The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-30
EDWARD LOOKS AGED
MANY KNIGHTS INVESTED WITH
INSIGNIA OF THEIR ORDERS
BY BRITISH KING
DUKE OF coRNwALL's RETURN
Heir to the Throne to Be Escorted
Into Portsmouth by Stately
Fleet of War
ships.

LONDON, Oct. 29.-King Edward today
personally conferred the insignia of va
rious orders on $50 to 800 officers and 9TH
ers recently decorated. The investiture,
which was held in st. James palace, was
attended by all the state ceremonial for
which the king is such a stickier.
While the route between ST. James
palace and Marlborough house is only a
few hundred yards long, King Edward
disappointed the crowds today by driving
from his residence to the palace and back
in an entirely closed carriage The king
looked aged and pallid.
An incident which evoked some COM
ment was the presence of Sir Francis
Laking, the kings physician, at St.
James palace today. Sir Francis left the
palace and drove to his home opposite
Marlborough house just before his mai
esty returned there.
Return of Duke of Cornwall.
Most elaborate plans have been made
for the reception of the Duke and
Duchess of Cornwall and York at Ports
mouth and London. 1t is not generally
felt that the tour of the duke and OUCH
esS has been a success, as, on the whole,
comparatively little interest has been
taken in it, the war and other events
having completely overshadowed the
royal journey. The officials, however, are
determined that it shall end in blaze
of glory. At Portsmouth an effective
naval display has been arranged. FIT
teen battleships and cruisers will sail to-
morrow to meet the royal yacht Ophir
and escort her to Portsmouth. Other
ships there will join in the reception, and
Friday evening the whole feet in the har-
Dor will be Illuminated. King Edward
and Queen Alexandra with the children
of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
and York and other members of the royal
family on board the Victoria and Albert,
accompanied by a fotilla of smaller royal
yachts, will meet the Ophir in the chan
mel Friday and escort her into the har-
Dor. The royal party will take train Sat
urday and reach London at l o'clock In
the afternoon. Here 10000 troops will
keep the streets clear for the procession
from Victoria station, by way of Constitu-
ton hill, Piccadilly and St James street,
to Marlborough house. All traffic of the
London & Brighton railroad will be sus-
pended between the time of the departure
and the arrival of the royal train.
Criticism of Buffalo.
Newspaper correspondents who were
with the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
and York's party contribute some remark
e1OiC AOttC1 " lllSiI papers mere highly
appreciative of Canada, but they do not
like the glimpse they got of the United
States Thus the Morning Post CORE
spondent writes:
Some of us crossed to Buffalo to see
the exposition. which was disappointing.
Buffalo is slovenly looking, if prosper
Gus city, in great contrast with the hand
some Canadian cities we had recently
visited.
"All the correspondents noted the ex-
traordinary difference in the aspect and
manners of the people here and across
the border. We appeared to have sudden
ly got out of a region of wholesome.
resh-complexioned people into a land
OF meager, pallid race like one sees in
some of our manufacturing cities, an
active, brisk people lacking the cour-
teous manners of the Cana dams To
some of the young French Canadians of
our party this was their first experience
IN the United States, and they recrossed
the frontier more downright in their ex-
preston of loyalty to Great Britain than
they had ever been before