The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19
VANDERBILT TjN|AKES COACHING PLANS
 fsE Ss z Will Run Only One Coach in Place of Two
 MARY'S CORONATION
Will Be Not Much Less Impressive That the King's-Queen Alex andra Won't Be Present
 For the Occasion
By PHILLIP EVERETT

By PHILLIP EVERETT
 London, March 1S-(Special)-Mr. AL fred C. vanderbilt nas well advanced his coaching plans for the coming season,
 which will commence on May and will continue until the end of July or the mid dle of August. MT. Vanderbilt will run vious years. .s
 Lord Leconfield has announced his in- tention of running coach to Brighton during the summer, but 1t has been ar
 ranged that the Vanderbilt and Lecon- field fours will leave London alternate days. MT. Vanderbilt had decided to travel by a route different from that tray eled last summer, and 1t is understood | that Lord Leconfield will make the jour | ney by roads different from those used | by MT. Vanderbilt.
 More than 50 horses will be employed to form the teams which will drag the American milionaire's vehicle. Forty of | these will be animals which ran last year | and which during the winter have been stalled at the farm at Kingsburg. The other 20, chosen by Mr. Vanderbilt him. self from several hundred in western
 United States, arrived In England two | weeks ago from New York.
 The prominent part that Queen Mary will take in the coronation ceremony is
 not generally understood, yet her crown
 ing will be only slightly less. impressive | than that of King George. :. During the
 whole of the lengthy service that will
 precede the crowning of King George. the queen will occupy a chair of state in
 the chapel of St. Edward the Confessor So soon as his majesty has been pro- claimed by those present as rightful sov- ereign of these realms, the turn of the queen-consort comes. She Is led by the Archbishop of York to stool placed be- tween the altar and the historic chair of St. Edward, in which the king Is then
 seated in all the glory of his majesty While seated on this stool Queen Mary will be anointed upon the head and hands by Archbishop Lang, who will subse- quently place the ring of peace upon her finger and the crown upon her head.
 She will next have sceptre placed in | in her left hand. and will be conducted to her throne, which will be placed upon the immediate right of King George, though two steps lower. The preletes talk ing part in the ceremony will then con- duct Queen Mary to the altar, where she makes an obligation of bread, wine and a purse of pure gold.
 yl,tIo tg to every inch, a Britisher, and desires that as far as possible everything connected with her coronation attire shall be done of home manufacture and workmanship,
 it is quite certain that lot of the stuff written about all British this, that, and the other Is fiction. When it comes to dress material and workmanship, no woman cares snap where the material comes from, or where it Is made up, so long as she gets what she wants. AS d matter of fact, with most English society ladies, Paris or Vienna are much more popular places than London, and it can be taken for granted that, in spite of Queen Mary's example and the much advertised all-British shopping week. a great num- Der of the dresses and other accessories will come from the continent.
 Contrary p to what has so often been said, Queen Alexandra does not propose to be present at the coronation, and never had the least intention of doing so. Her plans are very unsettled, although she will, of course, attend the memorial ser vices for the late King Edward at Wind sor of the anniversary of his death, but at the present moment does not scontem- plate being. present at the travelling of the national memorial to the late Queen Victoria outside Buckingham palace on May Is. She Is benef1ting considerably by,her stay at Sandringham, and she has not decided how much longer she will. remain there,s Her life for the future will be an extremely quiet one, and will be passed mainly. at Sandringham, with oc- caslonal brief visits to Marlborough house.
 On the 22d of next month the 'grand'' season of opera opens at Covent Garden The climax will, of course. be reached with the gala performance given by command of the King on June 25 when the court and all the foreign guests will put in an appearance in celebration of the coronation. The music for that occa- sion has not yet been chosen. but the event will be in every way worthy of the traditions both of, the court and the opera. The flowers, dresses and jewelry will oe a SlgDt to reIneHlDeT, OI course all the most famous singers will take part in the performance. although as usual, poor old England will probably have to take a back seat, both as regards artists and music. .r4sr
 It is rumored that in the event of the government deciding to go forward with their policy of making 800 new peers to enable the cabinet to coerce the upper chamber the older families of our nobil- ity have decided upon the unusual course of dropping their titles. and adopting plain "Mr'' in front of their names, ex- cept of course, where they are members of the various orders of Knighthood, when they will in future be known
 the titles they hold under each. order. The effect of this. would he to make the new peers the laughing stock of Europe.
 There seems to be no limit to the sun- jects with which the house of commons Is called upon to deal. One might have thought that time would be immune from its attentions, but time happens to be just now particularly regarded as a suit able object for reform. Not only is there ,tlie daylight saving bill.' which having survived the patrarchial benediction of Mr. Winston Churchill, looks like beconi- ing law ere very long, but another bill is being introduced to reorganxe our whole year. f''''S " ~ -
 This calendar reform bill Is intended to do ai1 sorts or w6ndeffuF' tltinEs, For sili-' stance, .each { NeW fearS das not t6 count asa day ofsthe Keel.6 ttRs month and .December s.25ss Is. a alN5aSsf to fall on Monday. There sis also to be 'a leApl year fay betweens, June sl and July F which ,f<,ff