Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-22
Her Sovereign's Sixty Years Of Rule
Celebrated With Pomp.
4 BRILLIANT MILITARY PAGEANT
The Queen Receives Her Peoples
Homage With Evident Pleasure.
HER HEALTH SEEMS GOOD

this morning, that Is, If he went to bed at
all last night. with the firm conviction that
the most splendid day in English history
had dawned. 1t Is the day when the
greatest of English sovereigns comes. in
her own words, Ito see her people and re-
ceive their congratulations"
Eight o'clock is generally early enough
for him. but today the hour of 5 saw a
stream set in from the suburbs from ten
and even twenty miles around London.
BY O'Clock the stream had become a flood,
and the six miles of route of todays royal
procession were well filled. though by no
means dangerously packed, as the police
themselves feared.
Red, white and blue are everywhere in
flags, just 1uttering in the gentle breeze. in
bunting and in garlands of imitation flowers
hung from Venetian masts, and at every
vantage point, while carnations red roses
and blue corn flowers make up pretty
poises and buttonholes cornflowers especial
iy, as the only flower of the royal blue, be-
ing almost worth their weight in gold.
Some Fnvorite Notices.
Amid the .f1owers are many notices.
We'll played sixty not out" is the greet
ing of the ardent cricketer. and Tennyson' S
She wrought her people lasting good " is
a general favorite. Every window, every
roof every church steeple, has its occu-
pants.
And did one ever see SO good-humored
a crowd? The police and the thin red line
of sol3iers along the route have little or
nothing to do.
The weather is all it should be. Some
Jeremiahs predicted snow and sleet, and
last weeks cold winds made 1t Just pos
cool, yet bright, as some statistician has
shown that it has been for twenty years
past on June %.
The jubilee honors list published this
morning pleases every one. There were
some fears lest the vulgar ostentation OF
money bags by large donors to the Indian
famine, Prince of Wales Hospital and the
Princess of Wales dinner funds would be
recognized 1t is severely ignored. instead.
Deficiencies in the procession are in pars
remedied by the recognition of Sullivan,
Gilbert, Lecky, Tosti. Wolfe. Garry and
other leaders in the science and art of
the reign. 1t is not an ideal list. for lit
erature and industrialism are little thought
Of but it is as representative as such lists
generally are in England.
Imposing Colonial Procession.
The colonial procession, which opened the
days trIumphal event, made an imposing
show. Field Marshal Lord Roberts is the
popular "Bobs'' of the crowd, and he re-
ceived the crowds ovation as he marshaled
the colonial troops to st. Paul's Cathedral
to await the queens arrival, for the SER
vice here was the true pageant of the EN-
pire.
Men of every size and color, from the
slim, slight, yellow-skinned Singapore and
Hong Kong artillery to the bronzed, large
limbed Canadians, Australians and the
poet laureate's watch dogs of Rhodesa,
and again to the tall, coffee-colored Sikhs
and stalwart negroes Of the West Indias,
the Gold Coast and the Niger. Every color,
too, seemed to be represented in the uni
forms. The crowds, of course, shouted
themselves hcarse with cheering, and
especially when the colonial premiers with
Wilfred Laurier at their head. drove by in
state dress landaus. all of them in the
gold lace and cooked hats of queens privy
councillors, an honor only conferred upon
them this morning. Troops, people. pre-
miers were all nightly pleased with one
another.
An hours interval, and then came the
queens procession, and with it,sure enough,
there came the first sunshine of the day.
An hours blaze Of colors, nodding plumes
prancing horses and cheering crowds that
made up the queens escort.
Mr.. Rcid's Plain Clothes.
Amid it all there was one figure, and one
figure only, in plain black and white, that
of Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, whose democratic
garb was in sharp contrast to the gor-
geous uniforms of the Spanish and French
ambassadors, who were in the same car
Rage.
Among the foreign envoys should have
been Munir Pasha. If he was there his
name was discreetly omitted from the Off
cial list His attache was there, and the
wise unnoticed. The sultan's envoy may
have been there, too, hidden away among
the foreign notables, but no one knew it
and no one missed.
At last came the queen herself seated in
the same carriage with the Princess of
Wales and the Princess Christian. l have
heard many royal acclaims, but l never
heard such heartfelt cheering as the GEN.
tral hgure OF the day drove slowly by She
looked remarkable well and happy. smil-
ing and bowling to the right and left liy-
ing refutation of the silly talk cabled to
New York last week
A remarkable, probably unprecedantad
feature of the service at ST. Paurs was the
leading place given to the presidents of
dissenting bodies in the state service con-
Quoted by state churchmen. This was a
hitting sequel to the incidents of Sunday.
when Nonconformlst ministers assisted in
Anglical Cathedral services in different
parts of the country.
Message From St. PauPs.
At st. Pasils a royal message was dis
patched to the queens subjects through
out her dominions, and thereby hangs a
curious tale of empire which has perturbed
the official mind not a little during the past
few days. England's lines of cables to her
scattered empire are at the mercy of for
eigners whose territories are touched by
the wires. Thus the queens message to-
day to her own people in India, South Az
rica and the West Indies was only able to
reach its destination by the favor of Spain.
Portugal France and the United States
Now for the first time the official mind
seems to have grasped the fact of Eng
lands real telegraphic isolation which in
| time of war must place her empire in her
perilous condition. Indeed, Canada and
Newfoundland are the only colonies to
which the queen can speak directly today
without the medium of a foreign state.
PREPARING FOR THE START.