Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-21
STREET TRAFFIC At TIMES At
srANDsTILL BECAUSE OF
IMMENSE CROWDS.
SUBURBAN RESIDENTS FLOCK
TO WITNESS DECORATIONS
Services Hold In All Churches to Inter-
eede for king-Foreisn Naval Off.
Gers Nations Guests-More Than
1000 Ambulance Men Engaged for
Coronation Day.

London, June 21.-London was taxed
to it's capacity today. 1t was corona
tion show day, and thousands Hooked
from the subeIrbs to the city's west end
to see the decorations and watch the
preparations for tomorrow's great
event.
! The decorations were practically
! completed, and never-ending source
of attraction for the crowds, which
formed an ever-moving mass from
Victoria embankment to Westminster
! Abbey and Buckingham palace. Thous-
lands stood for hours on the steps Of the
luew Victoria memorial. which afforded
10 point Of vantage from which the
movements in the palace yard could
Ebe seen.
Sights For All.
The patience Of the crowd was re-
swarded by the appearance from time
ITO time Of regiments Of infantry, ac-
tcompanied by bands which were arrlv-
ling to take part in lining the route OF
htomorrow's procession, from the palace
ITO the abbey, and the passing of state
carriages containing dominion premlers,
members of every parliament and leg
islature of the empire. who had come
to pay homage to the sovereign, ana
who were received in audience by the
king and queen this morning.
Services in All Churches.
This being the day for special inter-
cession for tho king and queen, services
were held In all the churches, and
meetings at public halls were addressed
by the bishop Of London, the bishop Of
Ripon. and other leaders Of religious
thought.
Other attractions Of the busy day In
cluded the drive of the king and queen
thru the west end to the national horse
show at Olympia, where there was
special performance.
Naval Officers Nations Guests.
The senior officers Of the foreign
ships, assembled at Spithead, among
whom are Capt Charles A. Cove, COM
mander of the American battleshlp
Delaware, and his companions. accom-
panied by British naval officers came
10 London today to be the guests OF
the nation for two days and proved an
added source Of interest in the cosmo-
politan multitude already here.
Strenuous Work For Police.
The police, who have strenuous work
ahead Of them, already are doing double
duty. Even so, the street traffic at
times, gets the better of them, and to-
day it occasionally remained at a
standstill for half hour or longer, par
tfcularly in the center OF the city.
More than 1000 ambulance men have
ben angaged for coronation day, and
already many have been placed on duty.
altho thus far there has not been much
call for their services.
cerer onies Are Significant.
On Thursday the people over the
seas, In the little island that is the
erandfatherland Of so many Of us, will
crown their king and queen. 1t will be
an impressive and interesting cere-
mony, but the really interesting thing
about it is the fact that not step will
be taken, not hand raised, not word
uttered, not one bit of ceremony per-
formed that has not at once deep
Significance and a really astonishing
antiquity.
Just where the king will plant his
footsteps-as he will no doubt rem en-
Der his own father planted his in 1902
Just In the same places, too, Queen
Victoria stood. or walked, or knelt, or
sat- In fact, one would think that the
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dim past, passing from one to another
OF his predecessors - William the
Fourth, the four Georges, the long line
Of the ill-fated Stuarts, back further
yet, touching mentally upon the regal
:; Tudors the naughty house of York, the
! humber Lancastrians, till he finds
{ himself recalling the Plantagenets, and
then the Normans. Must he stop there
Hardly. King George can claim descent
from Alfred the Great and his prede-
cessors.
He will sit upon the stone taken from
the Scotch IN the days of Wallace; he
will hear the words to which so many
other royal ears have listened; the
music that Is being practiced now is
hundreds Of years old, some of it.
Many things mark this coronation as
different from most coronations. 1t has
come so quickly after the last, for one
thing. Queen Victoria was crowned in
lS37-and not till sixty-fve years later
did Westminster Abbey fling wide ~
gates for another such function. Only
nine years have elapsed since King Ed
ward VII. received the heritage to
which he had been born. And. no doubt,
in spite of the beauty and magnificence
that will attend this crowning of a king
the loyal English must be hoping that
there will be no other in their day
and generation-they must be hoping
that King George will live and reign
many. many years longer than did his
father.