Connecticut western news., 1901-01-31
THE QUEENS FUNERAL.
Arrangements Are Being Rap
 idly Completed.
SIXTY PRINCES TO BS PRESENT.
Ceremonie. wn He Most Impress sive-Modeled on Those at Prince Albert's Funeral. According to Vic torIa's Express Wish.

Ceremonies win He Most Impress Sive-Modeled Those at Prince
 Albert's Funeral. According to Vic
 torIa's Express Wish.
 London, Jan. 30-Arrangements for ae funeral of the queen are being rapid .y perfected. the king having come from Iowes to London yesterday for the ex- press purpose.
 King Edward received Lord Salisbury and other members of the cabinet yester- day at Marlborough House. He will hold privy council today to sanction finally the arrangements for the funeral and will Nen return to Osborne.
 Queen Victoria's explici, '..et ticns as Q her funeral were wrii II ia 1892" sags T i h, ''and have not Oeeu altered in a.y r.sterial respect. It was her wish that the ceremonial should copy that of Prince Albert's burial so far as possible. The queen will be the first English SOW ereign who will not be buried at night and by torchlight."
 The following programme has been adopted for the exercises at Cowes on Monday;
 The coffin will be borne from Osborne House to gun carriage by the queens highlanders at a quarter to o'clock. The household of the queen, the royal sery- ants and the tenantry will be drawn up along the carriage drive. The queens pipers will lead the procession through the kings gate to Trinity pier. There will be an imposing military display along the route. massed bands and drummers play ing funeral marches.
 Behind the coffin will walk Admiral Sir Michael Culme-S e-Seymour, first aid-de- fp ha hsa Emperor William, the Duke of Con naught. Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany, the Duke of Cornwall and York. Prince Henry of Prussia and Prince Christian of Sleswick H. olstein and other princes. Then will come Queen Alexandra. the Duchess of Cornwall and York and other princesses.
 Alberta to Carry Queen'. Body. Bluejackets will bear the coffin from the pier on to the royal yacht Alberta. where Admiral Culme-Seymour. four na- val aids-de-camp and two ladies in wait ing will accompany the body. The king. queen, Emperor William and other members of the royal family will embark on the royal yacht Victoria and Albert.
 Minute guns will be fired by all ships in the Solent and at Cowes as the Alberta | leaves Trinity pier. Each ship will cease firing as soon as the end of the procession passes her. After the procession has pass ed the battleship Majestic, the forts and ships in Portsmouth harbor will begin | firing minute guns and will continue to ] do SO until the Alberta is alongside. No standards will be displayed. En- signs and union jacks win be half mast | ed Admirals' flags will be fully hoisted. As the procession passes each ship its crew will present arms and then rest on reversed arms until the procession has | gone. the band meanwhile playing tuner | al marches.
 The Alberta, bearing the body, will steam slowly past the line of battleships. | extending eight miles. Facing these gi- ants of the British navy will be smaller vessels and foreign battleships, including ! the Baden, the Hagen, the Victoria Lou ise and the Nymphe. German: the Dupuy | de Lome. French: the Hatsuse. Japanese. | and the Don Carlos I. Portuguese. The Hatsuse was being completed at | Elswiek, but the mikado wired such | imperative orders for the presence of q Japanese warship at the naval display that the battleship. which is of 15,2Uo tons displacement. has sailed for Ports mouth. although hardly in condition to | go.
 Sixty Princes to Re Present. The funeral procession in London will be made up approximately as follows: X | soyereign'S escort of 100 life guards, the | massed bands of three reSirlents of foot guards. Field Marshal Ea Roberts and | the headq larters staff, ar ..-aly gun car !, riage ith the body; the king, support ed by the German emperor; the kIng of Portugal and the other reigning sover- eigns in the order of precedence, the Dukes of Connaught and York. the equerries and aids-de-camp in attendance on royal personages, Queen Alexandra, 1 the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and other royal princesses in four car riages deeply draped and in the rear of the procession another sovereign's escort of 100 life guards.
 It Is estimated that at least 60 royal princes will take part in the procession. A large number are on their way from the continent. Crown Prince Frederick 1 of Denmark is expected to arrive in Lon | don today. Prince Henry of Prussia sailed from Kiel Monday on board the German battleship Baden, accompanied by the coast defense ship Hagen. Prince George of Saxony is prevented by infuen- ga from coming, and Prince John George
 will take his place.
 Duke Albrecht will represent the king of wurttemburg. The Crown Prince
 Ferdinand of Roumania is expected to- morrow night. The Orleans family will
 be represented by the Duke of Chartres. younger brother of the late Count of
 Paris; the Duke of Alencon and the
 Count of Flu, sons of the late Duke of
 Nemours, between whom and the late
 queen Louis Philippe in 1888 tried to
 arrange a marriage: the Duke and
 Duchess of Aosta, the former cousin of
 the king of Italy and the latter the
 daughter of the Count of Paris, will ar
 rive tomorrow.
 Eton boys will line the route from the . Long Walk gates to Windsor castle, while
 the Military Knights of Windsor will be
 on duty in the chapel during the fu- | neral services.
 The privy council has ordered the arch
 bishop of Canterbury to prepare a spe-
 cial form of service in commemoration
 of the queen to be used Saturday in all | churches in the kingdom