Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-06-19

monarch who wanted to be anointed
had to obtain a special dispensation
from the pope.
Other FormaIities.
The presenting of the bible does not
follow Immediately after the anoint-
ing. After the latter ceremony the
king is invested with various sym
bols of his sovereignty-the spurs,
sword, armilla, mantle, orb, sceptre
with the cross, sceptre with the dove,
and ring. 1t must not be supposed
that after these ceremonies are ended
his majesty will look like a pawn
brokers' assistant who has robbed his
mass shop. He only retains some
of the articles; others are handed,
after the king has touched them, to
the various noblemen APPOINTED for
the purpose.
After this the king sits in the ia
nous old coronation chair, and, amid
the shouts Of the people, the blowing
of silver trumpets, and the firing OF
guns from the Tower of London, the
archbishop puts the crown upon his
majesty's head. After the GROWING
the peers put on their coronets and
the bishops their caps.
Then come the presenting of the
bible, the benediction and TIE Deum,
the differentiation, and the homage.
During this ceremony the special cor
onation anthem, composed by Sir
Frederick Bridge, organist of West
minister abbey, will be sung. 1t may
be mentioned that nearly all the music
at the ceremony will be English, and
will date from the compositions of
Tails and Marbeck, Of the sixteenth
century, to the present day. The GER
emory of browning the queen is very
short. When that is ended the holy
communion is administered to their
majesties, and after a recess" or
procession into the Henry VII. chapel
when some of the regalia is laid aside,
the ceremonies are at an end.
Little for the Public.
On coronation day comparatively
few people will be able to see even
the procession. The king and queen,
with their suite, will go from Buck
ingham palace to Westminster by the
shortest possible route-through the
mail, the horse guards parade, the
archway and courtyard of the horse
guards, Whitehall, Parliament street
and the Broad Sanctuary. The cere-
mony is timed to last only two hours,
but it may be judged that it will
q n f0l
Their Majesties will return to the
palace by a somewhat longer route,
going by way of Charing Cross, Cocks
pur street, Pail Mall, St. James
street Piccadilly, Hyde Park Corner
and Constitution Hill. Persons who
want to see the actual coronation pro-
cession will be able-at a stiff price
to purchase seats on one or other
of these thoroughfares.
But the next day, when the king
and queen make their royal progress
through the British metropolis, the
visitors to and citizens from house
fronts and stands, and the many
headed from behind the rows OF
soldiers. Prices for seats for the first
days procession are higher than fer
the second Gay, but it is doubtful il it
will be a quarter as welh worth seeing.
The Naval Review.
Large as is the sum which is visit
ing American will have to pay if he
wishes to see the procession on either
June 26 or q satisfactorily and in
comfort, it will cost MIN a good deal
more to get a good view of the naval
review at Spithead on June %.
Twenty-Five guineas head is the sum
asked for accommodation on many
steamers. The review will doubtless