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Show ' iXTVX" TVTWT A CrTJm TO IHT I Coronation of Prince Carl of Denmark as King of I I rway Just When the Most Autocratic Dynasty X X JLAX 111 in the World May Be Toftcring to Its Fall. Jj ;;y,f on J a W was the crown BeV KfcSl,rtl,',,,; KWf that? llWty of Neve King. t- 0.h'r Is Louise. I IfL aIid Norway; her rvv ' ruled 1 vr the Bhat Charles who y Kir.f Norway has had U rrc l. the fourth C Christian's family to Lera the Hellenes as Etff is Q"wn of Great EuJ Empress of ln-I ln-I Srmr-Empress of Rus- in said about I Erin Is that he. like I S:c'of ol5- ,9 w rl" 3 frt for a naval I . j wai educal I I I Taj fourt cn I mti th examination for I a" I academy. There j --a-a four years under 1 rjehc-'l. (he rr.-sent A-I A-I L Ht fared Just as his I pKoral wpod fared, no I y bfced. he would n t I jjit'Tltlsm from anv 1 Lgtit ' I am trying to j f' hl way of put-I put-I Ifarr. mj I Eauar.f of my birth I j? contlnuslly." Itaderoy, beftan hi? J I i irJiiihlpnian That j her then hi h h slowly I Ee of captain, attaln- .-jTr - Th fa t thot rHttficn ye.'.rs IB a food proof of the aaaTV Us not used his Etlocft hlmstif ovi-i ii," ie to (Tiln favors in the pPrL'-'f I- n hard work- I fcird work from all It ell liked by hi--saimon sailors are hlrh regard He 1 s without hemp a an in the foroi aal le ii the difference. iMoclatrs are usu-I usu-I most of his time Is of naval problems, cruise or a sojourn t't home, his flmt those of his naval rital and engage in a Given his way Erersatlon 1? alw a p that t trait he should a.is Immensely, for made their history K fea, largely i itrong eharaeterls-r eharaeterls-r arglects a friend, . While In the lcame strongl and bis gn,i y, , f, , h th- other cadets, 'ilaras" , wpecU at frequent vr he re. . a her to blush like r congratulation re always sure of rord from him. and r a ravel together sentce has per-lo per-lo pain the lrlnrP youth up he has I and only when PjmuiioM -iocs he be revealed His down until after M then onlv ,--B who desires not a Rood weather of friends of tort. ' 1n th Wince's gfc to hlrn In any whaps his strong-SPtT. strong-SPtT. and u has 2L,r.LhM lnat mfin WW the snub r tbr fronc else Is Prince n aptly Illustrating I ho was retlii i ' abs. nr-e at.r.,ad St"- met a young lng appeal nd It wan not tht Each qual and when lg 1 the Journey wy handshake of festival was held fjotl family took IrtB? Vre.-nt. nilf Inan'n':r'"lr',n i I-Bu7,?m nnoft lt-r r, ,h,R tln-K- tl ti.' .J-rytM the Prince, In. hit, 11 1 jyx 1 IK, '"r hm. and LiV! othup or " 1 i'f-, ","K "'""'i . Mlj ,.ww his iruc cJl( Kxn"f .f,""ivli W n .. , v tighi rw, "" 1 B1 Mth Jr?l " aaaVim th. ""w 5 l' In , . '' SfcV' King ,:1M- mMy .y" fi" he KP it tv 'he hour bbbbbbK Haakon VII. tr.res much likeness to his rugust maternal ma-ternal grandfather, King Edward vil I-or some tlm. the Prince's love of his home and hie strong av. tslon to having himself or any of his figure In anv discussion dis-cussion kept him from allowing his 'name to he brought forward as that of candidate candi-date f.ir the throne to which the. Nor-WK,a2 Nor-WK,a2 DcoPl0 havo elected him. Only when he became convinced that It was his outy to allow his caindldature to be an-nounced an-nounced did h.- permit of its IvMng done Indeed, all urr agreed that In- has a strong sense of rlnty. and In this he is i ,-!! like his stur.lv old grandfiitli.-r who has so long held the respect of all EjuroDi Accordln- to his friends, the rrew King realizes his numerous shortcomings for kingship, chlefe.st of which Is that he has been traiiud wholly for the sea and not at all for statecraft. Put. his friends ar'" rvri" could have chosen most an ..th-;- Prince and far. d a great deal wors-. lor it is not oft. , that a man of royal hlood Is found who Is chock full of what Is Interchangeably known In America Amer-ica as horse or common s-nse. The Prince and Princess were married c-.,Judl f 1MB- .H? W;,i bor August a. She is n.arly thr.e y.;ti-s bis senior. I feSV hava heo thp rPa) founder of i ,,. S lJrf0BV-aB. M" originally named, twenty years Int. - reVc-'r,'' x-ftf K,n5 laf Haroldsson. r ' 7' N'h.r.,s until J. 27. v. iv n Knur, h - famouM Danish king, rulln;: In ESnfl 1 urocialined kins In Mfdaros Seven years later. o(r. leavlne thr. friendly l nuwian i court of Jarosl n i itered his na-, na-, uvc iin.i m;i . to ,,.,., death at the hands or peasant army In the b ittle of V aerda- , Jrent as his Influence ovir his people '5,1 ,n !lf0 11 manifolded In I .. . fhr' lan" Wils nil-l with st. rles of i me mircalea that drops of blood from his M"''-'1" !?ad wroutrht Klna nmr Kvrre tint n ehureli ov.-r his teml, i,n his being be-ing canonized ihe body was transferred to a reliquary and placed n the high aitar. an. I front then on until the troublous troub-lous times of the Uefo-mat!on It WBI a cause of pllgrlmag- for the devout, not onty rr0m lin p,. (( Scandinavia, hut niVi 1'-uroPc'an country as well, .his church known In . . . v.n;.stenl history his-tory n- (i)af Kyrro s Christ Church was the orljrlnal of the cathedral In which the coronation and the anointment took I I'.ace i;, causa of the Importance which . t daf s shrine had given t,. Trondhb m. I Voy rnlsrd to n BTChblshQPrlC In the , middle of the twelfth century, and shortly I a i5 at lhe fa,r"-us Archriisbop v stein i1'1' " ' nlarjfe th. . t) ii -, !, to a cathedral. ca-thedral. In order to make It meet th.- re-aulrements re-aulrements of a metropolitan see and accommodate ac-commodate the vastly Increasing number of pilgrims to st Olafs shrine Eysteln pushed the work forward until he was compelled to flee to England, to '. ' ' ! I ''in Is hni" nt at tl... I, ui. Is of King Sverr. , on uccount of ecclesiastical con-plracy con-plracy against the throne. He was In exile three years. During that time lie presumably gave close iuu.lv to Canterbury Canter-bury cathedral, then building, for when he returned home he began constructing his cathedral's distinguishing feature, the great octngonal choir for which architectural archi-tectural authorities h-dd that Canterbury's horseshoe-shaped eastern end served "as the model ESysteln died In 11S3. with his great work far from completed. Through the following follow-ing years it was carried on by his successors, suc-cessors, and at the beginning of the fourteenth four-teenth century the cathedral was pronounced pro-nounced nnisqed. Twenty-eight years later occurred the first of the long series oi disasters to the cathedral stretching over a period of four hundred years. The choir was destroyed by flro and had to be rebuilt. A hundred years lal-r a stroke of lightning wrought much damage, and a hundred years after that a great fire destroyed the town, an well as the cathedral, which was restored only to be reduced in large part to a mass of ruins by two fires occurring In I Cathedral at Trondhjcm Where tho Coronation Ceremonies Took Place. having been born on November 2i. 189. His full name la Christian Frederick Caw Georg. Valdemar Axel. As B .laughter of a daughter of King christian, the Prln- . ess has b. ell well r-Ti ive.l l" the Dat,eS. How she will Impress the Norwegians as Queen Maud remains to be seen Town and Cathedral of the Coronation Th" coronation of the new King and Queen took place not at the capital, i hristlanta, but at Trondhjem, to the north, and onlv three degrees south of tho Arctle circle. The Norwegian Constitution Consti-tution makes It obligatory that the King be crowned here. "The crowning and anointing of the King shall take place in the cathedral of Trondhlsm at such time and with such ceremonies as he himself shall determine." In view of this provision all the kings who have reigned Jointly over Sweden and Norway since WM havt been crowned at Trondhjem. Thi town, third In size In the kingdom, with a population of less than 25,0m. has been called "the strength and heart of the cour.trv." It Is. Indeed, the cradle of the Kingdom of Norway, H was here, on Bratoren. that the ancient Norse kings were elected and crowned. Here the famous fa-mous cirethlng used to meet. From here sailed many of the aea-roving expeditions a thousand years ago that were fraught with su' li deep eonsequenci s t.i the human hu-man race Here was the royal residence 1111 lat. in the Middle Ages, and here, from the close of the tenth century till Norwa - union with Denmark in the fourteenth, the country's history centi red As early a 996. when, according to many autnoiltl-s, the Norsemen were busy iin-tlelpating iin-tlelpating Columbus's great discovery. King ur Trggasson dedicated a church to St. Clement on the gown's site. But St ( Hrjf. v. 'in 1st i.itil.ed the . -..111111 y, Is the llrst decade of the eighteenth century. cen-tury. But the greatest disaster befell the ca-Ihedral ca-Ihedral In the days ,.f the Reformation Then sacrilegious hands snatched the relics of St. Olaf from the high Altar, and with their disappearance the pilgrimages ceased and the cathedral speedily lost the pre-eminence it had enjoyed for so long a time In the eyes of Christendom. Accounts differ as to what became of the r. lies. Some authorities say that they were Interred in the Quaint burial ground i thut has surrounded tin cathedral since 1 1 c Bounding, others hold that they were removed to Copenhagen and there given I decent burial. Bui no one knows reallv where the relics of Norway's sainted King rest today, though Norwegians gen-erslT) gen-erslT) cling to the tradition that they lie i burled within the shadow of their famous cathedral, where on Saturdays, according to an old custom, the people come to I bcatter (lowera over the graves of the dead I From the last lire until IK, the cathe-' cathe-' dral was allowed to remain In Its ruined n,ii Sim.-" then the work of restoration has been pushed forward, until now nil except one part of the C'thedrO li ln a cruciform, has been fully restored The 1 great central tower has risen in ail its o!d-tlme gracefulness; everywhere while n, irble pillars onee more bring out the beautiful green shade in the color of the soapstone used throughout In the construction: con-struction: and this stone Is as luxuriant-i luxuriant-i ,,ii"l "ii.ilntl eaiei In the days of EySteln and hla powerful successors Prince Carl Is the first of Norway modern rulera to bt crowned in a cathedral cathe-dral not In large part simply ruins of Its former glory, when Kings were crowned and burled there Dike the phurcn, tin' town Hacir has I Council Chamber in the Cnstlo. The New Royal Family of Norway. suffered numerous disasters Area, civil war. pestilence. The tires have taken from the town all vestige of mediaeval claracur. Its wood.-n buildings, strewn along wide streets a precaution to prevent pre-vent the spread of eonilnKTntlon are modern In style, and so. though the new Mng and Queen were crowned In the Nation's an. b nt capital tin y were vol crowned in a town which has nothing physically In common with the Trondhjem Trond-hjem of St. Olaf and Knut. of King -'i'ie and I"', t. in ., nil th, other large llgures of Norwegian history In the early thousands. Yet. In what other town. In what other . "ithedral. could Norwegian King and Queen more fittingly bo Crowned and anointed? Simple Coronation Ceremonies Although the Norwegian Constitution of 1S14 states explicitly that the coronation coro-nation shall take place with such ceremonies cere-monies as the King himself shall deter-mine, deter-mine, it is a fact that every King since that date bus ascended the throne with l practically similar ceremonies. These ceremonies, more or less altered, have i come down from the time of the ancient None Kings They are striking in their simplicity, when compared with corona-I Hons In other lands; and there i- tio reason to believe that Prince carl win I elect to have the crown of St. Olaf put on his brow with ceremonies other than those incident to the coronation of Oscar II. npd his Queen Sophia, thirty-tWO i years ago last July ISth. Oscar and Sophia mad. their appearance appear-ance in the ancient Norwegian capital two days prior to the corocaUon, and took up their abode In the Stir garden, more like a comfortable tWO-sti . .1 man- ' slon than a roynl palace The harbor was niied with Swedish, Norwegian and I foreign warships, dispatched thither In 1 honor of the event The little town was i decorated profusely with flags. Troops 1 were posted everywhere about the town as guards. The coronation ceremonies began early On the third day. with the mva procession proces-sion from the gates of tho Btiftsgaarden. It proceeded tnrjugh tho Muukgaarden ' (Monk's street) to the northern side of ' tho Cathedral, where ( tie Rliiaa door- I way. At Its li. ad marched the lower court and State functionaries The higher high-er Officiate also were on foot, so was the I King, and likewise th. ijneeii, whose long, white slik train, heavily embroidered embroid-ered with silver, W&S borne by three I maids of honor. The King was In a General's uniform under an ermine cloak, and. besides other decorations, he wore n pia.iue of St. oinf Th- royal children were in line; but the new Crown Prince, owing to his tender age. will probabl) be left at home when his father and mother are crowned. The procession was an hour In passing, and one of Its marked features fea-tures was that every one in It was on I foot. On entering the Cathedral, the King was received by the lilshop of Trondh- I I Jem, supported hy two olher bishops and I surrounded by numerous i lerg ou n. ' After several rhoi t pra . l r. the King ! was eonnucted to an armchair, placed i on the right of the altar, and the bearera I Of the Imperial banner and the royal In-I In-I slgnia ranged In a semicircle about him. The Queen was received In like tnanner i and placed In a chair opposite the King B. When all were placed the organ censed playing and the King and Queen knelt in prayer in solemn rilence. When they re- I gained their seals, the royal Insignia were placed upon tiie alt.t, dlvln. services ser-vices began, and after several hymns and brier j'aiis th- Bishop Of Hnnmr preached a abort and appropriate sermon Then the King rce and went lo the royal throne. placed upon temporary steps in front of the altar. The princely mantle was taken from his shoulders and the royal mantle, with Its gold embroidered embroid-ered crowns upon purpl velvel and v.lih boPdcrB of ermine, was put upon him. The King kn It UP tl the footstool. The Bishop of Trondhjem dipped a finger In the anointment horn and mad" m-si.-tii of the cross on the King's brow, breast, temples and hand-joints, saying, as he did so; May the Almighty. Kt.-rnal Cod pour over you his Spiill and Grace, that you miy. with wisdom and r-l.-ength ami good will, so rule over us that the name of the Lord be glorified, that rlfcht and truth prevail, that the v.eal of the land : ami of the people be furthered and con- ! firmed." The King was now .sealed on the throne. The crown was placed on his brow and from the bishop's hands he 1 received the sceptre, the globe and the Sword, which had been In Its scabbard, lying upon the cushion. The sword was ' pnsheathed by the King and when returned re-turned to him was bdrnc on high by Gh n. Roeder. When all these ceremonies, ceremon-ies, each accompanied by an appropriate sentence, were over, the EIng-at-Arms , lifted up his staff and exclaimed: "Now King Oscar Is crowned King of Norway, he and nobody else!" Cheers, flourishes of trumpets and the royal .al.it'- of 111' guns followed After a prayer by the bishop of Trondhjem. the Kins; rose from his I throne and returned to his chair In the , nave. Then the Queen was conducted to the throne and the ss.nie u v monb s w r gone through with, except that she was anointed only on the brow and In, id- , - Royal Residence in Chi istianla. , Joints. The coronation closed with the singing of the concluding verses of 'be cantata written especially for tho coronation, cor-onation, divine services having been begun by singing the llrst part In the procession hack to the Stlfts-gaarden. Stlfts-gaarden. the King and Queen walked in full regal pomp, wearing the royal Crowns and currying BOSptrC and glODt It was l:3t o'clock in the afternoon when the Inst of the procession disappeared behind be-hind the Sllftsganrden gates, and the coronation cor-onation was over. Of course, there followed a banrjuet. It Norway's New Queen. raa spread In the banquet hall and 700 r,. lists wiie t.i-:. nt. And, of course, the new King will mark his coronation with a banquet along similar lines In the same hall. In nr-h fashion does tradition h dge King about, in spite of all sorts I t wide guaranteed to him by SO powt rful a document as a national constitution con-stitution Thi "'"'h that the King takes before th.- Btorthlng Immediately on assuming his kingly duties, Is set down in the con- , stitut'on: "1 promise and swear that I will govern gov-ern the Kingdom of Norway In accordance accord-ance with Its constitution and laws, so truly help me God and His Holy Word." Where New King and Queen Will Live. The cagtle in which the King and iriU live occupies a commanding lei t Ion In the city of Chrlstlanla. overlooking over-looking a portion of tho capital and the harbor. It Is a specious stone structure in the midst of a specious park. Its cor-ner-stone ;vs laid In liCS by King Carl Johan (Bernadotte). It was completed In ' IMS, and by reason both of its short life. SS OS atlas (,-. .nl the lmprov ements that have been put on It from time to time. ' it Is one of the most modern royal residences resi-dences In all Kuroos. A goodly portion of the castle's fittings ts lot "I to Kins: Oscar. These are now I . I being replaced by the Norwegian Gov- I em men t, and In other ways the castle Is belnjj made ready to receive the new I and the youthful Crown Prince, v.'h apartment! and those of the future fu-ture Crown Prlnceaa are on tho second and third floors, respectively, the one dine' di-ne' V above the other Tho cerond Is the main floor. It Is t"-n bed by a I road and sumptuously dec-orated dec-orated atalrcase On the right are the King's apartments, on th left th con- fer oini and the large salons for ptlona and court purposes. The Queen's rooms are directly under the the suites being connected hy a private stairway Thtse moms are being Wholly refurnished King Oscar had his furnished with -liv-r wedding gifts and family portraits; the Queen's also were largely fitted with mementoes of her reign About the only things that will be permitted to remain In the apartments , I arc the portraits of the Eernodotte family, fam-ily, hanging In the King's office and enn-stluitlng enn-stluitlng Itp decorations. As the new King has Bernadotte blood in his veins, the portralta v. Ill not he In bad taste i 1 he council room where King and Ministers confer, has always been simply furnished The Stato and royal libraries cover the greater portion of the walls -,i'tan could ask for nothing plainer The state banquet rooms, the various salona the audience room all are rich !:, .,f various Ptylcs of Interior decoration There are numerous rooms for ludl'-s and g. ntlemen-ln-walting and j other court functionaries, a royal chapel I la In the north wing on the sscond floor. Sioe .md guest rooms take up the major part of the third floor, while the I asement Is given over to the servants, kitchens, laundries, etc There ar one hundred and fifty renms all told, thirty-five thirty-five on the second floor and fifty on the The massive chandsilera that formerly were striking features of the great salon, running through tho second and third floors, were removed and sold at puhlio auction when an electric lighting system was Installed in the palace In time these Chandsilera came nto the hands 01 I rown Prince Christian of Denmark, and It Is Paid that one of his gifts to his son. when he Is formally placed on the Norwegian throne, will be these chandeliers. chan-deliers. When the new rulers feel like it they can ascend to the flat roof of the castle, mount the platform at the flagstaff's base, nnd from this vantage point sur-Ot sur-Ot only the entire capital, but the fjord on which it Is situated and manv square miles of tac picturesquely rugged country ns well, Then there a the park for quiet strolls. Indeed thev should I'.nd their new rtr-ldence much mor comfortable than the none too larr apartments they have occupied In their uncle s castle In Copenhagen since their marriage |
