The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-23

minister replied. Your majesty has | but to look around. Everywhere is the | answer ". R. ". R." The floral fes- l toons of the tall columns were also it. ] luminated with prismatic gas globes, l while on the balcony steps were nine | candelabra of pTismatic gas lamps, ! each containing thirty lights. At the | top of the, side elevation of the Man. l sion House was a radiant sun in open | gas with the royal monogram-the monogram of the happy people w. R., v | ''V. R." Twelve flaring tripods adorned l the roof and two notices stood out boldly in letters of light; Long Live | Our Queen," God Guard Your Throne"
 The Bank of England, that hotbed | of old fashioned British loyalty, had a | superstructure or frame of amber lights l along the Threadneedle facade, within which hung festoons of white lit globes | fastened at short intervals with illum- | ined deep red bows. Here and there l set pieces of cut crystals broke the | frame and added their multi colored | gleams in loyal devices. The corner at l Princes street and the corner at Bar | tholomeW Lane supported a crystal de- vice, "The Grecian Honeysuckle," six | teen feet wide. Right across the front of the ugly building, significant of so l much of empire, were the well chosen words of England's last poet laureate. 1 burning in undisturbable glare, as if forever: .She wrought her people last ing goodP The monster painting of l Professor Legros was so well lit by all | the contributing lights that it seemed surprisingly appropriate to night deco ration. Turning from the bank to the Liverpool, London and Globe building, at the apex of Cornhill and Lombard | streets, the structure from basement to l roof was outlined in red and blue and | gold. The clock familiar to all Ameri- cans who ever came to the city was | surrounded by six circular boxes of | flame shining through colored glads. l The windows and roof were also out lined in exquisite blue and gold set tings.
 At the opposite corner of Prince | street the Equitable Insurance building | was illuminated in nearly the same color scheme-blue and red and gold. | The Union bank had the main lines and cornice picked out in lines of open gas, | the windows with multi-colored gas lamps. Old sightseers pronounced the scene as one of artistic brilliancy in il- lumination unsurpassed even by the fetes for the czar in Paris or for him at Moscow.
 Passing the monument with it's long festoons of colored lanterns on to Lon- don Bridge with curves outlined by col ored lights and arches crowned with opal candelabra, noting en passant the river frontage of the Fishmongers' hall, its pillars, pediment and roof picked out in colored lamps, the sightseer was fore ed to pause before the unusual beauty I of the river Father Thames tonight furnished an impressionist color scheme. The sweep seaward from the Pool-myriad lights here and there just | touching into ghostly form the ship ping, the Tower, the heavy lines be- yond on the long necklace of simmer ing gems away towards Westminster, with St. NPaups bathed in some fairy flood of light high above blue and deep blue shadows of the silent waters, the small string of colored lamps on some | wandering tug or cumbrous barge, lines of lucent color on nearby bridges, | the streaming rays darting skyward from the dazzling streets-made more marked the gloomy warehouses, dark patches of almost impenetrable shad- oW that on the rivers edge seemed to fringe the glory of 1t all.
 Crossing to the Sarry side the deco rations were not naturally so numerous or costly. One or two points were note- worthy. The lamp posts in front of St.
 Saviors, Southwark, were treated with o11t orvai io1 yaoyocaptipor dnuore vestry of St. Savior's, Southwark
 were treated with cut crystals repre-
 senting flowers. The vestry of St.
 Saviors displayed an oval aborescent medallion in gas, with transparent cameo portrait of the queen in the cen
 ter. The royal arms were also intro- duced in the design.
 Among the many displays of one sort or another between Westminster bridge and the Horse Guards, one in particu-
 lar demanded notice-that by the Lon don and Northwestern Railway com pany at the corner of Bridge and Par
 liament streets-the most extensive H. lumination by electric light to be seen
 in the metropolis. There are 5000 16- candle lamps arranged to outline the
 building. The chief feature was a large crown SuTmOuntlng the QOne, the OrD and cross, were shown by cluster of colored lights. The columns supporting the dome were picked out in white and there were horizontal lines of light over each floor with lines vertically on the Bridge and Parliament street front ages in large letters of white light-ini- tials in ruby, the words, Longest, ,Nob-
 lest, Wisest Reign" stretched around
 both frontages Enormous gas flames over the parapet of each frontage com pleted the scheme.
 Out of the processional streets there
 were thousands of devices scattered
 through greater London of every kind and description, from the gorgeous cleo
 tric and gas glories in cut crystals of
 West End squares to row of tallow dips in Dorpford slums or among the laundry colonies of Acton. The rail
 way stations were well cared for, all
 the royal tradesmen were Lit up'' as usual, hotels were equally to the front
 Victoria street was notable for the il-
 lumination of the United States em-
 bassy and the offices of the Colonial Agents General The most prominent and successful of these was that erect ed by Sir Donald Smith at the Canada office, in which the shield and armoriaI | hlarinpz nf ba nOv,1i17ioT1