro- i truded from many of the windows From thousands of windows and roofs
 especially in the poorer quarters, the draped flags of the republic were dis played, and the shops and even the small steamers on the river were sim ilarly decorated. Omnibus horses car- -'ed small French flags in groups of three and four fastened to their brides .and other parts of their harnes, and in every other conceivable way the high ! degree of taste in French art was dis ] played in the matter of decoration. Hundreds of bedraped American flags hung from in front of American shops, and the stars and stripes were conspic- uously displayed in front of American <, residences. The street lamps on the line of march from the Elysee palace to the cathedral of Notre Dame were also draped with crepe and were kept light ed throughout the day. The statue of Jeanne d'Arc in Rue de Rivoli held a dropping tri-color draped with black !. and in front of the opera were three standards grouped and a line of flags along the balcony. These forcibly re- 1 called the Russian fetes, though not so ! extensively.
 Over the immense catafalque was spread a black band with two large white letters "C" and black canopy trimmed with silver and with a silver summit covered the coffin. The cata- falque was surrounded with burial palms and flowers and the countless wreaths which had been contributed by friends and members of the family. A number of candelabra were placed around the head of the coffin, to the right of which were the wreaths sent by Casimir- Perier, the czar of Rus sia, the king of Portugal, the king of Spain, the king of the Belgians, the king of Roumania, the bey of Tunis and the grand duke of Luxembourg. On the left were the wreaths sent by the queen of Great Britain,th queen of the Meth erlands, the queen of Portugal, the king of fsItaly, the emperor of Germany, the king of Sweden and Norway. The cat afalque, which blocked the main en- trance to the palace, was guarded by soldiers and four nuns were kneeIing beside 1t. ,'. The passage on either side led to the grand staircase. The delegates arriv- ing passed silently along these pass ages, after saluting the dead, ,and found places in the rooms above. The rooms to the right and left of the catafalque were respectively reserved for the min- istry of the state and the foreign dip lomats, and the representatives of the army and navy and the courts were also provided with places in separate rooms draped in a manner similar to
 le courtyard. Other prominent per- sons and bodies found positions in the ballroom, the conservatory and else where. The statuary, chandeliers, etc., in all the rooms were covered with crape.
 Although 8 o'clock was fha time for