Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-06-08

closely packed humanity can uncom-
fortably peer. The prices for single
seat will apparently range from ten dol
lars on the Surrey side to $3.50 or even
more for place commanding view of
the steps of st. Paul. A place within
sight of Temple Bar is worth from $100
up; within view of the parliamentary
stand from $50 to SIS. A party can
hire one window for $100 to $4,000; a
room with two windows will earn it's
owner in one day twice as much, accord
! ing to its location. Usually, however,
I the owner rents the room outright to a
speculator, who puts in the seats and
expects to reap most of the profit, by
taking all the risk
A large store window will usually be
arranged for 20 people; q smaller one,
or one so high that the angle of the
seats must be sleeper, for ten or twelve.
All things considered, it is more than
| likely that 650,000 persons will pay an
average of not less than ten guineas
each for windows and stand seats, or
the enormous total of $33,000,000, and
that 100000 inferior places on roofs,
dows on side streets will sell for $S, ,000,-
600 more, making $41, 100000 in all for
chances to see some part of the show.
Three-fourths of this vast sum will be
paid by British SUBJECTS including Wis
itors from the colonies. The Americans
will have the next largest representa-
ton, with the Germans, Russians,
! French and other continental people
furnishing in the aggregate large
number.
The procession will pass nearly all the
notable clubs in London - the Athe-
nuuln, Turf, Naval and Military, Uni
vcrsity, Oxford and Cambridge, Carl
ton and Junior Carlton, Brooks,
Whites, Boobies, the Reform, Union,
Saville, Conservative and the like. 1t
will pass the palatial town houses of
several noblemen, dozen huge hotels
and any number of little ones. The
clubs will look after their members,
the noblemen will let windows on the
quiet and the hotel men will make
small fortunes.
In one instance building overlook
ing the steps of st. Pauls is to be taken
down and carried away entire and a
monster stand for 1,40O people erected
in its place. 1t will pay handsomely
for the building can be replaced when
all is over by better one.
Enormous as these sums are, they do
not begin to express the cost of the
demonstration. Two million strangers
i'll town, and heaven only knows how
many more, will pay convention prices
for week, say, S35 each, or $70,000,O0O,
while from $5,0O0,OO0 to 100000 will
be paid for memorial books and pic
lures, and from $4,000, 600 to S12, ,oOo, 900
for decorations, public and private
These sums are all in excess of the
vast amounts to be expended for ju-
bilee hospitals, schools, parks and asy-
lums. On the whole, we may put down
the cost of the jubilee proper at up
wards of S125,00O,00O. All this, with
comparatively trihing aid from for
eigners. John Bull will put his fat, rel
hand down into his deep breeches pock-
ct and pay without winking.
Still, John is cautious. He's not put
ting out money thoughtlessly For
| there's the jubilee insurance business,
.of which the cable has given some hint.
In Gods own country, when q third
person insures for his own profit the life
Of an old and feeble person il is called
graveyard insurance" and considered
rather disrcputable sort of gamble.
But, bless you, they're doing it right
along in London-theirq queen being the
insured one-and think nothing of it.
The British underwater is dead game
sport, like most of his breed, and is
willing for a consideration to insure
any man who thinks of spending a few
thousand upon jubilee windows against
the procession being prevented by any
cause whatever-the principal cause of
prevention being, of course, the death
or i'll health of the queen.
One thing the underwriters failed to
consider very seriously at first was the
Turko-Grecian war and the possibility
of general European fare-up. Even
if the queen were alive and well on
June 22, the procession and ceremony
might have to be abandoned, or would
certainly lose much of their splendor,
in the event of general rumpus. On
the morning after the beginning of the
fight, there was a great scampering
of insurance men who had loaded up
with jubilee risks to divide them by
reinsurance. To use again the language
of the paddock, there was "hedging" in
the city.
One picturesque feature of the ccle-
bration will be continuous blaze of
bonfires from end to end of Great Brit
ain. A Central Committee of Dia-
mond Jubilee Bonfres" has. been
formed, with Viscount Cranborne at it's
head, to tell people about the ''best and
cheapest construction of bonfres," the
American small boy not being avail"
able as instructor. They are to be
lighted at ten p. m, sharp, everywhere.
On June "a Queen Victoria will re-
turn in state from buckingham palace
to Windsor. She will be escorted by
the Indian and colonial troops to Pad
dington station. The queen will alight
at Slough station, whence the House
hold cavalry will escort her home. She
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