The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-05
QUEEN LAID TO
HER FINAL REST
Body Now Beside That of
Her Husband.
PATHETIC SCENES
IN FINAL RITES
FrOgmOre Services in the
MauSOleum Are Private.

Windsor, Feb. 4.-The last honors
have been paid to Queen Victoria. Her
body now rests peacefully near that OF
her husband. in the maUsoleum at
Frogmore
The final ceremonies were of q more
pathetic character than any of the OBJ
sequies which preceded them. Shortly
before 3 o'clock, in the presence OF the
royal mourners, the Grenadier guard
of honor lifted the coffin from its tenn
porary resting place in the Albert Me-
mortal chapel and placed it on a gun
carriage. In the meanwhile the queen
company of Grenadiers, drawn up in
the quadrangle, presented arms and
wheeled into line, their rifles al the re-
verse, and with slow, measured steps
marched toward the castle gate in the
bright sunlight. At the head of the
procession was d band playing Chopins
funeral march.
Slowly the cortege passed under the
massive archway on TO the long walk,
which was a mass OF black brilliantly
edged with scarlet Life guardSmen
kept the crowd back.
Kings Walk Behind Coffin.
Ia place on the gun carriage was the
same regalia which attracted the eyes
of millions since the march to the
grave began at Osborne. Close behind
walked the king. Emperor William and
the Duke of Connaught, wearing dark
military OvercOats and plUmed cooked
hats. and looking pale and carewOrn-
Tn similar dull attire were the kings of
Portugal and Belgium. All heads were
bent.
The blue aud gray of the German
princes redeemed the royal group from
somberness of color.
Behind these walked Queen Alexan-
dra and the royal princesses, deeply
Veiied. The queen carried an umbrel-
Ia, but the others had their hands
folded
AS the last trio of these yelled wom-
en- passed out from the castle there
came two boys. dressed in bright kits
and velvet jackets Between them was
a young Eir4. her fair, loose hair glim-
mering against the Grape of her
mourning. Two of these were children
of Princess Henry of Battenberg. and
the other was little Prince Edward of
York. His tiny legs could hardly keep
pace even with the slow progress of
the mourning band.
The rear of the procession was
brought up by the suites of the kings
and princes, their Vari-Colored over
coats forming a striking patch Of color.
Down the long walk, with the band
still playing ChOpins dirge, this quiet
Ai-EuHE SLOWLY IidQE It's way TO the
mauSOleum. The horses attached to
the gun carriage were inclined to be
FESTIVE, but as an extra precautiOn a
drag of ropes was attached to the
wheels ana held by sturdy artillery
men.
Amid the bare boughs of trees the
mist arose from the damp earth,
trampled into mud by the uneasy few
thousands. The air was sharp and
cold.
Distance Nearly a Mile.
From the Albert Memorial chapel to
the mauSOleuw, nearly a mile from the
great gate of the castle, there is d
steep slope of 500 yards at the bottom
OF which is the lodge gate and a fence.
on the castle side Of this were hun
dreds of ticket holders. On the other
side, where the long walk commences,
the publ was massed-
Minute guns commenced to boom as
e battery of artillery at the foot of
the long walk paid its final honOrs to
the dead queen. The Windsor church
bells toiled solemnly and the strains
OF the band, gradually growing strong
er and stronger, echoed from the castle
quadrangle.
At 3.15 D. m. the head of the pro-
cession passed slowly out of King
Georges arch.
The route was through the Norman
gateway. across the quadrangle.
through the George " archway down
the long walk, through the lodge gates
ana thea from the long walk to the
nrausoleum-
The route from the & orge " arch
way to the gates of the mausOleum
were lined with troops under the COM
mand of Colonel Miles of the First Life
Guards
At the lodge gates the strain of the
band died away ana the Dipers COM
menced their lament
Rest of Ceremony Private.
BY 3:39 p. m. the crowned bier had
passed into the other lodge, which
leads 20 the Frogmore enclosure, where
none but the family and servants were
admitted.
The queens pipers played from the
gates of the mausoleum itself, On ar
irving there the queens company of
Srenadiers opened outward and formed
in double rank ON the steps Of the
mauSOleuu.
The choir met the funeral cortege on
The steps. The HighIandeTs, pipers and
servants. on their arrival, went into
the maUsOleum and took up the posi-
tions allotted 20 them.
Then the coffin was borne from the
sun carriage by the grenadiers- The
pipers ceased their dirge. and the choir
moving forward, commenced to sing,
Yet Though 1 Walk Through the VAL
ley Before
The inside o. the mausoleum being
reached, they sang Man That's Born
of Woman" While the royal family
took their places around the coffin, the
dome of Nictoria's tomb rg-echued with
the sad strains of Lord, Thou Know
est"
The Bishop of Winchester, standing
on the platform surrounding the marble
figure OF the prince consOrt, on which
rested the queens coffin. read the COM
initial prayer and the Lords prayer.
Then the choir sang sleep Thy Last
Sleep tie dean said the collect. the
choir broke into the anthem The Face
OF Death Is Turned Toward the sun Of
Life" and with hands stretched over
the congregation thu Bishop of Win
chester pronounced the beuediCtiOn.
A snort, solemn silence followed.
broker by the sweet cadence of stain
cr'S Amer" and then King Edward
and Emperor William. the visiting
kings ana princes and the queen and
priECesses MED before the bier and
passed out To- their carriages.
KING SENDS MESSAGE.