The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-09-01


the streets the crowd began to sway
and move about, the excitement reach
ing the climax as President Faure
drove up bareheaded and acknowledged
the shouts of welcome NJ. Meline sat
on the right of the president, opposite
him being General Letournies and
Baron Frederlchs. In the second car
riage appeared NJ. Hanotaux and three
generals. Then followed a long line
Of carriages containing officials who
met the presidential party at the sta
tion.
In the Place de rOpera large plat
form had been erected, and upon it
We're assembled the members of the
committee of the chamber of commerce
and industry of Paris, which had ar
ranged the decorations and which had
been commissioned to welcome the
president back from Russia. The grand
stand was surrounded by ring of tri-
umphant arches. NJ Faure alighted
at the picturesque grand stand deco
rated with crimson and gold The band
played THE MarseillaiGe" and massed
choirs sang the Russian hymn, ac-
companied with solemn, thrilling eff
feet The chairman of the committee
of the chamber of commerce and in
dustry read an address, to which Pres
ident Faure briefly replied.
Then the procession to the Elysee
palace was resumed. The shouts chief
ly heard as the president was driven
to the Elysee were "Vive PAlliance,"
"Vive la France" and "Vive la Rus
sic" There were laundering cheers and
shouts of 'Vive la Felix Faure" Such
a spectacle of popular enthusiasm has
rarely been witnessed. The people
seemed entirely to lose self control.
Many accidents occurred during the
crush, and the ambulance corps was
kept fully occupied. The shrielIs of the
women in the crowd were sometimes
painful to hear.
The president has evidently been well
coined back to France not as a poten-
tate, but as the faithful representative
of the people, and his lbeception is re-
garded as a triumph, not of a person,
but of a principle, and the date of Aug.
81 win undoubtedly be known hence
forth as alliance day."
Three performances were given dur
ing the afternoon at the Theater Fran
caise and in the evening at the opera
The people waited the whole day to OBJ
tain admission. The only discordant
note at night was the holding of two
socialist meetings to protest against
the governments policy.
Ten minutes after the president had
passed the Madeline a bomb was ex-
ploded inside the railings around the
church. Two arrests followed immedl-
ately, and the rallied enclosure was
closed by the police, who began an ac-
tive investigation into the outrage
Nobody was injured by the explosion
but the affair. following so closely upon
others of a similar nature, caused the
greatest excitement. All the persons
inside the railings of the Madeleine
were minutely examined by the police
before they were allowed to leave
The fragments of the bomb found by
the police resembled those found In the
Bois de Boulogne on June 13 last and
on the Place de la COncorde on. June
16 last. 1t consisted of an iron tube
filled with an explosive and loaded
with nails.
At the prefecture of police the bomb
explosion is not attributed to anarch-
lists, but 1t is rather believed to be the
work of a lunatic, who was responsible
for previous similar affairs. It is be-
lieved that the men arrested for COM
plicity in the explosion are innocent,
and all of them have been released.
At midnight a band of $50 persons.
with flags flying, left the opera and
proceeded in the direction of the Elysee,
shouting Down with Emperor Will
lam" The police stopped the process
sion. and the band dispersed with a
gcuflp Two of the leaders were Dlacad
under arrest.