Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-08
All That is Necessary in Paris is to
Have the Price.
SHOUTERS FURNISHED TO ORDER
Where the King of the CameIots
Gets in His Work.
ENTHUSIASM AT A BARGAIN
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.
PARIS, June 3d. 1899.
France is on the edge of revolution. I'M
posing manifestations" being promised for
July IA, the anniversary Of the fall of the
Bastile. the discouraged commerce of the
capital must be content to see another
month of hard times drag along 1t will
be month of empty hotels, of bourss tim
idity and trade stagnation-all because the
14th OF july is the most promising date for
Spontaneous rising. Who is to rise2
1t is not decided yet Much will depend
upon the runors of the Dreyfus trial But
one thing IS certain. Whether the bowling
mob be rOyaliSt, NapOleonist or reyisionist,
one man and the same will lead it. NJ. Ma
pcleon Hayard, the king of the camelots,'
will have in charge the stirring up of the
Spontaneous movement.
1t would be a SANDER on the American
newsh9y to call him a camelot, The Paris
camelOt is a grown man of any age, and
Oftenest with a wind-blown beard His
voice, by means of crying papers, has all
the strength that continual exercise can
give to maturity Where the newsboy will
spend his time and money pitching pennies.
the grown camelot will be found sitting
over abstnthe. Hence he is wild-eyed, I'M
kempt and of a terrifying aspect. Yet he
Is not dangerous. Statistics show that the
Paris newspaper bowler has for his most
dangerous weapon his much-practiced
mouth. Since the time Of Boulanger the
politicians of the gay French capital have
counted on it as their most precious fnstru-
ment for threatening revolution. Let five
experienced camelots march yelling up the
street, ''Vive Derouledet' Down with the
army" ''Vive la socIaler' or Down with
the syndicate of treason and they can
draw together fifty other loafers who will
yell with them.
King of the CameIots.
But the talent of the bowler must be
guided. He must have chief. Such chiefs
exist, but none may be compared, for In
fluence and honesty. to the veteran, Ma
poleon Hayard, the king of the camelots"
One time camelot himself, peddling pa
pers. tricks, toys. forbidden photographs
and 'facetious" pamphlets on the boule-
wards, he now owns shop for the sale of
such wares at wholesale. Fakirs and came
lots-the two are One-find him a liberal pa
tron, willing TO give credit.
None Of his pamphlets books and novel
ties is to be found III ordinary shops; all are
intended 10 be hawked about the Paris
streets. To this circumstance Napoleon
Hayard owes his great ascendency over
the Paris camelot, the ascendency OF a man
of their class who has arrived because
and this must never be forgotten-the came
lot is a bon diable without pretense to any
social revindication. Socialism anarchy
patriotism. internationalism Caesarism and
all the rest slip over his skepticism as
water over ducks back He has seen so
much and heard so much, he has howled
so many times "Hurrah for So-and-Sor"
and Down with So-and-Sot' that he smiles
equally at all the system. Let Napoleon
Hayard give the tip, and the price and
broad minded camslot will cry "a basr' or
Nfve! The price varies. At forty cents a
head you cannot expect the pick Of the
flock. The late Marquis de Mores gave as
much as s. a head. Fifty cents and the
paper free is thought good pay, because
hfty copies at two cents apiece bring in an
extra dollar. But what sends I'D the price
most is competition.
few months ago Napoleon Hayard re-
ceiyed from DrumOnt's anti-Dreyfus I.bre
Parole an order for 100 men. Within an
hour the Dreyfus-sympathizins Aurore
sent him an order for 100 men. Both papers
say both partes-were good customers.
Both insisted on 100 veterans NAPOLEON
Hayard could not put his hand upon 200
troops d'elite at such short notice There
fore he enrolled only 100 camelots-his
choicest and his best-who should cry first
Nlye Drumontt' then. two minutes later
Down with Drumont!" In this way every
body was content-the camelots included.
Cheered Both Ways.
True NJ. Hayard is now OUT with the
Llbre Parole, but for another matter Last
winter, when Esterhazy was about to pub-
lish his memoirs through the house of
fayaru Brothers 1t occurred to the king
OF the cameiots to fake up rival set Of
Esterhazy memoirs. founded on newspaner
clippings and Imagination. The eager nun
nc look the bait. the sale of the genuine
revelations was injured. and NM Boisandre
and Merry of the Libre Parole. and sole
agents Tor Esterhazy in France, saw GA
Serite sur fafaire Dreyfus'' turn ont n
financial failure. Thereupon they wrote an
article IN which they called Napoleon Hay-
ara nothing better than a forger' For
revenge he gave the following piauant IN
teryiew to the Aurore: AZ
What an ungrateful psrsop ts that 49,
mont. He has already forgotten that 4,
was who organized his return from Al
Serla- THANKS to money, / mobilized TWEEN
" carriages filed with welI-dresse5 men
10 acclaim him all the way fru.,I The Care
de Lyon 10 the Libre Parole office. / got
together sixty camelots besides to Srv
along the route, 'Vive Drumonti A has
les Juifs,' And all that time they were
burning red and green fire. Thanks to me.
ne could write in his paper the next morn
ing; People of Paris. l am deeply moved
by your enthusiastic reception
Modern Invention
This "trfcked" enthusiasm is a modern
thing The last years of the empire of Ma
poleon III were troubled by real revolu-