The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-23

went to rest tonight it was to dream
Of military glory, of crowds and light
and color; Of countless banners
blazoned with the royal arms; of
marching men, decked with all the or
ders and ribbons that reward the
brave; of a pageant SO varied, so splen-
did, so bewildering that in modern his
tory nothing can be found with which
to compare it's manifold features.
Through Londons streets today, under
the gaze of millions Of eyes, through
miles and miles of banners, flags and
arches, with steady tread, marched the
pick of the soldiery that under many
skies has won or defended the realm
over which reigns the queen and en-
press, in whose honor they were as
sembled. In a single show were gather
ed men of the service from every por-
tion of the British domain. The Life
Guards, the show soldiers of the en-
pire, shared their honors with the
mounted police of the Canadian North
west; the dusky men Of India, the ir-
regulars Of the Cape country and the
patrols of Australia. Nor did England
alone contribute to the brilliancy Of the
occasion. In honor Of the diamond
jubilee, the finest soldiers of Europe,
generals Of division, marshals and
princes rode through the lane Of cheer
ing humanity, resplendent with all the
badges of rank that royalty can be-
stow, not the least CONSPICUOUS among
them being the commander-in-chief of
Americas army, Gen. Miles, the mill
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States in the spectacular display.
After the queen had proceeded in
state through the streets of her capital;
after the marching and the cheering
the formal reception at the gates of the
city, with its quaintness of ceremony,
and the brief but impressive services at
ST. PauPs, came the real elimination
of the long to be remembered day.
The crowds, which had filtered out of
the procession streets after the great
show, wedged back again to view Lon
don alight. The decorations tonight,
like everything that had previously
transpired during the morning hours,
were greater and more resplendent
than anything in London's history. The
symbols of loyalty and affection, of
imperial grandeur and the growth of
empire that had met the eye in painted
and gilded notices, devices of paper
and bunting and spangled cloth, were
now reflected for miles in lines OF
glaring gas, gloW-Worrn oil lamps, opal
globes, paper lanterns and Transparent
cieS, incandescent lamps, cellulOid
flowers and hundreds of devices IN
thousands Of colored crystals. Every
where was brilliancy, sparkle, color AS
was the case with the draperies the
decorations by day were confined prin-
cipally to the route taken by her maj
esty this morning. and may be said
to have begun at Hyde park corner.
Every house showed light in some way
and where it was sufficiently brilliant
the effect was decidedly enhanced by
the day draperieS, though the empty
stands added rather a weird effect.
Round the corner at York house il
Illuminated in crystals, was a large
heart formed of rose petals and May
the cellulOid balloons quite justified
French taste, the incandescent glow
lamps hidden in flower petals suggest
ed nothing SO much as a childS dream
of Titania's court. Fleet street from
the law courts to Ludgate circus was
a dazzling vista of prismatic and rad
liant devices, ending upon Ludgate hill
in the massive dome Of st. Paul's bril-
liantly lit by searchlights, standing
with it's huge golden cross a beacon
to greater London and beyond
Nothing in all London or elsewhere
exceeded in artistic beauty and bril-
liancy of display the scene from the
Wellington statue, with the Bank OF
England on one side and the Mansion
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Of the lord mayor was bathed in so
much light that all the beauties of the
day seemed to fit in and charmingly
nlingle with that of the night On
the top of the pediment a splendid
star of India burned its brilliant points
into the sky. Prismatic gas globes out
lined the facade and a portion of the
side, while the royal crown, encircled
by a wreath Of laurels in incandescent
lamps, stood out prominently in front
Of the building. Old sightseers
pronounced the scene one OF
artistic brilliancy in illumination
unsurpassed even by the fetes for the
czar in Paris or for him at Moscow.
Father Thames tonight furnished an
impressionist color scheme. The sweep
seaward from the pool-myriad lights,
here and there just touching into
ghostly form the shipping; the Tower
the heavy lines beyond on the long
necklace of shimmering gems away to-
wards Westminster, with st. PaulS
shadows on the silent waters; the small
string of colored lamps on some wan
dering tug or cumbrous barge; lines
of lucent color on nearby bridges; the
streaming rays darting skyward from
the dazzling street-all made more
marked the gloomy warehouses, dark
patches of almost impenetrable shadow
that on the rivers edge seemed to
fringe the glory Of it all.
Among the many displays of one sort
or another between Westminster bridge
and the Horse Guards one in particu-
lar demanded notice-that by the Lon
don and Northwestern Railway COM
rany at the corner of Bridge. and Par
lament streets-the most extensive il
Elimination by electric light to be seen
in the metropolis. There were 5000
sixteen-candle lamps arranged to out
line the building. The chief feature
was a large crown surmounting the
dome at the corner containing Six bun