The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-08

banquets here, receptions there, audiences
at this palace ceremonies at that, and the
peer and peeresses, that naughty minority
which the Englishman loves SO dearly to
see disporting itself, will make vast dis
play of fuss and feathers.
The great British public gets one day.
This is to be devoted to royal process
sion. Queen Victoria will leave the seclu-
sion of Buckingham palace, and, attended
by all the mem bers of her big family. in
Guiding the Prince of Wales on horseback
and the rest of the princes and princesses
in carriages, followed by high officials and
guarded by 25, 900 of England's crack sol
diers, she will ride six miles through the
streets. ostensibly to offer thanksgivings
in ST. Paul's cathedral, but really to let
the people see her.
On June %, the eventful day, AIRY and
'Arriet will go up to London that they
may tell their children and their children 8
children how they saw the queen. To OBJ
tain this peep at royalty they will stand in
solidly massed millions for many hours.
The visiting American who wishes to see
the same sight will be asked to pay from
S25 to 500 for window seat, and he will
be lucky to get a vantage point even at the
higher figure.
The procession itself, starting from
Buckingham palace, will pass up Consti-
tuition hill to Hyde park corner, and so
along Piccadilly, with green parks on one
side and rows of stately clubs and private
mansions on the other; down St. James
street, and thence through fashionable Pail
Mall, past the residence of the Prince Of
Wales, across Trafalgar square on the
north SIDE through Duncannon street,
into the Strand, London's Broadway; past
the Somerset House, each of its $500 win
dows crowded with government clerks and
their friends; past Temple Bar, with its
noble pile of law buildings; down Fleet
street, the home of the great London
dailies; then under the railway bridge and
up the short reach OF Ludgate hill to St.
Paul's.
It is not expected that the queen will
really enter the cathedral, for the royal adj
pose is too great for the royal legs to carry
with any certainty and security, and Eng
lands queen is not going to be carried
about in a sedan chair, like Lii Hung
Chang, or execute an undignihed hobble
up the steps in the presence of so many of
her SUBJECTS. So a canopy will probably
be erected outside, under which the cere-
mony will occur.
The entire space in front of St. Pau1's
will be surrounded by a Gordon Of Indian
troops, especially brought over for this oc-
casion, and no one but those who have
been presented at court, and are therefore
Oh the queen g visiting list, will be admit
ted to the square, in which seats are to be
erected
Having given the lords and ladies view
of the pageant, her majesty will return
through some OF the more humble streets
of London. Passing around the south side
Of St. Paul's churchyard, the procession
will wind through such thoroughfares as
Cheapside, King William street, over Lon
don bridge, through Borough road, St.
Georges circus, Westminster Bridge road,
Bridge street, Parliament street, White
hall, the Horse Guards, the Center mall to
Buckingham palace. This will take the
queen through Lambeth, parts of which
are poorer even than Whitechapel, and past
such crowds of unfortunate wretches as
she has not probably seen in a score of
years and may never see again.
1t viii not be a great procession, as pro-
cessions go, being less than mile long,
but it will be such a display of royalty and
military splendor as will delight the heart
of the Britisher and awe even an Ameri-
/ can. CHARLES WARNER.