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Coffin Placed on Gun Carriage
Followed by King Edward
and Emperor William.
A Brilliant But Solemn Scene
Crowds Bow in Sorrow While
Procession Passes.
Imposing Ceremonies at ST, Georges
Chapel at Windsor in Presence
Of Distinguished Assemblage.
Body TO Lie In the Albert Memorial
Chapel Until Monday
Morning.

London, Feb. 4.-With every circum.
stance of splendid pomp befitting the
obsequies of SO mighty and well-be-
loved a monarch, all that is mortal of
Queen Victoria has been borne through
the streets of the capital and started
towards the ancient fortress-palace of
the sovereigns of England. The solemn
magnificence of Fridays opening phase
of these last rites was duly maintained
Perhaps the stately grandeur of Sat-
urday's sorrowful pageant through
the swarming streets of London, with
hundreds of thousands of mourners
forming black border to the route,
will never be surpassed.
Black sombernexs Relieved.
There was in Victoria's funeraLpro-
cession an absence of that black cere-
monial generally connected with the
final progress to the grave.
Saturday the coffin was drawn by
cream-colored horses. The pail was
white and the uniforms of the troops
and the gold trappings of the foreign
sovereigns, princes and Representatives,
forming glittering medley. gave bril-
liant cooring<to the scene. The chief
mougnsr himself, with his field mar
.shal's uniform. even though this was
partially hidden by his overcoat, sur
rounded by his corps. helped to leaven
the symbols of mourning marking the
route.
Distinguished Mourners.
Never in English history has soy.
ereign been borne to the grave attsnd.
ed by so many distinguished mourners.
The gathering of crowned heads sur
passed those who rode in the Jubilee
procession. All the great officers of
state participated.
The display of the naval and military
forces reached the great total of IS. 900
men.
Minute Guns Fired.
The firing of minute guns and the
rolling OF bells at a quarter past II an.
noupced to the countless multitudes
who had been crowding London S mud
dy streets since daylight that the
funeral procession with the body of
Queen Victoria had begun its passage
tuIouSu the caplIal.
People Seek to See CONN,
The people fought for hours for
glimpse of the coffin and the kings and
Others following it. They saw long
procession of soldiers. passing show
OF dazzling regalia, with hundred
royalties crowding after, and then dis
persed, while all the church chimes of
the city were ringing and muf1ed
dirges were played.
Will Live Long in Memory.
Europe has seen erander oval funer-
ais than the queens and had more
gorgeous spectacle in the celebration
OF her 60 years of reign. but no episode
In the Victorian era will live so deeply
Impressed on the memories of those
who witnessed it or participated in the
ceremonies
The day was somber. wet and chilly, |
as are most of London's winter DAYS.
The cloudy sky added to the gloom of
the whole city
Funeral Train Arrives.
1T was then nearly IL O'Clock. when
amid cries of "rhe king of Portugars
horse" the grand duke of Hesse's
horse" as the princes mounted, the
train steamed into Victoria station
a minute ahead of time.
All heads were uncovered as the |
saloon carriage bearing the queens
remains stopped exactly opposite the
gun carriage and King Edward, Queen
Alexandra. Emperor William and
others alighted.
Colin Removed from Train.
Then the bearer party advanced to
the saloon carriage, and with his
hand at the salute and standinga little
in advance of the others, King Ed
ward watched the painfully slow re-
moyal of the coffin to the gun car
riage. 1t was finally accomplished
and the pail and regalia of the Brit
fsh crown were placed on the coffin.
Procession Starts.
The king and the others with him
then mounted and the procession
started.
The procession. apart from the gun
carriage bearing the coffin, and. the
royal family and official mourners
about it, was not noteworthy. Par
lament, the Judiciary and the com
mercial bodies were not represented.
Royalty. the army and navy monopo-
liked the pageant. Three thousand
soldiers and sailors. picked companies
representing all branches of the serv-
ice, cavalry. artillery, infantry. yeo-
manry, militia volunteers and colo
mails, formed the advance escort
/, March Without Music
{ They marched slowly and without
music. Most of the uniforms were COW
cred with dark overcoats and the stand
ards we've draped with black, the Of
ficers wearing bands of crepe on their
The infantry marched in col
umns of four. with rifles reversed. 4
They were half an hour in passing.
Then came Field Marshal Earl Roberts
and his staff, and, after them, four
massed bands playing funeral marches.
Three hundred musicians announced
The coming of the body of the queen.
rhtre was a long array of court Off
.ials, under the leadershipof the duke
# Norfolk fthe earl marshaD all at
I'D 2uainlly and brilliantly, bearing