The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-24
EMILY CRAWFORD'S ACCOUNT
OF THE III NERAL, WITH PEN PFC
TUREs OF LEADING PARTICIPANTS.
The Parade, Exercises at the Cathe-
City at Night Promptly QuelIed.
rcopvright, 1899. by the Associated press.l

rCopyright, 1899, by the Associated Pressl
PARIS, Feb 2S-Bright weather favored
! the drop of the curtain over the scene of
the drama of President Faure's life giving
value to the brilliant spectacular effects.
| The garrison of Paris numbering sixty
thousand men, was on duty in the long
| thoroughfares between the Elysee and Notre
| Dame, and there were between the cathe-
! dral and Pere la Chaise, glittering he'll
NETS and cuirasses and martial music,
marking the impetuosty of the French tenn
permanent. Champing horses and marching
regiments prepared the mind for the grand
| ceremony.
The Bourse, the Bank of France, the pub
| lie 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 Theirs. Gambetta and Carnot.
| On those occasions all France poured into
the capital and all hearts burst out in one
| irresistible impulse. There was absolute
| unity of emotion. The plumes Of Thiers's
hearse were like the flag that led to victory
| over the enemies of the republic then in
| power. At that funeral Nine Theirs, by
universal acclamation, was sovereign lady
theosis. All did honor to hi mand all felt
! that it was we'll for him to ole in the apogee
of his glory
| Carnots assassin made the heart of the
| entire nation bleed. The night before Car
not's funeral three hundred thousand pro-
! vincial people wandered about the streets
of Paris. the hotels being already full.
| There was nothing of this to-day. No all
| 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.
SORRY HE DIED so SOON.
| The reactionists are sorry he died so soon.
They gathered force, favored by him, and
! hoped to make a fool of him. The Drey-
fusites thought his sudden death was a just
| judgment for the support he gave the mill
| tary party against the revision of the SEN
tence of the prisoner of Devils island. The
lovers of equality had long looked askance
at the late Presidents attempts to revive
monarchical ceremonial.
Good Catholics thought we'll of him for
| asking, in his last hour for a priest. The
Freemasons resented this proof of clerical
ism. and they are the most strongly organ
lied 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 military man. They
were debarred from manifesting, however,
by the police arrangements. A police device
was to hire endless cabs, which were drawn
up on the Place de la Concorde and other
| ha
vehicles being really placed behind the
troops that kept the way clear for the
funeral cortege.
The lack of prevailing sentiment rendered
the funeral to Parisians, accustomed to
sights of the kind, vain and meaningless
| show like that of the late Emperor of
| Brazil.
FLORAL TRIBUTES.
| Apart from the very poor, no class set
higher store on President Faure than the
reigning caste. There We're more wreaths,
letters and kilograms received by the Faure
family from imperial and royal personages
than were received by the Carnot family in
1894. Among the far-off sovereigns who tel
egraphed, wrote or sent wreaths were the
Emperor and dowager Empress of China.
and the President of the Orange Free State
telegraphed and its representatives here
| presented a wreath in artificial violets.
| Queen Victoria's wreath was of roses. vio-
| let's and lilies of the valley 1t was tied
| with a large white satin bow bearing the
| inscriptions Testimony of sincere esteem
| president Mckinley Col. John Hay. secre-
| tary of state of the United States. and Pres
ident Kruger. of the South African republic.
sent telegrams but the United States and
the Transvaal give no further sign. No
American delegation appeared in the cor
| tege.
| 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 seditious manifestations
being planned The programme was thrice
| altered. At first the cortege was to have
formed at Notre Dame to proceed to La
Chaise, and then at the Elysee it was also
| arranged that the route taken by Carnot's
funeral was to be followed-namely, by the
Rue de la Rivoh, across the Seine to Notre
Dame-but the city engineers. obeying the
governments hint, said that way was
blocked by sewer repairs The true reason
was that the Rue de la RivoH is too narrow
to admit of precautions being taken against
seditous manifestations.
Last night many friends of the government
and men in a position to know said that if
General zurlinden the military governor,
went then to the Elysee he could not be
turned out. But Zurlinden is man to re-
spect the law. He could only be dangerous
where there was an Illegal general situation
which would breathe revolution. The declar-
alton of martial law would give him a prac-
tical dictature In Paris. General Zurlinden
greatly struck the bystanders to-day as, sit
ting fair and square IN his saddle and sur