The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25
KING EDWARDS GIFTS
ROYAL SOUVENIRS FOR FOREIGN
AMBASSADORS.
AN AFRICAN KING ARRIVES.
LEWANIKA WILL BE ONLY RIVAL
SOVEREIGN PRESENT.

Dowager and Reigning Peeressos to
BE Brought Together at Corona
tion-Mrs. Arthur Paget Specially
HOn6red-ROynI Night at COvent
Garden VIII Be COstIy-A big Rush
for Place at the Ascot Race-Meet-
ing-LOndOn Is Disfigured With
Stands and Coronation Structures.
City VIII Present King With
$4,000 in Token of Loyalty.
London, May 24.-Lewanika. King of
Barotseland Cor Northwestern Rhode
sia), the only king who will be present
at the coronation of King Edward, ar
rived from South Africa to-day. The
presents which King Edward will give
to the foreign ENJOYS are now ready.
Whitelaw Reid. the American special
ambassador, and his associates will re-
ceive pins and brooches of gold, mostly
in the form of the initial e." set
with rubies and pearls, with a gold
enamelled. crown above. In a few
cases, perhaps, costlier presents will
be made to the heads of special en-
bassies.
Practically all the invitations to the
coronation service have been sent out.
The dowager peeresses will sit with
the reigning peeresses and wear SINH
lar robes and coronets. In this way,
it is pointed out, many celebrated wo-
men, who have been separated by Bit
ter family feuds, will be brought to-
gether for the first time in many
years. Among the guests not having
admttance by right of rank, but who
were specially invited by the King to
attend the service, is Mrs. Arthur Pa
get, daughter of the late Mrs. Paran
Stevens of New York, and wife of Maj
Gen. Paget of the Scots Guards. Mrs.
Paget will preside over a huge coro-
nation ball. July 2, in aid of the Kings
hospital fund.
The royal celebration night at the
grand opera, Covent Garden, June 30,
is expected to break all box office rec
ords. The stalls will cost 20 guineas,
which means 10000 guineas from royal
visitors, cabinet ministers and other
high personages. Hundreds of seats
have already been allotted Such
boxes as are not taken by the court
will cost from so guineas to 100 guineas.
| Many of these are already sold. 1t is
| estimated that Covent Garden will hold
| that night G1S000.
Among the coronation festivi-
ties, the Ascot race meeting bids fair
to be the most popular. though this
| year the King will have a stand to
himself. The rush of applications for
admittance to the royal enclosure,
where King Edward formerly watched
the races, is unprecedented. The lord
chamberlain, the Earl of Clarendon,
with only 1,500 tickets at his disposal,
has been obliged to disappoint hun
dreds.
Not n Fairy City Now.
Almost a fairy CITY," is the way one
writer forecasts London's appearance
during coronation week. Arches and
festoons, planned by municipal and ar
tistic committees, will be erected in
every quarter of the metropolis. The
preparations for these, however, are
anything but fairylke. Each week
sees London more hideous, with count
less half finished stands. many of them
shutting out the light from houses, and
| all reeking with the smell peculiar to
| rainsoaked pine. In the maze Of
| stands going up around the houses of
Parliament and Westminster Abbey, %
guineas are asked for seats.
Over 500 coronation bonfires have al
ready been arranged for in the prov
| inces.
| A curious precedent In celebrating
King Edwards browning has been set
by the corporation of the city of Lon
| don, which has decided to make a per-
sonal gift of 5000 to the King to use
| as he sees fit in token of the continu-
ance of the corporations ancient 10y
atty to the sovereign. This is exclu-
sive of the appropriations for decora-
ton and entertainment, or for the
| Kings hosnital fund