The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-20
INVASION OF ENGLAND.
AMERICANS BEING WELCOMED
 BY HOTEL PRoPRIEToRs.
The Bonifaces Have. Had a Weari- some Winter, But Hope to Make Up For It During Corona
 tion Festivities.

London, April 19-The annual. American invasion of Great Britian has already set in. Americans seem to be on every side and no persons are more welcome for the storekeepers and hotel proprietors who have had wearisone winter and are counting on the trade of the corona ton visitors.
 London itself is already donning it's new dress for the coronation. Electricians and gas filters are festooning buildings for illumination, the hotels are radiant in new paint and The Strand and other thoroughfares have been repaired.
 The hotel proprietors of this city fear they have serious problem before them in their efforts to satisfy the demand for meat The local butchers have already sounded the alarm and are, putting up prices: but the prices, however eXorbftant they declare, cannot prevent meat famine If new sources of supply are not provided, :
 ''It is very serious situation. declared the manager of a syndicate controinng half a dozen of the lafgest London hotels. "Our refrigerator rooms are already stocked up with all the beef we can secure.'t -
 King Edward will make his first ap- pearance on the turf since his accession at Epsom April 2, 'when the friends or William c. Whitney hope he will have chance to see vlodyovski. ridden by Danny Maher, carry off the valuable city and suburban prize.
 King Edward has taken up his quarters | in Buckingham Palace and in future two | mounted life gusrdsmen will act as sen
 tinels. instead of two foot guards as for merly.
 l The gowns which the Prlncesses of the blood are to wear at the coronation will be deep violet in color and tho. material | will be of the best Lyons velvet very
 soft and flexible. The mantle will be | the old fashioned manteau de cour which l is bordered with two rows of gold lace l an inch and a half wide, and by g. third narrower row. It has a picturesque hood lined with miniver. The train itself IS three yards long. A
 1 The maids of honor are to wear par. | tcularly picturesque cloth or silver
 gowns They will form glittering back
 ground for the royal purple robes of the | princesses.- .f | Smoking church services" arc the latest innovation and promise to spread | and attract many of those who habitually | spend Sunday morning in the vicinity of public houses. awaiting the hour of | opening of those places. Arch-Deacon | Wilberforce of Westminster started the | movement during the present week He l invited the men who were fitting ur | Westminster Abbey for the coronation to
 spare a part of their dinner hour to. relt' | zion, gave each man an ounce Of tobacco l and told the men to come and smoke and
 make themselves at home during the l service.
 The men were delighted by. the novel proposition and have been assembling in l the cloisters daily to the number of .up-
 wards of one hundred. They join in heartily in the hymns and Lords E
 Prayer, occasionally taking drink from | their beer cans. though they invariably
 remove thoir caps and pipes during | prayers The Arch-Deacon keeps the mems attention riveted by interading his
 exhortations with anecdotes of heroism | etc. . In the meanwhile the Abbey is rigor'
 ously closed to the general public. This
 fact seems to have whetted the appetite l of sight-seers who are resortipg to all
 kinds of. plans to obtain admission. The | Americans arc particularly eager,