The Topeka state journal., 1901-02-01
LAST JOURNEY.
Body Of Queen Victoria Leaves
Isle Of Wight
For Its Final Resting Place Be-
side Her Husband. =.
GRAND NAVAL DISPLAY
Nothing Like 1t Seen Since the
Great Jubilee
Tragic SpIendOr Like Destrue'
tiOn of Cervera's Fleet
FORBIDDEN TO CHEER.
Sailors Stand Mute i'm the Mag
niieent WarIike Display.

Cowes. Feb.1-With grand. yet mourn
ful display Of naval pomp and power,
the body Of Queen Victoria was bor,.e
this afternoon from its quiet resting
place in Osborne House to Portsmouth
the heart Of England's navy Not since
Admiral Cervera's ships lit UP the Gu
bar coast with their self-consumiEg
fires has anything been seen which in
tragic splendor approached the naval
spectacle Of today. The half hundred
red fighting ships that this afternoon
fred their broadsides and minute guns
were inferior in strength to the force
gathered in the same waters for the
5ubilee celebration but the lack Of for
rnidabIeness was fully atoned by the
solemnity of this fleet in mourning
over the stin waters between the roll
OF the 6-pounders came strains Of Chop
in's and Beethoven's funeral marches.
The crews accustomed TO cheer with the
heartiness which belongs only TO Jack
les stood silently along the decks and
the flags which usually float defantsy
in the breeze. dropped half way dowa
the halyards. The most powerful fleet
England could gather on short notice
lay inert and silent save for the mourn
LlL strains OF the DAnQS anu lllG WOCLAAA
sound of guns that betokened neither
peace nor war. but death. Past these
and past the Hohenzollern the huge
though cumbersome Camperdown. the
Rodney and the Benbow. on through the
line Of British battleships, all as power
ful on paper as the Oregon or Kentucky,
still on. till Japan's Hatsus the biggest
warship in the world was left astern and
the German Baden was beam to beam
with Vice Admiral Sir Harry Holds
worth Rawson's splendid flagship. the
Majestic of the naval squadron the ne
val pageant proudly steamed Ahead
We're eight destrOyers and seldom have
these speedy craft drawn their long
black hulls SO sluggishly through the
water
THE ROYAL YACHT.
Steaming leisurely after them was the
royal yacht Alberta, half screened by
the awning on the poop, the royal coffin
placed on a crimson dais. the curtains
of which were drawn back and tied to
four poles, leaving free to view the mag
nificent casket and robes Sometimes
abeam. sometimes ahead, was the Trim
ity house yacht irene watching the
came the royal yacht Victoria and AL
bert, with King Edward and Queen
Alexandra and the English royal fam
ily, the royal yacht Osborne with other
HohenzOlern. with Emperor William
the Duke and Duchess Of Connaught and
others; the admiralty yacht Enchantress
and Trinity house yacht with officials
on board.
The main squadron OF battIeships and
cruisers were mocred two and a half
cables apart. in one line extending from
CoWes TO Spithead-
The channel fleet under the commend
of Vice Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth
Rawson. formed the eastern portion
and the reserve fleet under Rear Ad-
mlral Sir Gerald Henry Noel, formed the
western portion.
The foreign war vessels were moored
southwest Of the British ships in the
order Of their arrival, and alongside OF
them were moored eight British gun
poaes' tne antelope, Cleaner. Skipjack.
1.eda, Rattlesnake, Alert Gree ard
Speedwen
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
Dattleships and cruisers.
Inc main line was as follows BEGIN
ning az Cowess The Alexandra. Camper
Gown. Rooney Benbow, Collingwood.
Colossus. Sansparei. Nile Howe. Mel
afnpus. Severn, Galatea Bellona. Pac-
toius, Pelorus. Diana, Conqueror AFRO
CANT. Minerva, Niobe. Hero, Hood Ira
falgar, Resolution. Jupiter Hannibal
Nlars. Frlnce George and Majestic
MINUTE GUNS FIRED
A salute was fired by all the ships in
the Solent and at Cowes commencing
Win tne Alberta as she left the pier
t-acn snip ceased firing Immediately AZ
ter the tail Of the procession had uassad
mere AIter the procession had passed
tne Majestic, the forts and the ships ia
portsmouth harbOr commenced firirc~
minute guns and continued firing until
the Alberta was alongside the wharf
NO standards were displayed and en-
signs and Union Jacks were ar boif
mast The bands played the funeral
.llarcnes OF Chopin and Beethoven only.
NC national anthem was played.
tJn the approach Of the procession tha
ships were manned and the guards ana
bands We're paraied
The officers were In full dress and the
%1leA % wore NO rig" and straw hats
Ine guards presented arms as +be -
Derta passed each ship and then rsstsl
on their arms reversed until the Drooos
sion had passed P-o0-s-
A detachment OF marines" and fba al
1nlrals band We're on board Nalso->-s
oid nag ship, the Victory. in Portsmo,1ts7
All the sea front ana dock Yards u,a,s
41 Ils.-lled py marines and sailors whil-
- s-e.-. " islanu was manned by bows
-EoAh the framing ship St Vfnre~t o-7
from the gunnery ship Excellenf
nen the Majestic was LEFT asts,.,
the Alberta was moored for the nSs-l-'
tomorrow the body viii be taken as5ors
AZ portsmouth and thence con,-aS,e-s =
London and Windsor for the 1as3 -.
utes to the queen Nii'
BRINGING COFFIN TO THE -prEp
Inc ceremony consisting in hrinrirs-
AMe comm from Osborne house to fhe Die7.