The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-02

dants and judges in black an crimson | gowns. There was scarcely person
 present who was not in uniform or
 evening dress. The presence of num-
 Der of cars laden with wreaths await
 ing their turn to join the procession
 heightened the festival character of the
 scene. and 1t was easy to imagine that
 the gathering was for the purpose Of
 holding a brilliant state festivity. The
 roar of the surging city and the beat
 ing of the drums of the arriving troops
 were faintly heard in the peaceful gar
 dens.
 On the west side of the garden skirt
 ing the Avenue de Marigny the process
 sion was seen forming. Spectators were
 crowding the roofs, windows, walls and pavements and hundreds of people
 climbed into the trees in the streets
 unmolested by the police, who were not
 icably few in number. The crowds
 were remarkably orderly. Wine and
 water vendors did good business. | At 10:15 the band of the Republican
 Guards outside played Glaziers Carnot
 Funeral March, especially written for
 the occasion, while in the court yard
 the curate of the Madeleine church
 said the customary prayers, sprinkling
 the coffin with holy water. AS the
 bearers lifted the coffin to their should
 CTS the first gun boomed on the Esplan-
 ade des Invalides and continued at in-
 tervals of two minutes until 101 were
 fired. Down the Avenue de MarigVy
 and through the Champs Elyses<the
 procession entered the Place de la Con-
 corde. headed by General Saussler, the
 military governor of Paris, who was es-
 corted by the Republican Guards. Ten
 cars piled full of wreaths followed.
 The first contained the wreaths sent by members of the senate, composed of
 orchids and asters with mauve back l ground. In the second car were the
 wreaths of the Chamber of Deputies,
 consisting of superb roses, orchids and
 lilacs.
 | The next in order were the coaches
 conveying the clergy, which were i'm
 mediatey in front of the hearse. The hearse was f1anked by guard of honor l composed of cadets from the Ecole Polytechnique and was drawn by six splendidly caparisoned horses. The coffin was hidden beneath the folds of
 silk tri-color flags grouped front and
 back. M. Carnot's servants in livery
 came next with the dead presidents s family, his three sons walking in the | first line and his brother, Adolphe l Carnot, and his cousins and son-in-law | behind. Mime. Carnot was not present, l being prostrated by the excitement. Behind the family of M. Carnot came President Casimir-Perier in full even 1 ing dress with broad crape upon his hat and diamond-tudded paque and the grand condon of the Legion of Honor across his breast. Following the president were his secretaries. Be- hind these were the presidents of the senate and channbef, ef,ambassadors, min isters. cardinals, marshals, diplomatic envoys, secretaries and attaches, sena- tors, deputies, personal friends, con- spicuous friends, conspicuous mem bers of the Legion, members of the In- stitute of France, representatives of the law courts, the department of public instruction and the national financial institutions, clergymen of all creeds, prefects of the Seine, Paris municipal council, municipal councils from the provinces, deputations from the army an navy, press representatives. notaries, brokers. and so on.
 The plain black evening dress of United States Ambassador Eustis was in striking contrast to the brilliant cos tunes of the other foreign diplomats with whom he walked. The senators and deputies were in evening dress and wore tri-colored sashes, the judges were in flowing robes according to their grade, ermined or of plain black wat cred silk, etc., and the faculties of the schools of law and letters wore yellow or purple and the academicians green embroidered coats and trousers and car- ried swords. A detachment of veterans from the Hotel des Invalides carrying trestle, upon which was an immense wreath, were loudly applauded as they passed. The procession passed along the Rue de Rivoli, to the Place de Hotel de Vile and over the Quai Gesvres bridge to the Place de Notre Dame.
 As the end of the proet
 Palace of the Elysee an over-wei~h+~ limb broke from a tree, ,precipitating number of sight-seers to the ground. Several of them were hurt, one or two badly. The limb fell with a loud crash and there was for a. time much commo- tion in the crowd. A number of per- sons were prostrate by sunstroke, in- cluding a number of the presidents military household, There were other minor accidents, but ion the whole the day was remarkably free from casualties.
 The procession arrived at the cathed- ral of Notre Dame at 12:3o. The nave and sides of the cathedral had been draped heavily in black, fringed with silver. The walls were sprinkled thickly with shields bearing the let- ters "R. F."-Republique Franchise and e." Black bannerets dotted with white tears, hung between the windows. As the procession moved up the aisle the tolling of the bell was gradually lost to hearing amidst the pealing of the organ under Saint-Saens' masterly touch. s-..
 While the strains were filling every corner of the great building the line of mourneres walked slowly by the crape- covered pulpit. There M. Casimir- Perier as chief of state, had an isolated seat. On the left was the choir and be- hind sat the delegates in the process sional order. Mgr. Ferrata, the papaf nuncio, and personal representative of