The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-23

the palace, announced that the colonial
procession had started. At the same time
the special ENJOYS who were to take part
in the procession began arriving in the
great quadrangle.
United States Special Envoy, the Hon.
Whitelaw Reid, was the first to appear.
He drove in accompanied by one of the
royal equerries, the latter being all gold,
scarlet and feathers, while Mr.. Reid was
quietly attired, wearing an inverness coat,
an opera hat and white tie. He drove
up to the great door of the palace, where
he was saluted in passing by a dozen
men in gold and was escorted to the wait
ing room by the master of the ceremonies,
Colonel the Hon. Sir VIM. James Col
vile.
A minute or so later General Nelson A.
Miles, representing the United States
army, rode up on splendid horse, and
in full uniform. He fingered for mo-
ment there without any one attending to
him, and then rode out.
After leaving the quadrangle, General
Miles took his place in the procession
with the naval and military attaches, in
alphabetical order, beginning with Aus
tria and ending with the United States.
General Miles, representing the United
States army, rode with General Lagren,
representing the President of France, NJ.
Faure, these two officers bringing up the
rear of the portion of the procession
formed by the military attaches.
BY 1920 a. m. the ENJOYS carriages
were loaded and took up their position
in the center of the quadrangle. Shortly
arIe tba nnrh al a p
rived and it had hardly come to a stand
still when the landaus with the ladies
and lords in waiting and the Princesses
were in their allotted positions. All the
ladies wore light toilettes of blue, green,
lilac and pink, the latest Partisan
dainties.
Then the ENJOYS landaus started. The
Princes next mounted their horses and
ranged themselves in groups of threes.
At 1910 a. m. a hustle on the main
staircase announced the coming of Her
Majesty.
Queen Victoria slowly descended the
stairs, assisted by scarlet clad and
white turban Indian attendant. She was
dressed in black, wore a black bonnet.
trimmed with white and carried a white
sunshade.
AT the foot of the stairway Her Ma
jesty paused for a minute and touched
an electric button connected with all
the telegraphic systems throughout the
British empire and it flashed around the
world the message:
From my heart, I thank my beloved
people. May God bless them"
Her Majesty then slowly seated herself
in her carriage, the royal trumpeters
sounded a fanfare, the Prince of Wales,
Joined the Queen and then the Princess
Christian Of Schleswig- Holstein joined
the party.
The procession was the most brilliant
affair of it's kind ever witnessed in Lon
don and represented all the nations over
which Her Majesty rules Everywhere
the Queen was received with the widest
enthusiasm.
At Temple Bar the Lord Mayor and
city officials received Her Majesty. Ap-
preaching her carriage, His Lordship.
with all due abeisance, presented the
hilt OF the city's pearl sword which was
undrawn. This was the ancient cere-
mony OF dutiful submission. The Queen
lightly touched it, thus returning it to
the Lord Mayor in token that his sub
mission was graeiously accepted by his
sovereign. Her Majesty then command
ed the Lord Mayor and sheriffs to pro-
ceed. The sheriffs took their places with
the aldermen and commoners, ilnme-
diately after the field marshals; the Lord
Mayor rode bare headed Immediately
before the first part OF the soyereigns
escort OF life guards and the procession
ii a
cheers that seemed in the narrow streets
to be echoed and re-echoed
After the services at st. Paups in
which the Arch Bishop of Canterbury
and other leading clergy participated, the
Queen returned to the Palace. She was
very much pleased and smiling and not
over-fatigued. The whole affair passed
off without a hitch.
Tonight London was Illuminated on a
grand scale.
With illnminations which are universal
in every city, town and hamlet Of Eng
land, Wales and Scotland, and in some
parts OF Ireland, there yet remains to
be mentioned the final touch--the light
ing Of the empires torch-the ancient
form OF giving warning or sending joy,
the beacon fires. AS ten O'Clock struck
at the Greenwich observatory tongue
of fame shot upward from Great Mall
vern, "The backbone of the midlands."
1t was the jubilee beacon fire. Hardly
had the spectator time to look on it be-
fore another fared In the distance on
the right, then again on the left, on the
north, south, east and west.
Peak answered to peak until from
Berwick-on-Tweed to Rough Tor and
Brown Willie in Cornwall, from the
Cathedral towers Of Lichfeld, Worces-
ter, Ripon, Lincoln, and Durham, from
Skiddaw to ST. Heliers, from Hastings
to Cader Iris, and across the water to
Donegal and Dublin, thousand beacon
fires blazed up their message of loyalty
to the sovereign. Half an hour later
the lowlands, the highlands, the wild
Hebrides even to Netima Thule, sent
answering signals to the sky. And then
slowly as the light failed from day to
evening, round the world, the empires
torch was lit.
A COUNTER DEMONSTRATION.