Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 20, 1902, Page 17

MILLIONS FOR A ROYAL SHOW Bplendors of King Edward's Ooronation Will Burna Bunch of Money. ADVANCE NOTICES OF THE CEREMONY How the Public Will Be Privileged to Spend Itx Money—Bo m in Price of Seats on Line of the Processton, Och, the coronatic For emulation can with it _compare When to Westminster the royal spinster And the duke of Leinster all in order did repair 8o sang the buoyant Barmey Maguire, esquire, in praise of that latest of the tight little island's ceremonials which officially placed the crown of St. Edward on the youthful brow of Victoria. How will some patriotic poét elng of the coronation of the seventh Edward when, on June 25 next, the boom of cannon, rolling around the world from eastermost India to western- most Canada, tells the 395,000,000 people who own his rule that the new king has been crowned? It will be a wonderful and gorgeous cere- mony and England must pay well for its What celebration Rose or An splendor. For fully three hours the nave and transepts and cholr of that great Ab- ey, begun centyries ago by a Sexon king, who bore the same name as that of the present monarch, will be filled to overflow- fog with the representatives of the royal familles of the world, with ambassadors from empires, kingdoms and republic, with bishops and peers in gowns of lawn and robes of brilllant velvet, with heralds and archers and yeomen clad in the capes and tabards of mediaeval days. In the center | of this spectacular and impressive picture will stand one of the foremost figures in the world of today, to be proclaimed by the archbishop of Canterbury, the first king of the house of Saxe-Coburg. Later must | come the reckoning, and it the estimates | now before Parllament are taken &s guides in this necessary matter, England's bill | will not fall short of $1,000,000, or about $4,160 a minute for the pageant. What a Coronation Cow These figures are not considered excessive as coronations go. To be sure, it cost the royal treasury only $347,106 to crown Vie- toria, while her predecessor, Willlam IV, €0 economized that the government's bill was only a trifie more than $210,000, but on the other hand, the fourth of the Georges | spent $12,060,000 at his coronation, while | the present czar of Russia came to the throne in a blaze of glory which cost his country all of $25,000,000. The festivities of June will probably amount all told to $7,000,000, but the share of official England will not be over one-seventh of this. And for this It will see such a spectacle as is seldom enacted in the prosalc days of mod- ern times. It begins at 10 in the mornipg. At that hour the king and queen start from Buck- ingham Palace for the Abbey. Visiting roy- alty, with the Indian princes and other plcturesque figures will probably not at- tend them on this short drive, but there will be no lack on that aceount of the color and brilllancy which are to mark the dav. The officials of the household will furnish forth a calvacade like one of Sir Walter Scott's, while the monarch himself. in a great robe of erimson velvet, trimmed and lined with ermine, will make this brlef and comparatively informal procession something to go far to see. For the first time he will wear the state imperial crown, which was made in 1838 with jewels taken from the old crowns and others furnished by command of Queen Victoria. It contains in the center of a dlamond Maltese cross the famous ruby eaid to have been given to the Black Prince by Don Pedro of Castile and later worn in the helmet of Henry V at the battle of Agincourt. For the rest, the crown con- sists of diamonds, pearls, rubles, sapphires and emeralds set in solid gold, with & crim- son velvet cap bordered with ermine and lined with white silk At the western entrance to the Abbey the elght cream-colored horses will come to & stop and the king and his queen con- sort will alight, to be met by the spiritual | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1902 ana temporal princes of the land. These great officials, archbishops and noblemen will have been waiting in the Jerusalem chamber to attend the monarch while he 1s gowned for the ceremony to follow. Ed ward will pass through two lines of his robles, each of them bearing some piece of the regalia of the reaim—the staft or the spurs, the scepter or the orb, the sword or the chalice—and then, in the great vest bule, he will be invested with the dalmatic, mantle and stole. The first thing Is a long robe of ecclasiastical cut, partly open at the sides, of heavy cloth of gold. It is worn over the gold-laced coat of the king, reaching below the k and Is richly em- broidered in colors with the flowers which typify the three kingdoms of Ingland proper—the Tudor rose, the thistle of Scot- land and the shamrock of Ireland, as well as the fleur de lis, which speaks of the days when English monarchs still claimed sovereignty over Franc The mantle, sim- flarly embroldered, hangs over this like a short cape, covering the elbows. The stole, of builion embroidery with the cross of St. George worked at the ends, hangs over the shoulders. Over all is thrown the long, heavy coronation robe of purple vel- vet—and the head of the miehty Britieh em- pire is ready to take his place in the pro- cession The Great Proeession. Led by the king-at-arms and the heralds. announced by a flourish of trumpets which anclent coronation chalr directly before the high altar, a canopy of cloth of gold covering him. The formula repeated by the priest in this, the most time-honored of all the rites of the ceremonial, is almost word for wosd that which has been said in England from the days of Magoa Charta Be thou anointed with holy oil as kings, priests and prophets were anointed. Blesseq art thou and consecrated king over this people, whom the Lord thy God hath given thee to rule and govern. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen." The king's attendanta will then take from him his purple robe and dalmatic and throw over his shoulders the mantle of consecration. This consists of a white lawn surplice trimmed with the most pre- clous lace, a supertunic of brocaded cloth of gold lined with crimson, a stole wrought in gold threads with devices typifying both the temporal and spiritual power and over all a long-trained mantle of pure white beavily embroidered in gold When he is thus clad the insignia of royalty are handed to him by the nobles who have borre them; the scepter, sword, orb, ring and spurs, each having some civil or ecclesiastical meaning. Each is held by the monarch for a moment only and then returned to its bearer. The great sword of state, which has lain upon the altar throughout all the preceding ceremonies, s girt about the king, and last of all the T. THROME oF RECOGNITION . KINES THRONE TO RICHT OF DAIS . QUEENS THRONE LOWER DOWN T® LEP' c. ¢ ORONATION CHAIR . A. ALTAR. R, RovAL BeK) echoes and re-echoes back and forth under the vaulted roof, and met with the acclaims of the hundreds gathered there, the brilliant line begins its march up the great nave to the choir. Following the heralds come the prebendaries and the dean of the Abbey, then the officers of the royal household and the greatest nobles in the realm. bearing the regalia. Queen Alexandra, attended by the archbishop of York and preceded by the princesses of the royal blood. walks near the center of the line of scarlet and purple and white and gold. After her come the high constables of Ireland and Scotland. then the royal princes, and then the king. The yeomen of the guard and gentlemen pensioners close the procession. Long before the arrival of the king at the Abbey the vast stands of seats erected about the so-called theater. where the cor- onation rites are to be performed, will have been filled by the foreign ministers and priviliged guests, the privy councillors and Judges, the knights and peers of the realm. the commoners and aldermen, and when the head of that brilllant procession reaches the open space toward which all are turned it becomes the center of such a spectacle as the world may seldom see. All who have preceded the monarch in his progress up the aisles have their places allotted. but getting into position for the ceremony ls a long and difficult matter, and it will be quite an hour after the arrival at the west door betore King Edward kneels for his private devotions, which come as the pre- fatory to the ceremonial proper. Rising from before the altar, the king. accompanied by the archbishop of Canter- bury, will retrace his steps to the square platform ‘raised three feet from the floor of the Abbey and located at the functure of the nave, cholr and transept. The two will turn to each of the four points of the compass one after the other, and the arch- bishop will call out: “Sirs, T here present unto you King Edward, the undoubted king of this realm. Wherefore, all you who are come this day to do your homage, are you willing to do the same?” And to each chal- lenge this mighty assemblage will answer with the shout of “God save King Edward!" The ‘“oblation” follows this ‘“recogni- tion.” Returning to the altar, the king, kneeling, places upon It a cloth heavily embroldered in gold and a golden ingot of one-pound weight. Then comes the eer- mon, delivered the archbishop of Canterbury, after which the latter, addressing his monarch, says Is your majesty willing to take the oath?” “I am willing,” comes the reply, upon which 18 administered that oath which has now been modifiea for the first time since the days of Willlam and Mary “Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the domin- fons thereto belonging according to the statutes In Parliament agreed on and the respective laws and customs of the same?" Again will come the simple afirmation, “1 am willing,” and then all is ready for the anointing and actual crowning For this the king takes hi by t in the Cockroaches, Rats, Mice, WATER BUGS, CROTON BUGS, aod all other Vermin eat Stearns’ Electric Rat and Roach Paste and die, leaving no odor, bodies. It has been in hotels, factories, offices, p Absolutel: teed. 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While this is in progress King Edward ri and as the shouts subside and the great choir breaks into the solemn “Te Deum,” he turns and proceeds to the “Throne of Homage,” placed in the center of the “theater.” Here is then enacted the most mediaeval and also the longest and most trylng of all the coronation rites. First come the lords spiritual to kneel be- fore the king, pronounce the words of hom- age and kiss his band. The princes of the blood ascend tbe steps of the throne, and with thelr coronets removed and with fingers lightly touching the royal crown, re- peat thelr homage, at the close of which they kiss the king's cheek. Last come the peers of the realm, who repeat the pro- cedure, save that they kiss the hand in- stead of the cheek. The ceremony closes with nine great cheers given by the com- moners, with another “God save the King!" at the end. The words of the Act of Homage, hom- orable through long centuries, are: “I, Wellington (or whatever the speaker's title may be), do become your liegeman of life and limb, and of earthly worship, and of falth and truth which I will bear into you to live and dle against all manner of folk, 50 help me God."” While this is in progre the lord treasurer throws to the choir and lower galleries the gold and silver corona- tion medals. Crowning the Queen. In the meantime Queen Alexandra will bave been crowned in much the same man- ner as her royal husband, the archbishop of York attending her, as his brother of Can- terbury waits upon the king. She does not, however, take any oath, nor is she pro- claimed through the abbey. It is all of 2 o'clock when the procession starts to retrace its way down the long nave. King Edward is again robed in the royal cloak of purple—the color prescribed as kingly by that old Witlaf of Mercla, who ruled in Britain In the days when the Roman invasion was still a recent memory —and the crown of Saxon Edward is on his head. In his right hand he carries the scepter with the cross, in his left the orb. Again king and queen enter the state coach, and the eight cream-colored horses whirl them away between lines of the cheering populace of their capital. The progress back to Buckingham palace 1s by e longer route than the one followed in coming to the Abbey. It leads through Parliament street, Trafalgar square, the Strand, Fleet street and the Thames em- bankment. On the day following the king and queen will take an even longer drive through London thoroughfares, that the millions may have an opportunity to see and cheer, and it is for these processions that such great sums are being pald for seats or windows. In Do other respect does the change that has come over England with the passing years appear than in this of the orices paid for a view of the new-crowned king The first of the Edwards was to be seen by subjects for half a farthing, the figure asked for a seat from which to view his coronation progress. This was doubled in the day of Edward II, and again risen to half a penny at the accession of Bdward III. Prosperity boomed the market for the march of Richard II, to see whom the good folk of the time paid a whole penny. From that the price has gone steadlly up: 2 pence for the procession of Henry V. 4 pence for that of Henry VIII, 6 pence for that of Good Queen Bess. and even a shil- ling for James I. To see the present king seats are selling freely for from 35 to $40, while windows eeating four or five per- sons bring about §300 without any trouble whatever. 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A Coromet for $250,000, What some of the more wealthy indi- ment spends its £200,000, the public spends, &t & conservative estimate, six times as | viduals will do may be seen from the fact that Mrs. Bradley-Martin of New York s | Baviag made for her daughter, the countess | of Craven, a coronet which 1s to cost $260,- 000. “It 18 in view of the expenditures of well-to-do individuals,” said the lord treas- urer the other day, “that I say the cost of | & safe margin to cover “miscellanies.” the coronation will probably fall but little, LANGDON BALLINGER it any, below £1,600,000." | | Tho heaviest of the expenses to be met | by the royal treasury is not that of the king's robes, strangely enough, but of fur- nishing the Abbey and decorating the gov- bulldings. For this it has been estimated that some $556,000 will be needed. 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