Show c iN TINSELED SPLENDOR Imperial Court Enters Forbidden I For-bidden City in Peking GREAT SPECTACULAR SHOW I I Cortege a Sort of Glorified Lord I Mayors Exhibition and a Bewildering Bewild-ering Enrbhrlc ShowIts Chief Significance Was tho Complete 5t facenicntof hQ Traditional D = ifi cation of Chinese Royalty 3or S cigners Given Great Facilities for Witnessing1 Ceremonies i Peking Jan 7Thi Imperial court entered the forbidden city at 130 oclock this afternoon It WAS the most brilliant scene Peking ever witnessed The prooesslon consisted of a thousand gorgeously attired noblemen mounted upon glltlerlngly caparisoned horses The Emperor the Empress Dowager Prince Chun tI Empress and several Princesses were born In yellow chairs their escort carrying hundreds oC gay banners and silk umbrellas The troops of Gen Yuan ShJ JECni Governor of Pe ChiLl preceded the Emperor The foreign community assembled on top of the Chlcn gate The Emperor and Empress dowager entered the temple In the gate and burned Inconse The Dowager Epnress upon emerging from the temple Haw the foreigners peering downarid bowed A double row of soldiers knqellng lined the fourmile route SIN S-IN TINSELED SPLENDOR The reentrance into Peking today was the most remarkable episode In the annalsof the dynasty save the night of the Chinese court when Pelting WHS bombarded by the allied forces The spectacular phriscs of the return of the court exceeded expectations The cortege wan a norl of glorified Lord Mayprs show and was a bewildering barbaric exhibition of Oriental tinseled splendor DEIFICATION EFFACED Its chief significance was the complete com-plete effacement of the traditional deification deifi-cation of Chinese royally The foreigners for-eigners were given greater facilities of witnessing the Ceremonial than would hay6 been affprdcd them at most Europe Euro-pe n courts The scene at the Chien gate when the Empressand the Dowager Empress entered the temple to offer thanks for their safe Journey was nothing less than revolutionary when viewed In the light of all Chinese customs The horseshoe val forming the ancient gate was crowded with Europeans diplomats diplo-mats army officers missionaries ladles photographers and correspondents When he Emperor4and Dowager Empress arrived at the temple the pro ctsalon halted and their majesties alighted from their chairs which were covered with Imperial yellow silk and lined with sables The Emperor proceeded pro-ceeded to the temple of the God of War on tho vvfesV fllde of the plaza with hundreds of foreigners peering down only fortyfeet above him and dozens of cameras were focused upon the Son of Heaven When he returned his chair was borno through the gate DOWAGER EMPRESS APPEARS Then the chair of the Dowager Em pross was brought to the doorway of the temple of the Goddess of Mercy on the east side of the plaza and the Dowager Empress appeared Amid a great seuflllng of attendants she proceeded pro-ceeded Into the temple on the arms of two ofllclals followed by a company of Buddhist priests bearing offerings The spectators then heard the booming of the temple bll After an interval of five minutes the Dowager Empress reappeared re-appeared Standing1 In the doorway of Ito temple she looked upward Directly overhead were the German Minister tho secretaries of the Gorman legation lega-tion the ofllcers and ladles from the American garrison and the correspondents correspond-ents of the Associated Press The Dowager Empress saw the foreigners and bowed low She advanced a few steps and bowed again In acknowledgment acknowledg-ment of the saluttitions of lie foreigners foreign-ers She retunod to her chair looking upward to the semfclrcTc of foreign faces and bowing repeatedly SOLDIERS CROWD PLAZA In the meantime the Chinese soldiers sol-diers JManchu bannermen and minor mi-nor officials who had crowded the plaza were reverently kneeling The two arches at the sides of the ancient gateway framed hundreds of faces of Chinese coolies who emboldened by the presence of foreigners ventured to gaze upon their rulers This Incident Inci-dent constltutod a most sharp contrast con-trast with tho old regime when neither neith-er diplomats nor natives were permitted per-mitted to view the passage of royal parsonages along the streets The expression of the Dowager Empress Em-press seemed almost appealing as she faced those who had humbled her and brought her down from her former arrogance and this confirmed the Impression Im-pression that she is returning1 to Peking Pe-king with anxiety for her safety YELLOW SAND IN PLENTY The streets from the IMachlapo sta ion to the gateway of the forbidden city a distance of four miles were swept and garnished early this mornIng morn-Ing The great plaza between the temples tem-ples of Heaven and Agriculture were sprinkled with yellow sand Residents wore compelled to remain Indoors The soldiers and police formed a close cordon cor-don along both sldesof this entire distance dis-tance A sharp wind bringing Sand from the Mongolian desert blinded the spectators The special train bearing the Emperor Em-peror and Empress Dowager comported twentytwo carsi wsro preceded by a pilot engine and arrived here shortly after noon The engine and the Emperors Em-perors cars had been decorated with yellow silk dragons by the British railroad rail-road ofllcers Two companies of Chinese Chi-nese cavalry mounted on white horses and two companies astride horses from AUHtrulla were drawn up at the sides of the station Two thousands ofll daIs princes Yloeroyn and Taotals In a kaleldescoplc Held of silks and furs In which gleamed an occasional yellow Jacket were nasscd upon the platform plat-form PROSTRATE BEFORE RULER When the Emperor appeared the entire en-tire assemblage prostrated Itself and remained kneeling until his Majesty had taken hisplace in his chair At the slatlonlhc Dowager Empress summoned sum-moned Traffic Manager Folley and Superintendent Su-perintendent Moffat of the railroad the latter having driven the engine which drew the special train and pri sonted them to the Emperor who thanked them for their services The Imperial cavalcade then moved off aswift trot the Chinese cavalry In the lead Then followed the great body of oilldals riding shaggy Mongolian Mongo-lian ponies vhc Manchu bannermen the umbrollaboArom the spearmen Gen Yuan Shi Kal In his newlybe stowed yolloxv Jacket and the Emperor Em-peror with yhlte bearers carrying his chair and a guard of Infantrymen marchingon cither side Then came the Empress Dowager with an equally < onsplcupua erttour igc The latter was UoMojvrd by IKc poxor chief and Prime MlnStcr Jung Xu In a yellow chair Tho Dbwoser Empress Prince Chun aijcl the leaser officials were carried Jn yellow and grcan chairs While their Majesties passed the soldlens hinging the route of the procession knelt down holding their gurm at present arms and the buglers sounded their Instruments Instru-ments continuouDly Although the streets worn kept emp ty thousands of Chinese CroHvded the elevations along the line of march a thing never permitted before The soldiers sol-diers of the American garrison stationed sta-tioned here witnessed this spectacle from the parndcsrourul opposite the entrance to the palace The British garrison Including Its officers were kept in their quarters This occasioned much lamentation The majority of the foreign Ministers here Including the British American French and Russian repicssntatives absented themselves from the spectacle but the ladles of the legations were entertained by Chinese officials on balconies all along the line of march It appears that the Empress Dowager Dowa-ger ordered that every courtesy be extended ex-tended to the foreigners at Peking and that the effors to exclude them from witnessing the passage of the Imperial cortege emanated from local officials |