The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-18
LORD MAYORS SHOW
OPENS IN LONDON.

| OPENS IN LONDON.
| London, Nov. g. The time-hon-
ored Lord Mayors show took place
today and the new Lord Mayor OF
London, Sir Thomas Vezey Strons
was formally installed in office. sue
ceeding Sir John c. Kniil. The old
established custom showed little sign
of becoming obsolete. ard owing to
some unsuual and attractive features
was the most interesting of recent
years.
| The principal feature of the parade
! was a pageant of kings, princes and
mobiles and other characters of the
Shakespeare plays, arranged under
the direction of Philip Carr, of the
secretaries OF the Shakespeare Mem
orial National Theatre. The charac-
tiers We're presented in five groups,
each containing about fifty perform
ers in gorgeous costume. Another in
teresting feature of the procession
was the military display, in which
were represented for the first time
the Territorial force and the boy
scouts. Other divisions of the pro.
cession were made up OF the city
firemen. the foresters. lifeboat men,
Keepers of Epping forest, several de-
tachments OF London volunteers. the
court Of aldermen, the members OF
the civic societies together with q
large number of representative citi-
gems. The new Lord Mayor and his
predecessor in office rode In the
customary gorgeous carriage of gold
and enamel, drawn by eight white
horses with out-riders in scarlet liv-
cry.
The route of the pageant extended
from Guildhall TO the Law Courts,
through Princess street, Victoria
street, ST. Pauls church yard, Lud-
gate Hill, Fleet street and other
prominent thoroughfares. Along the
Route the usual bunting and decora-
SaNuS NiC diSpldsSQ.
Among his fellow Aldermen Sir
Nezey is regarded as particularly
fortunate from the fact that he is to
hold office at the time of the Kings
coronation next June, and is certain
to receive baronetcy as momento
OF the occasion.
He will have no active part In the
great ceremonies attending the cor
onation nor for that matter will any
of the duties of his office be Of an
arduous nature. The city of London
over which he is elected to rule. Is
not great Metropolitan London, the
larges city in the world. but wy
Insignificant part of it so far as ter
ritory and population are concerned.
1t lies between the town of London
and Westminster Abbey and contains
only G6S acres and population of
about $4,000 people There are many
wards in the larger American citles
that are of greater territorial extent
than this famed city. 1t is divided
into twenty-six wards, some of which
cover but few acres of ground, the
largest of them having but very few
voters. Each ward elects an alder
man who serves for life. and who in
due time becomes Lord Mayor with
a salary of $4,000 and an immense
amount of patronage.
The new lord mayor is essentially
of London, having been born in one
Of the city wards, where his father
lived over his place of business. He
was educated privately and is credit
ed with being self-made man. In
business he has been successful as
head of large paper supply con-
Germ. He Is a pronounced temper
ance advocate, and enjoys the dis
tinction of being the first teetotaler
chosen as chief magistrate of the me-
tropolis.