The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-11
LONDON'S DAY AFTER
.,,xG EDWARD SHOWED UP Il
GOOD SHARE.
DROVE OUT WITH QUEEN.
,,rsTIVITIES CONTINUED OVER
SUNDAY.

MIR Crowds We're out viewing the
necorntfons and Watching the
NotabIe PersOnages as They Pass
.d 10 and FrO-PubIfc Services Held
ot It. PauI's Cathedral-ReynoI >
weekly Says Lord Kitchener Was
tb4 Real Hero of the Occasion
with the PeopIe-The Visiting
RoyaIties Almost Ignored by the
Populace.
London, Aug. 10.-The festivities in
1ondon were continued to-day. There
we're crowds almost all day long in the
vicinity of Buckingham Palace and
along the route of yesterdays pro-
cession, viewing the decorations and
watching the flow of notable person
ages to and from the various thanks
oivng services. In the evening the
canadian arch, which, as an excep-
tional novelty for Sunday, was bril-
rantly illuminated, was a great center
Of attraction and served to bring an
immense concourse of people into the
neighborhood.
In SDllG VI blC WCACOllC dllllOuAlCC-
ment, made last night, that King Ed
ward had borne the fatigues of coro-
nation day well, to-day's bulletin con-
corning his health was awaited with a
certain degree of anxiety.
There was still some doubt as to
whether His Majesty would drive out
to-day. but the small crowd which re-
NAMED at Buckingham Palace, hope
full to see the sovereign, was finally re-
warded by the appearance of the King
and queen. Their majesties were ac-
companied by Princess Victoria, Prince
Charles of Denmark, Prince and Prin-
cess Henry OF Prussia, and the Crown
Prince of Denmark, and were attended
By large following of the royal house
hold.
The procession drove along the Mall
TO St. James Palace without receiving
any notable demonstra ton from the
people. Tickets to the chapel royal had
been sparingly granted The choir
boys who took part in the service in
the chapel were clad in quaint gowns
Of crimson and gold lace. The service
was very simple and there was 70 SER
mon special prayers for the occa-
sion, however, were read.
An almost identical service to the
one held at the chapel royal nf ST.
James was conducted at Marlborough
House chapel and attended by the
Prince of Wales and his family and
other personages.
The Service at St. PauI's
The most interesting of all the serv-
ices was that held at St. Pauls Ca
thedral.. The public was freely admit
ted to the Cathedral and the great edi-
ice was crowded with people in every
corner. The lord mayor of London,
Sir Joseph G.. Dimsdale. and the corr
poration of the city attended in state
and with the choir was seated Prin-
cess Henry of I3attenberg, the Duch-
esSoo Of Fife and the Duchess Of Az
barry, With the royal children, and q
large number of diplomats, including
Joseph H. Choate, the United States
ambassador.
The newspapers to-day have been
rather ridiculous in some of their COM
ments upon the events of yesterday.
To read these papers one would inn
agine that no one ever had looked to
be in better health than did King Ed
ward and that never was seen such
an array of beautiful and gracious
princesses as shared the ceremony.
one exception to the foregoing is found
in Reynolds Weekly Newspaper.
which, whatever its standing, has,
nevertheless, a tremendous circulation
among the masses, and at least on this
occasion it had a good foundation for
its description of and attitude on the
crowd of yesterday. The paper ac-
knOwledges that "a mighty greeting"
was accorded King Edward and Queen
Alexandra, but says:
A Tribute to Kitchener.
The one man the populace knew
and desired to cheer above all was
Lord Kitchener. He was no gilded
peer, because he was descended on the
left-hand side from the harem of a
seventeenth century monarch. He sat
his horse like a centaur, grim, stern
and never smiling figure; a man who
mad accomplished something. History
may rate his achievements poor. but
history will have to say he worked:
The crowd was not repealed
by Lord Kitchener's cold and
almost callous indifference; it
aVished cheers upon him with a
very wealth of profusion."
Cared Little for Princes.
Il wonder. though" continues the
"llleF IN Reynolds w eekly NeWSpa-
per- what these mighty personages.
who, for all the crowd cared, might
have been figures in waxwork, thought
OF the conduct of the multitude. The
crowd would have naught to do with
your pinchbeck half-dazed royalties;
your Meclenberg- Strelitzes, your
Schleswig- Holsteinns, nor even your
Dukes of Sparta Crown Princes of
Germany, and Henrys of Prussia were
passed by as though they were Dick,
Tom and Harry. Even the Prince and
Princess of Wales passed by with little
more than murmur of appreciation
Perhaps the most satisfactory feature
OF the occasion was the general re-
Iusal of the democracy to make them
selves absurd by over ELUSIVE demon
STATIONS. OF the thirty or forty royal
personages, not more than a half-dozer
aroused what could be called enthus-
!usn Queen Alexandra's popularity
was once more proved, but some of the
prlhcesses were seen to be bowling
gracefully in response to no salutations
Whatever"