The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-12

on the head or tue tOflHeE 5COIIiSIl coulmoner by the Archbishop. Four ueeresses held a rich canopy over her head. When she was crowned all the peeresses donned their coro- nets.
 There was a moment of awkward ness in the crownlng of the king The Archbishop turned the crown i'll his hands, hesitating and puzzled tc find the front. When he got 1t on it was askew, setting rakishly or the left side of the kings head.
 Sun Shines At Last
 After days of rain, fortune smiled on the new king and the sun broke through the clouds, shining through the great stained glass windows oi the abbey.
 Outside, the royal salute Of l0s guns boomed from the Tower ol London and St. James Park, ano the hundreds of thousands who hacked the streets echoed "Goo Save the King" in a swelling paear of joy that rolled over the vast metropolis.
 They had stood in line fer hours some even for two days-to wit ness the magnificent state process sions which preceded and followed the coronation. They stretched ir an unbroken mass along the six mile route along which the king and queen, royalty, visiting notables ano dignitaries rode in state back tc Buckingham Palace, accompanied by a great military display.
 Bands blared and the roar of cheering was continuous and deaf ening.
 It was 1 a. m. when the clear note of an army bugle sounded in Hyde Park and opened coronation day The bugle woke the soldiers tented there for the coronation parade.
 Within earshot of the bugle were crowds. still tanning the west end of the city for the coronation-eve celebration.
 damned with People
 A tour along the procession routes showed sidewalks jammed with people ready to wait all day to see the coronation parade. Some, behind the main lines, lay at full length on air mattresses.
 At 6:02 a. m. those massed out side the palace saw a blind raised The crowded day of the royal fam lily began then.
 While the king was rising and the soldiers were eating their campfire breakfasts in Hyde Park near by the ermine robed and jewelled peer esscs began arriving at the abbey ,rrhov carried their coronets in their hards, and most of them had pie beinn sandwiches and thermoS masks hidden under the ermne.
 As they arrived, the yeomen oi the guard who had stood on watch all night were ready to hand the crown jewels and regalia ir the Jerusalem chamber of the abbey tc clergymen, for the ceremonial pro cession with the jewels to the altal for later use.
 The abbey itself was filling fast hours before the ceremony.
 The atmosphere of the abbey al ways is gray, the gray of the ages but. this morning games flashed a the turn of jewelled hand Ike tn light from distant stars.
 Treasures on Altar
 The abbey's immense store of golt treasure and plate lay gleaming or the altar and the platform beneath the royal box.
 My seat commanded an cXcellen view of "Edwards Chair" the throne on which he was to sit for hi! anointment. the supreme act of thu ceremony; the chairs in which th' king and queen first sit for the cefe mony, and the royal box.
 The first casualties began arriving at the hospitals-chiefly women who fell from stands or faintec from long waiting in line.
 King George, almost as soon as h' arose, checked with his equerries tt make sure that every one of tht G,000 war veterans still in hospitals in Britain and overseas would ge his coronation day message. ending
 Tt is my earnest hope that you sufferings may speedily be allevi ated."
 Those outside the palace watched as @ Stiffly erect military man il the uniform of a German Flick Marshal arrived, in his steel hat Field Marshal Baron Werner Vol Blomberg, German war minister.
 First Death Incident
 The first death incident to thu coronation was that of Robert Whit lock, 19. He died in hospital of in juries he received in street figh in the early hours.
 AS the youth died, the first of tn royal processions started for tn Abbey-the foreign royalties iron Buckingham Palace.
 First to arrive in the royal bo. were the Earl and Countess o Strathmore, father and mother o Queen Elizabeth who today unite' the thrones of England and Scot land, by her Scottish birth, as the had not been since the Stuart Kings
 David Lloyd George, war tim Prime Minister, got tumultuou cheer as he drove to the Abbey, il full court dress with cooked plume' hat.
 By 7:30 a. m. the Abbey was one third filled-nearly four hours be fore the start of the ceremony.
 The scene below me was like al animated flower garden as I sat il the triforium-crimSon scarlet an' silver against the dark blue back ground of the chairs.
 Brilliant Uniforms
 Except for few members of tn House of Commons in cutaway coat or evening dress, every one wa dressed resplendently in a greate variety of uniforms than I have seer upon any occasion ill my 20 years a. a foreign correspondent.
 Occasionally peer, could be seer squirming. Many of them, aware O the early morning chill of the Alb aN- Il