The age-herald., 1902-05-11
Coronation Considered as Spec tacular Shorn of Politics.

The coronation therefore is but Spect- acle. It will afford a pageant to all Eng land. The interest In 1t Is such as would center in any great public exhibition, heightened perhaps by the fact that 1t is a relic of a lading, ancient institution. No important body will be omitted in having representatives at Westminster Abbey. The great majority of the com pany, however, will only see the process sion up the nave and hear the music. The coronation ceremonies will be be- yond reach of either their eyes or their ears, as the whole of the functions will take place on the platform Ghe thea tre'O which Is to be erected under the lantern, and partly in the sacrarium The royalties. the corps diplomatique, the house of Lords, the House of Commons, the Indian princes. and the Colonial premers will all be well accommodated in situations from which a good view of the ceremony caR be obtained. The House of Commons will be in the north transept.
 Westminster Abbey after eight o'clock Hardressers are in demand. It is said there will not be enough in London to supply the demand. This causes great anxiety. Our noble ladies to have their heads dressed, clothe themselves. range their robes and be at their sta tions in time will have to rise at two in the morning or sit up all night All the hair dressers fin Paris have been engag ed, and 1t will be necessary for each and every peeress to have and to hold her hairdresser for twenty-four hours, to assure his or her attendance at the needed hour. It is safe to say that there will have to be one of these capillary artists for every peeress.
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 1 wonder if the scenes that marked the coronation of George w. In 1921, will be repeated: People rushed into the Ab- bey at five o'clock in the morning. and every place was occupied before nine, the King entering at eleven On the fol- lowing morning at six o'clock there were two thousand ladies and gentlemen sleeping on the benches of the House of Lords, the peers being wrapped up in their robes. and cooked hats serving as pillows. Some six hundred carriages were unable to approach either abbey or hall to bring back their owners and spent the night in the streets, many of the horses being taken out while the serv- ants slept either in the carriages or on the pavement. George ", who arrived at the abbey at quarter to eleven, did not get away from Westminster Hall until nine o'clock but he retired for an hour between the coronation and the banquet, to take a bath ana change his linen.
 There was most exciting scene at the coronation banquet of George ", when Glengarry, who was In full Highland grab jumped into the. peeresses box shout ed furiously that he had been defrauded of his rights in the refusal to restore some title. and drew from hls belt a pis- tol, which he pointed at the King. He was instantly pinioned, and carried out by six constables, who found that his pistol was unloaded. Glengarry was sup posed to be the original o1 MacIvor in "Waverley." He was described by Scott as a Highland chief of the old feudal school and most sensible people regard ed him as a barbarous savage. After his death his immense Country" in Inver- ness-shire (Glenquoich and Glengarry) was sold to Lord Ward, the late Earl of Dudley, from whom it was purchased by that we'll known Whig politician and wirepuller. "Bear'' Ellice
 The Duke of Connaught is to have su- preme command of the troops In London, during coronation week. His headquar- ters will be in Pail Mall.
 Sir Thomas Lipton. who is we'll known
 
 gained popularity among you as the own CT of the Shamrock, Is a personal friend of the King He is known here as a great tea merchant and as the friend of the King. I am told King Edward is very deslrous of making him a peer. Lord Salisbury. objects, stating that he will consent to Lipton being made baronet, but he has done nothing to entitle him to a peerase. In these days favorites Rnnnnf hn Q6XyQnRnd aa In thn the Tudors and Stuarts. Lipton wants to be Baron Ostdge, after his country seat.
 William Waldorf Astor, who renounced his. country. to Become an Engishman, is called the Twentieth Century Bene- dict Arnold. He Is unpopular with mo- bility people. Even though he is willing to pay handsomely for & peerage Sails bury and the peers won't consent.