The Red Cloud chief., 1898-10-14
PARIS A GREAT CAMP.
FRENCH CAPITAL FILLED
WITH SOLDIERS.
II the Bakers Join the strikers Dread
May he Made ia the Forts-Bow Mes
Are Persuaded to Quit work-striks
stm Growing.

NEW YORK, Oct. IA dispatch TO
the New York Herald from Paris says:
Paris is slowly taking on the appear
ance Of q huge garrison. Troops are
to be seen everywhere. Detachments
Of infantry or cavalry are on guard At
every spot where n building Is being
constructed or demolished. Every
heap OF stones hides a sentry and min
ature camps, formed Of half a dozen
tents, with stacked rifles. add q pic
turesque touch Of color to the streets.
All along the Cours de la Refine, the
Champs de Mars aud Champs Elysees
groups OF cuirassiers may be seen rid
ing about slowly.
The soldiers cause no fear in the peo-
Pile. Even the strikers hail them with
"Vive l'armec." At some places where
work Is still going on, such as the ex-
position buildings, recalcitrant work.
men hobnob, chat, joke and argue poll
itics with the very troops who are
there to see they do not modest the
non-strikers.
As for the Parisians In general, they
seem to look upon the troops as form
ing part OF a spectacle specially ar
ranged for their benefit. Every family
has brothers or IONS in the army.
Consequently there is a deep and sim
cere affection linking the people and
military together. II a crowd of those
strikers who hail the troops with
heartfelt cries of ''Vivc l'armee" were
to bare their breasts to receive the
rifle balls, the soldiers, backed by the
tacit approval OF their officers, might
throw up their weapons, and, IL they
fred at all, would fire in the air.
There are at this moment on q strike
5000 navvies, 1000 laborers, 500 cart
ers, 1000 wharfingers, 5000 locksmiths,
5000 masons. $500 stonccuttcrs, $500
house painters, $500 plumbers, $500
carpenters, 1000 mechanics and $500
cabinet makers. In all some $1,000
strong men are idle in Paris to-day.
These numbers may be enormously in
creased tomorrow. Not only have
various participating trades decided to
continue the strike, but strongly word
ed appeals have been sent out to those
unions that have not yet Joined.
Among these Is the railway union.
II is feared, however, that the strike
may soon spread to this important as
ISOLATION. Already, with q view of
meeting such a measure, the govern
ment is preparing to utilize a branch
of the military, while, should the bak-
ers join the ranks of the disaffectcd,
bread may have to be made in the
forts around Paris. The government
has taken steps to protect such men as
choose to continue their work.
There is q growing spirit OF oppo-
sition among the strikers. They resent
as an attack upon their chief strength
the abstention OF any department of
the building trades from their strike.
Where persuasion has failed to induce
hesitat..g workmen to join them a mild
sort of violence has been tried. Some
stonecutters working upon some sculp-
ture OF the Champs Elysees hotel were
disagreeably surprised the other day
to find a group OF strikers calmly saw
ing through the poles supporting the
scaffolding on which they were work.
ing. They fastened to get down to
solid earth as quickly as possible,
where they were informed they must
put on their coats and join the strikers.
In spite of tho optimistic predictions
of the end Of the strike being near,
the strike continues to spread. The
~bricklayers and woodcarvers to-day
decided to join tho strikers. The city,
however, is perfectly quiet, but the
enormous increase in the strength OF
the garrison points to the fact that the
government fears political rather than
labor troubles.
The strikers central committee Is q
political and u revolutionary organiza-
tion and it is engineering the dispute
Us IL it were a strike Of the proletariat.
No conflict between the soldiers and
strikers has occurred up to the present.
Not since 1870 has Paris looked SO war.
like.