Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-07-06
FLY SKATTINC IS
TABOOED There
PICTURES or CORONATION DO
NOT SHOW SINGLE FLY.
NO SWITCHING OF TAILS
Moving Picture Show Procession to
lic n Dead and Dull Affair with
No Enthusiasm.

Kansas city July 5.-Thero were
no flies at the coronation Of George
Victim, whom millions delight to dub
George V.
That mu,h is plain from the most
casual inspection Of the moving pic
lures of the coronation pageant,
shown in Kansas City this week for
the first time.
Here come the horses, thousands
Of them blacks grays bays and
roans, horses with short tails and
with tails not so short, patter down
the undemonstratlye streets of Lon
don town. They come singly, in pairs,
I'm fours and in mass formations.
They walk, @trot, cantcr and gallop.
But not a single one of them is both
cred by a fly
In the whole pageant there is but
one horse, barring a dun whose APP
pcndage recalls the Missouri mule,
that gives the slightest switch of its
tail That one horse forms the cen
terpiece OF a parade scene and It IS
plain to be seen tnat it switches from
rcstiyencss and not from flies.
Not only do the horses show this
remarkable absence Of swattees. The
black crowds, solid black masses Of
people jamming submissively behind
solid walls OF sodicry and boobies,
show a comfort that does not come
from l02 degrees in the shade. There
is not n fan along the whole line Of
march. Ilandkerchiefs flutter here
and there from windows, waved by
apathetic hands. Nobody is throw
ing hats in the air. or brandishing
fans or making half the commotion
that tuilend town shows when its
team loses.
II the pictures are a criterion, the
coronation must have been deadly
duh function. There are not tags on
any Of the personages and to Identify
them must have been hopeless task
Mobiles ride in closed carriages Of the
sugar bowl type. without sticking
either head or foot out OF the win
dow George himself is borne along
in circus wagon resembling the
fancy weddink cakes which are built
up Of sugar in miniature castle de-
signs There isn't a view of the
crown anywhere, But for the alb
sence Of Indians, It might as well be
an expanded parade Of Barnum or
Buffalo Bill
Save only the Indian troops, there
is no break in the monotony OF
clothes-pin riders, excepting one.
that one other division is from Cana
da and those horscmen sit their
stccds os If ready for a dash, short
stlrrup. riding easy with the horse,
after the fashion Of Americans. The
English SIT surf-lcggcd, bobbing up
and down although their horses may
Dee on walk No sabers flash and
there is not a band In the whole show
AS far as the pictures go-except
one small company of mounted men.
Riding "oopcd up in a horse taxi
cab. with no one 10 call cheer and
not a solitary original George ""
man to break through the line Of
soldiers 10 shake hands must have
been a drcary procedure for George.
the pictures, unfortunately, do not
show his face and so, of course, 1t
IS impossible to say Just how he took
It ALL Perhaps George is a quiet man
man and believes i'm sane coronations.
Anyway, he must have had some
reason to be- happy besides being
born rich.
There was not a single fly at the
coronation.