The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-13
LONDON'S PAGEANT
THE COMING EVENT
History of the Great City From
Its Foundation in 296 to
Be Portrayed.
SOME SPECIAL FEATURES
THE JAPAN-BRITIsH EXPOSITION
ALSO OPENS THIS SPRING.


London, March 12.-There is abundant
evidence TO show that the forthcoming
1aI an-British exhibition at the White City
viii provide London with q series of the
most elaborate and beautiful scenes OF
Oriental life IL has ever witnessed.
The enterprise has been taken up by
Japan with extraordinary enthusiasm,
and, although the area is nearly double
that occupied by their section at the st.
Louis exposition, every square foot has
himself admitted that the forthcoming
display will be considerably the most ex-
tensive ever attempted by japan outside
her own empire.
One of the most wonderful exhibits
promises to be an immense model of the
city OF Osaka, which will contain repro
auctions in miniature of some 100000
houses, which can be classified into nearly
forty different styles, as well as hundreds
OF bridges for which the city is famous.
In the palace of fine arts, however,
will be seen the most priceless objects OF
the whole exhibition. These will include
a number of precious examples certified
as treasures of the nation" which have
never before this left Japan, but which
are now being sent over as token OF
special friendship for the British nation.
Japanese arts and industries will be
represented in each one OF their myriad
phases and the aesthetic treatment and
decoration of the stands, arranged so s
to show off the contents to the best ad
NanldSes VIII PROBABLY dllUTQ uSSAul les
son to the British exhibitor.
Visitors Will Be Charmed.
A feast of color will be presented In the
great Japanese fair which will charm the
visitor by its artistic grouping and novel
effects. The tea houses, with their quaint
ceremonies, the mysterious temples, thea
tres and houses will all be reproduced on
exact lines, so that a perfect impression
may be formed of life in sunny japan.
will all he Will in af cd Inv
Amos, the original natives of Japan, who
still retain the habits and customs of
their prehistoric ancestors; and Formo-
san village, few islanders having been
the subject of greater interest and specu-
ilatiOn than the inhabitants of beautiful
FOrmosa. the once famous head-hunters.
The gardeners are now busily engaged in
laying out the two wonderful japanese
gardens which will form one of the most
striking features of the exhibition. Each
of the two will cover some 100000 square
feet, but differ materially in style. Pic
turesque houses, stone lanterns. fanciful
bridges, and even the very rocks and tall
trees which will grace the landscapes are
being brought over from Japan in order
TO reproduce a true and typical effect.
About hundred British workmen are en-
gagged in laying out the gardens, under the
supervision of skillful Japanese experts,
especially sent over for the purpose
Most curious of all will be the two min
iature gardens. which are being sent to
tHe exposition DN Ln6 city OF TOKYO nav
ing been specially designed for the pur-
pose.
Naturally" said Count Mutsu in de-
scribing these masterpieces of the gar
dener's handicraft, 1.-The transport of these
landscapes, made up OF so many tiny and
perishable objects, presents great diff
Guilty. They will be arranged on two large
trays, seven by twelve feet each; the
plants will be carefully packed in boxes
covered with wire netting so that the
fresh reach them
enveioped with damp material so that
they will not wither during the two
months that must elapse before they
reach their destination.
London's Pageant.
London's other great attraction this
summer will be the immense pageant of
London at the Crystal Palace, which is
expected to call forth a shower of Ameri-
can dollars.
To some extent the festival will partake
OF the nature of an exhibition. Special
courts for each dominion have been set
apart under the crystal roof of the palace
itself. The governors and the governments
of each colony have assisted the work OF
the committee by direct help and sug-
geStiOns that have materially added to
the completeness with which the work of
the empire viii be shown. A special fea-
ture will be the section allotted for the
display of the work of imperial inventors;
and art will receive no less attention in
The festival will begin on May % and,
although a temporary date, July 16, has
beer suggested for its termination, IT
seems more than probable that it will
actually extend we'll into September.
The pageant viii tell in pictures, in
which thousands of actors viii take part
not only the history of the city of Lon
don, but of the whole British empire.
Goes Back to Year A. D. 296.
The true history of London begins with
the foundation of the Roman city, or
rather citadel in the year 296. The first
by an episode, partly religious and partly
military, in its scope. The strategic posi-
ton of London made the formation of
fort an obvious pTecautiOn for the wary
Roman soldier to take and to this day
clause is often inserted in city building
contracts providing for extra payment
should parts of the old Roman wall be
encountered in digging the foundations,
so tremendous still is the tenacity of the
Roman cement and mortar
Christianity follows in A. d. 504, though
St. Augustine point-blank refusal TO
obey the orders Of Rome and make Lon
don an archbishOpric seems at first
curious episode to honor with especial
notice in such a pageant. The coming of
the Danes up the river provides thrill
ing scene before the Norman conquest
brings William into London TO be
crowned king in HarOld's great minister
of the west.
Soon afterward the commercial prosper
ity of London claims attention for the
first time. and the granting of the city's
charter of incorporation by the Regent
John in 1871 heralds the gigantic pros
perity of later centuries. A tournament
Concludes the first part OF the pageant.
Historic Events Portrayed.
Caaucer presides over the beginning of
the second days pageantry and the scene
that ne introduces is followed by one of
the most typical incidents of London his
torv-the revolt of 1881 and the death of
Wat Tyler. The splendid triumphal en-
try of Henry V into London after the
battle of Agincourt spreads itself a mo-
ment along the pageant grass, and then
place is given to the termination of the
Wars of the Roses and the establishment
of the Tudor dynasty
A recreation of the Globe theatre and
reDr..sentation of Eliza than methods of
staae management begins the last days
pagaant The earliest stages of England's
trade with India and the inauguration of
her first plantations" in America are
then illustrated.
which cleared out the last faint of plague
from London and set her feet firmly upon
her new path to greatness.
The ACQUISITION Of Canada will then be
symbolized, followed by the extension of
the empire in the southern seas Except
ing the final episode. which, sc to speak,
does but represent idself, the visit of the
emperor of Russia and the king of Prus-
STA to London just before the Hundred
DAYS, closes this panorama of the long
story of the empires capital
Military Spirit Growing.
Interest in military matters is rapidly
increasing in England, and in response to
the popular demand that 1t be shown that
the country has some chance OF resisting