The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-03

every part of the colonies. The rest of |
the cavalcade will be made up Of for
eign royalties and representatives,
home and colonial officials and the |
Queens ladies, all with their appropri-
ate military escorts.
THE PROCESSION.
Leaving buckingham Palace about II |
a. M, the procession will wind its way |
up Constitution Hill to Piccadilly, |
where Il will turn east past Apsley |
House-the nations present to the |
Iron Duke"-past rows of magnificent |
private houses and palatial clubs until |
it reaches st. James street, where 1T
may perhaps turn down hill past more |
clubs, past the dull red battlements of
st. James Palace. past Marlborough
House, the home of the Prince of Wales,
and so through Pail Mall and Cockspur
street into Trafalgar Suare. 1t is pos
sible, however that instead of turning
down st. James street, the procession
may continue along Piccadilly, past the
Academy, to Regent Circus and turn
ing down the lower end of Regent
street, reach Trafalgar Square by way
of Waterloo Place and Cockspur street,
thus depriving the clubs of an oppor-
tunity to display their loyalty, but
pleasing the storekeepers. From ira
falgar Square the procession will wend
it's way along the STRAND" the chosen
home of the Thespan and Bohemian,
until 1t reaches the ancient boundaries
of the city of London, where a monu-
ment surmounted by a brazen griffin
| marks the former site of Temple Bar
A score of years ago the Queen would
have been met at this spot by the Lord
Mayor and corporation with an address
of welcome, but on this occasion the
address will be reserved until after the
ceremony at st. Paul's, when the Man
sion House Is reached. From the law
courts it is practically a straight line
down Fleet street, the home of the Lon
| don dailes, and up Ludgate Hill to the
| Cathedral.
TICKETS OF ADMISSION.
The magnificent proportions Of st.
| Paul's are lost sight of in the pent-up
| circle of dingy houses that surround it.
| The only fair view that one gets is on
| approaching it from the west, but the
recent restoration of Queen Anne
statue, which stands before il, will pre-
vent the procession from driving up to
| these doors. Instead, the Queen will go
| to the northern entrance. 1t has been
suggested that after the fatiguing drive
| the Queen will hardly descend from
| her carriage and walk up the long flight
! of steps which lead to the nave of the
! cathedral, but that the ceremony VIII
! take place under a canopy erected out
| side. The Queen, however, is great
| stickler for forms, especially in the case
| of religious ones, and 1t is not unlikely
that she may decide, after all, to brave
the steps and not allow so trifling a
matter to interfere with the proper OBJ
servance of the ceremony.
The immense open space before the
| west front has been entirely reserved
by the Lord Chamberlain, which means
that only those who have been present.
| ed at court will be able to obtain tick
| cts of admission to this desirable spot
The cathedral service will undoubted-
| ly be a short one. and after its conclu-
sion the procession will wend its way
to the Mansion House, where the Lord
Mayor will provide the tired cavalcade
with rest and refreshments. The jour
ney back will probably pass along the
Thames embankment.
AN EvENTFUL REIGN.
VI all the multltuueS VINO Will tHlOnS
the street that day none will have more
curious food for reflection than Queen
Victoria, Born on the oath day of May,
1919, she has outlived all who were her
early counselors, and of the crowned
heads who were alive at the time Of her
coronation in 1887 not one remains to-
day. She remembers with horror the
assassination of two presidents of the
| TTpitpH nrnSi1antS Of the
French republic, the Car of Russia,
the Emperor MaXimilian, a Sultan of
Turkey, the Shah of Persia, besides
other less notable national heads. She
has witnessed the dethronement OF the
emperor of the French; she alone, happy
in her husband, her children and the
love of her people, remains to give
thanks for a long period of peace and
. happiness-a longer period than any
, other of her predecessors.
, Sixty long years, in which the world
has moved forward at a rate and to a
point deemed impossible a century ago
. Not that the times have always been
peaceful. The smoke of Trafalgar and
: Waterloo had barely blown away when
= she commenced her reign. The Grim
can war and the Indian mutiny were
: trying times for her, and in the course
t of years she has had the most astute
! diplomats of the world to contend with