The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28
MARK rwA1N oN rHE JUBILEE.
IFrom the New York Journal

I got to my seat IN the Strand JUST IL
time-f1ve minutes past 1O-for a glance
around before the show began Inc
I houses opposite, as far as the eye could
reach in both directions suggested
boxes in a theater. snugly packed Inc
gentlemen next to me Hkened the
groups to beds of flowers and Sa1d ne
had never seen such a massed and null
titudinous array of bright colors ana
fine clothes.
These displays rose up and up, story
by story, all balconies and windows pc
ing packed, and also the battlements
stretching along the roofs me Slde-
walks were filed with standing people
but were not uncomfOrtably crowded
They were fenced from the roadway
by relocated soldiers, a double stripe
of vivid color which extended through-
out the six miles which the procession
would traverse.
Five minutes later the head of the
column came into view, and was pres
entity filing by, led by Captain AmeS,
the talIest man in the British army.
And then the cheering began. 1t took
me but little while to determine that
this procession could not be described
There was going to be too much OF II
and too much variety in it, 50 1 gave
up the idea. 1t was to be a spectacle
for the kodak, not the pen.
Presently the procession was without
visible beginning or end but stretched
to the limit of sight in both directions
bodies of soldiery in blue, followed by
a block of soldiers in buff, then a block
/ OF IGQ d DIOCh Ol DulLs d DtOCtA VI y Ct
low, and so on, an interminable drift
of sWaying and swinging splOtches Of
| strong color sparkling and flashing with
! shifty light reflected from bayonets,
( lanceheads, brazen helmets and bur
nished breastplates. For varied and
beautiful uniforms and unceaSing sur
prises in the way of new and unexpect-
! ed spIendors it much surpassed any pa
geant that 1 had ever seen.
I was not dreaming of so stunning a
! show. All the nations seemed to be
fling by. They all seemed to be rep
/ resented It was a sort of alIegOricaI
suggestion of the Last Day, and some
who live to see that day will probably
recall this one if they are not too much
I disturbed in mind at the time.
There were five bodies of oriental
/ soldiers of five different nationalities,
with complications differentiated by five
distinct shades of yellow. There were
about a dozen bodies OF black soldiers
( from various parts of Africa, whose
/ compilations covered as many shades
of black, and some of these were the
/ very blacklist people have ever seen
yet
Then there was an exhaustive exhi-
/ bition of the hundred separate brown
/ races Of India, the most beautiful and
| satisfying of all the compilations that
{ have been vOuchsafed to man, and the
/ one which best sets off colored clothes
and best harmOnizes with all tints
/ The Chinese, the Japanese, the Core
/ ans, the Africans, the Indians, the Pa
I CHIC SldnQeIS-Jney were all there, and
/ with them samples of all the whites
( that inhabit the wide reach of the
queens dOminions.
The procession was the human race
/ on exhibition, spectacle curious and
/ interesting and worth travelling far to
/ see. The most splendid of the cos
/ tunes were those worn by the Indian
/ princes, and they were also the most
! beautiful and richest. They were men
! of stately build and princely carriage.
! and Wherever they passed the applause
/ burst forth.
! Soldiers, soldiers, soldiers. and still
1 more and more soldiers and cannon and
/ muszets and lances-there seemed to
! be no end to this feature. There are
/ $4,000 soldiers in London, and they all
| seemed to be on hand. l have not
! seen so many except in the theater.
| when thirty-five prfvates and a general
/ march across the stage and behind the
1 scenes and across the front again and
/ keep 1t up until they have represented
/ 300 900.
In the early part the colonial premiers
/ drove by with the host, and by and by
after long time there was a grand
| output OF foreign princes, thirty-One in
| the invoice.
The feature of high romance was not
| waning, Tor among them rode Prince
! rupert of Bavaria, who would be
/ Prince of Wales now and future King
4 OF England and Emperor of India if
ms stuart ancestors had conducted
! their royal affairs more wisely than
| to represent his mother, Princess Td1d-
/ wig, heiress of the house of Stuart. to
! whom English Jacobites still pay un-
! of England
The house of Stuart was formally and
l onc1ally shelved nearly two centuries
/ ago, but the mfcrobe of JacObite 10y
/ atty is a thing which is not extern7ina-
/ bic by time, force or argument
! At last, when the procession had been
! on view an hour and a half, carrfag es
| began to appear. In the first came a
! detachment of tWO-hOrse ones contain
/ ing ambassadors extraordinary. in one
of them WhiteIaw Reid, representing
! the United States; then six containing
| minor foreign and domestic princes
ana prlncesses; then five fOur-horse
/ carriages freighted with offshoots of
! the family
The excitement was growing now: in
terest was rising toward the boiling
| point. F1naIly landau drawn by eight
! crean-colOred horses, most lavishIy up
| hoIstered in gold stuffs, with positions
and no drivers, and preceded by Lord
MolseIey, came bowling along, follow
| ed by the Prince of Wales, and all the
! world rose to its feet and uncovered
! The queen empress was come. She
was received with great enthusiasm It
| was realizable that she was the process
sion itself; that all the rest of it were
embroidery; that in her the public saw
| the British empire itself. She was a
| symbol, an allegory of England's gran
deur and the might of the British
! name.
It is over now; the British empire has
! marched past under review and inspec-
| ton. The procession stood for sixty
| years of progress and accumulation,
| moral, material and political 1t was
| made up rather of the beneficiaries of
| these properties than of the creators
/ of them.
As far as mere glory goes, the for
| eign trade of Great Britain has grown
| in a wonderful way since the queen
assembled the throne. Last year it
! reached the enormous figure of $780,
COO 600, but the capitalist, the manufac-
/ turer. the merchant were not officially
! in the nrocession to get their large