The San Francisco call., 1897-06-22
Speech, Song and FestaI Cheer
Make Up the Varied
Programme
THOUSANDS CROWD THE CHUTEs
CASINO.
and About Banquet Board Loyal
HeaIths Are DruGk to England's
Sovereign.

queens IN ub1lee celebrat1on continued
through the day yesterday and far into
the small hours of this morning. Sports
and games, speech and song, dancing and
conviviality were include in the festivi-
ties with which the Britishers of this City
sought to celebrate the sixtieth anniver-
sary of their beloved soyereign's evsntful
reign.
Gayety and merrIment prevailed from
noon to midnight and after at the Chutes.
Crowds listened to the literary exercises
in the afternoon, but multitudes wit
messed the magnificent tableaux and
listened TO the majestic music in the
evening. Thousands marveled at the
brilliant pyrotechnic display and devoteeS
of Terpsichore by scores danced measure
after measure until the hours before the
dawn.
About banquet table, laden with all
that hospitality could offer, other Britons
partook of good cheer and pledged in
patriotic sentiments the health of her in
whose honor a grand celebration is being
held all around the world.
So by day and night the demonstration
went on. So, in the early hours of the
morning, the celebration is still going on,
and the end is not yet-nor after three
davs' festivities here in San Francisco, on
the opposite side of the world from the
great center of the universal jubilee.
A multitude thronged the Chutes yes
terday upon the occasion of the third day
of the local Victoria jubilee celebration.
From noon to midnight the merriment
continued.
During the afternoon the literary exer-
cises attracted as many as the pavilion
could hold, while those outside enjoyed
the dances in costume, the athletic sports
and the display of japanese fireworks.
Shortly after 2 O'Clock royal salute of
twentY-one guns was fred, followed by a
fanfare of trumpets. announcing that the
literary exercises were to begin When
the crowd had filed into the Casino Charles
W. Pope, chairman OF the literary COM
mittee, opened the exercises with few
brief remarks. He spoke in part as fol-
lows:
Ladies and Gentlemen: We are gathered
here on auspicious occasion to celebrate
the sixtieth anniversary of the gentle
reign of our good old Queen. To-day
wherever the English language is spoken,
whether on the plains of India, the
burning sands of Africa or in the
United States of America, her people are
gathered together and are uplifting their
voices in praise of that good woman, that
faithful wife and honored Queen, for whom
to-day from our inmost hearts we ask Gods
blessings.
Edward Oliver was introduced as presi-
dent OF the day. His brief introd uctory
remarks were followed by an invocation
by Rev. William +. Shaw.
Alfred Wiike's spirited rendition of
''The Death OF Nelson was greeted with
thunderous applause, and ne responded
with "The Red Cross Banner" as an
encore.
The orator of the day, Rev Josiah Sims
OF Nevada, was uext introduced. In the
course of an eloquent address, frequently
interrupted by loud applause. he said:
To the Anglo-saxon race, this his toric oeea-
sion is a gala day OF mex press ible interest ana
delight Love of home, liberty and recre alton
is an efervescent element in the Englishman's
composition.
On this anniversary of the sixtieth year of
her benign and prosperous reign-thls bril-
liant diamond celebration winch is being
hell not only in Westminster Abbey, but
throughout her glorious empire, from which
the sun refuses for a moment TO withdraw its
Shining-we join with the 800 100000 who
accord her a willing al!egiaucy from every
part of the United Kingdom, her Leagues in
India and in her colonial ependencies, in up
lifting the soul-stirring anthem, "God save the
Queen"
We wish to view Queen Victoria for mo-
ment as au ideal woman of the nineteenth
century. What Queen Esther of Oriental lame
was and is to-day by her moral purity and
Y,
womanly devotion 10 the descendants of A bra
ham throughout the world, Queen Victoria is
and will De to the nations OF the whole world.
The permeaung fragrance of her beautiful
personality viii keep pace with the onward
march ana progress of the centuries yet to
come.
Nations are but larger families. England
WAS ruled bout nine hundred and fifty years
by fifty-four Kings if we consider both Crom-
wells as such, and about one hundred and ten
years by four Queens-Mary. Eliza oeth. Anue
and Victoria. IL has been truthiully said hat
Elizabeth raised England more than any six
men who ever sat on its throne, and she did
it without the thunder and havoc of war. Her
plishments. in home comforts and foreign re-
spect-in noble names OF scholars, poets and
philosophers.
That beautiful galaxy of stars that made for.
ever famous the age of Elizabeth, and beyond
all others in the worlds his tory, until we
come to Nictor.a, whose reign, of course,
fairly surpasses in years, as in benefactions to
ma nkind, IN all that we hold dear, the most
happy and successiul-richer in names
greater in science, philosophy, statesman
ship, poetry, philanthropy, all, in fact, that
makes lie sweet and worth living. A virtu-
Gus woman on the throne has awakened
chiyalrous spirit among the English people,
and ! verify believe that the throne is now
jecis than it would be if man were upcn it
Her seepter has been a pacific one, at home
and abroad.
Here we are from the mistmantied highlands
OF grand ana loyal Scotland: from the castle
crowned noun tains OF genial and devoted
Wales; fl ON the shamrock and emerald land.