The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-24
FRANCE AT FAURE'S FUNERAL.
EMBLEMs OF MOURNING WITHOUT
UNITY OF EMOTION.

The Route to the Tomb Lined by
10000 TroOps-NO Demonstration
INDUCED in by the POpulace-Gen.
Zurlinden One of the Prominent
Figures of the Cortege.
Copyright. 1899, by the Associated Press.)
Paris, Feb. 2S.-Bright weather favored
the drop of the curtain over the scene of
the drama of President Faure's life, Civ
ing value to the brilliant spectacular ef-
fects.
The garrison of Paris. numbering 10000
men, was on duty in the long thorough
fares between the Elysee and Notre Dame,
and there were between the Cathedral and
Pere LaChaise glittering helmets and
cuirassiers and martial music marking the
mpetuosity of the French temperament.
The bourse, the Bank of France, the
public offices and most Of the stores were
closed, and the whole population were in
the streets, at the windows and on the
house tops.
But the effect was totally different from
that which impressed one at the funerals
of Presidents Theirs, Gambetta and Car
not On those occasions all France poured
into the capital and all hearts burst out in
one Irresistible impulse. There was abb
solute unity of emotion.
Feeling of the People.
There was nothing of this to-day, No all
J prevailing unity of emotion; no deep re-
grets, unless among the very poor. They
remember now that President Faure de-
voted his Thursdays to the hospitals.
The reactionsts are sorry he died so
soon. They gathered force favored by
him, and hoped to make a tool of him.
The Dreyfusites thought his sudden
death was just judgment for the support
he gave the military party against the re
vision of the sentence of the prisoner of
Devils Island
The lovers of equality had long looked
askance at the late Presidents attempts
to revive monarchial ceremonials. Good
Catholics thought well of him for asking
in his last hour for priest.
The Free Masons resented this proof of
clerlcalisrn, and they are the most strong
-fy organized and numerous body IN
Paris.
The Leagues of Patriots and of the
French Fatherland might, If suffered to
do so, have made united effort. but with
divergent purposes, some of the leaguers
being for the Duke Of Orleans. some for
Prince Napoleon, and some for no matter
what dictator but with a preference for
q military man. They were debarred from
manifesting, however, by the police ar
rangements. A police device was 10 hire
| endless cabs which were drawn up on the
| Place de la Concorde and other spaces,
as if waiting for fares there, the vehicles
being really placed behind the troops that
kept the way clear for the funeral cor
tege.
The Lack of Sentiment.
The lack of prevailing sentiment rem
dered the funeral to Parisians accustomed
10 sights of the kind, vain and mean
iugless show, like that of the late EN-
peror of Brazil
Apart from the very poor, no class set
higher store on President Faure than the
reigning caste. There were more wreaths,
| letters and kilograms received by the
Faure family from imperial and royal per-
sonages than were received by the Carnot
family in 1894.
Among the far-off sovereigns who tele-
| graphed, wrote or sent wreaths were the
Emperor and Dowager Empress of China
and the President of the Orange Free
State telegraphed and its representative
here presented wreath of artificial vio-
lets.
Queen Victoria's wreath was of roses,
violets and lilies of the valley. 1t was
tied with large white satin bow, bearing
the inscription: Testimony of sincere es-
teem."
President Mckinley, Col. John Hay Sec
| retary of State of the United States, and
President Kruger of the South African Re-
public sent telegrams but the United
the- sign. No American delegation APP
peared in the cortege.
The Route Kept a Secret.
The people of Paris were kept in the
dark as long as possible as to the route
the funeral procession was to take This
was owing to fear of seditous manifes-
tations being planned, The programme
was thrice altered At first the cortege
was to have formed at Notre Dame, to
proceed to Pere LaChase and then at the
| Flysee 1t was also arranged that the
route taken by President Carnors funeral
was to be followed namely, by the Rue
de la Rivoli across the Seine, to Notre
| Dame but the city engineers. obeying the
governments hint, said this way was
blocked by sewer repairs The true rea-
son was that the Rue de- RiYoli is TOO mar
| row to admit OF precautions Delng taken
against sedltious manifestations.
Last night many friends Of the govern
ment and men in a position TO know, said
that II Gen. Zurlinden the military COVER
| nor. went TO the Elysoc he could not be
turned out. But Cen Zurlinden Is man
To respect the law. He could only be dan
gerous where there Is an Illegal general
situation which would breathe revolution.
The declaration of martial law would give
nam a practical dictature in Paris.
ZurIinden and His StnR.
Gen. Zurlinden greatly struck the by
ISLANDERS to-day as, sitting fair and square
in his saddle and surrounded by his stan,
he led the cortege.
The three cofhnless hearses followed and
then came the funeral car, most impos-
ing vehicle. The leading statesmen bore
the palI. Then came the family consisting
Of the Presidents son-in-law. NJ. Berge:
NJ. Cremer. his nephew, and his business
partner in the hides and leather trade, and
his two cousins.
NJ. Berge Is a civil engineer. SOns-in law
H. 4.