| Show I KRUGER SPENDS QUIET DAY I I HE HOLDS PRIVATE SERVICE IN HIS APARTMENTS I Crowds Congregate About the Hotel 11 Scribe Former President Appeared on the Balcony in Response to Calls I Paris Nov 2gMr Kruger passed Sunday with his family at the Hotel I Scribe observing Sunday In accordance I with the customs of his fatherland His I apartments were closed to visitors and he remained within them Indulging I himself In perfect rest Although the I boulevards were alive to a late hour I last night with merrymakers singing l songs the Hotel Scribe was cordoned I and the revelers did not disturb hln I vest This morning found him quite recovered I I recov-ered from his fatigue After an early t breakfast he conferred with Dr Lcyds I There being no church of his own dc nomination J Paris he held a private service In hlu apartments surrounded I I by Jilg entourage Mr Kruger read a ponlon of Scripture and a member of his suite read a sermon The Boer statesman expressed a desire to have II an organ to assist 1 the singing but I this could not he obtained I At an early hour free circulation was I resumed In the street about the hotel I hose only guardians two I policemen stood on either sidle of the principal entrance I en-trance The number of passersby was not greater than the ordinary Sunday crowd Toward 1 p m however pedes I trlans increased and along the boule t I j yard came l hundred shouting and singing bOYS Tncir ucivent increased t I the enthusiasm which was rapidly l 1 worked up and the streets began to fill I Cheers for Mr Kruger began and the I i police Immediately established I cordon I about the hotel Several companies of I 1 Republican guards quickly arrived In I I i halt an hour the scene resembled that of yesterday I I Responding to cries and plaudits Sir Kruger came for a mom nt upon tho I balcony accompanied by his granddaughters I grand-daughters Again at 5 oclock the tumult I tu-mult Mas such that he reappeared but I I only for a moment During the afternoon after-noon and early evening there Was no I falling off In the number of spectators J was 10 oclock before the people had sufficiently disappeared to crmlt i the circulation of carriages Some manifestations of an Important character occurred during the afternoon I In front of the I offices of the Libre Parole and the Intranslgeant but the police quickly dispersed the demonstrators demonstra-tors arresting some who had uttered antiBngJish cries I Many cards were left at the Hotel I Scribe during the day among them those of i I Delcasse Minister of Foreign r For-eign Affairs and other high officials of I the Foreign office Mr Kruger will spend tomorrow morning in conferring with the Boer representatives The afternoon will be devoted to receiving deputations and prominent people who have made appointments ap-pointments No decision It Is I understood under-stood has been reached as to when Mr I Kruger will leave Paris According to the best Information obtainable this evening he will remain here until Wednesday evening or Vccnesca evening Thursday morning morn-ing I Is said l that he will go to Holland Hol-land not stopping In Belgium where he may go later on I The morning papers suggest various i I I ways of assisting Mr Krugers cause I The Intranslgeant contemplates the I I formation of an International conference I confer-ence of journalists at the European I capitals with a view of discovering 1 practical ways of helping the Boers The Republiquc is persuaded that if I European Governments would remind Great Britain that she signed The Hag e convention good would follow and that there would be no risk In taking ta-king such a step |
