The Penn's Grove record., 1903-01-02
THE CORONATION DURBAR
Gorgeous Display at the viceroy's
Entry Into Delhi.
EDWARD VII. HAILED EMPEROR
Oriental Rulers Bedecked With Jewell
Follow Lord and Lady Curzon Into the
Capital of the Moguls-Many Mounted
on Elephants Duke of Connaught
King Edwards Representative.

Delhi, India.-The opening ceremo-
which King Edward VII. of England
was formally proclaimed Emperor of
India, began here on Monday. The
Viceroy, Lord Curzon Of Kedleston,
made his state entry into Delhi. He
was accompanied by the Duke Of Con-
naught, who was sent by King Edward
to represent him, and by the Duchess.
Lord Curzon reached the railway sta
tiOn at 11.30 O'Clock, and was received
by the ruling chiefs, the Governors of
Presidencies, the Northumberland
of Provinces and the Lieutenant ener-
ais commanding the troops.
AS Lord and Lady Curzon and the
Duke and Duchess of Connaught
mounted elephants and passed through
the line of ruling chiefs, the elephants
of the chiefs saluted by trumpeting
and throwing their trunks in the air.
Then they fell in line behind the vice.
regal and royal parties, the whole max
ing a procession of seventy colossal
elephants. The parade started with
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gorgeous attire leading. The heralds
and trumpeters, six English soldiers
and six natives, clad in crimson coats,
heavily braided with gold, followed.
Just as the party arrived, a salute
of thirty-one guns was fired from the
fort. The Duke and Duchess received
every honor from the Viceroy and
chiefs. The chiefs were presented in
turn to the members of the royal and
viceregal parties. Afterward all the
mounted elephants and set out for the
great camp.
No triumphal procession of the Mo-
guls or the Hindu kings ever dazzled
the Indians as did this parade moving
over a six-mile route through the city.
First anne the Viceroy on the best
elephant that he owns, in his great
silver howdah, and followed by the
Duke and Duchess Of Connaught and
Lady CurZon on elephants with gilded
tusks and jeweled foreheads, generals
and Governors on elephants, the aides
de-camp on horseback, the black vice.
regal cavalry bodyguard In scarlet
turbanS, with the viceregal standards
and the flags, the native princes,
mounted on silk and gem-coyered ele-
plants and with their trains in silk
and velvet, and the foreign represen-
tatives in brilliant carriages and on
horseback. Following these came the
troops with music, Sikh cavalry and
English, Goorkha regiments in green,
Bengal and Rajputana in brown and
red, and English infantry in red and
white. Forty thousand troops marched
to the music of scores of bands into
Delhi.
After the procession through Delhi
city the Vfceroy led to the plain, where
the great army of many nations went
into camp for the night.
On Tuesday the Viceroy opened the
Arts Exhibition, in the Kudsia Gar
dens, outside the Kashmir gate of the
city.
On Thursday, the object Of the occa.
sion, the actual proclamation of Ed
ward VII. as King Of England and
Emperor Of India occurred in the great
horseshoe amphitheatre on the plain,
two miles beyond the camp.
The Viceroy's camp, for his guests
Of honor. the Duke and Duchess of
Connaught and for his immediate OF.
ficers and attaches, bodyguard and ser.
wants, with elephant lines and horse
stables adjoining, is on the Mutiny
Ridge, where the rebellion of the Sc.
poys was finally broken. His staff,
retinue and attendants includes some
1000 souls. His personal camp is mag.
niicent. The state pavilions, of white
and gold, are reached by a straight
road three-quarters OF a mile long and
fifty yards wide. The largest of these
tents is 108x6O feet; the drawing room
is 8Sx36 feet and the dining room,
where Lord and Lady Curzon and their
125 personal guests dine, is 130x40 feet
and is hung with magnificent examples
of native needlework and of the loom.
About this central and viceregal
camp on Mutiny Ridge are the camps
Of the Governors of the Madras and
Bombay Presidencies, the Lieutenant.
Governors, Lord Kitchener and the
other high military and civil officers
Of the Anglo-Indian Government.
At some distance are the local gov.
eminent camps Of the maharajahs
and rajahs of forty two feudatory
states ard tribes, the independent
chiefs and Asiatic rulers, with their
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