The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-20

in prices. Perhaps there has been a
slight slackening in the inquiries for
windows, due to the fact that Specula-
tors have apparently a. sufficient sup
ply on hand for the moment, but seats
are being sold in considerable num-
berS and at rates which are invariably
higher than those obtaining in the cele-
bration Of a decade ago. Seventy-f1ve
to 500 is the average price for front
seats on ground or first floors in the
best seats of the West end, but chairs
in less favored positions in the same
thoroughfares are to be had at from
five to ten guineas.
Here and there the tickets for seats
include the provision of luncheon, an
arrangement which is likely to prove
very convenient. The jubilee bureau
has secured frontage in st. James
street in the form Of the. show rooms of
a well-knOwn coach building firm. Here
seats which command a view Of al
most the full length Of the street have
been let for as much as forty and
fifty guineas apiece, which is in the
neighborhood of 5000 and $3.50. In Pail
Mall the bureau has sold ground floor
seats at prices ranging from four TO
twenty guineas, in the Strand at from
four to fifteen guineas, and in West
minister bridge road and the Borough
at from two to six guineas.
$3.50 for half window, while three
windows in particular good location
have sold for $4,000. 1t is not the En-
glishmen who are paying these prices.
Let our British cousins talk Of Yankee
thrift as they will, at no time in any
city of the United States, upon any
occasion, have the visitors been as I'M
mercifully mulcted as they are being
and will be in London until the jubilee
becomes history Never was the pur
suit of the almighty dollar more agile.
If many a fortune is not made in Lon
don this month, it will not be the fault
Of those who have the power Of fixing
prices.
A charming idea was brought to my
attention the other day in connection
with the jubilee. 1t is the arrange
ment which has practically been per-
fected to light, in every county Of the
United kingdom, at 10 o'clock the morn
ing Of June %, huge pile of in
fammable material which shall de-
velop into premium bon fire. It is a
great way Of celebrating in England
to have bonfres Every American who
has read the stories Of the English cleo
lions remembers that sentence which
tells Of bonfires blazing in every coun-
ty, Ordinarily, that would be an ex-
aggeration. This year it will be a
literal truth and cheers and smoke will
lagos Of the island.
And the celebrations. Just sit down
and think Of every sort Of jubilation
Of which you ever heard. Then add
hundred per cent to that and you will
have a faint idea of the schemes that
are in progress to observe the queens
anniversary. Not the least among
them will be that of the Salvation
Army. Gen. Booth promises that in all
the history Of his organization there
never have been such "volleys'' fired
as there will be on the 22nd of June.
Of course the Salvation Army is an
imitation of the British army in q way,
and every soldier, not only in the
British empire, but elsewhere, will be
expected to shout "Hallelujah," and
God Save the Queen" I wonder how
that will please some Of the American
converts. We have no objection, you
know, to singing God Save the
queens! when we wish to-not that l
am convert-but to have to sing it;
well, that is different
The lone exception, the black sheep,
or the one eve lamb, whichever you
prefer to call 1t, that is going to flock
by itself, as it were, and stand off in
a corner and turn it's back on the rest
Of us, is the Irish party. With much
pomp and eclat the members Of that
organization have resolved that they
will not celebrate the queens jubilee,
but will go into retirement and pray
for the forgiveness Of the sins-of
others. This is the one thing needed
to make the observance natural For
the Irish party to agree to anything
that the queen and the majority ap-
prove, would simply be too unnatural
to warrant belief. The Irish
party in the house of COM
mons reminds me OF nothing so