Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-24
Was Not Attended by Any Dis
orderly Scenes.
AN IMPOSING PROCESSION
Followed the Remains to the Tomb
Floral Offerings Were Elegant
1.-The Order.

New York, Feb. PA dispatch to the
Tribune from Paris says: Perfect order,
even reverence, marked the passage of
Felix Faures funeral procession, not only
alonge the Place de la Concorde, but
the fashionable thoroughfares. President
Loubet, in plain evening dress, wearing
a silk hat, attended by the prime minis
ter, the president of the chamber and
the vice president of the senate, walked
! behind the hearse from the Elysee palace
| to Notre Dame, and thence to Pere la
Chaise, a distance of five and half
miles. At no point in this long route was
, there a solitary derisive shout or jeer.
I was the most imposing sight seen in
| Paris in many years. The sun shone
! brightly from a cloudless sky upon the
brilliant uniforms Of the troops, upon the
superb black and silver hearse drawn by
i six jet black horses, caparisoned In sll-
yer and black and decked with jet
| ostrich plumes Each horse was led by
| a groom in black and silver. The street
| lamps, burning beneath graceful festoons
! of crepe gauze, gave the city the appear
ance of a. vast chaDelle ardente.
| Wreaths from foreign sovereigns and
heads of state We're each borne upon sill
yer and black chariots drawn by black
horses, led by silver-laced grooms. There
were 12 of these wreaths. each six yards
in diameter, the handsomest of all being
that of the queen of Spain. consisting of
parma violets and orchids. Emperor
/ Williams wreath of dark violets and or
| chiG1s was already half faded The
wreath of the president of the United
States, composed of white lilacs and
oI Floral n
from associations and from cities and
towns throughout France, each borne
by six firemen in brass helmets, were sc
pfofuse and numerous as to literally per-
fuine the air as they passed along the
Place de la Concorde A prominent Par
isian florist estimates that the cost OF
the flowers in the cortege exceeded 3,00O,-
600 francs.
. After the French tri-coor, the flags
which were the most numerous and con-
spicuous were those of Russia and the
United States. Seldom have so many
American flags been displayed in Paris
and seldom indeed ON such public oc-
casion, have so few British flags beer
seen.
The German emperor's special military
ENJOYS to represent him attracted marked
attention. for they We're veri able giants
one of them, Major Blueshow of the First
regiment of foot guards, being nearly
seven feet tall. He is reputed to be the
tallest officer in the German army. They
marched abreast, and with white plumed
helmets threw all other officers in the
shade, not excepting the Russian military
ENJOYS in scarlet and gold.
Another fca ture of the pageant widely
commented on, was the prominence ac-
corded to the magistraturc and judiciary
not only of the court of cessation, but
from the tribunals of Paris, Lyons, Mar
selles and other cities, all of whom were
resplendent in their long flowing scarlet
robes, with broad bands Of ermine.
Sixty thousand troops were masSed IN
and around Paris, and the police were
present in overwhelming force fully de-
termned to nip in the bud the first sign
of disorder Not since the stormy days
when Constans killed Boulangism has
there been a thorough and irresistible
display of police, backed by military
force and directed by such a mastery
hand. President Loubet's firmness and
, courage are universally commended. The
new police regulations enforced today
and tonight were essentially his own per-
sonal work. He evidently has a firm
, grasp on the handle of the broom.
The day being national holiday, the
streets were thronged with genuine
workmen and labOrng people, whose at
. titude to the public and its new preSi-
dent was unmistakable devotion and re-
spect Professional patriots, the PAID
roWdies of the nationalist demonstra-
|, tions, We're completely overawed, as were
also the fashionable groups of Bonapart-
, lists, who now seem almost as discon-
. solate as the royalists. A few insignifi-
cant brawls in the Palace des Nations
, and also at the Libre Parole office and
elsewher tonight, under the auspices OF
de Roulede and Millevoyc, which prompt
ly ended in their being arrested, re-
garded as exceptions which proves the
. rule that President Loubet's firmness has
given to the republic a new and unex.
pected vitality, even in Paris, where
+ however, it is admitted that the presiden
! lacks the prestige and penache, of which
! the Parisians are so fond.
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