Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-06

From photograph presented by the author
to Assistant Secretary Of State Adee.
sorrowfully marching behind his coffin.
Municipal guards. mounted and on foot,
lined the route, but except for a company
of military, which rendered 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 in the
ceremony.
Former Captain Dreyfus marched In the
funeral cortege, according TO the authority
OF project of police. but he passed complete
ly unnoticed by the crowd A little distance
behind him came Madame ,Dreyfus. accom-
panied by her father. Dreyfus sent a hand
some wreath, which was placed beside the
coffin. al
The Temps today says Dreyfus went to
the lola house yesterday evening and
watched beside the corpse with the family.
He induced Madame lola to give him back
his promise not to attend the funeral, and
he walked in the procession today between
M. Lalance, a former protesting deputy
from Alsace, in the German rechstag, and
M Monod, member of the institute.
At the lola Home.
The immediate vicinity of the house was
surrounded by Gordon Of police, through
which none but relatives and intimate
friends of lola were allowed to pass Fac
of infantry, commanded by captain on
horseback. The soldiers were there to
render the military honors due to a de-
ceased officer Of the Legion Of Honor
Preceding the hearse were three cars, al
most hidden beneath masses of magnificent
floral offerings from Zola's admirers in all
parts of the world, including an immense
wreath of giant chrysanthemums. to which
was attached ribbon bearing the words,
From the Frenchmen of San Francisco"
Madame lola wished to follow her hIs-
bands body to the grave, but her doctors
absolutely forbade her to do So She
therefore. bade farewell to the remains in
the mortuary chamber. her grief was most
poignant when the coffin was removed to
the entrance hall of the house, where it
rested few minutes.
The bier was then borne through the
door, AS it emerged to the street the
mounted officer of infantry saluted 1t with
his sword and the two lines Of soldiers
In front Of the house uncovered, and amid a
deep silence. broken only by the melan-
choly rolling of muffied drums the coffin
was laid in the hearse. Beautiful wreaths
of violets were arranged about It, and the
pallbearers. MN. Chaumie and Herman.
representing the Society of Dramatists:
Ludovic Halevy, Octave Mirbeau the de-
ceased's publishers; Charpentier and Fas-
quelle and M Brat, in behalf Of the min
ers. took their places beside the coffin with
tasseled cords In their hands and the pro-
cession started for the cemetery.
No Discordant Notes.
Among the masses of spectators which
lined the route there were probably many
who were not admirers OF lola, but the
deep respect for the dead which Is inherent
in Frenchmen prevented discordant note,
and everybody uncovered as the hearse
passed. The cortege entered the deserted
cemetery and followed the avenue through
the tombs to the crossroads. where small
platform had been erected for the funeral
orators This platform faced the cata-
falque upon which the coffin was deposited
Here 1t rested beneath the overhangine
boughs Of lime trees, from which, during
the speeches, yellow leaves f1uttered down
upon 1t.
said the government was In honor bound
to participate in the funeral of one of the
highest literary glories or France, whose
death had cast the country into mourning
Zola's life work had been dominated by
anxiety for sincerity and truth, said the
speaker, an anxiety inspired by his great
feelings # pity and jnstcen
Abiding to zola,s paEt n ~ she nreyfus af-
cause appeared to HIM as q just one he re-
garded it his imperiol}s duty to defend 1t,
although he had to brave unreasonable an
ger, suffer furious insaltsI unjust hatred
and most painful abandonments for SO
doing - Gra5D evsa
M. Herman, on behalf ofothe. societies Of
authors and dramatists, then gave an elo-
quent review of Zoa'a labors.
The final grafton was delivered by Ana
tole France, one Of the most ardent cham
pions of the revision Of the Dreyfus case.
M France said that .Eeia,S work could be
compared only to THAI Of Holstoi. but that
Tolstoi had built up a. citys Of resignation.
whereas the iLeal Of Zola.Ghad been work.
The speaker dwelt upon bthe democratic
aim of the dead novelist 'srvorks and then
burst into powerful tribute to Zola's part
in the Dreyfus affair and Instrumentation Of
his enemies. tG-t y