The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-02-02
QUEENS FUNERAL ON.
VictOria's Remains Removed From o.
borne House to Portsmouth.
A GRAND NAVAL PAGEANT.
Minute Guns Fired by the Assembled
Fleet of Foreign Warships ms
Royal Yacht Bore Funeral
Party From Cowes.


Party From Cowes. i
Cowes, Feb. with grand yet mourn
full display Of naval pomp and power the
body of Queen Victoria was borne in the |
afternoon from it's quiet resting place in |
Osborne House TO Portsmouth, the heart |
Of England's navy. Not since Admiral
Ceryera's ships lit up the Cuban coast |
with their self consuming fires has any
thing been seen which in tragic splendor
approached this naval spectacle. The
half hundred fighting ships that fired
their broadsides and minute guns were
inferior in strength to the force gather
cd in the same waters for the JuDlee
celebration, but the lack of Formidable
ness was fully atoned for by the solem-
nifty of this fleet in mourning. Over the
still waters between the roll of q pound
ers came the dirge of Chopin's and
Beethoven's funeral marches. The
crews. accustomed to cheer with the
heartiness which belong only to jack
ies.'' stood silently along the decks, and
the flags which usually float deiantly in
the breeze dropped half way down the hui
yards. 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 betOkened neither peace nor war,
but DEATH Past these and past the
| Hohenzollern, the huge though cumber-
some Camperdown, the Rodney and the
| Ben Bow, ON through the lines of British
| battleships, all as powerful on paper ms
! the Oregon or Kentucky; still on till
| Japan's Hatsuse, the biggest warship in
| the world, was left astern and the Ger
| man Baden was beam to beam with VICE
| Admiral ,Sii Henry IIoldsworth Raw
sons splendid flagship, the Majestic, Of
the channel squadron, the naval funeral
procession slowly steamed. Ahead We're
| eight destroyers and seldom have these
speedy craft drawn their long black
| hulls so sluggshly through the water.
The Funeral Yacht.
| Padding leisurely after them was the
royal yacht Alberta, half screened by the
awning on the poop, the royal coffin
placed on crimson dais, the curtains of
| which were drawn back and tied to foui
| poles, leaving free to view the magnlfl-
cent casket and robes. Sometimes 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 royal family; the royal yacht
Osborne, with other royalties; the inn
peral yacht Hohenzollern, with Emperor
William the Duke and Duchess of Con-
naught and others; the admiralty yacht
Enchantress and Il Trinity House yacht
with officials on board.
| -, nl,.r,,, .,f Int lnph MI
cruisers was moored two and half ca
bles apart in one line, extending from
Cowes TO Spithead.
The channel fleet, under the command
Of Vice Admiral Sir Harry Hodsworth
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 moored
! southwest of the British ships in the or
der Of their arrival, and alongside of
them were moored eight British gunboats,
the Antelope, Cleaner, Skipjack, Leda,
Rattlesnake, Alert, Gree and Spcedwell
After leaving Trinity pier the Alberta
with her attendant escort, steamed along
the deep channel between the coast Of the
: Isle Of Wight and the single line of bat
+. tcships and cruisers.
The main line was as follows, begin
G ming at Cowes:
The Alexandra Campcrdown, Rodney
!: Ben Bow, Colingwood Colossus, San,
lareil, Nile, Howe, Melampus, Severn
q Galatea, Bellona, l'actOlus, Peolus, Di
k ana, Gonqteror, Arrogant. Minerva, Mo
7 be, Hero, Hood, Trafalgar Resolution
\ Jupiter Hannibal, Mars, Prince Georg
= and Majestic.
Minute Guns Fired.
: Minute guns We're fired by all the ship
in the Solent and ut Cowes, commencin
when the Alberta left the pier.
Each ship ceased firing immcdiatel
after the tail Of the procession had pass
! ed her.
= After the procession had passed til
. Majestic, the forts and ships in Ports
: mouth harbor commenced firing minut
A guns and continued firing until the A
bcrta was alongside the wharf.
No standards were displayed, and eli
signs and union jacks We're at half mas
The bands played the funeral marche
/, Of Chopin and Beethoven only. No hi
=, tional anthem was played.
IS On the approach of the procession til
IS ships were manned and the guards All
y, bands were paladed. The officers wol
n LUZ tftSS uilu INC llleu NO. i GlS an
straw hats. The guards presented arm
us The Alberta passed each ship and the
rested on their arms reversed until I'll
procession had passed.
T. A detachment of marines and the adm
OF rails band We're on board Nelson's OIL
". flagship, the Victory, in Portsmouth ha
lie Dor.
tai All the sen front and dockyards wei
et manned by marines and sailors, viii
Barrow island was manned by boys fro
the training ship st. Vincent and mt
from the gunnery ship Excellent.
When the Majestic was left astern, Il
sc Alberta was moored for the night
4 The Land Ceremony.
81 The land ceremony, consisting in blin
al Ing the coffin from Osborne House to Il
on pier at Cowes, was scarcely less intercs
II ing than the naval function. At noe
OF the gorgeous trappings of the chapel
IN ardentc We're disturbed. Over the cofl
'nt was thrown the coronation robe worn
sla the girl queen. On this was placed Il
.ed royal regala, wand, scepter and crow
Sc which We're scarcely ever used by t
queen i'll her lifetime, MS she PREFER
dummy regalia, which will be buried wi
: her Mt Frogmore.
10 Every stand, window and roof when
del the procession could be viewed was rapi
10 ~ filled mp, while the portion of the ron
~ open to spectators was soon impassab
lea Long before the hour for the funeral t
eA billy York avenue leading from OsboI
was u picturesque sight. From t
castle gate to the pier troops stood wi
tlpr