The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-05-26
VII AT REST
Enormous Throngs Witnessed
Imposing Spectacle in
London Streets
ELABORATE PAGEANTRY

Body of England's Late Monarch Is
Placed in st. Georges Chapel Tenn
pOrarily-Nine SOyereigns Rode in
Funeral COrtege, Besides Many
Special ENJOYS From the Nations
Of the World.
London, May 20-Sovereigns and
representatives of the powers of the
world paid last tribute today to Eng
lands great monarch, Edward VII,
whose body now rests in st. George s
Chapel at Windsor Castle, where the
bones of Edward w, the sixth and
eighth Henrys, Charles l., the third
are entombed.
London's millions filled the streets
and open places as they have never
before filled them, either at funeral
or a festival. All the pageantry that
marked the burial Of Victoria was as
haught when compared with the mag
nificence of today's spectacle, which,
though it passed through multitude
of hushed people, reverently bent,
was splendid in it's accompaniment
OF gilded coaches, brilliant uniforms
and decorations.
Far surprising the ceremony at
tending the removal of the Kings
body from Buckingham Palace to
Westminster Hall, the procession to-
day included nine sovereigns, the
former President of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt, who alone was
.urarrayed in uniform; the heirs to
several thrones, the members of the
royal families, the officers of the
households, the officials of the gov
erpment, field marshals, generals
and admirals, whose names are syn
onymous with Britafns achievements
in war; detachments of troops of all
the British arms and representatives
of foreign armies and navies in var
iegated uniforms, solid phalanx of
glittering colors.
The great viewing stands, covered
with mourning emblems, were bank
ed high with people; balconies and
windows were crowded, the roof-tops
black. And through this multitude,
from among whom not a whisper
arose, the gun-carriage that bore the
Kings body moved to the strains OF
funeral marches, the tolling of bells
and the booming of minute guns.
At Westminster Hall the widowed
Queen, going to spend last few min
utes with the body of the King, was
assisted from her carriage by the
German Emperor. Here the Queen
mother caught sight of the Kings
charger, waiting to follow his master
to the bier; and near at hand the
Kings favorite dog, led by a gillie,
and she faltered, gripping the arm of
the King and pathetically gazing upon
the animals Edward had loved so
well.
The special ENJOYS of the United
States and France occupied the
eighth carriage, and although ex-
President Roosevelt was inconspic-
uous in the procession, King George
gave him marked attention at the
lunch at Windsor Castle after the
funeral, seating him, with eight 9TH
er guests, at his ewn table.
From Paddington station the royal
train carried the coffin and mourn
ers to Windsor, while special trains
were filled with officials and foreign
representatives. Blue jackets drag
ged the gun carriage through line
of people to st. Georges chapel, and
there simple services were said by
the Archbishop of Canterbury and
York, assisted by other prelates.
King George with Alexandra on his
arm walked up the nave behind the
coffin, with the German Emperor and
Queen Mary following.
The departure OF the sovereigns
will begin tomorrow, but the German
Emperor is expected to stay here un-
til Monday night.