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Show FUNERAL OF EDWARD, ATTENDED BY KINGS, WITNESSED BY THOUSANDS Crush of People so Great at the Mall That Police and Soldiers Had to Fight to Pre j vent the Procession From Being Swept Away-Hundreds Fainted capitals. The emperor and empress of Russia attended the English church at St. Petersburg, as did Premier Stolyplu. and the members of tho duma. and other monarchs who were not present at the funeral paid aim j ilar tributes at their homes. Trains and street cars came to a standstill for 15 minutes at the hour j the cortege started from Westminster 1 hall. The special American ambassador to the funeral, Theodore Roosevelt, occupied oc-cupied the tlghth carriage In tho procession. pro-cession. American diplomatic delc-I delc-I gate Henry White, was with other I blrailarly appointed representatives. Mis. Theodore Rooseve.lt was prep-! prep-! cnt, hating a place among the ineiu-j ineiu-j bers of the diplomatic corps and their i wives. The American aides to Mr. Roosevelt, T. Hently Mott. American military attache at Paris, and Lieu'. Commander Reginald Bclnap, were with the embassy attaches. London. May 20 The body of King Edward VII was carried through the streets of the capital today in the presence of many hundreds of thousands thou-sands of subjects, and with tho klug.s of nine European nations, several future fu-ture rulers, members of all the royal families of the world and a former president of tho I'nltcd States follow-Ing follow-Ing the casket from Westminster hall to Paddington station. The cortege moved through solid double lines of red-coated soldiers, standing with rifles reversed and the regimental colors dipped. At the railroad station tho casket was placed in a funeral car and taken to Windsor, where, after the church of j England service had been conducted ' by the archbishop of Canterbury in I London, May 20. Today the empire mourned and surrendered Its royal j dead. After the funeral rite duo to one I to whom the laws of the land gave j first place in "honor, dignity and pow-j pow-j er," the body of King Edward VII. j thirty-sixth in the line of sovereigns I of England since the Norman con-! con-! quest, lies tonight in the-crypt of St. I George's chapel royal at Windsor, I nearby tho royal tomb house where it I will have a final resting place. j The state funeral was conducted ac-' ac-' cording to precedent established in the past, and was rendered more ef- J ! fective hy a lavish display of modern mourning. j ' After having lain in Mate for threo j days, the bodv y as taken In stately I procession this morning to Padding- ! ion stjit km. where it was placer! in a funeral car and removed to Windsor for burial. The meniliers of the royal household house-hold followed on horseback in .this order: First file The Duke of Connaught. King George, Emperor William. , Second file King Haakon of Nor- 1 way, King George of Greece, King Alfonso Al-fonso of Spain Third file King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Bul-garia, King Frederick of Denmark, King Emanuel of Portugal. Fourth file Prince Ynssuf Zyyedln, ! the heir apparent of Turkey; King Albert of Belgium, Archduke Francis ! Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Fifth file Prince Sadanaru Fu-shlml Fu-shlml of Japan, Grand Duke Michael of Russia, the Duke of Aosta. representing repre-senting Italy; the Duke of Sparta, who Is the crown prince of Greece, and Crown Prince Ferdinand oflcu? mania. Sr, George's chapel, it was entombed in tho Albert memorial chapel adjoining. adjoin-ing. No such spectaole has Jbeen witnessed wit-nessed in Ixmdon since Queen Victoria's Vic-toria's Jubilee. The parade included many of the greatest men In the king, dom. with reprcsentathes of all arms of the service and delegations from the most famous regiments of the empire em-pire and representative groups of foreign for-eign armies and navies. Behind the casket, on which rested the Imperial symbols, followed the late klug's charger, while his favorite terrier was led by a Highland soldier just before the Imperial ensign. King George, Emperor William and several other members of the royalty wore the uniforms of British generals. No personage in the parade attracted greater Interest than did Theodore Roosevelt, the special American ambassador, am-bassador, whose civilian clothes contrasted con-trasted curiously with the gilded state coach, with its whlte-wigged and silk stockinged flunkeys, within which he rode. The rcpresontathes of the I w o great republics, the United States and France, were given a position at the rear of all the royalties and the princes of the pettiest of European states. Their carriage followed those carrying the royal ladles, and they were the last In the line of the rep-resentotUcs rep-resentotUcs or foreign governments. The Duke of Orleans was given preference as the envoy of the French president The booming of minute guns and the tolling of bells accompanied the movement of the procession, while the bands in turn played "The Dead March from Saul'' and Chopin's "Funeral "Fu-neral March." The morning was clear and a hot sun beat on the great mass ' of hu- ' inanity which lined the route of the procession. It Is doubtful if so many; people were ever lefere seen In Ixn-don. Ixn-don. At the Mall, in SL JanioK street, and at Hyde park, the throng almost overwhelmed the procession The jiollce and noldiers had to fight to prevent the llneB from lie ing swept. away by the crush. Many broken limbs and other Injuries ' were re- j c-eived. Hundreds of persons falntd. j especially among the women, who had ben standing for hours waiting ' for the procession. King George, the Queen Mother ! Alexandra and the Prlucess Victoria entered Westminster hall before the procession started and spent some I minutes before the casket. Emperor William, who was at the entrance as they appeared, dismounted and, war- ; Ing ihG lackeys aside, opened the door of the Queen Mother's carriage, helped her out and then kissed her on the cheek. I The procession started from the hall at 9 :2G' o'clock, just as the first minute gun boomed The precedent afforded by the funeral of Queen Victoria Vic-toria nine years ago, was closely followed. fol-lowed. The faken casket, with tho crown and cushion, regalia nnd insignia insig-nia of tho order of the garter thereon, was borne on a gun carriage the same as was used at the funeral of the late queen. The procession proceeded through Parliament street and Whitehall. The public buildings were heavilv draped with black and purple throughout tho I route. leaving the district of official London, Lon-don, the cortege passed through the (Continued on Pago Seven.) ' Sixth file Prince Henry of Prussia, 'TepTeFCTitlng he- Gorman navy; Trince Charles of Sweden, Prince Henry of Holland, the puke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotho, crown prince of Montenegro; Mon-tenegro; Crown Prince Alexander of Servia. Seventh file Prince Mohammld AH, Said Pasha Zulflkar, Watsen Pasha of Egypt, the Sultan of Zanzibar. Then followed the princely and dural representatives of a dozen German Ger-man states, the members of the English Eng-lish royal family, tho Duke D'Alen-coni D'Alen-coni nnd Prince BovardeJ of Slam. The mounted group wan followed by-twelve by-twelve state carriages The fli-st was occupied by the Queen Mother Alexandra, Alex-andra, the Russian Dowager Empress Marie, the Princess Royal and tho Princess Victoria. The second carriage contained Queen Mary of England, Queen Maud of Norway, the Duke of Cornwall, heir to the British throne, and Princess Mary. The next four carriages carried royal ladles and ladles in walling. The seventh carriage was shared by Special American Ambassador Thoi-dore Thoi-dore Rooseelt, M. Plrhon, French foreign for-eign minister, and Sauad Khan Mon-tazs, Mon-tazs, Sultanah of Persia. The ninth carriage was occupied hy Lord Strathcona, Lord Hymer, Sir Georgie Reld and William Paul Jones. The two carriages follow Ing carried persons In waiting. Arriving at Paddington station, the casket was placed in the funeral car which carried the funeral party to Windsor. The royal palon was upholstered up-holstered in purple and white silk, end a catafalque in the center sup. ported the casket. The car was occupied oc-cupied by King George, Queen Mary, QijPfii Mother Alexandra, eight other sovereigns and ner relatives. Special Spe-cial trains followed with the high officials, foreign representatives and special envoys. Kings, princes and representatives f foreign governments, followed the t afke-t tb rou th the streets which were lined with no.oon troops that held In check the mass of humanity that from every point of vantago silently watched the pageant. After the procession formed, jut before the hour scheduled for the start, a court carriage halted befoio the door of Westminster hall Emperor Em-peror William, who was mounted and in line, rvcetgnlzed the occupant - as ' th queen mother Alexandra On'e'''v dlsomuntlng. he waved aside the lackeys lack-eys crowded about, and, giving ,a hand to the widow of his uncle, BHhUt-ed BHhUt-ed her to alight and placed a kiss on her cheek. The queen mother entered en-tered the hall and. for a few moments, was alone with her dead. When sh? again appenred the first of the minute min-ute guns was fired, the bell In the tower sounded and at 9:50 o'clock the proo-Htdou was under way. Again at Windsor, the casket was borne on a gun carriage followed by thone who had formed the procession Id Ixndon, with the addition of regular reg-ular ambassadors accredited to the court of St. James. The funeral service ser-vice was held iu St. George's chapel, the Church of England service beiug used. During the procession In London, hp crowd of onlookers became unruly at some points and the police and roopK had Horne difficulty In maintaining main-taining order. Hundreds of people 'ell from exhaustion. The weather was well-nigh perfect, but the sun wa-i hot, and. to those iu crowded pot, oppressive. Throughout the British e-mpire, th'i iay was observed as one of mourninc. luflness was suspended generally and Informal services were held. Fuiu-r:.! services were held I nail the European FUNERAL OF EDWARD ATTENDED BY KINGS. (Continued from Page One ) horse guards parade, aDd tbenee alon; the Mall. The embassies and prlv-vato prlv-vato lesldonres, including those of sever.'il Americans on Carlton house terrace overlooking tho Mall were heavily draped with mourning. The terrace was crowded with onlookers. From tho Mall the procession passe 1 Marlborough house emerging In St. JamoB street, proceeding to Pieadllly and along that thoroughfare to Hyde Park corner, whore It entered the park and passed along tho popular drive to Marble arch. Emerging from the park, the pro-cession pro-cession followed Edgwaro road to Oxford Ox-ford and Cambridge terraces and turned turn-ed up those wide thoroughfares, or. eitliT side of which throughout their length of half a mile were unbroken stretches of temporarily erected stands filled to their capacity with black garbed humanity. n- arrangements between the Westminster West-minster city council and the Partington Parting-ton borough council the official signs of mourning along the route were uniform. uni-form. Masts with laurel wreaths at their tops had been erected at Intervals. Inter-vals. The route was lined with thousand" of troops, behind whom were massed countless thousands otpeople in dorp black on tho pavements below and the house fronts above, with the balconies, bal-conies, windows ami roofs crowded. Every branch of the defensive forces of tho empire was represented in the long, column which preceded the pun carriage. An officer of the headquarters head-quarters staff, mounted, headed the procession with the bands of the household cavalry, The territorial and colonial carriages behind the bands; then other volunteer corps; the honorable artillery company officers of-ficers of the Indian regiment in their picturesque uniforms and turbans, followed by detachments of infantry. Footguards. royal engineers gHrrlson, field and horse artillery, cavalry of tho line and regiments of household cavalry cav-alry followed. The royal marine Infantry and artillery ar-tillery and naval representatives came next with the military attaches of the foreign embassies; the oftlcers of tho headquarters staff of the army, tho field marshals, and massed bunds playing play-ing solemn funeral marches. The great oftlcers of tho royal house of England were headed by tho earl marshal, mar-shal, tho Duke of Norfolk, and fol lowed by a non-conimlaaloned officer of the household cavalry bearing the royal standard. The king rode between tho German emperor and tho Duke of Connaught, all In brilliant uniforms, and noxt In lino was the group of rulers, heirs to thrones, princes of gnat states ami special embassadors. |