El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-23
Imposing Ceremonies In Paris
Witnessed BY Thousands
Of Spectators.
NO GREAT DISORDER
Suppressed Excitement Did
Not Break Out Into Any
UnseemIy Demon
stratiOn.

PARIS, Feb. 23.-Today sll that il
mortal of the late M. Felix Fsure. pre-
sidept of the French republic, who
died last Thursday night, was carried
through the mourning-draped streets
of Paris ufrom the Ely see to the Ca
thedral of Notre Dame, where the reli
gious funeral service was performed.
The quiet, orderly and respectful
crowds that lined the streets through
which the cortege passed testified to
the esteem in which M. Faure was
held by the masses OF the people.
After the obsequies in the cathedral
the body was further conveyed to the
cemetery of Pere Ia Chaise where sew
eral addresses were spoken and where
the body was entombed. The funeral
procession emerged from the west en-
trance of the Elysee in the avenue de
Marigny, crossed the Place de la Con-
corde, and passing the Louvre went to
the Place de l'Hotel de Vile, from
which it crossed the Seine to Notre
Dame.
The Ministry of Marine, the Cham
Der of Deputies, the Hotel de Vile and
other public buildings along the route
were profusely draped with black or
hung with black and silver banners.
The windows of the buildings and the
sidewalks were black with people.
The streets were crowded. Thou
sands of persons were up all night for
the purpose of securing places of ad
for = ha f,,r
The funeral car, on which lay the
coffin with French flag throw over
it, was preceded by detachment of
the national guard and by eight car
riages containing floral offerings, pro-
minent among which were elaborate
wresths sent by the United States en-
bassy and by the representatives of
other foreign countries.
The hesrse, drawn by eight horses,
was mostly followed by persons walk
ing, the late presidents household, M.
Loubet, the new president of the re-
public, M. Dupuy, M. Deschanel, the
foreign ambassadors, the ministers of
marshals of the army, the member
of the senate and chamber of deputies,
Generals lamont, Saussier, and other
prominent army officers, judges, de-
putation from Havre and various 9TH
er municipal delegates, besides many
personal friends of the deceased.
At the cathedral were eminent &C.
clesiastics,3 Cardinal Richard, arch
bishops of Paris, and the archbishops
of Lyons, Rheims, Sens, and Blois
Beethoven's Funeral March" was per-
formed, mass was celebrated by the
priests and the requiem was sung.
PARIS, Feb. 2I.-Amid the solemn
splendor with which France, better
than any other nation, knows how to
honor her dead, the obsequies OF the |
late President Faure proceeded with
put a singly unseemly interruption.
There was no concealfng of the anx-
ETY. of the government, which in sud-
len fear of coup d. etst, at the last
lour summoned fresh regiments to
Paris.
Whatever may happen later in the
lay Paris has been spared the disgrace
# any accident hich might mar the
magnificent tribute to Frances late
uler. Brilliant sunshine and tenn
,erature not too cold supplied the per-
ect conditions for one OF the most i'm
ressive spectacles even Paris has pre-
ented.
The concourse of people along the
quite from the Elysee to the cathedral
Notre Dame, and from the cathedral
D the scemetery of Pere la Chaise,
as immense, and for four long hours,
beying literally the arbitrary orders -.
the public authorities, Paris was |.
lute.
Once only did your reporters along
,e route hear a voice raised. That
as before the procession started when
few cries of "Vive l'armee" greeted
eneral Zurliuden as he proceeded to
lie Elysee. t
ALI of the anti-Dreyfus journals this t