Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-24

recalled the stories how the king even quite recently reiterated his belief that he would never live to be crowned.
 On the stock exchange the effect of the startling news was immediate. | Prices weakened, led by Consols with a fall of half point.
 1 His majesty, under ordinary condl- tions. was not looked upon as good subject for operations, and though the king passed successfully through the ordeal. it is believed that four or i've weeks must elapse before he will be able to undergo the arduOus laborS or the coronation ceremonial. Therefore no date can yet be indicated for carry I ing ont the coronation.
 l Official announcements of the king's serious illness were made to public bodies as speedily as lpossible. Word was sent to the house 1 of commons. and the acting lord cham berlain. Lord Churchill, personally de lliyered to the mansion house, to the residence of the lord mayor, message lregarding his majesty's illness, and at this mornings rehearsal of the coro- nation ceremony in Westminster Ab- bey the bishop of London. the Right Rev Arthur K. Ingram, at the request of Lord Esher, the deputy governor of Windsor castle, made statement as follows:
 T have to make a very sad an- nouncement The king is suffering from an illness which makes an oper- lation necessary to-day. The corona ten, therefore, is postponed"
 The bishop requested tine congrega- tion to join in the litany out of the cor onation service and pray for the re- covery of the king.
 During the course of the afternoon the earl marshal. the Duke of Norfolk. issued the following notice:
 ''The earl marshal has received the kings commands to express his maj esty's deep sorrow that owing to his serious illness the coronation ceremony must be postponed The celebrations in London will in consequence be like wise postponed, but 1t is the kings earnest hope that the celebrations in the country shall be held as already arranged"
 The king also expressed to the lord mayor his desire that his majesty's dinner to the poor of London be not postponed.
 Nothing has yet been decided re- garding the movements of the for le eign guests. The first intimation which Whitelaw Reid. the special am- bassador of the United States to the coronation, had that anything was wrong was contained in q communica- tion cancelling the state banquet which was to be held at Buckingham palace tonight but no mention was then made of the postponement of the great ceremony of the week. It is understood, however, that the special ambassadors and royal guests will re- turn to their respective countries as soon as more definite news is received of the result of the operation.
 Outside of Buckingham palace enor- nous throngs of people conxregated since early morning for the purpose ] of witnessing the arrival of the spe- cial ambassadors who were to be re- ceived by the king and queen to-day ' Large numbers of foreign representa- tiyes actually arrived, but the short ness of their stay was noticed In- quiries were made and soon the news of his majesty's serious state of health was circulated among the waiting thousands.
 1 At the various palaces and at the ] Grosvenor, Buckingham, Carlton, Ce- cn and other hotels where the foreign representatives are staying the news created the greatest dismay.
 London, June 24-Roya1 carriages were already drawn up in readiness to ! take the guests to the reception at the palace, but the moment the ..tickers' 1 announced his majesty's illness all the preparations for the day ceased. | In the streets the change which came over the crowds was most pronounced Traffic seemed momentariIy paralyzed and it was long before the full effect of the startling intelligence was felt
 Large crowds quickly gathered around the Mansion house, where the official notice was put up by police | inspector, who first mounted the steps and read out the bulletin, which was received with respectful silence.
 The streets. as the day wore on, be came more and more congested, and the holiday crowd concentrated into gronps reading and re-reading the Sex tras." Most of the people apparently felt dazed and scarcely appreciated the full import of what they read.
 Work on the stands erected on all sides to enable people to view the cor onation procession was gradually dis continued.
 l The lord mayor has instructed the workmen to demolish the stands in front of the Mansion house
 1 In Piccadilly, along nearly the whole length of which workmen were com pleting the decorations and the road way was blocked with sightseers, news boys were yelling the announcement of the postponement of the coronation, but the workmen in that part of Lon don stoHdly continued to finish Ine work which they will only have to take I down tomorrow.
 l At about 1 o'clock in the afternoon three copies of the signed medical bull; | letin were posted on different parts of | the railing surrounding the front of Buckingham palace. The crowd which had been so numerous during the earli. CT part of the day had by that time | dwindled to a few hundreds, but con stantly Increasing number of fashion