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Show Line of Mourners Four Deep Extend a Mile London, May IS. From six o'clock this morning when the doors of Westminster West-minster ball, where the body of Kln Edward is lying in state, were again opened to the public n sombre clad, silent multitude io four.deep formation forma-tion filed past the bier. The police with some tact and much patience, maintained order and kf.Nt to. thousands moving stendpv. When tho doors wero eloped at 10 o'e-iocn. last night between 50,000 and r.O.ouo persons had viewed the casket I while perhaps half that number were still waiting in adjacent streets. At 11 o'clock a new line wr.s formed and midnight found the vil- -I ing throng swollen by many thousands. thous-ands. These kept a night-long viyril with a purpose of paying tribute o the dead monarch, that would not b? abandoned despite a heavy fall of ral:i that made them most uncomfortable. The Hue extended for a mile or mor.i and was made up of men, woruon and children of many classes. It was :i strangely cosmopolitan crowd. Every land and every co!or was represented. There was no class distinction. Tho laborer in corduroys touched elbows with the frock coated West Ender. In today's flies women appeared to predominate. By noon the total of those who had paid their respect had passed the hundred thousand. Diark. The arrival of a i-corc of royal personages per-sonages wilh their suites today nmdo the West Eud one of unusual animation. anima-tion. Buckingham palace, where most of the members of royalty are staying, Marlborough house, still iho residence of King George and Queen Mary, and either royal homes opened their doors again and again throughout through-out the day as courtesies were exchanged. ex-changed. Mr. Roosevelt was among the callers at Marlborough house. |