The Tupelo journal., 1902-10-10
FUNERAL OF EMILE lola.
Remains Of the French Writer Laid to Rest
With Simple Ceremonies. In
Mont Martre.

lola were laid t rest, Sunday, with
simple but impressive ceremonies. 1t
was such a funeral as Zola himself
would have wished, without pomp,
but with the serried ranks of thou
sands of workingmen, many accom-
panied by their WINS, sorrowfully
marching behind his coffin. Municipal
guards, mounted and on root, lined
the route, but, except for a company
of infantry which re- dered military
honors to the body as it was carried
from the house to the hearse, they
were there as guardians of order and
not as participants i'm the ceremony.
Former Capt. Dreyfus marched in
the funeral cortege, according to the
authority of the project of police, but
he passed completely unnoticed by
the crowd. A little distance behind
him came Nine. Dreyfus, accompanied
by her father. Dreyfus sent a hand
some wreath, which was placed be-
side the coffin.
An m COncourse.
Long before one o'clock in the aft
ernoon, the hour fixed for the start
of the corte6e from the lola resi-
dence in the Rue de Bruxelles, an inn
mense concourse began gathering
along the short route leading to the
entrance of the Mont Martre ceme-
terry, from which the public was com
pletely excluded from midday. The
immediate vicinity of the house was
surrounded by a Gordon of police,
through which none out relatives and
intimate friends of lola were allowed
to pass.
A handsome hearse with sable
| plumes on the ROOF and on the heads
of the two horses attached to it,
stood before the door. The hearse
also was enveloped in black and silver
housings. Preceding the hearse were
three other cars almost hidden be-
meath masses of magnificent floral Of
ferings from Zola's admirers in all
parts of the world, including an i'm
mense wreath of giant chrysanthe-
NUNS bearing the words, From the
Frenchmen of San Francisco"
Mime. Zola's Great Grief.
III " NIS1lCo " loIlOW lNL
husbands body to the grave, but her
doctors absolutely forbade her to do
so. She therefore babe farewell to
the remains in the mortuary chamber.
Her grief was most poignant when
the coffin was removed to the en-
trance hall of the house, where it
rested a few minutes.
The bier was then borne through
the door. AS it emerged to the street
the mounted officer of infantry .salut-
ed it with his sword and the two
lines of soldiers presented arms. The
crowd of mourners in front of the
house uncovered, and amid a deep
silence, broken only by the melan-
choly rolling of muffled drums, the
coffin was laid in the hearse and the
procession started for the cemetery.
Deep Respect for the Dead.
Among the masses of spectators
which lined the route there were
probably many who were not admir-
ers of NJ. lola, but the deep respect
for the dead, which is inherent in
Frenchmen, prevented a d~iscordant
note, and everybody uncovered as the
hearse passed. The cortege entered
the deserted cemetery and followed
the avenue through the tombs to the
cross roads, to where a small plat
form faced the catafalque upon
which the coffin was deposited. Here
it rested beneath the o~verhanging
fought of lime trees from which dur
ing the speeches yellow leaves fut-
tered down upon it.
A Monster Procession.
At the conclusion of the orations
the relatives of the deceased novelist
grouped themselves beside the coffin
and a monster procession, composed
mainly of members of labor organiza-
tons, was allowed to enter the ceme-
terry and file past the body. A major
ity of those who marched wore a red
flower, the socialist emblem, in their
buttonholes; other were bouquets of
v%iolets. Each delegation brought a
wreath and deposited it beside the
coffin.
The people plucked the flowers and
ferns which had been strewn on the
coffin during the ceremony and car
ried them away as souvenirs until
none was left.
After the march past the coffin was
laid in a temporary vault.
A few scuffles occurred on the
Boulevard de Clichy. Groups of So
~cialists marched by singing THE
Carmagnole" and nationalists re-
sponded with counter cries, ,ut the
imposing force of guards and police
prevented serious collisions. A police
man was wounded during one row.