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Show Saw Edward's Coronation H A GREAT many Americans have already gone M to London to be there on coronation day. M It is said that Ambassador Reid is half paralyzed by the number of his countrymen who H want admission to the great abbey to witness tho H imposing ceremony, wihich will be practically be- H yond the ambassador's power to secure. He told H a reporter that when in New York recently he H dined with his predecessor, Mr. Choate, who H ironically wished .him joy in his hopeless task to H please his countrymen when the great day draws H near. He related, too, that Choate told him of H one American who got to witness the coronation H of King Edward without a ticket. The story in I brief Is that the man called on him and present- fl ed a letter from President Roosevelt requesting fl Choate to do what he could to help the gentle- ifl man witness the coronation ceremonies. ?fl Choate explained to him that he was helpless, H that no one could get into Westminster Abbey on fl that day without a ticket. fl When the man said, "Give me back that let- fl ter!" Choate complied and on the morning of the fl coronation the American got as near the abbey as jfl he could before being stopped hy a policeman. jfl The American was game. He flashed the letter fl on the officer, explaining that it was a request fl from the president of (the United States, asking fl that he be admitted and demanded of the police- fl man if he would try to stop the president of the B United States if he were there. - fl Tho man with the club was shaken and passed fl him up to another officer. The same scene was B enacted with him and the was passed up one stage ";fl higher. He was nearing the abbey. At last ho fl was up against the commissioner of police at the fl very door of the abbey. But he outtalked the fl commissioner and got in "and," said Choate, "he fl was rewarded with as fine a view of the corona- ,fl tion as I had." B When Americans start to see the great spec- B tacle they should keep this story in mind. fl |