The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-25
students to Have a Grand Nocturnal
CavaIcade, with FIambeaux, at
the Micareme Celebration.
NEW FRENCH BoULANGER
NATIONALISTS PRAISING COL. WILLIE
BOIS, WHO is WITH BOERS.
Effort to Connect Americans with the
Martinique RfOts-Return to Paris
of Count Castellane.

on the carnival season which will bring
few days gayety to the boulesards before
the advent of Lent. The festivities opened
with masked ball at the opera house
tonight. Great preparations had been made
for this event and the scene within the
magnificent hall was one Of exceptional
brilliancy. Thousands of colored balloons
and serpentines were distributed among
the guests as weapons for the mimic bat
ties among the merry throng on Sunday,
at La Villetto, where the famous abattoirs
of Paris are situated. On Sunday evening
the public will be en- fete. An categorical
procession will traverse the district and in
the evening public balls will take place in
the open air in the chief squares. which will
be especially Illuminated with electric
lights. The usual Mardi Gras procession
along the boulevards will take place on
Tuesday. and in the evening bands will be
stationed In the squares for the benefit OF
the working classes, who will indulge in
dancing in the open spaces about the band
stands. The students have obtained from
the project of police permission to intro
6uce an innovation in the Mi-Careme cele-
bration in the form of a grand nocturnal
cavalcade with 1ambeaux and illuminated
cards representing the various schools.
In French eyes the most interesting
character in the Transvaal war is Colonel
Villebois- Mareuil, the French military OBJ
server with the Beers, who is represented
by the French press as the Won Moltke of
the Boer army. He is popularity supposed to
have been the directing spirit of most of
the Boer victories. The unanimity with
which the Nationalist press lauds him to
the skies, however, has awakened serious
doubts among good Republicans of its dis
interestedness and in the fulsome praise of
Villebois Is seen an attempt to elevate him
into a popular idol. In defeating the Brit
ish, says the Nationalist organs, he is
seeking to avenge Fashoda, but the Re-
publicans and Radicals retort: "You are
trying to create another Boulanger and
use him against the republic on his re-
turn to France" Francis Cope, the poet,
who has become a fervid Nationalist, re-
veals the Nationalist programme by writ
ing too warm an eulogy Of Villebois in a
letter to the self-styled Patrons League
This epistle put the Radicals on their
guard and one of their mouthpieces says:
What the Nationalist did no. succeed in
doing with Marchand and Gallieni, what
they dare not do with cynical MERCER
they will not attain with another. Fore
warned is forearmed, and France does not
want another Boulanger."
In spite of the reputation by official cir
cles and the deputies for Martinique Of
any sympathy for or credence in the as
sertions that American political agitators
for ha
Unique, the newspaper which gave promi-
nence originally to these statements has
returned to the charge, publishing, under
the caption. American Intrigues," an in
terview with an anonymous Martinique
planter. in which it reiterates the accusa-
lions against America, and says: 1.-The au-
dacity of their agents is such that several
times recently American corvettes visited
Martinique waters and, under the very
eyes OF the colonial authorities, took
what the Governor of the island and the
Cabinet are thinking of to permit these
actions These attacks. in themselves.
might be or little Importance, but an article
In an influential journal such as the Figaro
shows that suspicion OF America exists in
other political circles concerning Martin
ique. The Figaros article said that the
United States following events with
Jealous eyes and that the negroes of Mar
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San Domingo; and that the United States,
which already exercises a dissmulated
protectorate over San Domingo, would not
be sorry to see them follow the same road
which will lead through suppression of
parliamentary representation to suppress
sion as colony.
AS the time approaches for the opening
Of the exposition more interest apparently
attaches to 1t. The crowds in the streets
upon which the buildings face are con-
tinually increasing. and the costumes of
various nations indicate the presence of
many strangers. The scaffoldings are being
stripped from the structures, and the lat
ter begin to show their fine proportions,
making the view one of great grandeur.
The southwest portion of Paris with it's
white domes and minarets now resembles
an Oriental city. The visit of the Shah of
Persia has been definitely fixed for the mid
die of July. The presence of this royal
visitor with his picturesque suite will be
one of the attractions of the exposition He
leaves Teheran April Is in. great pomp,
accompanied by cortege OF three thou
sand persons. He goes first to Tauris.
and thence drives to Tifiis, where he will
take train for st. Petersburg and pay a
visit to the Car. From st. Petersburg he
comes to France.
Prof. Benjamin d. Woodward, assistant
United States commissioner to the Paris
d
dispute with the Turkish exposition COM
mission regarding the construction of the
latter's building which, according to the
original plans, threatened to seriously OBJ
struct the view of the United States build
ing. The Turkish commission has now
been induced to make some important
structural notifications of its building
which will give the American edifice the
prominence worthy of its Importance. Prof
Woodward, in announcing this satisfactory
settlement, acknowledges the active and
valuable support which he received from
United States Ambassador Porter In con-
Quoting the negotiations.
Chevalier Valdrome, to whom Is intrust-
ed the work of seeing the members of the
press at the Foreign Office and commune
eating to them the information desired was
this week appointed chevalier of the Legion
OIL Honor in recognition of the able manner
in which he has invariably discharged his
duties.
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