Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-20

somber background were the gay
colored uniforms of royalty and of
the officers of the royal army and
royal navy
Every phase of English ohiciaI
life was represented in the funeral
pageant. officers of the healdquar-
ters staff, comprising the war lords
of the British army, numbering its
famous generals and strategists
were in line. At the head of the
column marched the royal life
guards, the pick of military Britain.
In glittering array marched the
advance guard. knights, marshals.
footguards, drummers, royal Scots
fusileers, the Irish guards, royal
dragons and detachments of practi-
cally every envoy body in England
with bands and gorgeous uniforms
Oficers and men from the Home
Fleet of the Royal navy, natty blue
jackets and marines, were in line.
In the column marched military
detachments from nearly every Eu-
ropean country. The Slav, the Teu-
ton, the Frank, the Latin, in their
variegated uniforms presented a
brilliant spectacle.
Among the civilian mourners ap-
peared the staff of, the royal house.
hold, judges of the high courts and
members of the privy council.
The headquarters staff of the Bri-
tish army numbered General Lord
Roberts, General Lord Kitchener,
Sir George White of the Gordon
Highlanders, and General Lowe.
Lords of the admiralty came
next. Admiral Sir Arthur X. Will
son, first lord of the admiralty;
Sir John Fisher, Senator Naval Lord
and Sir Edward Hobart Seymour.
Admiral of the fleet.
The Windsor station was gor-
geously decorated. Its iron columns
supporting the glass roof were COW
cred with marguerites, while palms
were everywhere.
Detachments of the grenadiers
and the life guards were drawn W
in the station. A body of bluejack-
cts, a detachment of Scots guards, a
corps of gentlemen-at-arns and
yeomen of the guard were waiting
as a guard of honor.
A special train containing Pre-
mier Asquith, the members of the
cabinet, and other personages prom
inent in British political life, among
them Lord Balfour, Lord Roseberry
and the military attaches, arrived
before the royal train.
AS the royal train drew in all
stood at attention. The bands
swung into the Chopin funeral
march, the great bell of Windsor
castle tolled and the royal salute,
fired by the royal horse artillery,
doomed out from the castle grounds.
There was a slight delay while
the procession formed, then it
moved toward the castle grounds, up
the long walk to the foot of the
Round tower, through Horseshoe
cloister to the steps at the west end
of st. Georges chapel, where the
body will rest
At the chapel door, waiting gen
tlemen-at-arms, in splendid uni
forms of scarlet, tunics, FURNISHED
helmits and waving white plumes
stood at attention while the honor
airy pall-bearers formed a line and
the burial party lifted the casket,
weighing nearly half ton, bore it
up the steps.
The entrance of the funeral party
in the st. Georges chapel was one
of the most impressive sights of the
entire day. The brilliant, yet SOM
Der procession moving across the
stretch of green turf overshadowed
by gray stone walls, noble towers
and frowning battlements, halted as
the body of the king was borne into
the chapel where the funeral service
was read.
Within the chapel were nearly
$4,000 floral tributes.
The archbishops of Canterbury
and York and the Bishop of Win
chester stood at the doors of the
chapel, with other clergy, ready to
receive the body of the king.
AS the royal party moved for
ward the guards stood with reversed
arms and the choir chanted a hymn.
The queen mother and the other la
dies of the funeral procession were
seated in the prince consort's cha
pei
The archbishops led the process |
sion up the aisle. A psalm was
read, followed by the singing of the
liturgy beginning, Man that is born
of woman" The liturgy was sci
to Wellesley's music.
The members of the Order of The |
Garter and of the Order of Chivalry |
were seated in the choir. The
Knights of Windsor and German
arms a corDs of army officers which |