The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-09


ence of legislators of the United Kingdom.
drawing the wife of the reliever of Lady
smith closer to her. she whispered words
of thanks.
After scarcely three hours of rest her
Majesty made a tour Of the city proper
amid the greatest enthusiasm. 1t is i'm
possible to estimate the extent of the
crowds through which she passed before
returning TO buckingham Palace. but the
numbers were well up in the hundreds of
thousa1ds.
PRINCE OF WALES ABSENT.
After it was all over and while a cheer
ing crowd Of ten thousand people still hung
outside the palace. the Queen dined with
the Prince and Princess of Wales, the
Duke and Duchess of York and the other
members of the royal family. The Prince
Of Wales had been absent during the day.
owing to the sale of the late Duke of
Westminster's race horses al Kingselere,
but the Princess had come In for large
share of the ovations.
In response to a message from the lord
mayor this evening Sir Arthur Bigge. the
Queens private secretary, wrote: 'Her
Majesty is not fatigued and she is much
gratified and touched by the loyal and
enthusiastic reception accorded her
through this afternoons drive"
AS the evening advanced the crowds in
creased. Red fire was burned and the
whole concourse took up God Save the
Queen" Then came blue light and the
strains of Rule Britannia" making the
park ring. This was kept up until a bal
cony window was opened and one of the
royal party, believed to be the Prince of
Wales, appeared. After a vociferous out
burst he disappeared and then the crowd
broke up and demonstrations such as have
not been seen in London in many years
came to an end.
The departure of the Queen and party
from Windsor this morning was marked
by more than usual interest For
hours before the Queen started for
London crowds gathered in the streets
which had been announced as her route
through the metropolis, and which were
decorated with flags. 1t was foggy and
cold, but no one seemed to care. AT Pad
dington the railroad station had been
cleared of the general public. but outside
thousands of people waited patiently. When
the train from Windsor arrived, at 1880 p.
m, q tremendous cheer went up. Her
Majesty came down the sloping platform.
leaning on the arm of a turbaned Indian
attendant, and entered an open landau, in
which also sat Princess Henry Of Batten-
berg and Princess Victoria Of Schleswig-
Holstein. They all wore black, and round
her neck the Queen had sable collarette.
THRONG IN ST. JAMES PARK.
cry available window came a continuous
roar of cheers, while hundreds of little
flags were waved all the way to Bucking-
ham Palace. The side streets were packed
ten, twenty and sometimes hundred Deep
But it was around the palace itself that
the chief throng gathered. BY o'clock in
the morning cabs, carriages and vehicles of
every sort, people from the city, the West
End and distant parts of the country con-
gregated IN st. James's Park, which the
palace fronts. BY noon 1t was estimated
that $1,000 people were gathered about the
Queens town residence waiting patiently.
There were hundreds of police on hand,
but they had little difficulty in keeping the
crowd in order and clearing passages for
peers, members of the House of Commons
alone privileged to pass the great ratings
that shut off the palace. In the spacious
courtground of the palace a representative
gathering of Great Britains best blood and
brains walked up and down, chatting about
the war and politics, jealously watched by
the crowd outside the railings. Those who
were not fortunate enough to get near the
palace itself climbed up trees or stood on
top of cabs, Frightening the bare park with
flags. The women's dresses, which were
unusually gay, also served to enliven the
scenes.
Shortly after noon the Duke and Duchess
Of York drove into the courtyard and re-
ceived an ovation. Mr.. Chamberlain. the
secretary of state for the colonies, joined
the distinguished throng in the courtyard
unnoticed. Later the Duke and Duchess Of
York appeared on a balcony in front of the
palace. AS they passed the crowds outside
grew more dense and the peers and the
members of the House of Commons went
to the inner quadrangle, where they waited
to receive the Queen.
PEERESSES AND RAGGED WOMEN.
From Constitution hill soon came the
dull roar OF distant cheers, and the cry,
''She is coming.' was passed from mouth
to mouth. Stand back, there!' ordered
the police, and peeresses and ragged wom-
en- edged away as best they could, ladies
not being admitted into the courtyard.
Among those who sat and shfvered on the
stone base outside the railings was the
Countess Brownlow, a daughter of one OF
England's bluest blooded peers, and beside
her was a frayed old woman, her wizened
face almost through the iron bars.
Now the roar was taken up by those
within the precincts of the palace. Back
on their creaking hinges flew the great
gates and up went the royal standard. A
patrol of police went by. there was a flash
of steel as the Life Guardsmen and out
riders trotted through the gates, and then
all hats few in the air,.a mighty cheer
arose and slowly there passed carriage,
on the back seat of which sat little black
figure, heavily yelled and nodding right and
left.
Suddenly, for the first time in the day,
the sun came out from behind the clouds
and shone over the shouting thousands,
and. piercing the veil, il showed happy
smiles lighting up the aged monarchs face.
II was repetition of the scene of the jubi-
lee-Queen's weather in the truest sense of
the words. Still nodding vigorously, her
Majesty passed out of sight into the quad
rangle. There the peers and commoners
assembled sang God Save the Queen" and
her Majesty entered the palace.