The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-24
THE STREETS THRONGED
PRECAUTIONS TAKEN TO GUARD
AGAINST OUTBREAK.
LITTLE GRIEF SHOWN BY THE PARlSlANS
kilograms and Wreaths Sent by Sovereign S
Far and Near. President loubst Walks
TO The Cemetery Trough the
Disturbed nistric's.

Paris, Feb. 233.-Bright weather favor
ed the drop of the curtain over the
scene of the drama of President Faure's
| life, giving value TO the brilliant spectac-
| ular effects.
The garrison of Paris, numbering co.
| 0O0 men, was on duty in the long
| thoroughfares between the Elysee and
Notre Dame and there were between
the Cathedral and Pere Lachaise, gilt
tering helmets and cuirassiers and mar
tiaI music, marking the impetuosity of
the French temperament.
The Bourse, the Bank of France, the
public offices and most OF the stores
were closed, and the whole population
were in the streets, ar the windows and
on the house-tops.
But the effect was totally different
from that which impressed one ut the
funerals of Theirs. Gambetta and Car
not On those occasions all France pour
ed into the capital and all hearts burst
out in one Irresistible impulse. There
was absolute unity of emotion.
There was nothing of this to-day.
No all-preyaling unity of emotion; no
deep regrets, unless among the very poor.
They remember now how that President
Faure devoted his Thursdays 70 the
hospitals.
The reactionists are sorry he died so
soon. They gathered force, favored by
him and hoped to make a tool of him.
The Dreyfusit thought his sudden
death was n Judgment for the support
he gave the military party against the
revision of the sentence of the prisoner
of Devils Island.
The lovers of equality had long looked
askance ut the late Presidents attempts
to revive monarchial ceremonial. Good
Catholics thought well OF him for ask
ing. in his last hour, for priest.
The Free Masons resented this proof
of clericalism. and they are the most
strongly organized and numerous body
in Paris.
The leagues of patriots and of the
French fatherland might. il suffered TO
to do so. made n united effort, but with
divergent purposes. some of the leaguers
being for The Duke or Orleans, some for
Prince Napoleon and some for Ma
poleon and some for no matter what
dictator, but with preference for a
military man. They We're debarred from
manifesfing, however. by the police ar
rangements. A police device was to
hire endless cabs, which were drawn
mp on the Place de La Concorde and
other spaces. as il waiting for fares
there. the vehicles being really placed
behind the troops that kept the way
clear FOR the funeral cortege.
The lack Of prevailing sentiment rem
dcred the funeral to Parisians accustom-
ed to sights of the kind, vain and
meaningless show. like that of the late
Emperor Of Brazil.
Apart from the very poor. no class
set higher store on President Faure
than the reigning caste. There were
more wreaths and letters and kilograms
received by the Faure family from I'M
pcrial and Royal personages than were
received by the Carnot family in 1894.
Among the far-off sovereigns who tee-
graphed, wrote or sent wreaths were the
Emperor and Dowager Empress of
China, and the President of Orange
Free State telegraphed and its repre-
sentatiyes here presented wreath of ar
fiiicial violets.
Queen Victoria's wreath was OF roses
yiolets and lilies Of the vail S. 1t was
tied with a largewhite satin bow bear
ing the inscriptions: Testimony OF sin
core esteem
President McKiniye. Colonel John
Hay, Secretary Of State of the United
States, and President Kruger, of the
South African Republic, sent Gle
grams, but the United States and the
Transyaal gave no further sign. No
American delegation appeared in the
corfege.
The people of Paris were kspt in the
dark so long as possible as to the route
The funeral procession was TO take.
This was owing to fear Of seditious man
to3sn hasn
gramne was thrice altered. At first the
cortegc was TO have formed at Notre
Dame, to proceed to Pere Lachaise and
then at the Elysee, lit was also arranged
that the route taken by Carnois funeral
was to be followed, namely, by the Rue
De La Rivoli. across the Seine, to
Notre Dame, but the CITY engineers,
obeying the Government hint, said this
way was blocked by sewer repairs The
true reason was that the Rue De La
Riyoii is too narrow to admit of precau-
tions being taken against seditious man
ifestations.
Last right many friends of the Gov
tTninelH and men in a position to know
said that If General Zurlinden, the Mill
tary Governor went then TO the Eiysee
he could not be turned out But Zurlin-
|, den is a man to respect the law. He
could only be dangerous where there is
An illegal general situation which would
brea the revolution. The declaration OF
martial law would give him a practical
dicfature in Paris.
General Zurlinden greatly struck the
bystanders to-day as, sitting fair and
Square in his saddle and surrounded by
his staff, he led the cortege.
The three coffinless hearses followed
and then came the funeral car a most
imposing vehicle. The leading statesman
bore the pail. Then came the family.
consisting of the Presidents son-n-law,
Berge; Cremer, his nephew, and his bust
ness partner in hides and leather trade
and his two cousins.
NJ. Berge is a civil engineer. Sons in
law bring bad luck to the Presidents of
the French Republic. Wilson ruined
President Grevy. Berge or rather one
of his partners, afforded an opportunity
to President Faure's enemies and to
blackmailers. When NJ. Faure was