Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-25
PARIS GIVES WELCOME
TO PRESIDENT KRUGER

concourse of people gathered IN the
court yard outside. The mayor and
municipal councillors, number OF
senators, deputies, army officers and
reporters were mustered on the plat
| form.
Mr.. Kruger was to have passed
| through the station hall, which had
| been specially arranged as salon OF
| honor, being profusely decorated with
| flowers, and where he was to be for
| mally received by the mayor and
municipal councillors, but, for some
! reason. the mayor welcomed him on
| the platform instead, and Mr.. Kruger,
| to the great disappointment of those
waiting in the salon of honor passed
out through another door to the front
of the station, where a pair-horse laun-
dau was drawn up. Mr.. Kruger enter
! ed this vehicle and was at once driven
| off for his hotel, amid enthusiastic
cheering, which followed him along
the whole route-along the outer boul-
evards, across the Place de La Repub-
| lique, which was a perfect sea of spec
| tators, and through the central boule-
wards. He arrived at the Hoel Scribe
| at 1870 a. m.
| A large escort of mounted municipal
| guards rode around Mr.. Kruger's car
! rage.
! Along the Main BOuIevards
the crowds increased i'm size and as Mr..
| Kruger reached the central portion of
| the city the sidewalks were blocked
and every window was filled with sight
seers, trees had been climbed and boxes,
| chairs and ladders were brought into
use to permit a glimpse OF the noted
| stranger. Within two blocks of the
| hotel the streets were so crowded that
progress was impeded. The police pre-
! cautions were very stringent. A space
extending half a block from the hotel
was cordoned by rows of mounted Re-
publican Guards, augmented by files of
armed municipal guards. Over the en-
| tire route from the station to the hotel
| enthusiastic cries greeted Mr.. Kruger.
! Shout after shout arose until there was
a continuous roar OF cheering. When
the Boer president entered the cleared
are in front of the hotel the demonstra-
ton was uproarious.
Along the route flowers were thrown
into Mr. Kruger's landau and women
tossed their handkerchiefs in his di-
rection. Mr.. Kruger smiled and re-
garded with curiosity the balconies
anu roofs, which were alive with peo-
pie,
On his arrival at the hotel Scribe Mr.
Kruger was greeted on the threshold
with the Boer hymn, sung by the chill
dren of the Transvaal consul, to which
Nh Kruger listened with tears in his
eyes.
Mr.. Kruger, bare-headed, bowed on
all sides, while the air was rent with
cries of "vive Kruger!" ''vive les
Boers!"
MIR. Kruger Quickly Alighted
from his carriage and entered the ho-
tel, but the mass of spectators was
not satisfied and the people shouted,
yelled and clapped their hands in cho-
rus until a window on the balcony was
opened and Mr. Kruger appeared.
Then hats were again thrown into the
air and the shouting was resumed With
renewed vigor. Handkerchiefs and
flags were waved and the greatest en-
thusiasm prevailed. The scene be-
fore the hotel continued for over an
hour A body of students, bearing
ioSoy dIIChHIOu W MAJ III ptlGC bi1O nv
tel but were stopped. Nothing daunt-
ed, the students broke into cries and
songs until Mr.. Kruger again appeared
i'll response to their demonstrations,
after which he retired for luncheon.
A sight which stirred the feelings of
the crowd to the utmost was the ap-
pearance on the balcony of the great
grandchildren of Mr.. Kruger waving
a Boer flag. The little ones were
cheered to the echo as, held aloft by
a servant, they unfurled the Boer col
ors.
Through all this fervid welcome the
anti-Britlsh sentiment did not appear.
The cries were confined to plaudits Of
Mr.. Kruger and the Beers. If there
were any shouts opposed TO Great
Britain they We're not heard in the
general tumult So direct had been
the warnings of the project of police,
NJ. Lepine, to cause the arrest of per-
sons raising anti British shouts, and so
omnipresent were the police that any
persons desiring to give utterance to
anti-British sentiments would hardly
have dared to do so. There was but
one incident having any resemblance
of this sort. Opposite the hotel
Is an English Store
and on its balcony stood many specta-
tors. When Mr.. Kruger appeared on
the balcony of the hotel, some one In
the crowd noticed that the men on the
store balcony wore their hats. Imme-
diately cry of hats off, was directed
at them and the men on the balcony,
approaching the situation. uncovered
and the crowd heaved a great "ah" as
some one cried tauntingly: DO you
speak English?'' in very broken Eng