The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-30
A MAKER OF HEROES.
rrsstoNs OF PAULUs, THE CAM
ELIOT CHIEFTAIN.

. the BOuIanGer Boom Was
worked Up by This Ingenious
,,,t-The Secret of Partisan
,,,ifcStatiOns"-An Man Can
che Applause of n Mob If He
mas The Money.
cor Of the London Daily Telegraph.
VS. IL was 1 that manufactured most
49,. hs-o that adorned Boulanger's head
- he blew the brains out of it. ana
LIT and a few comrades were within
-e of twisting the brave generals
into a soeptre. I don't mean that
.5sa was ours, but it was that car
ont. That's my business, and I've
t.r.j it, 1 did the same for Henri
"t.for. and Paul Deroulede, end for
[...,.on, and the anu-Semites, aud also
.,s Gentlemen of the opposite side as
vel
The sneaker was the famous-or shall
-. The notorious Pauus, chief Of the
.o-, of Partisan came,ots, a middle
.-.4 o.sll-knit -proportioned man, Of
.-o1t - with very mobile fea-
..s , somewhat narrow forehead, ana
,s.r.re.v bright eyes. He sports a black
.,,s.,.be. keeps his beard shaver and his
lain closely cropped, and wears a suit of
,1,ck clothes, which evidently accompan-
-, their wealer 10 many an exciting man
CESSATION. and bear silent witness TO his
bs,.,rg seen better days. The fact is that
rect risiugs in Paris, ike theatrical ap-
abuse are no longer spontaneous In
ia 4 Of 81 a ~
rose lbev have TO be contracted for b.
t,~4bar1 and paid for in current coin of
he realm. AS every theaTer has Its sub
.f1ized claque, so every outburst of gen
zine popuIar enthusiasm" possesses its
tal3riei cameots who provoke and sustain
= These are he demonsuatlve men whom
ostonfs1ed Journalists so often describe as
",be brazen-tongued crowd which seemed
Ia emerge from The interior of the earth,
but who. in sober truth, were dispersed N
prouns and lying low near the scene of
tbetr expoits waiting for a signal from
their leader. The camelOts are men who
engage TO shout the mselves hoarse, crying
give" this or "A bas" that, at three or
four francs a day, and who lake the kicks,
cuffs and blows of the police as all in the
davis work. When times are duh they
hawk newspapers, satires, and the HJeIa-
ture of semi-obscenity about the boule-
Yards and streets, and look sadly out al
elbow Risings, restoratiOns, Royalist, Re
NIB. can or anarchist demonstrations con-
stule their brisk season. Then they be
come the nucleus of every movement for
or AGAINST the prominent person or ms il
xuuon of the hour-the fungi, as it were
which when mingled with the inert mass
causes il to fomtn ut and seethe, and some
1iues even 10 explode.
Paulus removed a homemade cigarette
from behind his left ear, where il had
lain. pencilwise, and having spent half IA
dozen sulphur matches in vain endeavors
10 light it, said
You will take my birth and bringing up
for granted, I daresay; and let me just
allude to the fact that l entered public life
al a by singing in the cafes and living
TO amuse. But even at that early age
was a clmelot, and associated with came
dots. and that's how I mastered the pro-
fession. And a jolly, devil may-care kind
Of life it was, and no mistake. A king,
you might say, to-day, with your pockets
ouIging. aye, and bursting too with silver
coins and a beggar tomorrow, with the
winds from Monmartre bowling in the
caverns of your empty stomach. But 1
sang right merrily on through pleasure
ana pain til Batter came along. Don
know Batter? To be sure, you do. He's
the sculptor who made the statues of
Louis IN or X, and a revolutionist, oh,
Paris in search of fame, and l was hired
TO take him round to the newspaper Of
iices with a lot of dulcimer men from Au-
Nergne, who made even the dead walls
of Paris hum with their music. That was
my first job. When I went to the office
'oI the Cri du Peuple 1 found a lady edit
ing it, Nine Severine you know her.
Very we'll Well, she kind of cottoned to
me as il We're, and became my friend,
my opportunity, and it came at last, when
heaven sent me Gen. Boulanger. l was
CHOSEN to float the journal Cocarde of the
Boulange, and l threw myself into the
"ork body and soul, and made it a piping
Buccess, 1 did"
..HoW did you go to work?" I asked.
wen. l hired 300 strapping fellows a
week before the first number of the paper
Vahe out Ii was their business to dis
"lpuie broadcast portraits of the 'bravy
general with a little biography and a
.ocarde attached, and to make passersb by
tes' warm interest in the man. Besides
muse, got twenty other lads TO throw
PIeluly made cocl1ades into the theaters,
Hh' with them the biography of Boulan-
ger. They were also to manifest realisd-
O'"y IN the halls of Paris and other
PAGES And they did the work thoroughly.
zen you we had all Paris seething with
eA'tement and when du last the first
Inner OF the paper appeared and was
ked around by 300 camelots, divided
mo nrigades OF twenty, commanded by
CIieI' the population was izziug and
Ito'AlhS ike newly opened champagne.
10 you good to see it, especially if you
i"N Heiped to get il up. Then there was
banquet that was offered TO Boulanger
~ ~ lle AVenu de LowendaI, up near the
lamp de Mars. 1t was l who arranged
Ie street manifestations for that. Sew
ian Hansoms were engaged and we fol-
oWed the general, and made the streets
win our shouts and wives Every
oy near us joined in, and the general
"a cheered till he was deaf and we
Le hoarse. Many of the manifesters
were run in by the police-I mean the
eglui3e sulls who, happening to pass that
SS'5' joined us, with their wives and chill
o' g" ana cheered from their hearts Not
rested.
nov DO you arrange them?" l asked.
M "lVlde them into brigades of twenty