The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-04
BORNE TO TOMB.
Body of the Queen Laid in Its
Final Resting Place.
In the Prince Albert Memorial
at FrOgmOre.

Windsor, Feb. 4.-Hundreds of people
poured into Windsor throughout the
morning and by 1 o'clock the long walk
was already black with spectators, most
" from the surrounding country waiting
for a last glimpse at the coffin contain
ing the remains Of Queen Victoria. The
sun was shining brightly The final oh
sequies promised to be as stately as the
initial stages.
The representatives of royal families
arrived 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
Saturday. The stores were closed during
the interment.
Dismounted life guardsmen in their
scarlet clOaks, the white pIumeS of thei~
helmets glistening IN the sun, kept the
route clear from the castle slope. Amid
the bower of trees arose the mist from
the damp earth, trampled into mud by
the uneasy thousands. The air was
sharp and cold. From the Albert mem :
mortal chapel to the mausoleum nearly
a mile from the great gate of the castle,
there is 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 ticket holders On the other
side where the long walk commences.
the public was massed.
At 2:45 p. M, q picturesque touch OF
color was added to the scene. Sir Wal
ter PARROT, private organist to the
queen and organist of st. Georges chap
Ell royal Windsor and his choir in sur
plices and college caps, walked quickly
down the slope through the crowds .
the nausoleum. Then minute guns COM
menced to boom as a battery of artillery
at the foot of the long walk paid its
final honorS to the dead queen. The
Windsor church bells tolIed solemnIy
and the strains OF the band gradually
growing stronger. echoed from the castle
quadrangle.
At 3:15 p. m. the procession moved ir
the following order:
The queens company Of grenadier
guards with arms reversed.
The governor and constable OF Windsor
castle. the Duke of Argyll.
Highlander and pipers- a.
Band Of grenadier guards.
The bishop OF Winchester and the dean
The lord chamberlain and the lord stew
ard
The gun carriage with the coffin sup
ported by the late queens equerries and
household, fianked by the same officers as
appeared In Saturdays ceremonies in
Following the coffin walked King Ed
ward the Duke of Connaught Emperor
William, the King Of the Belgians. Prince
Henry OF Prussia and all the other royal
personages including Queen Alexandra
ana the prineesses. with the exception of
Those present were accompanied by their
suites.
gateway through the quadrangle, through
the George " archway, down the long
gates
from the long walk to the mausoleum
The route from the gorge " archway
to the gates of the mausoleum was lined
with troops under the command Of Colonel
Napier of the Life Guards
The queens pipers played from the
gates of the u1EusoIeum ITSELF
On arriving there the queens company
OF grenadiers opened outward and formed
in double rank on the steps of the rnauso-
leum- The choir met the funeral cortege
on the steps The highlanders, pipers and
servants. on their arrival went Into the
mausoleum and took UP the positions al
lotted to them.
leum preceded by the choir and clergy
The members Of the royal family took
places on each side of the sarcophaea1s
the royal household standing in the tran
sept on each side. The rest of the cere-
mony was private, the space inside
the mausoleum limited.
The choir sang Sir Arthur SlIivan's
anthem, Yea Though Walk the hymn
sleep Thy Last Sleep and TennysoT's
The Face of Death Is Turned Towards
the Sun of Light" set to music by Sir
Walter PARROT.