The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-06-25
CORONATION OVER
LONDON IS HAPPY
English Capital Today Looks
Like a Banquet Hall the
Morning After"
Especial Cable from the international
News Service.)
~ HEReERT TEMPLE.

Especial Cable from the international
News Seryicel
~ HEReERT TEMPLE.
London, June 24.-The coronation is
over. Tomorrow the King and Queen
and all their royal guests will be at
Epithead Witnessing the gigantic naval
review and the magnificent iEumi-
nation. London looks for all the world
like q banquet hall the morning after
NOT very inspiring sight by any
means. After the many weeks OF con.
slant excitement and anxious antici-
patton the usual reaction has set in
and cool judgment stamps the corona
tion as a failure. Everything went
off as planned, there was no hitch any
where, the professions were gorgeous.
khe crowds immense, but the spirit
was missing. There was enthusiasm
of course, but II was OF the usual Eng
Ssh kind, which lacks the true ring
and leaves you cold and unaffected.
Broadway on q New Years eve or an
election night Is far more interesting,
Ear more human, because there the
crowds are composed Of real human
beings on pleasure bent while here
you have the impression that too or.
derby, too well behaved throng Is moth
ing but mass Of stolid carefully regu-
lated automaters. The foreign visit
ors who should have acted as the leav-
ening, had been scared away by out
Tageous prices demanded for hotel ac-
commodations and seats. and the i'm
mense wooden structures along the
route Of the royal procession were in
many places more than half empty.
The number OF Americans here now
does not exceed that OF any ordinary
summer. when nothing unusual Is
going on.
Two weeks ago the London papers
began to comment on that fact that
people were not coming to London as
ward was crowned, and at the same
time the Paris papers noted with great
satisfaction that the Gay City had be-
come the headquarters Of a great army
of Americans. seemingly more in favor
of viewing the coronation procession
comfortably seated In Paris cinema
tograph theater, to franc head than
paying fifty guineas for an uncom-
Portable window seat in house which
they were not even sure OF being able
to reach unless making a start before
sunrise.
As q matter OF fact the last days be-
fore the coronation were exceedingly
busy ones for all the railroads In Lon.
don but the tide OF humanity was all
running In the wrong direction-away
from that city, and the crowds that did
come were chiefly cheap excursionists
most Of whom were quite prepared to
spend the night in the streets to Sc
cure a position along the route rather
than pay for hotel accommodations
London Is sadder but wiser city
and the gay decorations everywhere
only emphasize its gloom.
Many were the people who missed
Queen Alexandra In the royal pro-
cession yesterday. OF course, every.
one knew she would not be in London
70 witness her sons coronation. but
the memory OF her beautiful face
came to the minds of many who had
seen her. when nine years ago she
drove through tho streets Of the city
at the side Of her royal husband. bow.
ing and smiling. Queen Mary. too. Is
considered quite q handsome woman,
but her rather stern face lacks the
wonderful charm which won for the
widowed queen the hearts of her flu.
ture subjects from the very day she
oct foot on English soil. as the Prin.
cess Of Wales. The sense Of her roy
al dignity somehow seems to rest too
heavily on the present queen and in
endeavoring to look her part. she
loses In human quality and sits stiffly.
hardly ever bowling her head. appar-
emily noticing nobody. fact which
the crowd II quick to perceive. When
Queen Mary drove through the city
seated next to the German Empress a
few weeks ago. people all along the
line noticed q difference between the
two. for while she sat like statue.
without smile on her face. the Kais-