The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-02-02

Escort of the Body of the Queen from
Cowes to Ports IN Outh.

COwes to Ports mouth.
| Portsmouth, Feb. 1.-The Alberta
with the body of the queen on board
entered the harbor at 4:4O p. m. ant
moored alongside the landing place. The
royal yachts Victoria and Albert anC
the Osborne were secured to buoys ir
the harbor while the imperial yacht
Hohenbolern was berthed by the side
of the dockyard jetty.
[ The big bell of the town hall. COM
menced ringing a funeral knell on the
arrival of the Alberta, which was con-
tinued for two hours. The Majestic and
the German flagship were the last OF
| the fleet to salute the cortege. The
pageant was witnessed by thousands of
persons afloat and ashore.
| Not since the diamond jubilee has the
town held such crowd as poured in
to-day. The bastions and promontories
| overlooking the sea and harbor and ev-
cry point of vantage were black with
spectators. Conspicuous in the spacious
| harbor was the old battleehip Victory,
on the old-fashioned poop of which IA
guard Of royal marines was mounted,
and the admiral's band played the
marches of Chopin and Beethoven.
| Darling up and down the harbor fleet
of launches kept open a roadway for the
| expected fleet. In the meantime thou
sands of visitors spent the early morn
ing on yachts and tugs to get closer
glimpse of the great line of warships
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sea.
The members of parliament and cor
respondents representing every nation
embarked on a small steamer and were
entertained at luncheon as guests of the
admiralty.
gauze of fog was settled over the
still waters of the Solent, through
which warships appeared like great
shapeless black rocks. The fleet
stretched from Portsmouth to Cowes,
The turrets of Osborne standing above
the purple hills. Abreast were the bat
tleships Benbow and Collingwood.
These emblems Of Britain's imperial
power, were the policemen guarding
the avenue, ten miles long, through
which the queens body was to pass to
the mainland of the kingdom. There
were nineteen British batteships, eleven
cruisers and eight gunboats, not even
the full strength of the channel squad
ron. Eight naval ambassadors of
friendly powers We're ranged along the
Portsmouth end while gunbotas and
steamers with official spectators formed
the remainder of the southern line The
British ships were an imposing sight
with their uniform decorations, coal
black hulIs, with a line of red just
above the with with white upper work
and yellow smokestocks. All displayed
the jack at the foremost and the white
ensign, at half mast at their stern.
The foreign ships attracted most of
the attention of the English spectators.
Giant of the whole fleet was the Japan
csc battleship Hatsue, the largest war
machine afloat, fortress of clay col
ored steel, with the scarlet sun on a
white field hanging at her stern, the
fighting emblem of the youngest world
power.
Emperor Williams navy was repre-
sented by Ny1nphe, Victoria Luise,
Hagen and Baden, all blue gray col
ored upperworks. The Hagen was fly
ing Prince Henry of Prussia's flag,
yellow arms on a white field
The Dupuy de LONE, under Frances
tri-color, was a fine sight She is
built with a prov fronted long ram,
high out of the water.
Portugal was represented by the
cruiser Don Carlos. The i'll fortune of
SPANS navy asserted itself at the
last moment, for word came that the