The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-18
AT CORONATION.
o,,r1AY OF AMERICAN CASH WILL
BE $7,5OO,OOO.


wont to See the show, but There
Are plenty who Will Be Present
inst to Bolster Up Their Social
POSITION Here at Home-Mr. and
AIRS. John jacob Aston Will Re-
oiu in America-Extenstve En-
..rtainments to Be Given by Rich
,,ericans Who Are Socially
prominent-TrOubI of Certain
ReaI Estate Brokers Who Haven't
peen Able to Find Places for Their
.nericnn Clients to Live in While
,h,. series of Big Shows Is Going
Ou-some Social Aspirations viii
Re Made Realities and Some viii
Re Wiped Out Altogether.
downright 1902 by Charles Appleton)
The United States has never been so
we'll or so numerously represented at
any foreign court as it will be in June
during corona zion week in London.
The exodus of Americans bound for
the coronation began last month, and
there has been a steady stream of
fashionable folks and plain folks
steaming England-ward ever since.
America is not to be represented by
her people of fashion alone at this
crovning of a new English King. The
steamship lists show that many men
and women of comparative social OBJ
scIrity are going there too, and while
the smart set will be the portion of
the American contingent most on view,
there will be hundreds of quieter
he n1
procession from private houses, and
who viii participate, If only mildly, in
the many interesting functions which
have been arranged as d part of the
greatest week of celebration that the
present generation of English men
and women has known.
No other people will be quite so
warmly welcomed to London
during coronation week as
Americans. The spirit of friend
snip shown to Americans in
the hotels. the cafes and race tracks
Of England at this time is only the nat
ural growth of the friendship so con-
stantly exhibited of late toward Amer
lea and the Americans by the English
royal family, and it can be readily be-
heved that the Americans who throng
the sidewalks as the royal procession
slowly makes its way to Westminster
Abbey will find their environment quite
as happy as those more fortunate of
their countrymen and women who view
the spectacle from the windows of the
private residences and whose aspira-
lions run more to English social recog-
milton than to anything else.
The number of Americans who will
witness the royal procession and who
Will take part, as far as the rather
stringent laws of England regarding
this solemn event will permit in the
event preceding and following the act
ual browning of the King in Westmin-
ister Abbey, has been Variously esti-
mated at from 10000 to $1,000. If the
latter figure is an eXaggeration it is
a slight one, for in the societies of
both eastern and western cities there
are few of prominence who have not
already decided to attend the corona
ton festivities.
Some Arc Going for Social Reasons.
Undoubtedly many Americans of
fashion are impelled to go abroad at
this particular time from notion that
it is the proper thing to do. The So
cla1 positions of some persons might
tremhle on their foundations if those
persons remained at home at such a
time. So, unless a persons social sta
tus at home is so firmly fixed that
nothing can shake it, it will be we'll for
him to be in London during coronation
week and take as conspicuous part in
the festivities of the time as possible.
To be there and not to be seen or
heard is almost as bad as not to be
there at all 1t is announced that Col.
and Mrs. John Jacob Aston will re-
mann at home. They are fair Illus
lrauon OF the kind of people who can
aIIord 10 stay at home at such a time.
1t is going to take a great many
good American dollars to take all the
Americans who want to go to the cor
onation there is the way that most of
them nave elected to CO. The sum to-
tal Will reach well up in the millions.
II only 5000 is spent by each American
visitor the total will be $7,500,000 if
mere are fifteen thousand of them. It
costs money to hire a fine old British
residence for weeks at a time, and ii
costs Store than trif1e to conduct such
nome as it will have to be conduct
ed during coronation week If the oc-
Cupants are to cut any figure. The
Ehghsh tradesnan may we'll chuckle
over the. American invasion, for he
Knows that the arrival of the Amer
Ican means the arrival of the man
with dollars, which he is quite willing
to spend.
A great deal of American money has
already gone to England for houses for
coronation week and for choice posi-
IONS along the line of the royal pro-
SeSSlon This procession will traverse
fourteen miles of Londons principal
BUSINESS and residence streets, and
WINDOWS and houses in these streets
pdrucularly the latter, are in great
demand. Holders of these coveted
privileges ran prices up so high in
March that there was open rebellion
against them, and the newspapers
warned them that their greed would
inevitably ruin the royal procession, as
II uid at the time of the Queens jubi-
While this controversy was at
us night Americans stepped in and
Dousht the best windows and rented
We pest houses. Values in these COM
mIoultles increase for some reason as
uey near Westminster Abbey the end
~ me route over which the royal fam
~ ana tn attendant nobility are to
travel Almost all of these choice po-
siuons have been secured by Ameri
cans and the English who bickered
over the prices will have to take what
'hey can get now.
Americans will undoubtedly take a
CohSpcious part in the social events
mat nave been arranged as part of
me week of celebration, for there are
T"ough American women of title in
London to-day to insure a warm well
zone to those from the states of es-
taoAshed social position who desire the
eiIree to London's best society Only
muse american women who have mar
-leu English titles can hope to wit
80 the actual ceremony of the coro-
nation in Westminster Abbey. With