Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-03-12
THE QUEENS DRAWING ROOM.
a Large and Brilliant Gathering at
Buckingham Palace.

courtiers Come in Compliment to the
Ex-empress of the Germans--The Royal
Family In Resplendent style.
LONDON, March 4.-The drawing
room held by Queen Victoria to-day M
Buckingham Palace was notable for tho
unusually large and brilliant attend.
ance.. This state of affairs undoubtedly
was due to the presence at the drawing
room of the Empress Frederick of Ger.
many, and of the desire upon the mart
OF eourtlers and others to be presented
~ buckingham Palace upon this occa-
sion as token of sympathy with the
empress after her recent unpleasant ex-
perience in Paris.
Every member of the royal family
now in England made it point to be
present and, as the court is out of
mourning, the drawing room held to-
day may be said to have been one of the
most successful ever held in Bucking-
ham Palace. The approaches to the
palace were lined with long rows of
carriages containing members of the
diplomatic corps, army and navy
ooillcers, cabinet members, all in full
dress, together with ladies in the most
r1ch and bewitching of court dresses.
their fair persons in many cases fairly
blazing with diamonds. Hours before
the palace gates were opened for the
passage of these equipages, the Mall,
Birdcage walk, Constitution hill. St
James Park, and other places in the
neighborhood of the palace were
crowded with pedestrians who had
come from all parts of London and from
the country in order to witness this
great parade OF notables as they awaited
their turn to enter the large courtyard
which fronts the queens palace. The
ponce arrangements, rs usual, were
most admirable, the carriages being kept
wei IN line, and the general public was
kept well out of the lines of courtly
traffic.
The public when prominent and
popular parsonage was recognized in the
nne, broke out into more or less hearty
cheers, the degree of enthusiasm, being
measured, apparently, by the height of
the recognized personage's hold upon
popular favor. Everybody, guests and
spectators, were inclined to be in a
good humor, and consequently smiling
and cheering were the order Of the day
outside the palace and around st. James
Park. Plain clothes policemen and
uniformed guardians of the peace were
here, there, and everywhere. The
mounted police especially did splendid
service IN acting as whippers-in for the
apparently endless line of carriages,
Whlch they had to steer safely and cor
rectly, without any hitch, and without
their owners cause for i'll humor, up to
the palace entrance and away again
after having deposited their loads.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
drove in state from Marlborough House
down the Mall, past st. James Palace to
buckingham Palace, being greeted with
hearty cheers from the queerfs LOYAL |
subjects, who have always had, and APP |
always will have, d warm
corner in their hearts for the ioyial, |
good hearted heir apparent. There was
no lnistaking the genuine ring of those
cheers which rang through the air as
prince and princess passed down the
Mall, and there was true regard and en-
thusiasm in the forests of wildly waved
hats, handkerchiefs, umbrellas, parasols
and sticks which swayed and tluttered
over the heads of the immense crowds
who greeted the heir to the throne of
England.
1t was fully 3 O'Clock in the afternoon
before the queen, amid truly royal
scene, was, with much ceremony and in
Utmost deadly silence, ushered into the
drawing room of the palace.
becoming the centre point upon which
thousands of pairs of eyes We're centred.
Immediately behind the queen came the
'rince and Princess of Wales and the
ther members of the royal family.
The members Of the diplomatic corps
resented to the queen included the
United States minister, the Hon. Robert
:. Lincoln; Mr.. Henry White, first Sec
etary of the United States legation, and
lrs. White; Mr.. II. Mccormick, second
ecretary of the United States legation.
nd Mrs. Mccormick, and Mr.. G.
Yurst, first secretary of the United
tates legation in st. Petersburg.
1t was GENERALLY acknowledged that
ne number of debutantes to-day ex-
eeded in numbers any drawing room
ED since the famous jubilee drawing
pom. The ladies' costumes were, as a
lie, chiefly decorated in the most ,,
larming fashion with spring flowers,
Another feature of this drawing room
as that many elderly ladies took adj /
lntage of the queens recently granted
emission to that effect and wore high
odices, which contrasted somewhat !
rangely with the countless low-necked
-esses which graces the white shoulders
the younger ladies present. c