San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-22


of streets and squares answered with
ringing cheers and were here and there
singing God Save the Queen" The
crowds that peopled the streets and
squares all night in hope of securing
good view of the procession today,
were amazing in their sublime patience
waiting for twelve, fourteen or sivteen
hours, as many of these people did,
damned together,is feat of endurance
which could only be sustained by some
overmastering desire. Quite half of
these Jubilee walters were women.
Some had camp stools, some sat on
projections on buildings, on curbstones
or leaned in door ways and angles
made by stands. Refreshments were
in order everywhere and the police had
little trouble, CHEEKY good humor be-
ing the note of the night. With dawn
the hope of queens weather merged
in certainty and the world here pre-
pared itself in fullest confidence for
day of pleasure. Police to the number
of eight thousand are distributed along
the line of march. The streets on the
north side of the Thames were closed
of ordinary vehicle traffic at 1880, and
in the south side at a. m. London
bridge has been closed to all traffic
since midnight and Westminster bridge
and other bridges were closed this
morning at o'clock at which hour
all persons were removed from the
two bridges.
The march began at S:45 and the
great cortege proved a welcome relief
of the waiting multitude. The roar
4 af oh fA1 hn rim on
| that the queen was among her PEG?
| pie, while the artillery In Hyde park,
| by the royal salute of sixty guns, was
| laundering the fact to waiting thou
sands elsewhere that the queen had
| actually started. The procession was
practically in three sections as far as
| st. Paul's though the last two en- route
| to the cathedral consolidated as they
entered into Picadilly. The first to
| take up the position was the colonial
procession formed on the embankment
| and it moved via Mall thence past the
palace. where her majesty viewed 1t
| from window, over the route to st.
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The main procession was headed by
| an advance party of the royal horse
guards. Then followed the band play
ing the inspiring Washington Post
March," Close upon the band came a
portion of the picturesque mounted
police as an escort to the first colonial
premier. Hon wilfred Laurier. The
| new South Wales Rifles came next es-
| corting the premier of New South
Wales. After them came the premiers
of New Zealand, Cape of Good Hope
and New Foundland with their escorts
and their respective troops in native
| uniforms. Following these came the
troops of the crown colonies, the Rho
dian Horse, Colonial infantry, London
Scottish and London Irish Rifles, vol
| unteer corps and others. Then came
the real oddities in the eyes Of London
ers of which Zaptieps from Cyprus d.
vided honors with Dykas of Borneo.
These and others coming after them
emphasized and repeated the fact of
how widely scattered are the races
over which the queen rules.
Fhe second procession passed the pail
ace fifty minutes after the colonials
had climbed Constitution hill. First
came aides-de-camp to the queen,
these being headed by the Prince of
Wales and the Duke of Cambridge
and Connaughton and the Earl of Wy
mess. Then followed the lord lieuten-
ant of London, the Duke of Westmin-
ster. The duke was followed by a gilt
tering cavalcade of officers, staff to
the field marshals. Next came officers
of the auxiliary forces in attendance
upon the Prince of Wales, military at
taches, foreign, naval and military at
taches, a brilliant lot of gentlemen
with a glittering array of titles, uni
formed in the dresses of all courts of
Europe and half its crack regiments
and wearing all its stars, followed by
the dragons guards, Queen of Great
Britain and Ireland's own. After the
Germans came the most brilliant group
of all, the soldiers and officers of the
Imperial cavalry of India
Following in five landaus came the
princes and princesses of the blood, at
tendant on the queen, succeeded by
the first part of the queens escort the
Second Life Guards. British foreign
princes passed next, and twenty-five
officers of the native Indian cavalry
and then the queens carriage drawn
by eight Hanoverian cream horses,
their postillions in richest livery.
The procession ended at Buckingham
palace at 2 p. M, after services in
Westminster abbey.
The queen has sent the following
message to the British colonies and
to India: From my heart thank my
beloved people. May God bless the.
(Signed) VICTORIA, RI.