COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN ENGLAND. 



Later on, the Colonel, accompanied by his own staff and Mr. 

 White, the special diplomatic delegate to the funeral of King 

 Edward; Major T. Bentley Mott, the American military attache at 

 the American embassy at Paris and the gentlemen assigned to his 

 suite by King George, went to " inscribe." The kings of Portugal 

 and Belgium, the Chinese and Japanese princes and a few other 

 special representatives at the funeral were there at the same time. 



As the Colonel was leaving Buckingham Palace after " inscrib- 

 ing," he encountered the Kaiser, who greeted him warmly. Taking 

 the Colonel by the hand, he led him away to his own apartments, 

 where he kept him in conversation for three quarters of an hour. 



At night the Colonel dined at Buckingham Palace, where King 

 George gave the first dinner of his reign. It was a great banquet, 

 with a numerous company of guests, comprising all the royal and 

 other special representatives at the funeral. 



ANCIENT POMP AND CEREMONIAL. 



With pomp and ceremonial borrowed from the past ages ming- 

 ling in picturesque contrast with modern mourning, the British Em- 

 pire on May 20 surrendered up its royal dead. Edward VI T, the 

 thirty-sixth in the line of sovereigns of England since the conquest 

 of the dauntless Normans, mourned by the world at large, lies in a 

 crypt in St. George's chapel royal. 



The streets of London were lined with 30,000 picked troops, 

 called to restrain the great crowds as well as to protect Kings, 

 Princes and other royalties as well as distinguished representatives 

 of foreign governments who followed the coffin of the dead King. 



The royal carriage in which the Colonel rode received even 

 more attention than any of the kings who rode in the funeral pro- 

 cession. The London public had the processional personnel at its 

 fingers' etids, calling off accurately the exalted men who appeared. 



All the reigning monarchs, of course, were on horseback, but 

 Colonel Roosevelt, in accordance with conventions, occupied a 

 carriage, with the windows open, thus affording a brief , glimpse 

 which disclosed him talking animatedly with M. Pichon, the French 



