Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-15

- Diagrams sent out from this town
H&99J Just now may make you think
49, that the affair in Westminster
Abbey on June 26 is what all the world
and his wife have been hurrying into Lon
don for to see. But really except for a
half-mile royal jaunt in public across Green
park, from Buckingham palace to West
minister Abbey at 1890 a. m. and then home
again some two and a half hours later, tired
and hot and hungry-eXcept also for some
booming of cannon when the kings crown
is put on-there will not be much doing in
London on the great day outside of the
wholly private ceremony in the Abbey.
That night things may be expected to
warm up a little, and we shall doubtless
discover whether the new verb "to maj
fck" has come into the English language
to stay, or whether occasion for it died
out when the first wild burst of joy at the
relief Of Ladysmith and Of Mafeking set
tied down into dull apathy toward the
progress of the war in South Africa. AIRY
and 'Arriet should be expected to break
loose on Coronation night, to deluge every
one with confetti and to tickle each others
faces with peacock feathers, but the
chances are that a large proportion OF the
extra 1900, 900 or 1000, 900 who are to be
packed into London on that night will feel
as If they hadn't had their moneys worth
at the end of the actual coronation day.
Seven Mile "ROyaI Progress"
1t is to relieve any such feeling that the
king and queen are going to make a prog
ress" Of seven miles through the city on
the day after the coronation-and that is
what the worlds awaiting for to see."
The king and queen will wear their crowns
and robes of state and will travel in what
is perhaps the most gorgeous coach now
in actual use anywhere in the world. Her
aids and titled supporters and troops from
all quarters of the globe will help to make
the royal progress" as brilliant an affair
as the procession at the time Of the late
queens jubilee.
1t is a lucky thing for the king, and
more especially for the queen that the royal
progress does not have to be made in the
same gilded chariot that will take them
from the palace to the Abbey. The journey
of June q is to be made in a coach of more
recent vintage, with springs that will not
cause the unhappy occupants to think they
are crossing the English channel on a bad
day. The long, slow journey will be hard
enough at best, for delicate, sensitive
Queen Alexandra and it would have been
a physical impossibility for her to make
it in the vehicle to be used in the short
procession of the day before, as she has a
tendency to sea sickness.
BY the Lord Mayors Leave.
Perhaps the most interesting point in
the Journey will be the imaginary line at
the lower end of the Strand, marking the
boundaries of the proud little patch in the
heart of the metropolis which is entitled
to call itself the city Of London and which
has the lord mayor of London all to itself.
Even Edward VII, king of Great Britain
and Ireland, defender of the faith, emperor
of India and all the rest of it, may not
enter the city without the lord mayors con-
sent.
AS the route of the progress lies partly
through the city, a herald in wonderful
Taiment Will ride ahead of the king to
the boundary line at Temple Bar and after
a quaint ceremony-"WhO-goCs-there" bus
mess, blowing of trumpets and all that sort
of thing-will politely ask the lord mayor,
who will be in waiting to guard the city's
right, if the king may please enter the
city. 1t is reasonably safe to say that the
lord mayor will graciously consent. Just
what would happen if he didn't is something
that seems never to have suggested itself
to anybody.
Wherever there is an open space along