Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-16

and the lord warden was installed. The
streets We're bravely decorated and nileo
to OVERLOOKING with enthusiastic spectators.
The court of Shepway was held in great
tented pavilion, where many invited guests
assembled to await the arrival OF the olgnl-
taries, and the sun streamed down on the
greensward and gray buildings without TO
glorify the scene. The mayors and the
barons and the returned men, the recorders
the town clerks and the chaplains came In
according to their order: the maces ana
symbols were solemniy deposited on the
appointed tables by the quantity robed
bearers; the mayors assembled the dals,
which glowed with scarlet and furred robes
and golden insignia, their servitors took up
their places behind them and the lower
members and officials on the floor.
Then came the barons, who attended the
coronation in their gorgeous scarlet robes
gayly embroidered waistcoats and knee
breeches and swords looking for all the
world like elderly toreadors of Spain; the
registrar and the chaplain of the ports, the
sergeant of admiralty, bearing the MASSIVE
silver oar; the judge and the surrogate OF
the admiralty court of the ports. and the
new lord warden, an impressive hgure IN
his official uniform, on which the stars OF
his Indian orders blazed.
Quaint Proclamation of Summons.
Promptly the ceremonial began. The
seneschal, Sir Wollaston Knocker. stepped
forward, and in sonorous tones read the
quaint proclamation summoning the court
and bidding its members draw near and
answer to your names upon your peril that
you fail not" Each in turn, the mayors
of the towns then handed in their returns
and the mayors and barons answered to
their names, whereupon the seneschal de-
clared that the court was formed.
Then Lord Curzon, addressing the right
worshipful sirs, barons and gentlemen, or
dered his patent to be read, and the terms
of that document were proclaimed with
solemn dignity. though 1t was hard to sup
press a smile when the seneschal was heard
to declare that it vested in the lord war
den .'all manner of wrecks of the sea, jet
sam, fiotsam and lagan, goods, merchandise
and effects whatsoever, which at any time
or times shall be cast away, wrecked or
lost
Sir William Crundall, the mayor of Dover
and speaker of the court, thereupon begged
Lord Curzon to take upon himself the dig
mites of the office, and to maintain the lib
critics of the ports. and when the lord war
den had signified his consent to do so, the
mayors and barons stood up ana did MN
reverence while the distant booming or the
salute of nineteen guns echoed through me ie
luncheon and speeches. Lord Curzon re-
minded his hearers that he was the 1910
lord warden, that five soverefgns or Eng
land before they ascended the tnrone, .ne
than one king had held the off1ce, and
though three or four of his predecessors
had been beheaded, the last OF these re-
that he had no fear and was unfeignedly
proud of the honors and traditions of his
post.
At night the town was illuminated.
Notes.
Collectors of antique silver in the West
End of London are living in state OF
great excitement through fear OF visit
from a burglar who has recently oeen
showing a keen appreciation for CARIBBEAN
and Georgian plate. He takes nothing from
the houses he enters but antique silver
and only one or two Of the best specimens
in each house at that. He shows, indeed
wonderful connoisseurship in choosing ar
ticles only of the highest value
West End actors are complaining a good
deal among themselves about the craze
this season for charity performances
There are as many as five such perform
ances this week, and the fancy prices that
rule at most Of these performances Ger
tainly deplete the ordinary theater re-
cetpts, which have been bad enough this
season. =.
Certain changes are now being mace at
the musical comedy houses, most OF when
will remain open dur1ns'the mondays. me
Prince of Wales Theater is now vacant
owing to the end of the French play sea
son, and Sergeant Brue Will Accordingly
he transferred thither from the strand
next Monday The Strand is too small a
house for this laughable piece, which
seems to be settling down to success. AT
the Shaftesbury independence DAY was Gel
ebrated by the introduction into the Amer,
lean musical piece, THE Prince OF Pllsen'
of two popular American actresses, MISS
Nav Brandt and Miss Lillian Coleman,
within the next day two Mr.. Holman
tJ,,nt,s new Light of the World will be
Withdrawn from exhibition in Bond street
and begin it's tour round the world. FIRST
It is to go to Australia, afterward to can
ada and South Africa, and It's maj nome
will be in the Tate Gallery.
I hear that the French theatrical 1nva-
s,on which ended on Saturday has not been
very successful from the f1narclaI poihl OF
view. This, however, cannot pe put o'"h
to a lack of appreciation