The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-15
BY Marshall Lord.


London, May 1.-THE cablegrams
sent out from this town just now may
make you think that the affair in
Westminster Abbey on June &c is what
all the world and his wife have been
hurrying into London for TO see. But,
really, except for a half-mile royal
Jaunt in public across Green Park,
from Buckingham Palace to Westmin-
ster Abbey at 1920 a. m. and then
home again some two and a half hours
later, tired and hot and hungry-ex-
cept also for some booming of can
non when the kings crown is put on
there will not be much doing in Lon
don on the great day outside of the
wholly private ceremony in the abbey.
That night things may be expected
to warm a little, and we shall doubt
less discover whether the new verb
ito maffick" 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 settled 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
everyone with confetti and to tickle
each others faces with peacock
feathers, but the chances are that a
large proportion of the extra million
and half or two who are to be pack
ed into London on that night will feel
as If they hadn't had their moneys
worth at the end of the actual Corona
ton Day.
The Seven-MiIe "RoyaI Progress"
1t is to relieve any such feeling that
the King and Queen are going to make
a progress" of seven miles through
the city on the day after the corona
tion-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. Heralds 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 lucky thing for the King, and
more especially for the Queen, that
the royal progress does not have to lie
made in the same gilded chariot that
will take them from the palace to the
Abbey. The journey of June 81 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 deli
cate, sensitive Queen Alexandra, and
it would have been a physical i'm
possibility for her to make it in the
vehicle to be used in the short process
sion 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 the imaginary
line at the lower end of the Strand,
marking the boundaries of the proud
little patch in the heart of the metrop-
oils 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 with
out the Lord Mayors consent.
AS the route of the progress lies
partly through the city, a herald in
wonderful raiment will ride ahead OF
the King to the boundary line at Tenn
who Goes There" business, blowing
of trumpets, and all that sore 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 gra-
ciously consent. Just what would hap
pen if he didn't is something that
seems never to have suggested itself
to anybody.
Wherever there is an open space
along the seven miles of streets, which
will be traversed by the procession, on
frontages where building operations
are in progress, along the sides of The
public squares, in front of hotels and
government buildings that stand back
from the sidewalk-are signs of whole
forests stripped and brought to Lon
don. Every club along the line OF
march is putting UP scaffolding. There
is . mommoth timber terrace for the
exclusive use of peers, a building on
the northern side of Trafalgar Square
while in Constitution Hill, past which
the King viii drive from and TO Buck
ingham Palace, stand which, II is
said. is the largest ever built is being
constructed.
But perhaps the most remarkable oi
ali are the tiers of seats being built
around the two old churches that stand
IN the middle Of the Strand, st. Mary's
and St Clement Danes Both Of them
are picturesque and venerable build
ings, but that has not prevented them
from being utilized by the stand
builders.
The widening OF the Strand has
cleared out the buildings that used n
surround the churches 40 that they
command a splendid view OF the street
ana each ~ them now Is being en-.
closed with q mays 81 scan0iding which
. infnde1 20 result 10 an immense
tnffe-deckef' stand capa bic of hold
lfk several thousand people. The top
most yer d seats viii reach almost q