Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-06-18
LAVISH DECORATIONS.
London Has 0utdone Herself for the
Coronation.
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week before the IOnQO is
already beirg crowded, and the prices
of everything have been advanced. The
1000 900 people in the metropolis ex-
pect to make a great deal of money
out of their 1,500 900 guests, and from
present prospects they are likely to
succeed. The Americans especially
are expected to furnish wealth for the
Londoners, for while the bulk OF the
visitors will be from the English prov
inces, by far the greatest number of
foreigners will be from America. Every
Atlantic liner that has arrived during
the past three or four weeks has
brought it's full quota of visitors from
the United States. AT all times Amer
leans are regarded as rich plucking by
the British shopkeepers and hotelkeep-
ers, but this is supposed to be an I'M
usually favorable opportunity for the
craft. Interesting accounts are heard
at various hotels of the arrangements
made for the coronation season. At
Claridge's rooms to the value of $40,-
900 are now occupied by Americans.
and at the Hotel Cecil the Yankee Wis
itors have put up S25, 900 for rooms for
the coronation procession.
The decorations of the city have ad-
vanced so far as TO enable one to form
a good idea of the scope and beauty of
the general plan. Artists and others
capable of judging of such matters
unanimously agree hat this feature of
the celebration will eclipse anything of
the kind heretofore seen. A striking
feature of the street decorations in
Westminster are the triumphal arches
at one end of Parliament street. There
is a large central arch and two smaller
ones in the Gothic style, supported by
slender red and white columns, the
whole covered with cloth of gold and
decorated with the shields and arms of
the counties of the United Kingdom
and Ireland. On the summit there is
en- open balustrade of pinnacles on
which st. George, ST. Patrick, st. An
drew and ST. David are grouped around
the lion. The balustrade is decorated
with flowers
The arch at Hyde Park corner has
two sets of six columns decorated with
the royal arms and those of India and
the chief colonies. The columns are
linked with wreaths of roses surmount-
cd with winged allegorical figures in
gold playing musical instruments. A
similar arch in Whitehall street is
lined with Venetian masts and decor
ated shields displaying the rose, and
has a %portcullis of long streamers
showing the kings badges with
wreaths, roses and the imperial crown
with long tassels. Near Abbey row all
the white columns bearing the royal
arms and surrounded by the garter
rise out of a forest of greenery. The
columns are surmounted by winged
figures standing on blue spheres linked
with festoons of roses and bound with
white ribbons.
The decorations at Marlborough
House are so arranged that after dark
it will be possible to use them for IL
Nominations. A beautiful arch of cut
crystal, in the form of a branch of
laurel leaves, has been erected over
the gates. The crystal is of various
natural Jints, and is, so to speak, jew
eled with ruby berries. Rising from
the center of the arch is a crystal me-
dallion, beside the garter and the mot
to of that ancient order. The kings
CIPHER appears in the center of the
medallion and is surmounted by the
royal crown and lion.
Over the entrance to York House, in
Ambassadors Court. there has been ar
ranged a huge Prince of Wales badge
of cut crystal. Running out from it on
either side are scrolls of amber illum-
nations. An oval-cut crystal medal
lion surmounts the badge and shows
the kings cypher and crown in the
center. On the western frontage of
that part of st. James palace which
is York House, a large crystal shield
and crown is displayed. The shield has
a border of rich amber color, surround
ing the rose, thistle and shamrock as
picked out by colored crystals.
Gorgeous as are the decorations and
Nominations of public edifces, they
are rivaled by the embellishments OF
business houses and private resi-
dences. The decorations of Lady Bur
dett-Coutts' house are on a grand scale,
and scarcely less imposing are the dec
orations of Lord Rothschild's resi-
dence. Other elaborate decorative
schemes have been carried out with
pleasing effect by II. j. King, in Pic
cadilly, and Nj. Won Andre, brother-in-
law of Mrs. Chauncey Depew. 1t is
conceded that NJ. Won Andre has gone
one better than he did at the time of
the queens jubilee, when his green and
white decorations were voted the fin
est in all London. Carlton House Ter
race, from one end to the other, pre-
sents a very fine appearance. All the
big houses have been decorated both in
front and back and during the nights
of next week they are to be magniti-
Gently illuminated. Inc finest private
display of all, however, has been made
by Lord Glenesk, at 10 Piccadilly, but
it is hardly a cause for surprise, as few
have ever surpassed him in festival
decorations. In the matter of decora-
tons the question of expense seems
never to have been taken into consid-
Grafton, but what has contributed still
more to the success is the fact that a
uniform and harmonious plan has been
followed out with the result that there
are no sucn eyesores as spoiled the eff
feet of the decorations at the time OF
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