Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-02-07
BORNE THROUGH LONDON.
The Remains of Queen Victoria Es-
corted Through the Capital on
Their Way to Windsor.
STREETS WERE MASSED WITH PEOPLE.
rinEe, Drawn by the Same Horses
that Drew Her Majesty I'm the Ju-
bIlce Procession-The Arrival at
Historic windsor.


bIIce Procession-The Arrival ~
| Historic windsor.
London, Feb. with every cor
cumstance of splendid pomp betting
the obsequies of SO mighty and well
beloved 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 magnnifcence of Fridays
opening phase of these last rites was
grandeur of the sorrowful pageant
through the swarming streets of Lon
don, with hundreds of thousands OF
mourners forming a black border to
the route, will never be surpassed.
An Absence of Black.
There was i'm Nictoria's funeral pro-
ccsson an absence of that black cere-
monial generally connected with the
final progress to the grave.
The coffin was drawn by cream col
ored horses. The pail was white, and
the uniforms of the troops and the
gold trappings of the foreign SOW
ereigns, princes and representatives
forming glittering medley. gave bril-
liant coloring to the scene. The chief
mourner 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 morning marking the
route.
Many Distinguished Mourners.
Never in English history has a SOW
ercign been borne to the grave at
tended by so many distinguished
mourners The gathering of crowned
heads surpassed those who rode in the
jubilee procession. All the great Off
GERS of state participated.
The display of the naval and mill
tary forces reached the great total
of $4,000 men.
At Victoria station.
The scene at Victoria station from
early morning was most brilliant and
impressive. For the days ceremony
the station was transformed into an
immense reception hall. All trains
were stopped before nine o'clock, and
the long platforms were covered with
purple cloth. On another platform,
facing that at which the queens
train was to arrive, guards of honor,
composed of blue jackets, and grena-
der guards, were drawn up. The
broad roadway separating the two
was swept clean and sanded, and a
number Of little purple-covered plat
forms, from which members of the
royal party were expected to mount
their horses, were placed at intervals
at the side and cCntcrs.
Like Scene ut II Levee.
At ten o'clock an army of grooms
with the horses arrived. and thence
forth distinguished military and for
eign royalties in dazzling uniforms
came in quick succession. The lord
chamberlain and his officials, bare
headed, with their white wands of Of
flee, received the most distinguished
personages and conducted them to
little pavilion, erected on the plat
form. The whole station, by that
time, resembled the scene at levee.
Field Marshal Earl Roberts.
The commander-in-chief of the
forces, Field Marshal Earl Roberts, on
a beautiful, spirited brown mare, car
rying his field marshal's baton, at this
juncture trotted into the station and
became the center of interest. He
was soon followed by the earl mar
shal, the duke of Norfolk and many
of the most distinguished British OFF,
GERS. Then came the carriages for
the queen and the princesses. They
were the state carriages, used on the |
occasion of the queens jubilee, with
beautiful, gold-mounted harness and
The horses were ridden
by Positions in scarlet jackets, with |
only narrow band of crepe on their |
arms, as a mark OF the great change. |
The carriages were closed.
Every Head was Barred.
Following the carriages and pre-
,eded by an officer came an object at
which every officer in the animated |
throng instinctively came to the sa-
ute and every head was barred.
1t was the little khaki-colorer gun
carriage which was to carry Queen
Victoria's remains from Victoria to
Paddington station. The eight Hano-
'arian cream-colored horses which
llso drew the late queen on the occa-
lion of the jubilee were used. The
harnesses, scarlet-coat-
ID postillions and scarlet and gold
covered grooms who held each of the
lorses by the bride were all the
anne
The Little Gun Carriage.
Only the little gun carriage, in
tead of the glittering glass and gold
oach marked the change.
With the exception that rubber
Tres were on the wheels, the gun
arriage was as if in actual use. The
lace for the coffin to rest was over
he gun.
1t was then nearly IL o'clock when,
mid cries of "the king of Portugal's
Iorse," the grand duke of Hesse's