ALEXANDRA DAY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1515, 10 August 1912, Page 11

ALEXANDRA DAY.

FIFTIETH. YEAR IN ENGLAND. THE DAY OF THE DOSE. The wilderness of London blossomed on Wednesday, June 2G, like the rose. It was Alexandra Day, when her Majesty entered the fiftieth year of her residence in England. . To express tho peoplo's affection for Queen Alexandra, and. to call attention to tho needs of hospitals, convalescent homes, and kindred institutions in which sho is interested, about 10,000 ladies banded tttcmselves together, went out in pairs, and stood throughout the day at street corners, with baskets full of wild roses, which were given in exchange or "as receipts" for money. Tho rate of exchange was clastic. Evoryono giving a penny received a single bloom, but many gave a sovereign, and some a five-pound note, while shillings and half-crowns abonnded.' The money was dropped into littlo cylindrical boxes, from which- no change "could be given; but nono was asked or wanted. The ladies, dressed in white, each wearing a red-edged white sash—the Danish colours—with the name Alexandra upon it, and a: simple white hat adorned with wild roses, made the streets unusually attractive. Many other ladies wore tho tame flower; but the most noticeable' sight was the enormous number of men who wore it. In the City and West End, at any rate, nearly every second man had at least one bloom, and often two or three in his button-hole. 'Many who had gone, through the day unadorned gave in at last, and bought bunches at tho railway stations to take home. Queen Alexandra's Drive. The universal goodwill shown-to the new movement, and the active participation of hundreds of thousands of citizens in it, must have been very gratifying to the ladies who saw to its organisation, and who did the work. It evidently touched tho heart of Queen Alexandra, who

showed her appreciation of the tributo by taking a long drive through the streets in which hundreds of the white and pink collectors were stationed. . Crowds had gathered at many points and gave Queen Alexandra a cordial reception. At tho children's' depot, 8 Kensington Palace Gardens, her Majesty was received by Lady Wilton, chairman of tho executive, whose -little daughter, Lady Mary Egertou, presented a bouquet of Toses.

At other points along the route roses were showered into the royal carriage. In Chandos Street, Charing Cross, some boys rnslied out to scramble for flowers that had fallen in the road. One boy, ramed Charles Brown, fell under tho second carriage, and one of the wheels passed over him, and dislocated his left shoulder. Sir Dighton Probyn followed him into Charing Cross Hospital, and also sent a messenger to the lad's mother. The boy, who lived close by in St. Martin's Lane, Was ablo soon atterwards to go home, where inquiries woro made curing the evening by a inessengerirom Alarlbcrough House. , '.' ' ;ln London City, Tho Citj, as might have been foretold, bohaved' most handsomely: Many o£ the ladies had to get their stocks renewed three or four times, motor-cars being used both there and elsewhere for the purpose. The Lady Mayoress presided ■ at a stall beside the Mansion House, A revolutionary rumour that ladios had actually been 6eeii .on tho floor of the Stock Exchange was contradicted, but the brokers and their clerks did a great business buying roses in "the street." The Baltic was braver. For the first time in its history ladies wore permitted to enter that Exchange in tusinoss hours. At noon Lady Michclham, Lady. Alexander, Miss Phyllis Broughton, and other flower-sellers were admitted, and rapidly disposed of their wares. Miss Broughton, ■mounting the rostrum in tho middle oi the Exchange, conducted a sort of aucI'tiott. Various members of the Exchange were brought before the fair auctioneer, and made to bid for a small bunch of roses a sum large enough to satisfy her. Tho buyer never got off for less than a sovereign. Parliament and the Theatres. . On the terrace of the House of Commons, the Speaker and Mrs. Lowthergave a tea party in honour of the day. Ministors, ex-Ministers, and members attended in large numbers with their wives, and rose-maidens carried on a brisk Palo of the little flowers. Flower-sellers wore a'so active at the entrance to 'Westminster Hall, and even penetrated the lobby. Hardly an M.P. was to be seen without the buttonhole. ' During the afternoon, Mre. Asqnithwas selling in Whitehall Place, and Airs. Lloyd-George on the Embankment. The actresses took care that theatregoers should not fail to give tor hck of opportunity. Lady Hare supervised the ?ale at the fioyal Opera at night. Lady Tree, Mrs. Kondal, nnd Mrs. Cyril Maude sold roses at His Majesty's during Hie afternoon. MiS5 Ellen Terry, Lady Boncroft, Lady Wyndham, Miss Lena Ashwell, Miss Mary Moore, Miss Mario Tempest, and Miss Lillah. M'C'arth.v were also among the dramatic flowor-girls, and the sale went on in probably every theatre and music-hall in London. —Loir , on "Times."

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