Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-18
Explosion Takes Place on Route
Traversed by President Faure.
NO ONE WAS INJURED BY fHE SHOCK
Presidential Party Had Passed Ten
Minutes Before the Occurrence.
POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING

| PARIS, August 1S.-The departure of
| President Faure on his visit to the ear at
| st. Petersburg today was marked by a
| scene of greatest excitement, accompanied
f, by the circulation Of the widest kind of
rumors After his departure a bomb ex-
| ploded along the route the president had
followed and although no damage was
| done, and in spite of the fact that nobody
was hurt, the most intense excitement pre-
vailed for long time afterward, and the
sensational reports had it that those who
| exploded the bomb had intended an out
| rage of more serious nature.
The president received an ovation from
| the public when he started on his journey
| to Russia, large crowds of people lining the
| route from the Elysee Palace to the railway
station, and greeted the president with en-
thusiastic cries of VIVA la republique,
| vive la Russie, vive aure" etc. Ten min
| utes after the presidents departure, while
| the crowds were returning along the route
traversed by NJ. Faure, a bomb exploded
at the corner of the Boulevard Magenta.
and the Rue Lafayette, in front of the Res
taurant DuvaL
Report Caused a Panic
The report caused panic in the neigh
borhood, and all sorts of wild stories we're
circulated. based on the statements at
would be an attempt upon the life of Presi-
dent Faure. Upcn investigation by the
police, however, it developed that the ex-
plosion caused but little damage. and that
nobady was hurt The bomb was of tylin-
orlcal form, was covered with yellow paper
ana appears to have contained a black sub
stance, possibly coarse gunpowder mixed
with large-headed nails, similar to those
usually found in the roughly constructed
Internal machines used by the less intelli-
rob icfS
Domb We're taken to the prefecture of
police, where they were submitted to a
thorough examination upon the part of ex-
pertS, who pronounced the bomb to have
been a comparatively harmless affair. 1t
mad consisted of an iron tube, thirty cent?
meters long and five centimeters in di-
ameter. It was placed in an empty store
close to the corner of the Boulevard Ma
genta and the Rue Lafayette Some of the
nails contained in it were thrown a few
feet on to the sidewalk
Scraps of paper were found about the
scene of the explosion, inscribed "Viye la
L1berte! and "Viye la Pologne.' ap-
parently indicating that the author of the
explosion today was the same individual
Bois de Boulogne and on the Place de la
Concorde.
AccOmpa Died by Hanotaux.
President Faure was accompanied on his
way to Russia by NJ. Hanotaux, the minis
ter for foreign affairs and by Admiral Bos-
nard, the minister of marine
The presidential party, according to the
official program, will leave DunkIrk this
afternoon on board the French warship
Pothuau. The latter VIII be escorted to
Russia by the French warshios Bruix and
Surcouf, and VIII arrive at Cronstadt On
Monday morning next August D. The
French president will be received by the
czar in the Cronstadt roads.
The first day of NJ. Faure's visit to Rus
sia VIII be devoted % his reception at Cron-
stadt and at Peterhof. to the exchange of
official visits, a banquet at the Peterhof
Palace ard gala performance at the I'm
perial Theater.
On Tuesday. August "a, the czar and his
guest will start to st. Petersburg. There
the French president will be welcomed by
the municipality Of st. Petersburg and will
receive in audience delegations from the
municipalities of the principal cities of the
RUSSIAN empire. The president will also
French hospital and in the evening NJ
Faure will preside at a banquet which he
will give at the French embassy in honor
of the czar.
On Wednesday. August 25, he will he
present at grand review on the parade
ground of the krasnoe-Selo camp The
review will be followed by a grand mill
tary breakfast and the days entertain
ments will wind up with brilliant fete in
the gardens of the Peterhof Palace.
On Thursday there will be a grand re-
view In Cronstadt roads of the combined
French and Russian squadrons at the ter
mination of which President Faure will bid
farewell to the cZar and czarina and will
return on board the Pothuau, which will
Immediately afterward sail for France The
president should reach Dunkirk on his re-
turn journey on Tuesday, August 81
Memorial of the Visit.
Among the magnificent decorations pre-
pared for the occasion of the visit of NJ
Faure to st. Petersburg is a very hand
some fountain. to be known as the Faure
fountain. constructed in the middle of the
historic kazan Square. 1t is destined to
remain as a permanent memorial of the
visit or the president of the French re-
public to the Gar of all the Russias.
PRESIDENT Faure takes with him three
nunared medals In gold and platinum
elsnty medals of silver gilt and twenty
of dull gold, all of which have been es-
pecially struck for presentation to the
Russian guard of honor which will attend
me presioent during his stay in Russia and
10 the various Russian officials who will
be In attendance upon the chief magistrate
of France "'e
These medals bear on one side the nro-
file of an effigy of the republic and th
words ''Republique Francaise," On the te
opVerse side OF the medals is a wreath OF
1897"
The semi-of1icial Novoe yremva recent,,,
threw a damper upon the visit Of ~,
French president to Russia by denying
that NJ Faure would be accompanied by
ms wi1e or daughter. thus recalling the un-
Pheasant discussion which arose during the
visit OF the car and czarina to Paris re-
garding the precedence to which the wives
OF presidents of chief ladies' of the republic
are entitled.
The municipal authorities of ST. Peters,
burg will present three silver loving Guns
to the French warships which accompanv
President Faure to Russia
Anarchfst After the President.
{ LONDON, August 1S.-A special dispatch
froni Paris this afternoon says that a MAJ,
named Perier was arrested yesterday ON