The record-union., 1897-06-22
Victoria Meets With Great Reception on
Her Arrival at London.
Enormous Crowds Throng the Streets
of the Metropolis.
Her Majesty Receives the Imperial
and Royal ENJOYS at Buckingham
Palace at Dinner Her
Most Distinguished Guests.

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! LONDON, June 21-The Queen is
! now in London. An immense crowd
gathered near Paddington Station in
| the early hours OF this morning and
waited with stolid patience.
Queen Victoria left Windsor Castle
at noon by the sovereigns entrance,
facing the long entrance and traversed
part of the high Thames streets of the
Windsor on her way to the railway
station. Her majesty's carriage was
drawn by pair of grays, with postill-
| ions and outriders.
The Queen was accompanied by her
eldest daughter, ex-Empress Frederick,
of Germany, and by Princess Christian
of Schleswig-H olstein and Princess
Henry of Battenburg, who occupied
another carriage, preceding that of her
majesty
The Queen on arriving at the railroad
station of Windsor walked through the
private waiting room leaning on the
arm Of an Indian attendant, and by a
sloping gangway entered her salon car
riage.
The early hours were enlivened by
the pealing of bells and in the morning
breeze everywhere f1oated the royal
standard. The first point of interest in
the days proceedings was Windsor,
where by g o'clock the short route lead
ing from the castle to the Great West
ern Railway station was lined by
mass of people gathered to see the
Queen start.
Flags and flowers were everywhere,
and the order of the day, God Save the
Queen" appeared on houses and ban
ners without end. The statue of the
Queen near the castle was decorated
and gorgeously canopied in the Renais-
sance style and all Venetian masts.
with their fluttering pennons, lined both
sides Of the route
AT II o'clock the Queen left the castle.
The railway station was beautifully
decorated IN scarlet and gold, flowers
IN bloom and tall, artistic palms. The
queen was received by the Directors of
the railway. The Queens Train
used for the first time to-day-was
drawn up close to the entrance door
Paddlngton was reached at 1890.
Hefe the immense terminus had been
transformed on the up side into hall
OF respondent crimson, garlanded with
fringe gold, fragrant with the odors of
countless blossoms, walled on either
side by parterres of people, The state
carriages from Buckingham Palace
were at the end of the covered way.
AS soon as the Queen had taken her
seat the Life Guards drew UP in front
as roar of cheers proclaimed to wait.
ing thousands beyond that she had
arrived Before starting a loyal adj
oress was presented by the Rev. Wal
ter Abbott, Vicar of Paddington and
chairman of the Paddington vestrv
VINO was accompanied by the two
members Of Parliament for Padding
ton.
The Queen graciously received tbe
address presented to her by the Vicar
OF Faddlngton and handed back 10 him
written reply, expressing qualification
at the generous instincts of her peon1e
toward the poor, aged, sick and young
and produced such remarkable results
The late Prince consort like berseIf
the reply of her majesty continued
manifested great interest in charitable
institutions and her children shared
that feeling which formed not the
weakest tie between herself and her
people.
The first triumphal arch was very
handsome castellated structure in inoi-
tation of graystone, covered with WV
and bore the motto, Thy Hearts Are
Our Throne
The second triumphal arch was at
the bottom of the Edgeware road and
not at the marble arch. It was COW
cred with crimson cloth. flowers and
flags and hn1-a hn
Our Queen
Nearing Piccadilly the Queen saw for
the first time the conspicuous evidence
OF what had been prepared for the
morrow. The grim gray walls of Ape
ley House were gone in a profusion of
decoration, the grand stand at the side
and front OF it garlanded with flowers,
flags and notices, stood crowded with
some of the Queens nobility, no less
exuberant in their welcome than that
from the packed windows and roof of
ST. Georges Hospital and the stands in
front, full of the Queens commoners.
Through Burtons Gate the Queen
passed on to the garden entrance of
buckingham Palace, always between
the living lanes of her subjects, always
the object of endless homage and sail
NOS VI thCCio, WHICH continued until
the gates had shut the Queen from
view
This afternoon at o'clock in the
Bow drawing-room of Buckingham
Palace her majesty received the i'm
perial and royal ENJOYS
The Queen at 8 O'Clock tonight en-
tertained at dinner ninety of her most
distinguished guests.
After the dinner the Queen proceed
ed to the grand salon to receive the
diplomatic corps and some of the more
distinguished of the special guests
Here again the scene was brilliant in
the extreme. To the royal and princely
guests of the banquet We're added En-
bassadors and Ministers. ENJOYS and
suites in the variegated uniforms and
dress of all the courts of Europe. a
Kaleidoscope dazzling scene of color
beneath the profusely enriched ceiling.
with its tail Corinthian columns of pur-
pie scagliola.
If the streets tonight can be taken
as forecast for tomorrow. Queens
Day will be signalized by the assem-
bling in London of not less than s.
coo 900 human beings. At all the Lon
don termini since early morning people
have been pouring into the metropolis
in thousands. And for thousands there
is no other shelter than the streets. But