New-York tribune., 1902-08-08
LONDON In GALA DRESS.
ADORNED FOR THE CORONA
TTON PROCESSION.
SEATS IN THE ABBEY FOR AMERICANS
THE REHEARSALS- GERMAN ARMY
MANEUVRES-TR UNIONS
VICTORY.
Copyright: 1902: BY The Tribune Association,

Copyright: 1902 BY The Tribune Assocation)
Special to The Tribune by French Cable)
London Aug. s. a. m-The coronation rours
is in the final stage of decoration for to-mor-
rows fete. Constitution Hill is ianked with q
continuous line of stands fronting upon Green
Park. Piccadilly. from Hyde Park corner to
St James's-st., is lined each side with red
DoIes tipped with gilt and connected up and
down and across the roadway with festoons.
flags and streamers of all cOlors. Private resi-
dences hotels and shops are heavily decorated
with crimson, blue and purple hangings, Dor
dered with gold The colors do not harrnonize
at times, but for hastily improvised scheme
at diminished cost the municipal decorations
are not ineffective Solid white columns,
wreathed with green ornaments in tissue paper
and surmounted with gilt crowns are the chief
decorative feature of St James's-st- There will
be green wreathing overhead and medley OF
strongly contrasted colors on the fronts or the
buildings on each side. Red poles and many
coIored streamers are continued through club
land and Whitehall to the timber yard sur
rounding the Abbey
Pail Mall Is lavishly but not artistically deco
rated, heavy masses of conflicting color killing
one another The War Office is ingeniousiy
and tastefully trimmed. but several clubhouses
are most wantonlys Sisdgureds at high expense
the Carlton displaying alternate stripes OF
red yellow and white purple base, and
the Reform having a vulgar scheme, with cheap
paper nnedaIlions- The Carlton Hotel has fine
blinds of blue and gold, with festoons Of green
wreathng. but near by there are hideous
blotches in purple and yellow. The stands re-
main in Waterloo Place and Trafalgar Square.
but there is little decoration Whitehall, below
the Horse Guards old banqueting hall. by lingo
Jones' is afame with red, and the Duke Of
Bucceuchs stand and other platforms above
Whitehall Gardens are decorated in blue and
gold. The Canadian arch is the best decorative
feature of the route, and with its new French
trimming and the use Of fresh supply Of
grains 1t is handsome and highly effective. The
coronation decorations would commonplace
without this monument of colonial enterprise
and good taste
There was a marked increase Of animation In
the streets yesterday, although the day was
showery. Rehearsals were in progress at t1e
Abbey and princes were arriving at the rail-
way stations The official programmes reveal
close adherence to the arrangements Of the first
d festivities in June. The Iressur for seats
in the Abbey is tremendous, but the Earl Mar
shall and other officials cautious in allot-
ting m that probably there will be vacant
places. Civil Service officials profiting by
personal friendship and obtaining entrance in
large I mbers- Americans are less fortunate,
but the inf.uenc of the embassy has sufficed
for securing seats for Justice Brown. of the
United States Supreme Court. and ex-Attorney
General Griggs. J. Pierpont Morgan has also
obtained seats. although it brusquely in
timated in June that foreign millionaire
could enter and thu Americans uncOnnected
with one or the other embassy could get in.
Edwin a Abbey and Mrs. Abbey will be among
the American spectators of Saturdays service.
Mr. Abbey has witnessed nearly all the rehear-
sals and has done a great deal of preliminary
work. For painting the coronation he will de-
pend mainly upon his own sketches. No photo
graphs of the ceremony can be taken. owing to
the defective light
The international club known as the
Pilgrims viii entertain its honorary president
Lord Roberts at the Carlton Hotel the eve
of the coronation.
While the German Emperor cannot rival the
coronation as a state function. he is providing
unusually spirited military pageants for Pc
riod of prolonged commercial depression. There
viii be a brilliant parade of the Garde Korps in
Berli. on August so. and this will be followed
by reviews of the Fifth Corps at FOs=n on Sep
tember 3 and of the Third Corps, at Frankfort
on the following three days. after which the
two corps will unite in manceuvres on an ex-
tended scale from the 9Th TO the 18th. between
Frankfort and Posen- These operations will be
near the Russian frontier and the German EN-
peror is expected to make speech of unwoEted
significance.
Henry Duveen received yesterday official in
formation from Paris that the French Govern
ment had made him Chevalier of the Legion
of Honor in recognition of his public services In
introducing and developing taste for French
art in America The honor might easily have
been bestowed for services connected with the
coronation. Two thrones and four Genoese
velvet chairs which will be seen in the theatre
and the sacrarium designed by Duveen
and made in France rug OF the sixteenth
century about twenty feet square. with which
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