Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-26
KING HAS REST DAY
Spends Sunday With, Queen
Mary Aboard Royal Yacht.
REVIEWS NAVAL VETERANS
Old Seaman Reminds Monarch Of
Cadet Day Episodes.
DINNERS AT ALL EMBASSIES
Functions in Honor Of Special Am
bassadors to the Coronation.
Services in Churches.

| LONDON, June 26-King George and
Queen Mary spent quiet Sunday on
board the royal yacht at Portsmouth
| The only function of the day was an in
| formal review of the local naval and mill
| tia veterans. There were 14o of the an
| cient fighters lined up at the dockyard.
Many of them were infirm and had been
MANNED in the wars.
| The king and queen chatted with the
veterans and questioned them about their
experiences. One said:
Il was boatswain's mate aboard the AL
| bert, sir, when you were there. You
| were the worry of my life, SIR
| Another reminded the king how, when
a cadet on board the Britannia, they
peted him with sugar.
| According to the program in connec-
ton with the coronation arranged by the
foreign Office, last evening was set aside
| for the entertainment by the resident
diplomats of the special representatives
of their countries. All the embassies
and legations, therefore. gave dinners
which were largely family affairs.
| That at the German embassy was the
| NEST brilliant, Crown Prince Frederick
William and the crown princess and
| Prince Henry of Prussia and the prin-
| cess being the principal guests.
Ambassador Reid's Guests.
Among those who dned at Dorchester
| House, the residence of Whitelaw Reid,
| the American ambassador, were John
Hays Hammond, the special envoy repre-
| senting President Taft at the coronation.
Mrs Hammond and Miss Hammond
| Mrs. Robert Bacon, wife of the American
ambassador at Paris; Richard c. kerens,
the American ambassador at Vienna, and
| Mrs. kerens John Ridgely Carter, the
American minister to Roumania, and Mrs
Carter; Consul General and Mrs. Griffiths
Lord and Lady Sandhurst, Col. James
Mr.. and Mrs. W. f. Dodge. Mr.. and Mrs
Charles +. Taft and Miss Taft, Maj Gen
| Greedy, Fear Admiral Vreeland. Mr. and
Mrs. Templeton Croker and Miss Jennie
Crocker. who are staying at Dorchester
House: MIR. and Mrs. Parrot of San
Francisco and Mr.. and Mrs. Murray
Young of New York.
In honor of the visit of Special Envoy
Hammond to Dorchester House. the deco
Iations, which were one of the greatest
attractions of the week, were again ilu-
| minated.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hammond gave lunch
con at Stratton House, the guests in
Guiding the hereditary Princess of Sake
Meiningen. sister of the German emperor
Baron Roden of the staff of the princess,
Amba ssadOr and Mrs. Reid, mfr. and Mrs.
Charles P. Taft and the members of the
special and regular EMBASSIES.
Rain Spoiled Garden Parties.
Later, Ambassador and Mrs. Hammond
went to Windsor in a royal motor, with
other coronation visitors, and looked over
the palace. They repaired from there tC
Baron Leopold Rothschilds to attend q
garden party. This was one of the two
important functions of the kind, the 9th
err being given by John Norton Grifiths
NJ. P, to the colonial visitors. Both
| however, were spoiled by continuous rain
which obliged the guests to stay indoors
The foreign churches in London. a:
well as the English churches, held coro
nation thanksgiving services. That a.
| the Roman Catholic Cathedral Of West
minister was unusually impressive. i
was the first opportunity for more thar
| two centuries that the English Catholic:
had had of joining their fellow-country
| men in rejoicing at the coronation OF {
| monarch without feeling resentment tina
| the occa sion had been made one of con
domination of the central tenets of theil
| faith.