Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-23
MULTITUDE SEES PAGEANT
Enormous Crowds Line Route from
Palace to Abbey.
PROCESSION IS In THREE PARTS
First Comes Distinguished Guests and
Escorts, Then the Prince of
wales and Lastly the King
and Queen.


LONDON, June "A drab sky ana
smart showers early this morning though
they dimned the freshness of the lavish
decorations. could not dull the enthusiasm
of the multitude who for months had been
planning to make the 22d OF June a red
letter day In their lives
Hundreds of thousands Americans. Ger
mans, Frenchmen and natives of all lands.
from China to Peru, Joined the hustllng
throng and yielded themselves up with
magnificent enthusiasm to the coronation
glamor.
The weather was about the only thing
that had not been prearranged with ex-
actness and it was the one thing likely TO
mar or make suprenely glorious the day
that was to give Britain a new king
Fair weather had been promised and
when John Bull looked from his window
upon lead skies this morning he expert
enced pang of disappointment but this
did not dampen his spirits to noticeable
effect. Later his stolid optimism was re-
warded, for as the royal coach bearing
King George and Queen Mary to West
minister Abbey for their crowning
emerged from the yard at Buckinham pal
ace, the clouds gave way and the sun
burst through in all its siory permitting
what might have been a bedraggled pro-
cession to become a spectacle of splendor
After the morning rush OF enthusiasts
mainly of the humber class and great
numbers of ticket holders eager to secure
places of vantage from which to witness
the royal procession before the expected
crowds arrived on the scene, there was
some falling off observed and as late as
o'clock, when the front gates at Buck
ingham palace closed, there was little DIFF
ficulty In moving freely at any point be-
tween the palace and Westminster Abbey.
Crowds Increase Rapidly.
ThencefOrwsrd the crowds rapidly in
creased and by the time the troops began
to take up their positions along the line
of the professional route at 7:l5 o'clock
there were dense masses OF spectators at
every point. The pressure become so in
tense at Charing Cross and at White Hall
that the police Gordon was broken by the
surging people With the aid of the
troops, however. the authorities soon re-
gained control.
General Kitchener who is in command
Of the troops and 1900 police. hurried
here and there and was everywhere
cheered. Il was a great day for Tommy
Atklns' Sixty thousand OF the empires
picked men lined the professional route as
they swung along TO their assigned places
with cock-sure stride they won a cheer
from every spectator who had a cheer in
him.
Three Professions.
Entertained by the bands. the sight OF
the troops and the scurrying about OF Of
ficials, the crowds were we'll engaged and
before they realized 1t, the professions
from Buckingham palace to Westminster
Abbey were getting under way.
There were three PROFESSIONS one for
the royal guests, another for the Prince
OF Wales and members of the royal family
other than the king and queen, and the
imperial procession.
The first was made up OF fourteen dress
carriages. occupied by the royal guests
and the distinguished court officials and
officers attached to their staffs The car
Ttages were drawn by pairs OF The famous
bay horses from the royal stables, driven
by royal coachmen and attended by foot
men In scarlet liveries.
Trumpeters and an escort IT the royal
horse guards preceded the royal guests.
few OF whom were recognized by the
crowds. The spectators. however, were
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