Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-21

a score were so serious tHdl Tic VIZ
Tins were sent to the hospital. In
most instances the cases were OF heat
prostration.
London. May 20.-The body of King
Edward VII was carried through the
streets of the capital today in the pres
enee of many hundred thousands OF
subjects with the Kings of nine Europ-
can nations, several future rulers,
members of all the royal families or
the world, and former President or
the United States following the casket
from Westminster hall to Paddington
station
The cortege moved through solid
double lines of red coated soldiery
standing with rifles reversed and the
regmental colorS dipped to the ground.
At the railway station the caskct was
placed in funeral car and taken to
Windsor, where, after the Church OF
England service had been conducted
by the archbishop of Canterbury in st.
Georges chapel, it was entombed in
the. Albert memorial chapel adjoining.
No such professional spectacle had
been witnessed in London since Queen
iCtoi JupiiCNs lC
ed many of the greatest men of the
Kingdom with representatives Of all
arms of the service and delegations
from the most famous regiments of the
empire and representative groups of
foreign armies and navies.
Behind the casket upon which rested
the imperial symbols followed the late
Kings charger while his favorte ter
rier was led by a Highland soldier just
before the imperial ensign.
King George. Emperor William apd
several other members of royalty wore
the uniforms OF British generals. No
parsonage in tie parade attracted
greater interest than did Theodore
Roosevelt, the special American am
bassador, whose civilian clothes con-
trasted curiously with the gilded state
coach with its white wigged and silk
fiunlties, within which he
rode.
The representatives of the two great
republics, the United States and
France. were given a position at the
rear of all the royalties and the princes
of the pettiest of the European states.
Their carriages followed those carry
MS tHC Ioyul ieiulCS anu tilty were tllt
last in the line of the representatives
of foreign governments.
The Duke of Orleans was given pre-
cedence as the envoy of the French
people.
The booming OF minute guns and the
tolling of bells accompanied the move
ment of the procession while the bands
in turn played The Dead March from
Saul" and "Chopin's Funeral March,"
The m,rning was clear and q hot
sun beat unnn the great mass of ilu-
mainly that lined the route of the
procession. 1t is doubtful if so many
people We're ever before seen in Lon
Ion. At the Malt in st. James street
and at Hyde Park, the throng almost
overwhelmed the procession. The po-
lice and soldiers had to fight to prevent
the lines being swept away by the
crush. Many broken limbs and other
injuries We're received Hundreds of
persons tainted, especially among the
women who had been standing on the
pavement for hours before the process
sion left Westminster Hall.
King George, the Queen Mother Alex
andra and the Princess Victoria en-
LtLtt WtSlIItlItSttI IliiI DClOle tlLt pIo-
cession started and spent some min
utcs beforesthe casket. Emperor Will
liam, who was at the entrance as they
appeared, dismounted and waving the
lackeys aside opened the door of the
Queen Mothers carriage, helped her
out, and then kissed her upon the
cheek.
The procession started from the hall
at $50 A. NJ. Just as the first minute
gun doomed. The precedent afforded
by the funeral Of Queen Victoria nine
years ago, was closely followed. The
oaken casket with the crown and
cushion, reSaiia and insignia of the Or
der of the Garter thereon, was borne
on Gun carriage, the same as was
used at the funeral of the late Queen.
The procession proceeded through
Parliament street and Whitehall. The
public buildings were heavily drared
with black and purple throughout the
route.
Leaving the districts of officialadom,
the cortcge passed through the Horse
Guards parade and thence along the
Mall The embassies and private res
licences, including those of several
AHcTlCdHS oii &ssIltDi I1ouSt terrace,
overlooking the Mall, were heavily
.lraped with mourning. The terrace
was crowded with onlookers.
From the Mall the procession passed
Marlborough House. emerging in st.
James street, proceeding to Piccadilly
and along, that thoroughfare to Hyde
Park corner, where it entered the park
and passed along the popular drive to
Marble Arch.
Emerging from the park the process
sion followed Edgeware road to Ok
ford and Cambridge terraces and turn
ed up these wide thoroughfares. on
either side of which throughout their
length of hsf u mile. were unbrollcn
stretches of temporarily erected stands
filed to their capacity with black
CARRIED humanity.
BY arrangement between the West
minister city council and the Padding
borough council. the official signs Of
along the route were uni
form. Venetian masts with laurel
wreaths at their tops had been erected
at intervals. The public showed less
in their selection of signs Of
grief.
The route was lined with thousands