Evening star., 1939-06-11
100000 People
Wave Greeting 10
Royal Couple
Pair Travels 100 Miles
By Destroyer, Motor Cor
And Foot
By IRA WOLFERT.


IN a single day that began at Red
Bank, N. j.. and ended at Hyde
Park, and in. the course of which
the stately rhythm of royalty was
fretted into something very near a
log, King George vi and Queen
Elizabeth saw and waved to more
than half as many people as they
saw and waved to during % days Of
tossing around Canada.
Four million people are estimated
to have arrayed themselves along
the royal route today, 5000 900 of
them in New York, according to
Police Commissioner Lewis Valen-
tine. 1t has been estimated that a
little fewer than 5000, 900 Canadians,
about fourfifths of the total pop
ulation of 100000, spread along
the coast-to-coast and back again
path tread by the King and Queen.
Tonight the reigning sovereigns Of
the British Empire rest in the an
cestral home of President Roosevelt
They are flanked by the heaven"
of Father Divine, the Southern
Negro. whose followers believe he
was born mature and is God. If
the royal ears are bent, the chances
are they will enfold "Hallelujah"
chorus or two
Travelled 100 Miles Today.
Travelling nearly 100 miles today
by destroyer, motor car and foot,
their majesties ran the gamut and
also, no doubt, the gantlet of Amer
lean life. They looked at and were
looked right back at by people who
ranged from top-drawer society
through middling to very plain in
deed. The results, as nearly as such
things can be learned, amounted to
mutual exchange of eager and
delighted curiosity.
On both sides of the fence, the show
was great to see at Red Bank early
this morning. A Shiver of delight
ran through the great sprawl of
people as their majeSueS' courtierS
pelted off the various vestibuleS of
the royal train-fresh in from
Washington-and Scurried down the
platform to arrange themselves in
dolently around the royal exit.
This was excitement, indeed; real
live courtiers-unpoWde ribbon
less unperfumed males. and known
to the co2noscenti as the staff
but courtiers never the less. Lady
Nunburnholme and Lady Katharine
Seymour, tall. elegent. shielding
their palhd skins from the sun with
dainty little parasols of the kind
Americans see only in celluloid de-
pictions of Victorian swank Sir
Allan Lascelles. Sir Ronald Lindsay,
the Right Hon. Piers Leigh. the Earl
of Airlie, the Earl of Eldon. tall,
thin. oddlooking men thrusting up
into the bright sunlight with morn
Ing clothes topped by gray toppers,
King and Queen Appear.
Ultimately. there were the King
and Queen to see. creatures out of a
fairy tale to Americans. as charm
ing as illustra tions in a book-the
King in oxford gray morning at
tire, crowned with a gray topper.
the Queen a delight to the eyes in
a light blue dress. She wore blue
hat with modest halo. Her staff
calls it the "unselfish hat" The
Queen herself prefers for summer
wear large picture hats, but these
small ones give people better
chance to see her.
They slamed down packed streets
Reckless place and Rumson road
and saw the shirt-sleeved folks
of a very American small town
squint at them in the bright sun.
After that they travelled past miles
of some of the richest estates in the
Eastern United States, and the lords
of the respective manors came down
to gaze with the rest. forming dash
ing little clusters behind hedges
while their household stats stood
staring wide-eyed and smiling wide
mouthed in the rOadWays
Then Seabright and road that
ekirted the sea and was lined by
vacationers in beach robes and
foppy hats and bathing suits. In
their midst. as in the midst of all
crowds everywhere today and in the
midst of underground in the desert
ed stretches of roadway, stood SOL
diers and police. There has not
been more heavily guarded process
sion in American history. The folks
were not taking any chances with
couple of good neighbors who were
perhaps, the two most important
people ever to visit them.
Board U. S. Destroyer.
At Fort Hancock the royal party
boarded the United States destroyer
Warrington and steamed 20 miles
through spectacular harbor show
joined in by commercial shipping
excursion steamers and Water-Spout-
ing fire boats, to the Battery. where
a park full of people, walled in by
skyscrapers whose every window was
dotted with craning Office people
got brief glimpse of the King and
Queen stepping into car with Gov
Herbert Lehman and Mayor Fiorello
La Guardia of New York.
The Mayor plunged immediately
Into an animated conversation with
their maiesties. Asked, Who broke
the ice" he replied. 1T never was
frozen" He said the Queen asked
very searching" questions about the
public school system and hospitals.
while the King wanted to know
How much the Tri- Borough Bridge
cost and how much the Nerth Beach
Airport cost, and whether they we're
-liquidsting
Gov, Lehman characterized his
conversation with the King and
Queen "epigramless and very intel
1igent."
Progress Was Unique.
The progress through New York
was unique for visiting celebrities.
The royal party travelled 4 miles of
elevated highway on the western
edge of the city. The way was filled
with $4,000 people who had come in
advance to City Hall to get tickets
for locations on the highway.
After that they darted east and
N1,InpeS into q Central pork fllad