The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-22
GOD SAVE
THE QUEEN
Millions Of Voices Chant the
FamOus Hymn
During the Queens Triumphal
Progress Today.
Cheers That'Shake the Ground
Greet England's Ruler
AS HER PROCESSION
Advances Through the Crowd
ed Streets of London.
The Great Event Passes Off
Without a Hitch.
PROCESSION ESTARTS
With Band Playing SOusa's
''WashingtOn Post" March.
Lady MayOress Confused and
Shakes the Queens Hand
Instead of Kissing it As Eli
Quette Required.
PROCESSION ESTARTS
With Band Playing SOusa's
washington Post" March.
Lady MayOress Confused and
Shakes the Queens Hand
Instead of kissing it As Ell.
quette Required.

London, June 22.-The last stroke of
u had not died away in the midnight
air when from a hundred metropolitan
stceples a tumultuous peal of bells an
uounced Diamond Jubilee Day. The
vast crowd that filed the miles of
streets and squares answered with ring
ing cheers and here and there the sing
ing of God Save the Queen"
The crowds that peopled the streets
and squares all night in the hope of
good view of the procession today were
amazing in their sublime patience.
Waiting for Il, IA and 16 hours. as many
of these are doing, jammed together,
is a feat of endurance that could only
be sustained by some over-mastering
d sire. Quite half Of these jubilee wait
ers were women, many of them with the
pale, careworn look of the London
worker, yet all enduring the back
breaking tediousness with the utmost
gOod-nsi llre. Some had campstoolS,
some sat on projections of buildings, on
curbstones or leaned in dOorWays, and
the angles made by stands. Refresh
nents WeTn in order everywhere and
the police had little trouble. CHEEKY good
humOr being the note of the night.
During the long hours SnatcheS of song
and occasional bursts of cheering show
ed that the people We're determined to
enjoy the festival of patriotism and 10y
atty to the utmost.
A clear starlit sky and cool air kept
the spirits of the crowd at the topmOst
point throughout the virgil With dawn
the hope of queens S weather merged in
certainty and the world here prepared
itself in fullest confidence for a day of
pleasure. The thunders of the royal sa-
lutte of so guns in Hyde Park annOunc-
ed the starting of the procession
The roar OF cheers that mark its
course tells the beginning of the story
of the queen among her people. The
n tor tod Il h.
hearts of thousands of insurance people
and members of Iloyd'S beat more pla-
c.dIy as they remembered the premiums
of five millions of dollars that had been
Wagered with them, whether, or not
her majesty would start.
PROCESSION IN tn REE SECTIONS
The procession was practically in
three sections as far as StPauIS though
the two last en- route to the cathedral
We're consolidated as they moved into
Iiccadily. The first to take up posi-
1ien was the colonial procession formed
on the embankment and moved by the
mall thence past the palace, where her
majesty viewed it from a window over
the route to St. PauIs. The march be
gan at $40 and the great cortege prov
ed a welcome relief to the waiting null
ttude. The procession was headed by
an advance party of royal horse guards
Then followed the band of the same
corps playing the inspiring Washing
ION Post March" Close upon the band
came a portion of the picturesque
Northwest mounted police as escort to
the first colonial premier, the Hon. Will
fred Laurier.
The Northwest police, men to whom
evidently a saddle has never been
novelty. made striking, appearance
quite as brave and serVicea bic looking as
the New South Wales mounted rifles
with their grey semi-sOmbrerOs and
black cOcks-plumes, who succeeded
them, escOrting the premier of New
South Wales, the Hon. S. H. Reid.
The Victorian mounted troops fol-
lowed, smart weather beaten fellows
in unattractive, brownish uniforms,
succeeded by the New Zealand contin-
gent, a fine looking, sunburned lot,
oraWn from almost every town of any
Importance in the colony displaying
uniforms intended for the conflict
rather than the parade grounds. Then
came New Zealand's premier. Richard
J. Seldom For the moment Ans
tralia- gave way. Africa was allowed q
chance, and the Cape of Good Hone
mounted rifies-Wen set up men-wear-
ing the scarlet, with white helmets
rode by to herald the coming of the
Cape premier, Sir Gordon Sprigg. K.
c. NJ. G. Hardly had he been nOtice5
and to the majority unknown, when at
te8tiOn was claimed for the yellowish-
brown khaTees, lit with bright scarlet
from the blazing puggaree on the spik-
ed helmets to the double stripes down
the seams of tightly-ftting corduroy
trousers with large chamOis leather
patches where the knee gripped the
saddle, which proclaimed the South
Australian mounted troops. Lean.
specimens of wiry manhood they won
applause like the rest and passed on
to give place to the premier of New
Sir ". V. Whiteway. From
New FOundlan6 one was transported
to Natal by the Natal mounted troops,
q contingent similar in model and
equipment to their Cape brothers in
arms. Sir H N. Nelson. K. c. NJ. G.,
rode after them, the official personifi-
cation of western Australia
The premiers~ being disposed Of then
succeeded a really attractive display,
troops of the crown colonies.
Gantry, broken by three bands typical