Evening star., 1901-02-04
VICTORIA AT REST
Remains of Britain's Dead Queen
Placed in Mausoleum.
GREAT CROWDS VISIT WINDSOR
London Afternoon Papers Com
ment on Americas Sympathy.
DUKE OF CORNWALL BETTER

WINDSOR February 4-The final rites
over the dead queen were concluded at $50
pm and the body was laid to rest in the
Frogmore mausoleum.
King Edward Queen Alexandra. Emperor
William and others of the royal family at
tended the services beside the coffin at an
Early hour this morning.
Hundreds OF people poured into Wind
sor throughout the morning. and by 1
o'clock the long walk was already black
with spectators. mostly from the surround
Ing country. waiting for last glance at
The coffin containing the remains of Queen
Victoria. The sun was shining brightly.
The final obsequies promised TO be as
rately as the initial stages.
The represe ntatives Of royal families ar
rived from London at about o'clock and
drove to Windsor Castle.
The streets of the old town were still
hung with wreaths. sadly faded since Sat
urday. The stores were closed during the
nterment
Guardsmen Keep Route Clear.
Dismounted Life Guardsmen. in their
scarlet cloaks, the white plumes OF their
helmets glstening in the sun, kept the
route clear from the castle slope. Amid
the bare boughs of the trees below the
mist arose from the damp earth, trampled
Into mud by the uneasy few thousands.
The air was sharp and cold.
From tho Albert Memorial Chapel to the
rnausoleum, nearly mile from the great
gate of the castle. there is a steep slope
of 500 yards. at the bottom of which Is the
lodge gate and fence. On the castle side
of this We're hundreds Of ticket holders
On the other side, where the long walk
commences. the public was massed.
AT 2:45 pm. a picturesque touch OF color
Eas added to the scene. Sir Walter Par
ratt. private organst to the late queen,
and organist OF ST. Georges Chapel Royal,
Windsor and his choir. all in surplices and
college caps. walked quickly down the
siope, through the crowds, to the mauso-
leum. Then minute guns commenced to
boom. as a battery of artillery at the
foot of the long wa. paid Its final honors
to the dead queen. The Windsor Church
bells tolled solemnly and the strains Of
the band gradually growing stronger and
stronger, echoed from the castle quad
Iangle.
AT 315 pm. the head of the procession
passed slowly out of King Georges arch
in the following order :
The queen company of Grenadier Guards,
with arms reversed
The governor and constable of Windsor
Castle. the Duke of Argyll.
Highlanders and pipers.
Royal servants.
Band of Grenadier Guards.
The bishop of Winchester and the dean
OF Windsor.
The lord chamberlain and the lord
steward
The gun carriage, with the coffin. sup
ported by the late queens eGuerries and
household. fanked by the same officers as
appeared in Saturdays ceremony in Lon
don.
King walks by the Coffin.
Following the coffin walked King Edward,
the Duke of Connaught, Emperor William,
the King of the Belgians, Prince Henry Of
Prussia and all the other royal personages,
including Queen Alexandra and the prin-
cesses with the exception Of the few who
had already left England. Those present
were accompanied by their suites.
The route was through the Norman gate
way. across the quadrangle through the
George " archway. down the long walk.
through the lodge gates, and then from the
long walk to the mausoleum.
The route from the George ~ archway to
the gates OF the mausoleum was lined with
troops under the command OF Col. Napier
Miles Of the 1st Life Guards.
The queens pipers played from the gates
Of the mausoleum itself. On arriving there
the queens company of Grenadiers opened
outward and formed in double rank on the
steps Of the mausoleum.
The choir met the funeral cortege the
steps. The Highlanders, pipers and SER
wants, on their arrival, went into the MAUI
soleum and took up the positions allotted 20
them.
Then the coffin was carried into the mau-
soleum. preceded by the choir and clergy.
The members Of the royal family took
places on each side OF the sarcophagus, the
royal household standing in the transept on
each side. The rest of the ceremony was
private as the space inside the mausoleum
was limited
The choir sang Sir Arthur sullivans an
them. Yea, Though l Walk the hymn,
sleep Thy Last Sleep" and Tennyson' S
THE Face Of Death Is Turned Toward the
Sun Of Light" set to music by Sir Walter
Parratt
Duke of Cornwall Il Better.
LONDON, February 4.-The Duke of
Cornwall and York has recovered enough
to sit up for brief period today.
The afternoon papers emphasize the wide
spread satisfaction expressed in Great Brit
ain at the American evidence of esteem Of
Queen Victoria. The Globe declares 1t is
strictly accurate TO say:
THE two incidents of the universal
mourning which have made the greatest
impression the British are the visit of
Emperor William and the extraordinary and
spontaneous manifestation Of feeling in the
United States"
The ST. James Gazette refers TO American
sympathy in a similar strain. 1t says:
at is perfectly understood in this country
that If IT had been possible the stars and
stripes would zhave taken their honored
place with the fleet assembled at Spithead.'