Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-21
LOOKOUT FOR RIOTS
Autumn the Time When Paris
Mobs Get Busy.
WORK OF CAMELOTS
STARTING A MANIFESTATION
IS NOW A REGULAR BUSINESS.
Well-Paid Leaders Who Engage the
Agitators at So Much Per
Head.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
PARIS, November 8. 1903.
More riots in the streets of Paris are due
for the end of this month and the first
weeks of December.
1t is autumn. Paris has begun to fill up
with its teeming population. Old expert
ence warns US that 1t IS the moment for its
turbulence to waken. and the first samples
of the series-the bloody battles of last
week around the Bou1 Sc de Travail Qabor
bourse or workingmen's exchange)-wiIl
indicate the serious character of those to
come.
Enthusiastically hundreds-of "mani-
Testing" citizens have been wounded by
bayonet thrusts and saber strokes. Hun
dreds of policemen and Republican Guards
have been burned with vitriol. stabbed with
knives and smashed over the head with
chair legs water caraffes, blackjacks,
knuckle busters Called American punch
esq, loaded canes and brlckbats.
On every hand we hear men saying that
the riot spirit, after sleeping, has awaken
ed Yet in the same breath the slme men
say that powerful Influences are behind the
rioters. Indeed in Paris, it may be taken
for a principle that every one who r-ots is
led to rioting by some one else. AT the
present moment there are five great syndi-
Gates of trades protesting against the ex-
tOTtiOuS VI 1dTlS IIltelllBcHce OinCtS uo
high officials of these synd. Gates know that
their men are with them. Their numDe. S
run into tens of thousands each. Yet when
it comes to what they call 'man.festing'
or protesting 'by direct action" they know
very well that they must go to Caesar
Vasseur or Georges LANCER.
=" Who are Caesar Vasseur and Georges
LANCER? They the two lieutenants on
whom fell the mantel of the late Napoleon
Hayard. the king of the Camelots," who
for years contracted for the stirring up OF
all spontaneous movements
1t would be Islander on the American
newsboy to call HIM "camelOt.' The
Partisan "camelot' is oftenest grown m IN
and regularly with a wind-blown beard
His voice. by exercise in crying papers and
all kinds of fakirs' novelties, has all the
strength and SureneSs that continual use
can give maturity. Where our newsSoy
spends his time and money pitching PEN
MES, the grown camelot of Paris will be
found imbibing absinthe and Partisan Bit
terS.
His Mouth is His Weapon.
He is wild-eyed, unkempt and of terrify-
ing aspect. Yet he is not dangerous. His
weapon is his practiced mouth and since
the time of Boulanger the politicians Of the
gay French capital have counted on 1t to
lead revolutions
down the street crying "Viver' dong live)
somebody or "a bas!'' down with) some
body and you can depend upon their gath
ering procession like a SNOWFALL.
You must not think they are always
badly dressed. Years ago their king saw
that they ought to dress their part. When
jobbed out to laborers' syndicate they
show up in the street laborers. When
contracted for by a BARRIERS or restaurant
walters syndicate they are delivered
washed and combed, in well-brushed, de-
cent suits.
OF course, the talent of the camelot to
stir up Paris must be properly directed
There must be a chief. There have been
always several: but none ever merited to be
compared with the old king, the late Napo-
leon Hayard. dead these two months past.
One time camelot himself. peddling papers,
tricks. toys, forbidden photographs and ia
cetious pamphlets on the boulevard, he rose
to own a shop for the sale of such objects
wholesale to his brother camelots.
An Able Leader.
Fakirs and camelots came to find Napo-
leon Hayard a liberal patron long-suf-
fering, forgiving. always ready with credit.
He showed literary talent of no mean kind.
writing the most quick-sellng pamphlets,
broadly humorous. on the topics of the day.
No one approached him for fertility in CIV
ing new names to old tricks and toys. EX-
ample: There is an old home made wooden