Evening journal., 1913-04-28
GOSSIP OF THE COURTS
BY FL AN UR.

In the crypt Of St Paurs Cathedral,
whore Lord Wolseley was Inferred.
the parish of st, Faith mas It's ceme-
terry. and at one time indicated its
ownership by high ratings. The un-
known dead I'm the crypt far outnum-
Der the famous. for ST. paul's as
burial place goes back almost TO the
shadows Of time. Nelson and We'll
lington dominate the gloomy great
chamber IL is now sixty-one years
since more than million of his coun-
trymen stood by while the victor of
Waterloo was carried from the Horse
Guards to hia last resting place.
How slow Britain as a nation as a
rule is in paying the last homage to
its mightiest dead is illustrated i'm the
Wellington case. A sum of $4,000
pounds was voted for the funeral ex-
penses of which $4,000 pounds were
spent With the balance it was de-
cided TO erect monument in st.
Paul's Two-thirds Of this sum went
In the six years pursuit of sculp-
tor, who at last was found in the per-
son of Alfred Stevens But not until
forty years after the funeral was the
monument finally erected Yelling
ton, however. was one of the for
tunate warriors, who did not lack
monuments in his lifetime. The
statue of Achilles, in Hyde Park,
London, is the memorial, made from
captured French guns. which was
erected by the women of England to
the memory of Wellington and his
soldiers. thirty years before the great
leaders death.
But if Britain delayed forty years
in the case of the great Iron Duke. it
was not quite so unsentimental and
moved rapidly in finding a monument
for Nelson Above the great sea
fighters tomb in the crypt is black
and white sarcophagus, made nearly
four centuries ago by Benedetto da
Rayanza for Cardinal Wolsey who in
tended Il for his own use. But the
Abbot of Leicester and his monks
alone know where the great Cardinal
lies buried and the noble sarcophagus
went begging for an occupant Per-
haps only practical set like the Brit
ish mortuary keepers would have
thought Of converting Wolsey's tomb
into enc for Nelson. All the change
they had to make was to place a Wis
counts coronet where there had been
the hat of the disgraced and broken
hearted prelate
The solemn ceremonial at st.
Paul's at Lord Wolesleys burial con-
trasts strongly with the indecorum
of bygone days on such occasions,
when il was quite impossible to
secure reverence even at funerals of
great men. So bad, in fact did the
behavior OF the people become that
at the end of the fourteenth century
Bishop Braybroke held out a threat
of the greater cxcommunication" be-
cause in the cathedral men as we'll
as women, not only on common days,
but especially on festivals, expose
their wares as If il were public
market, buying and selling without
reverence for the holy place" Men
were seen playing at ball or other
unseemly games within and without
the church, breaking the beautiful
and costly painted windows. to the
amazement OF strangers and visitors.
Up TO 1860 such desecration must
have beeing going on, for the fire
which destroyed the spire OF the ca !
thedral in that year was attributed to
divine anger Golfers. with their |
sacks of coal, and butchers boys |
with their loads Of meat, made the |
interior Of the fine cathedral a short /
cut on the way to their customers |
The navy and aisles we're like a pub !
lie highway There was swearing. |
jostling, biting of thumbs, and what !
not to beget quarrels. Even the choir /
boys. during the service, would make
dash into the body of the church !
to collect fines for the wearing of
spurs. which was prohibited.
OF course, there are great many
anecdotes afoat since Wolseley. the
great warrior. has answered his last
call. Once, while i'm charge of the
advance guard, close to the redoubts
at Sevastapol. he attributed the sue
cess of many of the engagements in f,
the Crimean war to the simple ex-
pedient of shouting At that time he
had just about twenty-five men when
he attacked All were shouting con-
tinuously TO make the enemy believe
that there was a large force advanc-
ing, and some could not speak for
a week after. Firing was done from
the shelter of mass of dead bodies,