Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-04
QUEEN IS BURIED
LAID TO REST BESIDE HER LOVED
HUSBAND.
THIS is THE LAST OF EARTH.
The General Public Excluded From the
Last Obsequies at the Royal
Tomb.

Windsor, Feb. 4.-The final rites over
the dead queen We're concluded at $3.50
p. m, and the body was laid to rest
in the Frogmore mausoleum.
King Edward, Queen Alexandra, EN-
peror William. and others Of the royal
family attended the services beside the
coffin at an early hour this morning.
Dismounted life guardsmen in their
scarlet cloaks, the white plumes Of their
helmets glistening in the sun, kept the
route clear from the castle slope. Amid
the bare boughs of trees, below the mist
arose the damp earth trampled into mud
by uneasy thousands. The air was sharp
ard cold.
From the ALDER. Memorial chapel to
the mausoleu!n, nearly mile from the
81 eat gate of the castle. there is a steep
slope of 500 yards at the bottom of which
Is the lodge gate and a fence. On the
castle side of this were hundreds of tick
CT holders. On the other side where the
long walk commences, the public was
massed.
At 2:45 picturesque touch of color
was added to the scene. Sir Walter
Parrot, private orga:ist to .he late
queen, and organist of St. George chapel
royal. Windsor and his choir, all in sur
plices and college caps, walked quickly
down the slope, through the crowds to
the mausoleuna. Then minute guns
commenced to boom as a battery of ar
th!efy at the foot of the long walk paid
it's final honors to the late queen. The
Windsor church bells tolled solemnly and
the strains of the band, gradually grow
ing stronger and stronger echoed from
the castle quadrangle.
At 3:15 p. n1 the head of the process
sion passed sloyly out of King Georges
arch in the following order:
The queens company of grenaaier
guards.
The governor and constabes of Wind
sor castle, the Duke of Argyle. High
landers and pipers.
Royal servants.
Band of the grenaiier guards.
The bishop of Winchester and the
dean of Windsor.
The lord chamberlain and the lord
| steward.
The gun carriage. With the coffin. sln-
E, ported by the late queens euueries and
household, thanked by the same officers
as appeared in Saturdays ceremony in
| London.
FOLLOWING the coffin walked King Ed
| ward the Duke of Connaught, Emperor
| William, the h;:is &c Belgium. Prince
| Henry of Prussia and all the other royal
| personages, including Queen Alexandra
ana all the prlncesses, with the excep-
| ton of the few who have already left
England. Those present We're accom-
panied by their suites
| The route was through the Norman
| gateway, across the quadrangle. through
the George ~ gateway, down the long
walk, through the lodge gates and then
from the long walk to the mausoleum,
The route from the George " arcn-
way to the gates of the mausoleum was
lined with troops under the command of
Colonel Miles of the First Life guards
The queens pipers played from the gates
of the mausoleum itself. On arryinc
| there the queens company OF Grenadiars
| opened outward and formed in double
rank OH the steps of the nlausoleun..
The choir met the funeral cortege on
the steps. The Highland plpers and
servants. on their arrival went into the
mausoeum and took up the positions
allotted to them.
The!> the coffin was carried into the
mausoleum preceded by the choir ana
clergy.
The members of the roya. 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 was
| limited.
The choir sang Si- Arthur Sulliyan's
anthem, Yea. Though l Walk" the
hymn, "Sleep Thy Last S.eep" and
Tennyson's 'The Face of Death Is
Turned Toward the Sun of Light" sci
! tn music ny Sir N3l:er TSar-att