New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-03

scene on Thanksgiving Sunday was the
tumble OF fashionable ecupages and East
End carts In F1eet-st. and the Strand the
services at St Pauls were attended morn
ing. afternoon and evening by guests OF the
Crown and dignitares Of every class, and In re-
turning they found themselves engulfed In tor
rent OF holiday traffic. Royal carriages with
scarlet liveries were behind costermongers' carts
filed with the reignirg beauties of Shoreditch
and Whitechapel. The landaus of peers ana
baronets were abreast Of open wagons with
noisy jewellers sitting on board seats and smok-
ing their pipes in luxurious One OF the
Sheriffs Of London. arrayed In pompous costume
and with servants in livery at his call. was In
fine carriage wedged between a laundry van
and an excursion omnibus. The East and West
ends. which ordinarily are worlds close together
in space but far apart in thought and life. were
brought closely together in the holiday crush of
the crowd-swollen Strand.
QUEENS NIGHT IN LONDON.
The holiday scenes on Queens night were
characterized by the same good temper ana
stolid patience which had been exhibited at the
Sunday revel During the morning there had
been q magnificent pageant. but the expected
millions Of spectators were not visible. The
most formidable precautions had been taken by
the police for preventing PUSHES and panics at
dangerous points; and stockholders had break
tasted at 6 o'clock and hurried to their stands or
windows in order to escape the peril of being
mobbed on the way. Hour after hour passed,
and the sidewalks remained half empty, and
when the cavalcade of colonials regulars and
princes swept by in majestic course the lines Of
spectators on many Of the thoroughfares were
only three deep behind the Gordon of police and
the close picket of redcoats. The masses. whose
onset had been dreaded a source Of danger.
had either been scattered widely over the
seven-mile route that they failed to impress the
eye except at a few conspicuous points like
Hyde Park Corner else they had stayed
away. Wherever they were In the morning. at
night they were out in full force, and they were
in genuine holiday mood
From o'clock until long after midnight the
thoroughfares were surrendered to the crowds,
which completely filled them. Not wheel was
moving from Pccadiy to the Royal Exchange,
and until midnight there a constantly rising
tide Of humanity surging through brilliantly il
Illuminated streets. The pressure was greatest
in front Of the Bank Of England and the Man
sion House. around st. Paul's and in the heart
Of clubland. especially in Pail Mall and St.
James's-st.; but stupendous these
throngs OF sightseers. they were under complete
control and entirely manageable. The surveil-
lance OF the police confined to keeping the
currents in motion with a trend to the right.
The orders never given in a sharp, per-
emptory to.le, but courteously and quietly
THE SECRET OF THE "BOBBYS" SUCCESS.
That is the secret Of the London "bobbys''
success. He could excite riot any day by irr
tating crowd unnecessarily by insolent orders.
He invariably keeps his own temper, speaks in
civil tone and is thanked for his excellent ad-
vice All London seemed to be afield last night,
but there was no disorder Hour after hour
millions of sightseers disported themselves. and
the only uproar was an undertone of innocent
merriment. deepening at times into hearty out
bursts Of God Save the Queen!'
The spectacle at night in the centre Of club
land of exceptional beauty and brill
fancy. st. James had been EMPOWERED with fes-
toons of evergreen and paper foliage by day
light: but at stroke of the Princess of Waes's
hand upon an electric button thousands of tiny
lamps set aglow and the artistically deco
rated street was transformed into fairyland.
with a mellow radiance Of its own. The thou
sands who passed through this wonderfully
beautiful street cheered with delight and sang
as they crept along inch by inch toward Pcca-
dilly or Pail Mall The iumnations through
out the metropolis unprecedented
scale and We're more artistic in design than any
similar display which has been witnessed
here: but st. James's-st.. as II that night
in its harmony of color and its subdued. silvery
radiance will linger longer in the memories Of
the masses than anything else. The dome Of st.
Paul's converted under powerful flash lights into
q gigantic lantern in the sky, appealed to the i'm
agination like the three thousand beacon fires
lighted on the hilltops of the United Kingdom;
but in st. James's-st. on the Queens night there
seemed TO be a new heaven and new earth, and
everything was no. only beautiful, but real.
l. n. F.