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Show TROOPS WILL LINE STREETS 0FL0IID0I1 Army of 60,000 Hen at the Capital for Coronation Ceremonies. LONDON". June -to. London's parks and open sparse have already lakan on tlia appearance of armed rampe In preparation pre-paration for the accommodation of the ao.ooO troope who are to line the streets during the royal processions on June 22 and !1. In Hyde park. Wormwood Bcruhe. Regent park. Battersea parlrf Kensington gardens, canvas cities consisting con-sisting f long straiirht Unee of white tenia have been erected by advanca parties par-ties of soldiers from the various regiments- At Hampton court the Indian continent, ere to take un their ouarters. for thev have to b kept separate from the British regiments and their food prepared pre-pared bv their own cooks owing1 to religious re-ligious reasons which forbid the touching touch-ing of their ration by any but those of the Mm faith. 81 regiments of cavalry have their head-quarters at Wormwood Scrub, beside be-side a number of batteries of tiorsa and field artillery. At Regent's park there ar to he si Infantry brigades each of three battalions. In Kensington gar- 1 dens there will be an Infantry brigade i and a large" number of tmtta tjen.grng( to tha artlllary. enirlnaera. army service 1 corps, army medical corps, veterinary corps, ordnance corpa. pay corps, ana th north and south Irish horse corps, with the channel Islands militia. In Rattereea park, two regular Infantry brtg-adea brtg-adea are to encamp; In Hyde park three tegular Infantry brigades: at the duke of York's military school the colonial contingents con-tingents are to be housed: at Chelsea hoapltal tha cadet, and Canadian mounted mount-ed police: at tha old general postofflca in the city there will be a large number num-ber of units of tha horse field and garrison garri-son artillery and of engineers; at the recruiting barracks In old Scotland Yard and at the 8t. George's barracks there are to be squada of military c.dete fsom the academy at Woolwich and the college col-lege at Sandhurst, while tha members of the veteran reserve will be quartered In the elementary school buildings belonging belong-ing to the London county council. Much Food Required. Borne Idea of tha enormous amounts of food required for the ratlona of this large body of troops may be gathered from the quantities of the various articles of diet ordered for the two dava. These comprise sixty tona of potatoes, pota-toes, twenty tons of cooked meata. aau-sages, aau-sages, corned beef, etc.. ten ton of butter, but-ter, twenty tona of onions, alx ton of Jam. three tons of dried vegetables, two tons of tea. Theee comeetlhlee are divided divid-ed Into convenient small packages and served out to the 10 regimental messes and canteens, where they are reapportioned reappor-tioned to the occupants of the tents, which each contain ten men. The dav'a ratlona for each man conelflts of: Breakfast: Pint of tea. four ounce of butter, one-quarter pound of eold meat, and one-half pound bread. Dinner: Three-quartera pound new potatoes one pound fresh meat, one-half pound bread, dry vegetables, onions, flour, salt, pepper, pep-per, mustard, and one pint beer or ginger gin-ger beer. Tea: Half-pound breed, one ounce butter., pint of tea, quarter-pound Jam or canned meat or sardine. No fewer than 1200 men are specially engaged to cater for the eoldters and to serve In their canteens, where the troop will he able to purchase everything they may deaire at cheap ratea. Bearer of King- Regalia. The duty of crrvlng the king' regalia during the ceremony In Weatmlnster abbey ab-bey haa been Intrusted to peers and bishops especially appointed by his majesty, ma-jesty, the varloua funcUone being earned out aa followa: , Bearers of the king's regalia: The Bible, bishop of Rlpon: the chalic. bishop of Winchester: the paten, bishop of London: Lon-don: St. Edward's crown, duke of Northumberland: North-umberland: tha orb. duke of Somerset; scepter with th dov. duke of Richmond; sword of state, earl of Beauchamp: Cur-tana Cur-tana (sword of mercy), duke of Beaufort: second sword. Earl Roberta: third sword. Viscount Kitchener; golden spurs, earl of Loudoun and Lord Oeey da Ruthyn: scepter scep-ter with the cross, duke of Argyll; St. Edward staff, duk of Roxburgh. Bearer of the queen regalia: Her ma-jest ma-jest v. crown. duke of Devonshire; the scepter with th cross, marquis of Water-ford: Water-ford: the Ivory rod with tha dove, earl of Durham. Beaplendent Indian Prince-Native Prince-Native East Indian prince and princesses prin-cesses with enormous retlnuea. brilliantly uniformed and Sashing with Jewels, have arrived In London by every mail ateamer from India and also by the overland routes during tha pt fw week, and their number la being constantly Increased. In-creased. Among those expected to be present at Westminster Abbey, either officially of-ficially or unofficially, on the day of the coronation on June 32. are H. H. Maharajah Mahara-jah Sir Madho Rao Sclndhal Bahadur of Gwallor. H. H. Maharajah Sir Pratap Singh Bahadur of Idar, H. H. Maharajah 8lr Nrlpendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur of Kuch Behar, H. H. Maharanl Saheha of k,u-k Rehar. H. H. Maharajah Dhlraja Singh Buhadur of Patlala. H. H. Thakor Saheb Sir BhagwatslnhJI SagramJI of Oondal, H. R. H. the Rani Saheba of Condal. H. H. Maharand Shrl Chatra-sinhjl Chatra-sinhjl Gambhlr SlnliJi of RaJplpla. H. H. Rajah Martanda Bhalrava Tondlman Bahadur Ba-hadur of Pudukotal. H. H. Sir Sultan Muhammad Mu-hammad Shah Agha Khan, H. H. Maharajah Maha-rajah Sir Ounga Singh Bahadur of Rika-nlr. Rika-nlr. H. H. Maharajah Sir BayaJI Rao Gaekwar Bahadur of Baroda, Maharanl SahOa of Baroda. H. H. Maiiarajab Dhlraja Bawai Tukoji Rao Holkar Bahadur Baha-dur of Indor. H. H. Maharanl Saheba of Indore. H. T. Nawab Sultan Jahan Begum of Bhopal. H. H. Maharajah Samuralo Singh of Jodhpur and Sir Nahar Singh Rajah DhlraJI of Shahpura. Salutes for Indian Royalties. These natlv princes and princesses ara all entitled to ruyal aalutea in their own territories, which are protected, feudal or vassel state' of tha empire of India. The Gaekwar of Baroda la greeted with twenty-one gun, the Begum of Bhopal. the Maharajah of Indor and the Maharajah of Gwallior with nineteen gun each, the Maharajaha of Blkanlr and Patlala with seventeen snins eacm ine aiaruarajan or Idar with fltteen guns, the Maharajah of Kuch Behar with thirteen guns, and the Thakor Sahib of Oondal. the Rajah of Rajpipla and the Rajah of Pudukotal with eleven guns each. The prodlgioua value of the Jewelry worn by the partlclpanta In the numerous state functions connected with the coronation coro-nation has created a considerable demand for policies of Insurance covering the period pe-riod of the festivities. One of the Indian rrlncee took out a policy for -the sum of 42t.0fte and In another Inatance a visitor from Eaat India paid premiums on Jewelry Jew-elry valued at between $1,000,006 and $1 ..ton. ooo. The rteks covered In most cases comprise com-prise transit to and from India and In-suraace In-suraace against theft while In England, and some of the companies made It a condition of accepting the risk that the value Mee ehould he deposited In approved ap-proved strong rooms when not In actual use. The premiums demanded were Invariably In-variably high. v FiTlgJo for asVoHdan--. Excellent arrangements for dealing with accidents and in juries ecctirrlng In the enormous crowds of spectators along the routes of the coronation proceeatona, have been mad ander the auspices of the ambulance department of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. This society has plaoe4 ?Ooe trained members of Us London Lon-don ambulance corps at tha disposal of the Pit'C. beaideo a large number of unite from the provinces and tha oMordea. w ho came to I-ondoa specially to assist. In the event of an urgent call, the society so-ciety baa no fewer thaa Sv.OoO members - within quick telegraphic communication, all of whom are trained ambulance men or nursing sisters. Special arrangements for the expedition of preee dispatches from the trlfortum of Westminster Abbey, during the progress of the coronation ceremony, hava been made by the postmaster general. Pneumatic Pneu-matic tubes axe erected from the gallery to a temporary telegraph office outside, whence the messages are to be taken to th telegraph room of the bouee of com-mons com-mons opposite, at that point a large staff of sk tiled telegraph operators, capable ef dealing with dlspetrhee In various lan guagees. Is te be statkmed. ready to forward for-ward the telegrams to all parta off toe world. |