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the abasement before royalty that the
whole official show constituted.
The second police charge came at
the City Hall after the greeting" Of
her highness when the two parades re-
formed and with recovered banners
paraded back thru the loop to the
municipal building. While the queen
had left the City Hall by the time
the demonstration got there, the
march around the building had pro-
crossed only half way when Capt
Kelliher led his men into the crowd
1t was here that. Maurer and the other
two were arrested.
Much Violence.
A third police charge was made at
Central station where the crowd fol-
lowed the officers who had Maurer
in custody All the attacks we're
marked by the usual violence accom-
panying police movement against
demonstrations of workers.
Police Charges.
Four separate charges Of the blue
Another attack was made on the
first parade coming down Roosevelt
Rd and half of the banners smashed,
but the workers reformed their lines
and later joined their fellow mani
festants in the march to the City Hall.
The street around City Hall was
strewn with broken banners. But they
had done their work and done it we'll.
Thousands upon thousands of persons
stopped to read the slogans: Down
With Queen Marie" "Only in America
Does Royalty Get Support" I'VE
Fought Royalty in 1916, Why Do We
Pay Homage 10 a Queen?" "Remem-
Der Cotzofanesti," Down With the
Bloody White Terror of the Rou-
manian Monarchy" 1--WE Stand With
the Prosecuted Workers and Peasants
of Roumania," Release the $500 Po-
litical Prisoners in Queen Marie's
Country" and many more.
Flat Welcome.
Amid the booming of camera flashes
and the glare of magnesium flares
used by the movie men, Queen Marie
I made her unpleasant way thru lines
of soldiers standing at attention in the
corridors of the Illinois Central Sta
ton where her train pulled in at $50
TP. NJ Saturday.
Two hundred soldiers from Fort
Sheridan and five hundred disgruntled
policeman were the guard of honor"
In the depot approach a squadron of
U. S. cavalry sat their mounts with
drawn sabers at attention. As the
| Queens party marched thru the wait
ing room curious bystanders looked
merely curious and that was all. There
was a noticeable absence of cheering
and enthusiasm. The only noises were
made by the booming of the camera
men, the Kissing of their flares and
the Roumanian national anthem being
played by a sailor band from Great
Lakes naval station.
Arrangements FIlvver.
Everything was done to give the
royal entry a touch of real European
pomp and circumstance. The arrange
ments fiivvered from the very start.
! The plug hated dignitaries, rear adj
mirals and major generals who were
on the station platform to hand her
royal highness down from the steps
Of her luxurious car had to run the
length of the platform in obvious dis
order to get to the unappointed place
1t which the special train really stop
bed.
Lieutenants BaIled Up
Young army lieutenants, many of
hem not without a pre-Volstead arc
ma in their painting breaths, few
hither and yon about the station try
ing to get some sort of order in the
proceedings. 1t was plain that half
Of them had forgotten their instruc-
lions and that the other half didn't
care much. the only thing the young
military men succeeded in doing was
to drive away the delegation of
costumed RoGmanians who were to
meet their royal lady as she stepped
from the train and to walk all over
the feet of the rear admirals and
major-generals.
Roumanians Sore.
The Roumanians were sore. They
had their Greek orthodox protopope
with them in red lined robes of black.
They had banners Haunting the ma
tionalist ambitions of Greater Rou-
MANIA" as they call It, and the women