The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-22
] (Contiued. from Page 1.) Y ROYAL CEREMONY.

London, June ,22-George V and Mary III were crowned today King and Queen of "the United Kingdom of IGreat Britain and Ireland and of the British dominions beyond the seas"
 To the orthodoxly- minded the cere- mony was an overlapping display of the pomp of militarism of ecclesias- tical solennnity and of medieval mag nificence. To the cynic it was an al- fmost pathetically childish exhibition tof delight in tinsel and spangles. The radical saw in it a positively wicked swaste of millions, in a country where tfully one-third and one-twentieth is literally starving.
 The average Briton is strictly or ] thodox however. Before dawn the peo- l pie began swarming by hundreds of thousands into the streets through i which the royal procession was to pass, between Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey. The foot and mounted police who shepherded them seemed numberless. Lining the thor oughfares or marching in the process command of Field Marshal Viscount Kitchener. To some extent the tre- mendous military display was, indeed, necessitated by the shortness of the { route and the consequent congestion of the crowd to an extent which, or 0 have rendered the ordinary thin red line" powerless to control It..
 Immediately the Abbey doors were opened hours before the actual cere- mony. those provileged persons posses sing tickets of admission began talk ing their seats, and as the ancient edifice filled, the eye was dazzfed by the sparkling of the women's jewels and the brilliance of the uniforms worn by the men,
 1000 in the Abbey
 Some 1000 were admitted in all, in , cluding forty members of the royal family and relations, more than 200 foreign princes, princesses and special representatives from every civilized country in the world, 1.420 peers and peeresses, 300 bishops, clergy, states men and ambassadors, 900 members of Parliament with their wives and 500 representatives from India and the British colonies.
 Peers and peeresses were in full rfed their coronets ready to put on the moment the crown was placed upon King Georges head. Coronets, gems. chains, orders and medals scin- tilated in the subdued light and show ed up even more plainly beside the one of less exalted rank than the mo- bility on the outskirts of the group of higher aristocrats.
 Bishops in crimson and lawn, high court judges in scarlet and ermine and full-buttoned wigs, law lords in black and. gold. army and navy officers in red blue green. black and grey, cab inet ministers in blue white and gold members of Parliament in black court dress, foreign officers in weird anG. wonderful colors, eastern potentates in flowing robes and turbanS of every
 
 up the balance of the gorgeous assem- bly.
 The royalties occupied a row of specially constructed boxes in front of which were stationed long lines of scarlet-coated, black-busbied grenada CTS. alternating with yeomen of the guard in Tudor uniforms of scarlet and gold.
 The thrones, were placed in the theatre" or space in front of the al- tar. at the junction of the choir, trancepts and communion enclosure The floor which had been raised. was covered by the magnificent coronation carpet of blue and gold emblazoned with the royal arms and the emblems of England. Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the colonies. The Kings throne was elevated upon a dais and approch- ed by five steps. while the Queens placed alongside, was slightly lower, with only two steps.
 Between the thrones and the altar was "St. Edwards chair,' the ven- erable piece of furniture in which ev- cry King of England has been crown ed since the days of Edward the Con- lessor. Beneath it is the legendary ''Stone of Scone' upon which the an- cient kings of Scotland were crowned until Edward I captured it and brought it back to England with him. Near CT to the altar, at one side of the theatre were the two ''chairs of recognition'' for the convenience of the King and Queen before the start on the ceremony.
 Arrival of the RegaIia
 The first sign of real business was the arrival of the regalia and crown jewels. carried in by the canons and chaplains from the Jerusalem Cham ber. whither they were brought last night from the Tower of London The ,canons and chaplains having passed. ssolemn chanting of Taliss .lit.