The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
Cost OnIookers Will Aggregate
 $7,5O0, ,OO0
By WEBB MILLER

United Press Stan COrrespOndent)
 London, May 10- CUP) When King George VI, 39th monarch of England, and his Queen, Elizabeth, are crowned in Westminster Abbey, May 12 it will be the biggest and costliest pageant in England's his- tory.
 On that day, sightSeers from all corners of the British Empire and from most nations of the earth, whose viewpoints will have cost them $7,5OO,O00, will watch the great gold state coach, drawn by eight red-harneSsed, -colored horS- es, go by from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey, and back again.
 Along gaily-d -decked streets, on sanded roads, through tumultuous cheering, it will roll in glittering procession of kings, princes, sul- tans, envoys, statesmen, famous regiments and military bands.
 7,7OO to Sit In Abbey
 In the brilliantly lighted Abbey, a privileged concourse of 7,7O0 will participate in the historic Corona tion ceremony, a cermony dating from unknown monks in the 14th century.
 School children will have a holi- day. There will be warships, float ing hotel" liners and festooned luxury yachts in the Thames; all- night milk bars in the parks; food lighting on the most ambitious scale ever attempted; dances, teas and car1fivals in working class streets and open spaces.
 Children, aged people, blind, un- employed and poor will receive money gifts.
 Foreign guests will be entertained to a long round of banquets, state balls and royal garden parties.
 Special Coronation coins and Coronation 1hd 6 cents) stamps will be issued.
 Crown Must Arrive Early
 Zero hour for those who want a good view is the evening of May II. By midnight the six-mile long processional route, with seating ac- commodation for half a million, will be well-lined, and milk bars and long buffets in the parks and be- hind the stands will supply the hungry with all-night meals.
 Eighty-five thousand spectators will occupy 27 miles of seats in three miles of silver-grey and scar let stands put up by the Office of Works, at cost of $351 900, and sold at half cost price-$3 for an uncovered seat, and $45O for a covered seat.
 Priviledged persons in the crowds will include 1900 members of the societies, members of the fighting services, holders of the Victoria Cross, medalists, pensioners and veterans fighting men.
 Other not-so-lucky onlookers will have paid anything from $26 to $260 for their seats.
 Renters of houses and apart ments on the route will have a good view at a cost ranging from $1O,O00 Ca peers house for month) to $3,00O Gan apartment for two for a month, and $500 Ca private room with balcony, for six persons, meals with champagne.
 Police to Check Autos
 All-night subway trains will be run to take this army of million sightseers, including 160,000 over seas visitors, to the scene of pag- eantry. At midnight police will check the entry of automobiles into the Coronation area, extending from Marylebone road to Grosvenor road, and from Kensington Gardens to Ludgate Hill. Motorists will be guided by 10000 signs; pedestrians by colored maps.
 Abbey guests - nobles, baronets, knights, bishops, judges, statesmen, empire and foreign representatives, members of Parliament, civil service chiefs and heads of national life will have to be up early, too. The doors close at g a. m.
 Some of the 1,500 peers, peeresses and dowagers will make pictur- esque journey to Westminster by launch.
 At 10:3O a. m. the procession starts from the Palace.
 The brilliant cavalcade, includ- ing an escort of Life Guards and Yeomen of the Guard, several for eign monarchs, six sultanS, IA European and Eastern princes, Dominion premiers, home and for eign statesmen, will proceed in three processions to the west en- trance of the Abbey by way of The Mall, Admiralty Arch, Trafalgar Square, Whitehall, Parliament-street St. Margaret's street, and Broad Sanctuary.
 Procession Two Miles Long
 It will be two-mile long pro- cession, and will take 40 minutes to pass one point.
 Greeted by 8 fanfare of trum- pets at the Abbey entrance, the King and Queen will pass on to the Coronation theater down a pro- cessional way covered with 8 blue STRAND