Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1911 — SEATED NEAR THE THRONE [ARTICLE]

SEATED NEAR THE THRONE

United States Special Ambassador Well Treated as to Position. London, June 23 Jojm Hays Hamn*ond, the special American ambassador to the coronation, said today: “There is nothing like it in history for,magnificence. It beggars description What impressed me most was the systematization There was no delay and no discomfort. Everything vent like clockwork I did not carry' my card as Lord Sandhurst, the civil attache assigned to me, said it was unnecessary. Therefore I did not know my seat. Mr. Sing of the foreign office said when I told him this: ‘Don’t worry, they won't let you get too close to the throne. Go as far as you can until they stop you.’ I followed his advice and found my seat about fifteen feet from the throne.” Mr. Hammond was particularly pleased with the attentions he received along the route of the procession. He accepted them as a compliment to the United States. Instead of seeing the royal progress from Constitution Hill, he obtained a dispensation and viewed it from Stratton House, where the king's aunt Louise, the Duchess of Argyll, spent the day.