Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-12

years ago, which cost anywhere from
$500 to $1,000 to construct and equip.
The men needed to man the boats are
there in plenty. From the rescue Of
shlpwrecked sailor the coastal pop
ulation and the tisherfolk never hold
pack, always prompted by a feeling
of brotherhood to risk their lives re-
CARELESS of cost But the Prince OF
Wales and those who are associated.
with him in the maintenance of
Great Britain's Red Cross service OF
the sea are resolved that the men
should have the very best boats that
money can buy in order that the
waste of life at sea may be still
further reduced.
Since every American visiting the
British metropolis makes a pilgrim
age to the Tower of London, the old
Norman fortress of William tho Con-
oueror. and crosses the threshold of
the Wakefield Tower in order to
gaze upon the crown jewels and the
royal regalia of the English mon
archs, which are on exhibition there
protected by an elaborate system OF
steel bars and armed guards, they
should make point of demanding
to be shown the tablet recently let
into the wall there wherein is re
corded on beautifully illuminate
veilum the fact that it marks tht
place where the sanity King Henry
VI. whose canonization is now being
petftioned for at Rome, was murder
ed by Richard III, who. having founG
Henry on his knees praying there.
stabbed him to death, punching his
amounted body full of deadly holes" as
Shakespeare has it.
The inscription is couched in the
following language and is headed
In the name of the Blessed Trinity
Father, Son and Holy Ghost. of Our
Lady St Mary, Mother of Christ. anu
all the holy company of heaven"
The Society of Blessed Mary OF
keeper of the jewel house, and 10
his successors in that office the SUN
OF ten pounds sterling. asking hin
ana his successors each year on the
In the evening. other with his own
hand or by the hand of another
chosen by him, to lay some white
flowers on the floor of the oratory-
in the Wakefield Tower, the present
jewel house. this being the place
where our royal founder. King Henry
vi, of holy memory. was kneeling
at the close of his life here upon
earth in the year of our Lord 147I."
X x -
This tribute of devotion has the
approval of the constable of the
tower. and the sanction of George V
Tho flowers to be lilies of Elton, tied
together with a blue ribbon CORE
spending with the similar Offering
made year by year on the eve of the
feast of St Nicholas by two of the
kings scholars at Henry's grave in
st. Georges Chapel. in Windsor. The
people OF the Jewel House are asked
70 arrange for the removal of the
flowers at the same hour on the fol-
lowing evening and for them to be
burned.
1t is well known that the blameIess
but singularly unfortunate and ILL
fated King Henry VI has always been
an object of particular sympathy and
of profound regard by the present
and last generation of the reigning
house OF England, especially of
Queen Victoria, of Edward VII and
and that they view with quiet favor
the efforts which are being made by
their Catholic subjects to secure
| Henry's canonization by the Church
| of Rome.
The royal sanction which the pres
emit occupant of the throne has given
| to the placing of the memorial tab
I.let in the Wakefield Tower and the
terms of the language in which the
inscription Is couched and his sover-
eign authorization for the official
commemoration of the anniversary of
| Henry WIS murder are calculated to
| attract widespread attention and
must be taken in connection with the
unprecedented honoring of that OTHER
| royal martyr, Charles /. when the
buglers of, the Grenadier Guards, that
is to say, Of the monarch's CHER
sound. the Last, POST at the statue
of King CharlesS on the anniversary
OF his executiaA on January 80 last.