The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-13
KING GEORGE IS VERY
HARD-WORKED RULER
His Labors Begin at Seven in
the Morning
PLANNING FOR FUNERAL
Procession to Westminster Hall VIII BE
on Grand Scale md People Who
Live Along the Route VIII
Coin Much Money

London. May 12.-From a life of com
parative ease and retirement King George
, suddenly finds himself one of the hard
, est worked officials of the kingdom. II
addition to spending considerable tim'
daily at Buckingham palace. comforting
mis- widowed mother, he has to attend
to the multifarous duties connected witt
the receiving and entertaining of the
royal guests and arranging the difficult
details of the lying in state and the flu
neral of his father.
Seven o'clock each morning finds his
majesty at his desk in Marlborough
house to reply to innumerable messages
of coincidence and to receive his minis
tiers and the officials who have to do with
the obsequies. Today he had a long spe-
cial interview with John Burns. presi-
dent of the local government board. The
afternoon he spent with the queen moth
err and in the evening he went to the
station to meet and escort the King of
Denmark to Buckingham palace.
Former President Roosevelt, who has
been named as special envoy of the
United States to attend the funeral OF
the late King, will be presented to King
| George soon after his arrival in London
on Monday This has been arranged in
conformity with the wish of the King as
expressed to Whitelaw Reid, the Ameri-
| can ambassador.
Mr.. Roosevelt, as special envoy, will
occupy a place with the visiting mon
archs in the funeral procession and will
also attend the burial commitment at
Windsor.
The lying in state involves a great ad-
dition to the work of arranging the pro-
gramme for the funeral, all the details
of which will hardly be completed before
Sunday.
The procession to Westminster hall on
Tuesday for the lying in state will be
almost on as great a scale as the funeral
procession. The cortege will include
King George and all the foreign sover-
eigns on horseback and the queen mother
and royal ladies in carriages.
| The body will be received by the MEM
| bers of the house of lords and the house
of commons, while the choirs of West
minister abbey and the Chapel Royal, and
the band of the Coldstream Guards will
| take part in the musical services.
| When the funeral procession starts ev-
cry tram car in London will come to a
standstill for 10 minutes 1t is also pro-
posed that all the public houses in Lon
don shall be closed while the procession
| is passing.
The queen mother herself has been ex-
ceedingly busy since the death of the
King She has received a great number
of visitors who have been privileged to
enter the death chamber
| not of discord in the universal MOURN
ing comes from Dublin, where, at meet
| ing of the corporation today, seven mem :
bers of the Sim Fem society voted
against the lord mayors resolution to
send a message of sympathy and condo
lence to the queen mother and the royal
| family.
| Hundreds of carpenters are already at
work erecting stands along the route that
will be followed by the funeral process
sion. and owners of frontages are pre-
pairing to make the most of their good
fortune Twenty-Five dollars to fifty dol
lars is obtainable easily for single seat
at points of vantage, while small up
per room with couple of tiny windows
overlooking the street is considered
bargain at $500.
| On the more fashionable thoroughfares
like Piccadilly from $1,000 to 5000 is ask
| ed for the use of a single room.
| Wreath From WashingtOns Tomb
Washington, May 12.-Upon the tomb of
King Edward VII Of England Will be
Minced a wreath made from ivy leaves
| from the tomb of George Washington,
oak leaves from the trees which the late
King planted at Mount Vernon and mag
nolia leaves from tree planted by WASH
| irgton himself at his historic home. ~
| Members of the board of regents OF the
grand council, Mount Vernon Ladies As
ISOLATION of the Union, met today IN the
banquet room of the Mount Vernon home.
Their first action was to adopt resolu-
tons of sympathy for Queen Alexandra
of England because of the death OF King
| Edward.
The resolutions provide that wreath
from the tomb of Washington be for
warded to England to be placed on the
dead monarch's tomb. M
The delegates proceeded then to pluck
from the Ivy entwining Washingtons
tomb. from trees which King Edward
when Prince of Wales planted at Mount
Vernon and from magnolia tree planted
by Washington himself. leaves to be
made into wreath of their tribute.