The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-06-24
ADDRESSES TO QUEEN.
Members cf Parliament Pre-
sented Them This Morning.
GARDEN PARTY THIS AFTERNOON.
Beacon Lights Flashed Around the World
Last Night In Every British Province.
Grand whitelaw Reid
Took Princess Victoria to Dinner.

LONDON, June 23-The queen re.
ceived addresses from the houses of
parliament this morning. This after.
noon the queen attended the garden
party at Buckingham palace for which
5000 invitations had been issued. This
evening the queen will attend royal
banquet at the palace. Home and for.
eign royalties will attend Lady Sails.
bury's bail at the fore gn office.
The illuminations of London and the
British empire in honor of the queen
occurred last night. The illuminations
were achieved more artistically than
the decoratio by day. Last night
those of the IN. tropolis were like every
thing that had previously transpired
during the morning hours, greater and
more resplendant than anything in her
history. The symbols of royalty 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 fiaring gas, ,glowworm oil lamps,
opal globes, paper lanterns and trans
parencies, incandescent lamps, cgllu.
loid flowers, and hume reds of devices
in thousands of color6d crystals. Every
thing was brilliancy, sparkle, color.
With illuminailonS which were uni
versal in every city, town and hamlet
of England, Wales and Scotland. and
in some parts of Ireland, with fireworks
in countless places with illuminations
following the fall of night in every part
of the empire where the queen has
sway, there yet remains to be men,
nj ne
the empires torch the ancient form of
giving warning or sending joy, the
beacon fires. AS 10 o'clock struck at
the Greenwich observatory tongue of
flame shot upward from Great Malvern,
"the backl one of the midlands." 1t
was the jubilee beacon fire.
Hardly had the spectator time to
look on 1t before another flared in the
distance on the right, then again on the
left, on the north, south, east ana west
Peak answered TO peak until from Ber-
wick. on. Tweed to Rough Tor and
Brown Willie in Cornwall, from the
Cath' raj towers of Ltchfeld, WorceS-
ter, RipOn, Lincoln and Durham, from
Skiddaw to st. Heliers, from Hastings
TO Cader Iris and across the water TO
Donegal and Dublin, 1000 beacon fires
bla2ed on their messages of loyalty TO
the sovereign.
Half an hour later the lowlands. the
highlands, the wild hebrides even to
Netima Thule sent answering signals to
the sky. Aud then slowly, as the light
failed from day to evening around the
world, the empires torch was lit. From
st. Heliers the signal leaped to Gibral-
tar, to Malta, to Cyprus, to CeyIon, to
India, where it blazed triumphantly ON
the Himilayans-to China, to Australia,
to Canada, to the West Indies-the en-
pires torch shed its radiance over the
universe.
At the special open. air services at St
PauPs cathedral Rear Admiral j. n.
Miller, U. 5. N, had seat assigned |
next TO Mrs. Reid. the wife of the |
United States special envoy and just |
the spot where the queen |
stopped, but at the last moment Ad- |
miral Miller was prevented by the serl-
Dus illness of his daughter from attend
ing. Commander Emery of the United |
States cruiser Brooklyn was present in |
full uniform, as were all the members |
Of the special embassy except General |
Nelson A. Miles and his aide de- camp, |
Captain Max p. Maus, who rode in the |
Whitelaw Reid, the United States |
special enyov, when questioned on the |
subject of the jubilee, said:
Etiquette forbids me from discuss.
ng the jubilee ceremonial, but you
may say it was extraordinarily success
tul in every way"
At the lord chamberlain's Office your
representative was informed that on
ler return to Buckingham palace, after
he procession, the queen and all the
'oyal family expressed the greatest de-
light and satisfaction at the fact that
everything had passed so successfully.
There were many expressions of sat.
sfaction that the carriage of the United
States special envoy Mr.. Reid, had
1een so warmly received. 1t was con-
'idered largely due to President Nc.
<inley's cordial letter in congratulate
ng her majesty upon the siStieth ami.
rersary of her accession to the throne.
Every intention to honor the United
States special ambassador has been dis
played. For this reason Mr.. Reid took
he Princess Victoria of Wales in to
Inner Monday evening, sitting at the
able of and opposite the Duke of
SAKE. .Coburg and Gotha.
In addition, Queen Victoria received
Mrs. Reid most cordially and, at the re-
,eption In the ballroom, she gave the
wife Of thn ITnifpd States sponiol onyDy