The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-02
QUEENS BIER PASSES
GRIM Line OF WARSHIpS
Solemn Naval Funeral Procession Carries Royal
Remains to Portsmouth Amid DirgeS
King and Emperor Walk on Foot Behind Coffin from 0s
borne House to COweS-Entire Spectacle Unique.

/ Cowes, Isle of Wight, Feb. Twill
grand, yet mournful, display of nava
pomp and power. the body Of Queer
| Victoria was borne this afternoon from
/ its quiet resting place in Osborne nous,
to Portsmouth, the heart Of EngIand's
navy.
Not since Admiral Cervera's ships III
| up the Cuba, coast with their self-con-
Stunning fires has anything been seer
which in tragic splendor approached
| the naval spectacle of today. The hall
/ hundred red fighting ships that this af.
| ternOOn fired their bTUadsides and min
I ute guns were inferior in strength tc
4 the force gathered in the same waters
/ for the jubilee celebration, but the lack
| of fOrmida.bIeness was fully atoned fol-
I by the sOlemnity of this fleet in mourn
! ing. Over the still waters. between the
roll Of the six-pOUnders, came strains
OF ChOpin's and BeethOven's funeral
marches. The crews, accustomed to
cheer with the heartiness which belongs
only to tackles" stood silently alOng
the decks, and the flags which usually
float defiantly in the breeze, dropped
half way down the halyards. The most
powerful fleet England could gather on
short notice lay inert and silent save
for the mournful strains of the bands
/ and the wOeful sound of guns that be-
| tokened neither peace nor war, but
death.
Funeral Down Line Of Warships.
Past these and past the Hohenzollern.
the huge, though cumbersome, Camper
down, the Rodney and the BenbOW, Oh
through the line of British battleships,
all as powerful on paper as the Oregon
or Kentucky; still on, till Japan's Hat
SUI. the biggest Warshfp in the world
Hearf
was beam TO beam with Vice Admiral
Sir Harry HoldswOrth RawsOn's splen-
did flagship, the Majestic of the chan
mel squadron, the naval funeral process
sion slowly steamed. Ahead were eight
destroyers, and seldom have these
speedy craft drawn their long black
hullS so SiuggiShiy through the water.
Steaming leisurely after them was
the royal yacht Alberta, half screened
by the awning on the poop, the royal
coffin placed on a crimson dais. the
curtains of which were drawn back and
tied to four poles, leaving free TO view
the magnificent casket and robes. Some
times abeam, sometimes ahead. was the
Trinity House yacht Irene, watching
the course, while in the wake of the
coffin came the royal yacht Victoria
and Albert, with King Edward and
Queen Alexandra and the English roy
al family; the royal yacht Osborne,
WIN OLleE royal D6rSOndEeS. the 1ulUe-
rial yacht Hohenzollern. with Emperor
William, the Duke and Duchess Of Con
naught and others, the admiralty yacht
Enchantress and Trinity House yacht
with officials on board.
Arrangement OF Fleet.-
The main squadron of battieships aud
cruisers were nOored two and a half
cables apart. ia one line, extending
from Cowes to Spithead.
The channel fleet. under the COM
mand of Wee Admiral Sir Hen
~ Holdsworth Rawson, formed
the eastern portion. and the
reserve fleet. under Rear Admiral
Sir Gerard Henry Noel. formed the
western portion.
The foreign war vessels were noored
southwest of the British ships in the
order Of their arrival and alongside of
them were mOored eight British gun
boats, the Antelope Cleaner, ShipJack,
Leda. RattIesnake, Alert. circe and
SpeedWell.
The foreign ships attracted most of
the attention of the English spectators.
Giant of the whole fleet was the Jap
anese battieship Hatsus, a fortress of
clay colored steel with the scarlet sun
on a white field hanging at her stern,
the fighting emblem of the youngest
world power.
Emperor Williams navy was repre-