The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-10

lish King, the liveliest interest has
lain in the crowds which gathered
wherever the two monarchs were eX-
pected to appear.
These crowds have been strikingly
different from those packed masses
Of pushing humanity with which the
passage of a parsonage or pageant,
adequately advertised, fills Philadel-
phia streets Here the streets,
squares and parks which offer a view
of the King and Emperor on parade
have presented the aspect of vast
concourses of promenaders, for the
most part we'll dressed and extra
ordinarily decorous.
All classes seemed represented eX-
cept the lowest and the highest
Among the men the topper" alter
mated with the bowler" and cap
Women were in the majority, but
the suffragette seemed entirely abb
sent. If present, she was silent,
Nobody was boisterous or impatient
although the crowds sometimes stood
expectant for hours.
When the King and Queen, escort
ing the Kaiser and Kaiserin and the
young Prussian Princess, Victoria
Louise, drove along Constitution Hill
on the way from Victoria station 10
Buckingham Palace, on the sover-
eign's arrival, the route along Green
Park was lined with thousands, with
thousands sitting in park chairs at
sixpence apiece, or standing ranked
along the roadway on the grass.
Nobody seemed disturbed, but oc-
casionally an American seemed to
think it funny, or odd, when hawkers
passed along these sedate ranks
crying:
"The old Queen for a penny"
They exhibited large photographs
of Queen Victoria, which nobody
seemed to buy; or they proclaimed;
"The German Emperor on a post
card!"
The hawkers seemed the only per
sons present who were not clearly
respectable"
When the King and the Emperor
passed, hats were dotted and polite
subdued cheer ran among the lines.
Americans Preferred Kaiser.
Americans were numerous. 1t was
easy to pick them out by the fashion
of the women's frocks and the cut OF
the mems boots All were deeply in
terested in the debutante German
Princess. They found fault with
Queen Mary's hat and the way she
did her hair They preferred the
Kaiser to the King.
When the royalties had passed the
crowd quietly resolved itself into
components of struggling parties of
two, three, or four, and in few min,
utes there was no crowd.
On Tuesday, when the gilt and
I, marble memorial to Queen Victoria
was unveiled, with all the pomp q
church and state and the massed dis
play of soldiers, the whole wide greer
slope of Green Park was carpetei
N with an assemblage like the Other
m but vastly bigger and rather better
dressed.
Il Only on the very border of the
q mall was any real crowding. Those
persons who would come hours early
IN stood in rank on chairs. EVerybod!
q, was very sedate, with hats off, and
with a few exceptions, all the wa!
n back to Paccadilly, fully quarter o
mile away, as the guns thundere(
the salute, cheers were confined t.
the crowd along the Mall as tn
royal parsonage passed on foo
II across the few yards between tn
O. monument and the palace gates
This large assemblage, too, resolved
- itself almost insensibly into it's com
ponents of leisurely strollers.
Police Ushers, Not Barriers.
Not policeman had been visible
- in all the wide stretch of park during
40 the ceremony. There had been plenJ'
to guide people in. There wer'
plenty at all the exits, but they wer'
rather ushers than human barriers
st. The people needed no rstraint. Thu
flow of thousands was controlled .,
a gesture and a word.
Afterward miscellaneous specta
thrnnUl
the narrow ways between Staffor
" House and st. James Palace witt
never a crush or jam and hardly an
Is confusion.
Along the Mere, when all the way
=, were not wide enough for two We
hicles to pass, poured a stream mad
IN OF Ambassadors Princns and hal