Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-24
OLD ST. PAUL;
 HISTORIC CHURCH

for the victories of England in the Netherlands and for that memorable destruction of the Spanish fleet at vigo. Two years later she returned to the church for the second Thanks giving service for some more victories of the English armies. for at that time the firing line was not far away In 1872. when the prince of Wales was a yer- sick man and his life was des- paired StTby his mother. there was a great Thanksgiving service here on his recovery. And a memorial win now dates the event. It was here that Queen Victoria came in her public ex- precision Of gratitude for her completion of sixty years of reign in England, thus celebrating her diar mond jubilee: and this event Ia marked by an inscription on slab in the church. The present king, Ed ward the VII, came here with hix queen in 1902 in their public expres- sion of gratitude for the restoration cf , peace in South Africa whose wars cost England's army so many lives: and later on the king came here to publicly express his gratitude for his 1, recovery from the Illness which had delayed the coronation after the death of his mother.
 No king and queens are buried in St. Paul's cathedral but, as have above indicated, many of them have come here to express their gratitude that they have escaped death and final burial in some other place, and this seems fitting thing to do. But there are many others buried here, all of them great, and of these will speak in the closing part of the letter. The largest tomb or mansolem is that of Waterloo fame, and it is a svbgk.:; 1 fair, but made of the finest of DOT phyry. The funeral car interested me more than the tomb, for 1t was only used at this one funeral. It is made of the melted canon captured at the bat tie of Waterloo and of course the en- tire thing is iron. It must weigh as much as fair size locomotive. I was told that it required thirty two horses to pull 1t from the residence to the church on the stone pavement and in many places the street was crushed in by its weight. As it was remarked by an attendant in the church, this Is one case where man was not bur jed in a hurry When the horses were hitched to the car, and all the court riggings put on them, they were un- able to move it. The court drivers spoke to them in their polite language but still the horses did not move, and it Is said that the stable men had to be sent for, who yelled loudly and perhaps swore at the teams which moved right of with all ease. Lord Nelson. the great naval general is buried near tte Duke of Wellington His coffin is of wood and made from the main mast of French war ship captured in the wars between the two nations, and aside from this there is no other mention to make.
 In order to be buried in the Crypt in Saint Paul's man must be some great celebrity-no women at all are entered herez-and only one American has gained this honor. The rule that the person must be great in the army, navy or in the arts and sciences; and this accounts for the American painter. Benjamin West, having grave here beside So many noted Englishmen. He it was who when asked with what he mived his paints, truthfully said: T mix brains with my paints" for to look on the pictures of West is to decide that he lived up to his motto, and many of them hang in the National art gallery Along side of West is buried that noted English painter, Turner, whose pictures also adorn ali the galleries of London. He was asked one day a question in the following manner: MT. Turner, what is the secret of your success in painting?" and he re piled shortly but kindly, Hard work, madam, hard work" and that is the secret of all successes.