The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-06
QUEEN LAvINIA ON R
BoWERK. FLOWER SPRTNKLED, DUNN
WITH NEW AMAZE.

Displayed to the DaEzloment of nm East
Side KinderGRrten-Dive for Her Slipper.
Queen Lavinia I. OF tho Holland Danes
whooped things up on the east side yesterday.
Clad In her royal blue velveteen robe of state,
and while her $50. 000-crown kept pokine
holes in the roof OF the royal landau. she scat
tered smiles and 1owerettos from the Holland
House to Pacific Hall. at 200 East Broadway.
where the Sunday kindergarten Association
had a Twelfth Night party.
LAvinia on parade was accompanied by a ret
inue Of thirty gorgeous personages. including
heralds. pages. ndlords and ladies In waiting.
The Queens quarters In the Ksnsington are
not up to royal requirements in the line OF
room. so Lavinia sent q postal card TO each
member OF the party. saying:
Meet mt at the Holland House and don't
forget your wigs"
The lords and ladies did not all observe their
royal mistress's command. however, and there
was an awful moment when the hairdresser-
who Jumped tho court and gave the queen
special rates on it-found himself three wigs
shy OF the number required. Layinia herself
appeared In her own luxuriant tresses, with a
bias curl on each side. and enlivened with o
sprinkling Of diamond dust.
The royal euuipage. drawn by four steeds OF
assorted sizes and colors. received its precious
freight at tho doors OF the Holland House at
about 3 O'Clock. The populace. which was
present in large numbers. was quiet, but
rubbed its nose amicably and numerously on
her Maiesty's carriage windows. Seated in the
landau with the Queen was the Head of
the Military Household Mr.. Ladislaw Stransky.
who was loaned by tho Police Central Office
especially for the occasion. Before leaving the
hotel the Queen gave him his orders. saying,
with the regal brevity for which she is famous:
Two things will be required OF you. Keep
your eve on my crown and your feet of my
dr%ess!'
Mr.. Stransky bowed low when he heard
these words and returned to the phalanx OF ten
bicycle policemen. unmounted. who consti-
tuted the rest OF the armed escort. He found
them in deep. deep trouble. They had sup
posed that her Majesty. who had de-
sired their attendance without bicycles. had
provided some other means OF loco
motion for them. 1t turned out that
her Majesty had not concerned herself with
this detail. so tho bicycle cohort. with prophetic
eye. saw itself running alongside of the Queens
carriage all the way to Pacific Hall. This
picturesque feature was eliminated by an order
from headquarters sending the cohort down
by street car.
Besides Mr.. Stransky there rode in the same
carriage with the queen, the Mistress of Cere-
monies. Lady Wynkoop Clarke. and a page.
The Queens train, which was about six
backwards long. had been rolled up care
July anu put IN I16 rack when size eDlcTcu
the carriage. so that Mr.. Stransky's duties sim
He did this faithfully until the Queen began
throwing roses and carnations out of. the win
dow, when Mr.. Stransky transferred his atten-
ton to a new spectacle; that of the Bowery
struck dumb. The east side did not know what
Mennwhile expectation stood on tiptoe down
lures. Dr. De Lyon Nichols. who was. running
the party. counted twelve beauteous ladies' ar
rayed in yellow cambria cassocks. with capeS
of white net, They wore wreatnS OF ground
pine, and long; green gauZe wells; 6Tfen were
ttas9 snr s4d, % up in the Ga iIIsE',' was tie
orchestra from SIMPSONS flagship. The
entering in a procession. bearing torches and
singing a hymn, while a man rang chimes in
t 6lsa 3alSSny ne6 9f IN dil RPe9pief p pisye d t YHFiRE hall.
By this time several hundred people were
eeSfldrdn in p ths iPiaifis' s nmGiIpfB o 5he% Who Ss Esro IN IN
constant state Of being hauled of the BENCHES
E Isl e Sf dd for e tnG Of a9 9hs hail p seood the on great g p siit
chair which figured at Lavinia's coronation last
year; and which had rGl S been no wlthdrawn fT Tnar coz 4
sat and yawned for its royal occupant While
1 F}ed mipg q Sr tlsa aed a eoHFisyr 9 from the SeT s s
rushed into the room and announced in a stage
""Tkeyire here! They're fallin' out o. their
afhs oTSfhSSstra x Ti,l play. . 4 bp%atri cites sel lee
heralds announce the Queen let everybody sing
The Star-Spangled Banner"
There was a CHATTER OF feet in the hallway. Up
the steps rushed a gorgeous small boy in blue
7 Queens comet" he shouted. and an
electric shock seemed to run through the
gathered assemblage,
The heralds mounted the platform. the lords
and ladies defiled on either side and. amid the
toots OF the royal horns and the acclamations
Of the gathering. the Queen entered.
Three cheers for Queen Layinia J! shouted
agement. and from the full thr9ats o. her Mai
Then the small boys broke into speech among
Ha"iiy gee! Look at de kid wild de rubber
Say. she's got somep'n like a spear in her
Say! De cap wot de Queens got on her
heads de same kind wot's on her chair
Faint. neider. Crowns has got points on
#"Wot's she Queen OF, anyhow~
Say. deg look like George washineton's
My but dey must be awful rich"
,r 1he 9 Sss, tS spt Gsitf the S1m lSSs Of By Se the e t%mSlt
nance now on one, dazzIsd Subject and now on
another. Sir KNIGHT Guy Dempsey; who Is
Lord Chancellor Frederick, Pompton crossed
their plump. white. stockinged calves as
Lazy ihsR %ynkoop Pc Rar respiendensee was
fI%igeMaS May e Banks Ks St. Stacey pgyiiaainSdi'' Lady William ii.
Traitor were conspicuous members. Lady
Clarke glittered with decorations, among which
we're a rabbits foot and a Roosevelt campaign
ers from familiar. packages. The officials of
the court waived their special titles and priv
ileges yesterday. Even the Queen permitted
her courtiers to turn their backs on her and
sit down In her presence.
As soon as the knees of the assembled multi
tude had ceased fquaking with awe at the ap-
partition OF Lavinia. DIR. Nichols advanced with
agmall basket containing lot, of beans among
which some large candy ones had been placed.
am going to scatter. these now" he said,
for the children to, pick. up. Those who get
large beans will receive pictures Of Fra Angel
lso angels or. perhaps. pi ctures OF the Mes
At the first throw the boys launched them
selves with flying leaps into the middle Of the
floor, where for five minutes they made a
football ~scrlmmege seem ladylike in COM
~parison, After they had yanked the ears al;
most off one another's heads. and pulled
out much hair in Their struggle, for the
Fra Angelica angels. the bicycle cohort had
10 stan in and restore order. But the bean