The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-23

Guard Your Throne"
The Bank of England. that hotbed Of
old fashioned British loyalty. had a SUI
perstructure of frame of amber lights
along the Threadneedle facade. within
which hung festoons of white-lit globes
fastened at short intervals with illum-
mated deeD red bows.
Here and there set pieces of cut crys-
tails broke the frame and added their
multi-coiOred CLEANS in loyal devices.
The corner at Princess street and the
corner at Bartholomew Lane supported
a crystal device. The Gercian Honey
suckle," 16 feet wide. Right across the
front of the ugly building. significant
of so much of empire. were the we'll
chosen words of England's late poet
laureate, burning in understandable
glare. as if forever,
SHE WROUGHT HER PEOPLE
LASTING GOOD"
Turning from the bank to the Liver
pool. London & Globe building, at the
apex of Corn Hill and Lombard streets.
the structure from basement TO roof
was outlined in red and blue and gold.
The clock, familiar to all Americans
who ever came to the city. was sur
rounded by six circular boxes of flame
shining through cOlored glass The
windows and roof were also outlined in
exquisite blue and gold settings. Old
sightseers pronounced the scene one of
artistic brilliancy in illumination, I'M
surpassed even by the fets for the car
in Paris, or for him at Moscow.
Father Thames tonight furnished an
impreSSiOniSt color scene The sweep
seward 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. Paufs
shadows of 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 streets-made more
marked the gloomy warehouses, dark
patches of almost impenetrable shadow.
that on the rivers edge seemed to
fringe
THE GLORY OF TT ALL.
Among the many displays OF one sort
or another between Westminster bridge
and the Horse Guards. one in parricu-
lar demanded notice-that by the Lon
don & Northwest Railway company. at
the corner of Bridge and Parliament
streets-the most extensive illumination
by electric light to be seen in the me-
tropolis There are 5000 l6-calile lamps
arranged to outline the buil1ing- The
chief feature was a large crown sur
mounting the dome at the corner. con-
tanning 600 lamps. They were mostly
white. but the jewels in the crown. the
orb and cross. were shown by clusters
of colored lights. The columns sup
porting the dome were picked out in
white and there horizontal lines of light
over each floor with lines vertically on
the Bridge and Parliament street 'front.'
ages, in large letters of white light in
itials in ruby, the words: Longest,
Noblest, Wisest Reign" stretched
around both frontages. EnOrn ous gas
flares over the parapet Of each frontage
COMPLETED the scene.
Out of the professional streets there
were thousands of devices scattered
through greater London of every kind
and description, from the gorgeous
electric and gas glories in cut crystals
of west end squares to row OF tallow
dips in DeptfOrd slums. or among the
laundry colonies of Acton.
The railway stations were we'll cared
for: the loyal tradesmen were lit up
as usual; hotels were equally TO the
front. .
UNITED STATES EMBASSY.
Victoria street was notable for the
of the United States en-
bassy and the offices of the colonial
agents generally. The most prominent
and successful of these was that
erected by Sir Donald Smith at the
Canada office, in which the shield and
armorial bearings OF the Dominion
were surrounded by the names of the
provinces painted on white glass and
Illuminated so as to show bouquet of
color.
All the stately houses in Carlton
House terrace. including Mrs. Mackay's
and Mr.. William Waldorf Astor's, are
a blaze of light. but the two splendid
mansions occupied by Americas two
Colonel Hays house on
one side and Mr.. Whitelaw Reds on
the other. were especially brilliant and
called forth many approving comments.
The two houses were Illuminated in
the same design. The familiar big
". R" was surmounted by crown
and the dates ''1S37-1S97- On either !
side of the center of the design was
a large American shield surmounted by
the eagle and with the significant
of IS stars in the shield. and
from both houses large American hags
hung.
With Examinations universal in every /
town and hamlet of England, Wales !
and Scotland and in some parts of Ire {
land. with fireworks in countless
places. with Examinations following
the fall of night in every part OF the
empire where the queen has sway
there still remains to be mentioned the
final touch-the lighting OF the empires
torch-the ancient form of giving warn .
ing or sending joy
BY BEACON LIGHTS.
As 10 o'clock struck at the Greenwich
a solitary flame shot upward from
Great Malvern, the backbone of the
militants."
Il was the jubilee beacon fire. Hard I
" had the spectator time TO look on 1t /
before many fiared in the distance on
the right and on the left, on the north, ,
south, east and west.
Peak answered to peak. until from
Berwick to RoughtOre and
Brown Willie in Cornwall. from the
cathedral towers of Litchfield, WOrces- +
ter. Ripon, Lincoln and Durham, from .
Sl,iddaw to St. Heliers, from Hastings I
to Caderiris and across the water 20
Donegal and Dublin. a thousand beacon +
fires bIazed up their message of loyalty 3
to the sovereign. Half an hour later
he lowlands, the highlands, the wild
Hebrides, even to Ultima Thule, sent
answering signals to the sky. And
then slowly as the light failed from
1av 10 evening round the world the
empires torch was lit