The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-03
LONDON WILL Be GAY
MUCH OF THE CORONATION GER
EMONY ORIGINALLY PLANNED
WILL BE OBSERVED
STREET DECORATIONS
AND NIGHT ILLUMINATkONS
New Series of RehearsaIs Begun at
Westminster Abbey-What Is Com
ing to Pass on the London Stage
Surgeon General Prefers a Serious
Charge Against Gen. Butler.

LONDON, Aug. 1.-The prepara-
tions for the coronation of King Ed
ward next Saturday are proceeding
rather mechanically The erection of
the familiar street barriers, the cleans
ing and decorating of the stands and
the rehanging of decorations attract
little attention. Public interest in the
actual proceedings, however, is rekin-
died by official assurance that the
king is getting on finely and will be
able to bear the fatigue of being
crowned. The publication of the Off
cial programme of the procession
shows no special changes from the
original arrangement, but the ceremo-
MES in Westminster abbey have been
curtailed by the omission of the litany
and sermon and by the recital of the
recognition once instead of four times.
a new series Of rehearsals has begun
at the abbey with dignified move
ments and recitals and these are far
more impressive than anything con-
nected with the street spectacle.
The city council of Westminster, in
compliance with the kings wishes, has
voted that no further expenditures be
orations. The club houses, which line
considerable portion of the route and
most of the other buildings, are being
redecorated; the Canadian arch is be-
ing redressed with fresh specimens OF
Canada's agricultural products and the
Indian contingent is erecting an arch
on Parliament street. The illumina-
tons on coronation night will be large
ly as originally planned. The vicinity
of the Bank of England, the Royal
Exchange and the Mansion house will
be a blaze of electric lights and the
Strand, Trafalgar square, Pail Mall,
st. James square and Piccadilly will
be gorgeous with Examinations, many
of which will be displayed on Kitchener
night. Aug. 6, also.
The Stage Folk.
Nearly all the London theaters are
closed but the few remaining open are
Teaping a rich harvest. The vacation
will be short, as September will see all
in full blast again.
Early prospects for the season of
1902-0S are full of promise. The "Eter- /
nal City" will be produced by Beer
bohm Tree on Sept 30. Tree has Sc
lected the part of BOnelli, and Brandon
Thomas will appear as the pope The
first fortnight of September will see
the opening of the season in actual
earnest, the Duke of Yorks and the
st. James almost cOlliding with each
other, with the production of THE
Story of the Gadsbys" at the Duke of
York's and IF 1 Were King at the st.
James.
Henry Arthur Jones' newest play is
scheduled for Wyndhams, with Lena
Ashwell in the principal part. This
part afterwards will be played in New
York by Margaret AngIin.
The fate of the Lyceum having been
settled finally, it is probable that Sir
Henry Irving will commit his interests
in England to Charles Frohman. This
has not been definitely settled as yet,
but Sir Henry's next appearance in
London will be either at the Duke of
Yorks or the ShafteSbury, for both of
which Mr.. Frohman contracts.
On board the steamship Pennsyl-
vania, now nearing New York, is
young American girl for whom musical
experts here predict great things as
singer. She is Margaret Aver, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Herbert Aver, formerly or
Chicago. She has been educated in
France and Germany and this season
her unique rendering of eighteenth
century ChansOnettes has been the
feature of several SmaTL musical func-
tions in Paris. She refused an offer
to make her debut next season at the
America to enter her musical career
IN her own country.
Patti and Frau Cosima Wagner
heard her sing and predict a great flu
ture for her.
Inefficient Postal Employees.
The confessed inefficiency of the
poStoft1ce telegraph is revealed in a
circular of instruction to the effect
that considerable percentage of the
5000 operators employed in the central
office at London are inexperienced and
inefficient, and directing operators at
outside offices o adapt their rate of
working to the capacity of the receiv-
erS in the central Office.
Austin Chamberlain, financial secre-
tary to the treasury, endeavored to ex-
plain the matter in the house of COM
mons on the theory that there must
always be many recruits employed
but older telegraphers deny this, and
point out that years of instruction
were required formerly, while now only
three months preparations is required
before actual Service is begun. The
inefhciency, it is claimed, is due wholly
10 new economies undertaken in the
department, since plenty of efficient
employees are available. 1t is consid-
cred extraordinary that in the entire
telegraph service no typewriters are
used except for a few in the foreign
departments.
Charge Against Butler.
Surgeon General Hamilton, before
meeting of the British Medical asso-
citation, at Manchester, definitely
charged that Gen. Sir Redvers Butler.
during the Boer war of 1881, USED
army medical wagons with the Red
Cross thereon for taking ammunition
to the front and armed the bearer
companies, using them as escorts
The surgeon general declared his au-
thority for the statement was the
principal medical officer to whom the
orders We're issued, and he added that
the British could not complain at the
Beers doing what Gen. Butler had don.
twenty years previously.
Startling Postal Naval Idea.
LONDON, Aug. 3.-The Sunday OBJ
server gives great prominence to a
long editorial article advocating the
extension of postoffice savings banks /
into an imperial banking concern. en-
braclng the entire empire, somewhat
upon the lines OF the American ma
tlonaI banks, with this extraordinary
auxiliary, namely, the establishment of
branches of the new concern in
America, with an Anglo-American
naval alliance as an adjunct. Under
this scheme, infinitely outlined, notes
would be issued by the imperial con-
Germ to the American banks, and with
this international banking alliance as a
basis American war vessels would be
leased or lent to protect British COL
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