The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20
Over Representatives of Repub-
lies at the Kings Funeral.
IN CITIZENS CLOTHES.
Roosevelt Rode in Gilded
Coach in the Procession.
The Great Crush Results in
Many Broken Limbs.

Edward VII was carried through the
streets of the capital today in the pres
ence of many hundred thousand sub
jects and with the kings of nine Euro
pean nations, several future rulers,
members of all the royal families of
the world and a former president of
the United States following the casket
from Westminster hall to Paddington
station
The cortege moved through solid
double lines of red coated soldiers,
standing with rifles reversed and the
regimental colOrs dipped to the ground.
At the railway station the casket was
placed in a 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 spectacle had been witnessed
in London since Queen Victoria's juO
flee.
The parade included many of the
greatest men of the kingdom with rep
resentatiVe5 of all arms of the service
and delegations from the most famous
regiments of the empire and repre-
sentative groups of foreign armies and
navies.
Behind the casket. on which rested
kings charger, while his favorite ter
rier was leu by a Highland soldier just
before the imperial ei4sign.
Roosevelt in Gilded Coach.
King George, Emperor William and
several other members of royalty wore
the uniforms of British generals. No
parsonage attracted greater interest
than did Theodore Roosevelt, the spe
cial American ambassador, whose
civilian clothes contrasted curiousiy
with t. ; gilded state coach with its
white wigged and silk stockinged
hunkies, within which he rode.
The representatives if 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 European states.
Their carriages followed those carrying
the royal ladies and they were the lasr
in the line of representatives of foreign
governments. The Duke of Orleans
was given preference 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 morning was clear and hot sun
beat on the great mass of humanity
that lined the route of the procession
It is doubtful that so many people wero
ever before seen in London. Along the
Mall, in st. James street and at Hyde
park the throng almost overwhelmed
the procession. The police and soldiers
swept away by the crush. There wered
many broken limbs and other injuries
were received. Hundreds of persons
tainted especially among the women
who had been standing on the pave
ment for hours before the procession
left Westminster hall.
Route of the Procession.
King George, the queen mother, AL
exandra, and the Princess Victoria en-
tered Westminster hall before the pro-
cession started and spent some min
utes before the casket. Emperor Will
lam, 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 on the cheek.
The procession started from the hall
at $3.50 o'clock 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 cush
ion, regalia and insignia of the Order
of the Garter thereon, was borne on
a gun carriage the same as was used
at the funeral of the late queen.
The procession moved through Parlia-
rnent street and White Hall. The public
buildings were heavily draped with
black and purple throughout the route.
Leaving the district of officialdom, the
cortege passed through the horse guards
Parade and thence along the Mall. The
embassies and private residences, in
cluding those of several Americans on
Carlton house terrace overlooking the
Mall were heavily draped with mourn
ing. The terrace was crowded with on
lockers.
From the Mall the procession passed
Marlborough house, emerging in st.
James street, proceeding to Picadilly
and along that thoroughfare to Hyde
park corner, where 1t entered the park
and passed along the popular drive to
Marble Arch. Emerging from the park,
the procession followed Edgeware road
to Oxford and Cambridge terraces and
turned UP these wide thOroughfares on
either side of which throughout their
length Of half a mile were unbroken
stretches of temporarily erected stands
filled to their capacity with black garb-
&c humanity.
Uniform Signs of Mourning.
BY ARRANGEMENT between the West
minister city council and the Padding
ton borough council the official signs
of mourning along the route were uni
form. Venetian masts with laurel
wreathes at their tops had been erect
ed at Intervals The public showed
less unanimity in their selection of
signs of grief.
The route was lined with thousands
of troops, behind whom were massed
countless thousands of people in deep
black on the -pavements below and the
house fronts above, with the balconies,
windows and roofs crowded.
Every branch of the defensive
forces of the empire was represented
in the long column which preceded
the gun carriage. An officer of the
headquarters staff, mounted, headed
the procession with the bands of the
household cavalry. The territorials
and colonials came just behind the
bands; then other volunteer corps, the
honorable artillery company. officers
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