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Show CHANGED Jil ROUTE. Empress Frederick Left Paris This Morning A lead of Time to Avoid Being Insulted. A EVIL AND QUIET CROWD The Men Raised Their Hvts as the Empress Em-press Passed 8ha Was Perfectly Calm as She Departed Paws, Feb. 27 Empress Frederick of Germany left 1'aris this morning. No unpleasant incident marked her departure. de-parture. The gravity of tho situation, however, can be judged from the fact that acting under tho advice from high quarters tho empress changed her route for fear of being insulted. It was publicly announced yesterday evening and again this morning that Empress Frederick intended leaveing for Calais at ll:oO a. m., but left two hours earlier and was driven rapidly to the Gare du Nord, where she entered the train for Boulogne. The empress, however, will not embark for England at that port, but will proceed from there to Calais where the royal yacht is awaiting her. In spite of precautions several hundred hun-dred people gathered about the Gare du Nord. It was a civil and quiet crowd. Tho majority of the men taking tak-ing olT their hats as the empress passed. There were no insulting cries of any description. The empress appeared perfectly calm and entered the car secured for her special use and cordially bade adieu to the representatives of tho German embassy em-bassy who had accompanied her to the station. At the reception yesterday evening Gervex, the painter, was presented to the empress on behalf of a portion of tho French artists, lie expressed the regret they felt at not being able to send works of art to the Berlin exposition; expo-sition; they could not place themselves at variance with their colleacues. The empress in reply said she appreciated the justice of the Fronch artists' motives, anil accepted them in a friendly spirit, though she regretted that tho artists of France would not be represented at Berlin. In an interview with the president of the society of artists, tho latter declared that lie would still advocate that French artists should send exhibits to Berlin, though he yields to the opinion of his brother artists. Dt'HLlN, Feb. 27. Empress Frederick nnd her party arrived at Gare Du Nord in three landaus. Tho police officials bad taken every precaution to protect the empress, a body of 500 policemen being at tho depot. The empress accompanied ac-companied by her whole staff of the (iermau embassy. Count Von Minister mid a, number of police, weut to Bou-' lognc and from there to Calais. |