Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-14
THE WORLDS GREATEST SHOW AND
HOW 1T is BEING STAGED AT LONDON
Coronation of King George and Queen Mary Next Week Be Most
Modern Tmes--The of Nations
cipaly American, Will Flow

| Chamberlain and having received the
royal approval.
Windows commanding view of the
| three professions of the King and Queen
in state through the streets of London
in connection with the coronation are
| bringing fancy prices. The procession to
| Westminster Abbey on the actual day of
| the coronation viii be from Buckingham
| Palace by way of the Mall, Trafalgar
| Square, Whitehall and Parliament street
/ On the following day, Friday, the pro-
| gress of the King and Queen in state
| through the metropolis will be by way
| of Constitution Hill, PiccadilIy, ST.
| James street, Pail Mall, Trafalgar
Square. the Strand. Fleet street, Lud-
! gate Hill, ST. Paufs Churchyard, Can
non street, London Bridge, Southwark.
st. Georges Circus, Westminster Bridge
Road, Westminster Bridge, Whitehall
and the Mall.
At the entrance to the City, where
Temple Bar formerly stood. the King
and Queen will be welcomed by the Lord
Mayor and the City Fathers, will receive
an address of welcome and will touch
the ancient City Sword of State. rendered
to the King by the Lord Mayor for the
purpose in token of submission of the
City to his sovereignty. Their majes-
ties will be escorted by a brilliant cav
: alcade, and the streets. as on the day
of the coronation, will be lined by some
50 900 troops. under the command of
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener. So much
! money is being spent in renting windows
from which to watch the procession
that Lloyds is doing an enormous bust
IN. . kn Of inCtt met
loss resulting from the possible aban-
donment of the progress through the
metropolis for some untoward reason or
other.
Then there is the third progress of the
King and Queen to the City, on the &C.
easion of the Thanksgiving service in St
Pauls Cathedral the subsequent lunch
con with the Lord Mayor at the Guild
hall, and after that a drive through the
northern portion of the metropolis Here
again the route will be lined with troops,
presenting a most interesting spectacle,
and on one day there will be public re-
view of all the colonial forces, which
will be extremely interesting, since
every British dependency, from the great
Dominion of Canada and the still larger
Commonwealth of Australia down to the
small and remote Falkland Islands, will
be represented by a military contingent.
Americans will, of course, centre in
measure around their two ambassadors.
namely, Whitelaw Reid, al Dorchester
House, in Park Lane, and John Hays
Hammond. the special ambassador of
President Taft to the coronation, who
has rented in Pieeadilly the house at
the corner of Stratton street which was
for nearly a century the home of Lady
BuSdett-Coutts and prior to that the
scene of the memorable siege upon her
father. Sir Francis Burdett. by the Off
GERS of the House of Commons, by the
police and by the troops of the London
garrison, in an attempt to arrest him on
the strength of a warrant of the Speaker.
Sir Francis, who vas member OF
Parliament for Westminster at the time,
had incurred the ire of the Speaker, who
causedN his Imprisonment for contempt,
not however without much riotinS and
even bloodshed between the armed
forces arrayed against him and his con-
stituents. who assembled in his defence.
1t is. indeed one of the most interesting
residences in London. and during its oc-
cupancv by Lady Burdett-Coutts it was
SO renowned for the generous and I'M
bounded charity of its kindly mistress
that even when professions of unem-
ployed. socialistic mobs, and other dis
orderly elements. getting the better Oh
the police, passed along Piecadilly they
invariably either DOTTED their caps, or
else cheered, when passing the mansion
90 lad Rurdett-Coutts.-N York
Tribune of June H.