New-York tribune., 1901-02-02
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"a NTH the long company Of royal and Court
-,oprners behind her rendering 10 her their last
,ol and heartbroken service. There was no
-, ~ stateliness in the solemn march from
oeborne vet there was homely sense Of sim
,,.ity sincerity and unaffected grief. IT
30 oueens burial, yet every one seemed TO see
~ Gun carriage with its coffin and crown
,rroueh mist Of tears, as though he had lost
- bonorea and beloved friend. Every one. TOO
.r,a5 10 find consolation in the thought that
A. was doing something which the Queen would
80 wished him 10 do. The diEnitaries Of the
..lord the rows Of soldiers lining the roadway
.be musicians playing reQuiers. the Highland
,oresters and the Grenadiers standing guard
she equerries at the horses heads. King. En-
neror and princes following reverently. the
.ilad ladies' the household servants and ten
ants within their places, and the bystanders
,,oting on with silent awe, shared the common
ir,pulse 10 pay a final act Of homage, justice
and gratitude TO the sovereign in a spirit of
sincerity and truth
The bands ceased TO play when Trinity Pier
mas apuroa ched, and the long. muffied roll of
drums alone broke the stiffness the coffin
mas transferred from the gun carriage by blue
Jackets 20 the chapelle ardente on the quarter
-sok of the Alberta the Crenadiers again form
ing a double line and presenting arms. The
Countess af Lytton the Hon Harriet Phipps.
General McNeiu and Admiral Culme-Seymour,
with four naval aides-de-camp. were special
Guard of honor in the passage through the fleet.
The roval mourners headed by the King and
EMPEROR went in pinnaces on board the Vic
,oria and Albert and the yachts Osborne,
t5obenzoern Euchantress and Trinity followed
in their wake The bands on shore began to
MAY the funeral march as the yachts moved
t-oro their anchorages with eight torpedo boat
destro,,,rs as q grim escort, in front Of the
Alberta through the long lane Of battleships
and cruisers AS the torpedo boats approached
,ba outermost warships the first gun was fired
from the Australia, ana the passage was made
from shore TO shore with unceasing booming
If guns from feet and forts. ships band
after another playing funeral marches.
CONTRASTS WITH THE JUBILEE.
i was a spectacle which reproduced with
strangely contrasted effects the memories of the
Jubilee naval parade When that mighty ar
roada was reviewed by the Prince of Wales
there were 80 ships in FIVE lines under the
British flag in the wide channel between Ports
mouth and Ryde. and outside tkere were twenty
foreign war vessels. with swarms of excursion
craft Ii was a holiday feet awaiting the com
ing Of royalty but so vast in proportions that
the spectacle could not be seen as a whole, but
orly H. sections. the watery lanes We're
traversed one after another To-day the num-
her Of ships was smaller, but they were anchored
in close order, forming a continuous well marked
massage from Cowes TO Portsmouth. Every ship
was then dressed from stern to taffrail in ram
how coors. but to-day no standards have been
displayed The ensigns and Union Jacks have
been al halfmast and only the Admirals hags
were fully hoisted Every ships crew then
cheered Justify and bands played merT1ly as the
Princes Yacht went by with its flotila, and TO-
day not a voice was heard from any deck ana
the only music was sorrowful sighting or
reouiems from bands broken off by the solemn
booming Of minute guns. When the royal yacht
at the Jubilee anchored near the flagship there
was prolonged cheer from forty thousand men
in the fleet, with gun answering to gun; to-day
1t has been a feet in mourning, and when the
last gun was fired and the requiems died away
as the Alberta was mooTed at Gosport for the
night there was solemn stiffness. The Prince
Of Wales on the festal day represented the
Queen in the grand pageant Of sea power ana
Imperialism; to-day he has been chief mourner'
while the nation and Empire have grieved and
sorrowed with him.
The most picturesque feature of the last naval
review in honor OF the Queen as witnessed IL
ahoat in the centre Of the line Of warships was
the catafalque on the Alberta 1t was in pa
yilion aItistically framed with red hangings and
surmOanted by a canopy OF Iu's NSAHSH nm
with white silk Underneath the canopy was
the coffin on a bier draped with ruby velvet
and on a red velvet cushion was the royal
crown with the orb. These combinations OF reds
with the resplendent gold crown We're almost
the only touch Of color in this sombre pageant
The torpedo boats which swarmed in advance
were Ike great black wasps carrying the sung
Of death The yachts which followed the Al
berta We're tenanted by mourners in black. me
warshrs with few exceptions, were palhted
back and the crews marshalled on the decks
made another long black line athwart the blue
sky
A SPECTACLE OF BEAUTY AND PATHoS.
Minute guns were fired for an hour from forts
and shlps but the passage Of the hotilla Of a
dozen vessels, as ! timed il at the centre oareiy
filed a quarter OF an hour. The booming or
guns was virtually simultaneous. as the gunners
fired by signal from the outermost ship. But
between these reverberating detonations there
were snatches Of the most mourrful music ever
heard on land or sea. The air seemed TO be filled
with requiems wandering and astray. The spec
tacle appealed with power 10 mems imaginations
as something commensurate with national be-
reavement and at the same time touched their
hearts with subtle pathos.
When the curtain Of night fell upon it, ana
the pale moon shone upon the Alberta and the
crown among the red hangings in Gosport Har-
bar there was a sense Of homecoming and OF the
QLeen's personality, for the yacht was at the
anchorage where she had been wont 10 find II
in hcr journeys 10 Osborne.
There were thirty British warships as senti-
nsls of this royal progress OF living and dead.
They were the finest examples of~-battleships
and cruisers. and, being bare Of color and with