The record-union., 1897-06-23

ave costumes of long ago and the Royal
Niger Haussas, in uniforms Of Kharlzl
cloth, trousers exposing the leg and
shaved heads, were all blacks. The
Haussas, the blackest of the black,
wearing the FURNISHED livery of the
sun, We're most enthusiastically greeted.
The second procession passed the pal
ace fifty minutes after the Colonials
had climbed Constitution Hill. 1t more
than eloquently filled in the picture of
Britafn's war strength; more than mag
nificently completed the carnival of
gorgeous costume and color Scarlet
and blue, gold, white and yellow, shin
ing cuirassiers, helmets, pIumes and
tassels, furs and gold and silver-span-
gled cloths; bullion embroideries and
accoutrements; splendid trappings and
more splendid trappings for men,
crosses and medals-medals for the
Crimea, India, Seringapalm, the Nile,
Ashanti, Afghanistan, Chitral, South
Africa and dozens of others, and here
and there, the finest of them all, the
finest and most highly priced the world
can show, the Victoria Cross, death
dealing weapons, swords and revolvers
Batteries of artillery, men of splendid
physique and horses with rare action,
fully entered into the spirit and mean
ing of it all. The sight was one to stir
the blood as only soldiers have stirred
it since the dawn Of time. The troops
were literally too numerous to men
ton, except as a brilliant whole. 1t
seemed like nothing so much as some
stream of FURNISHED gold flowing be-
tween dark banks of humanity, gath
cred to witness its passage to a land
Of light
The empire had passed in review, and
the head of it all was not to come, her
majesty. The royal procession proper
was interviewer with crowds of digni-
taries of all sorts
First came the aides -de-camp to the
Queen, these being headed by the
Prince of Wales and the Dukes of Cam
bridge and Connaught and the Earl of
Weymss. Then followed all the Lord
Lieutenants of London, his grace, the
Duke of Westminster K c., IN a Lord
LieutenantS dress. The Duke was fol-
lowed by a cavalcade of officers, the
headquarters staff. To them succeeded
Field Marshals. Next came officers of
the auxiliary forces in attendance on
H. R. H, the Prince of Wales-equer-
ries, gentlemen in waiting and military
attaches, a brilliant lot of gentlemen
with a glittering array, uniformed in
all the dress of the courts of Europe
and wearing all its stars. Then a COM
plement from the Kaiser, a deputation
from the First Prussian Dragon
Guards
STREETS AND DECORATIONS
The crowds that peopled the streets
and squares all night in the hope of a
good view of the procession to-day were
amazing in their sublime patience
Waiting for twelve, fourteen and six
teen hours, as many of those people
are doing, jammed together, is a feat
OF endurance that could only be sus-
tained by some over1nastering desire
Quite half of these jubilee walters were
women, many of them with the pale
carewOrn look of London women, yet
all enduring the back breaking tedious
ness with the utmost good nature
Some had camp-stools, some sat on pro-
jectiOns of buildings, on curbstones or
leaned in dOorWayS and the angles
made by stands. Refreshments were in
order everywhere and the police had
little trouble, CHEEKY good humor being
the note of the night. During the long
hours snatches of song and occasional
bursts of cheering showed that the
people were determined to enjoy the
festival of patriotism and loyalty to
the utmost. A clear, starlit sky and
cool air kept the spirits of the crowd at
the topmOst point throughout the vigil.
With the dawn the hope of Queens
weather merged into certainty and the
world here rod in
confidence for a day of pleasure.
The earliest active indications of the
great event-aDart from the people
awaiting twas, shortly before 6
o'clock, the arrival of vestry carts to
freshly gravel the roadways after the
fashion which prevailed in the good old
days of Sam Pepys. Then little later
the inevitable precursor of any process
sion, the police, began to arrive in great
numbers, 5000 being distributed along
the line of march.
The streets in the north side of the
Thames were closed to ordinary vehi-
cles and traffic at 730 on the south
side at s a. m. London bridge had been
closed to all traffic at midnight and
Westminster bridge and other bridges
at this morning, at which hour all
persons were removed from Westmin-
ster and London bridges
The first great difficulty of the police
was assisting owners of seats on stands.
and houses to get to them, they being
permitted to drive TO them up to 10
O'Clock, for there was a vast interval
between title to a seat and actual
possession. The crowds on the side
wa lhS were quite willing tO give ma So
age to the favored mortals who owned
seats. but to do so was difficult. 1t was
an attempt to divide six into four with
no remainder. And the difficulty was
further increased by the arrival of the
troops, after $50, taking up their ap-
pointed places The wise, however, had
reached their seats in stands or obtained
access to houses where they had bought
windows by I o'clock to 7:30. 1t was
only the inevitable late callers who had
to push and struggle, in the case of Ia
dies much to the damage of their toll
cites. At length order was evolved out
of chaos, many of the extreme late
comers were peremptorily shut out and
everybody settled down to wait. The
picture was complete. The last touches
of decorator, uDholsterer and florist
had been given the fine effect of the
decorations could be viewed, the faces
We're in their places.
Decoration for her maiesty's Jubilee
has been universal and without stint
Could the Queen have passed this
morning through some of the wretched
streets of her great London, some of
those narrow. ill-favored alleys where