Close Of Jubilee

London, June 28.- The British colossal pageant, one of the greatest the world has ever seen, has been completed without a contretemps to mar its success. Last week u as an anxious one for those in authority; but the whole scheme for the celebration of the queen's jubilee was largely planned, carefully carried out, and has been a triumph for the management and an object lesson in unity for the hosts of guests. The latter have seer. in the gathering repreeentative contingents from all parts of the empire, who gave a meaning and a purpose to theprocession generally Kuking in similar displays. It i? an optn secret that the Prince of Wales was among the hardest workers. Not a single step of importante was taken without his approval, and much of the praiseworthy work done is directly due to his initiatlve. The naval review Saturday wound it all up, and in this the power of Brltain on the sea was displayed on the Solent with thrilling effect. There were congregated about 168 British war véasela cf all classes, showing to visiting naval men the pride of the navy and giving them aji insight of its prowess. Again the Americans were shown all hon.irs, not alone by British ships, but by the cruisers of other powers. Theships layin six lines, each about flve miles -ong. Five of these Unes were occupied by British war vessels. They comprised less than half of the navy Great Britain can cali into actlon. The navy list eomprises- including ships in and out of commission, but on the list- 439 vessels, mounting 2,959 gun? with a tonnage of 1,463,219 and a horse-power of 1,887,595. WAS A F.4IRÏ S(KSE AT NIGHT. Illuminatlon of the FlcRt- Boyal Snlute Firetl In the Duik. Ryde, Isle of Wight, June 28.- The iUumination of the fleet at Spithead Saturday was one of the most charming of a week of delightful spectacles. The night was pleasantly dark; no moon dimmed the effect of mortal creation; the waters of the Solent were reposefully Quiet; everything contributed to enhance the success of the programme. It was all ghostly, fantastic, suggestive of falryland and the world of magie; a fitting termination to a day of imposing ïealities and iron facts. The brutal grimness of all the enginery of destruction - savage-looking guns, venomous torpedoes, the veritable teeth of war- was lost in peaceful shadow and softening gloom. The spectator knew it was all there, but it was not relentlessly thrust upon the mind, as it had been the day long from every angle of visión. Kockel Lights the niiimination. A minute before 9 the mUes of waters Bhowed only such lights as are usually associated wkh shipping, reds and frreens of port and starboard, white lights at mastheacls; gleams that, like liny rowa of diamonds, showed the ports of passenger craft, with here and there some parti-colored lights that had b"(jn lit on private vessels before the time. At 9 o'clock there was a flash, a roeket from the Renown ripped into the dark blue and, bursting with a shower of eplendid stars, signaled the lignting up of the fleet. The stick of the rocket had not turned toward the water ere the mighty fleet was suddenly skeletoned in brilliant yellow light, hulls, smokeEtacks, spars and cordage being thrown into strong relief. Lines of light ran in graceful curves along tha sweep of the monsters, now ghostly gray in the sudden glare, and from bovv to stern over the mastheads were garlands cf incandescent light like "jeweled neeklaces hung upon the horns of night." Searchlightfl Pierce the D&rkneMi A few minutes later they vanished with the suddenness of their appearance, leaving the spectator staring at the place where they had been. Then the darkness was broken again, this time by numberless searchlights which, with uncanny glare, like the eyes of a hundred cyclops, patterned the heavens as a cheeker board with radiant banls. Later these "eyes" slowly swept the gathered craft and the shores beyond, as if seeking something to discover or devour. Then they were all shut off, leaving the darkness more visible than ever. Kockets Again and a Salute. A pause and the darkness was pierced by hundredsof signalrockets, ambitious]y soaring into the blut with messages of jubilation, not disasters; delivering them and falling, bur.ned out and useless, Into the waste of waters. Then a signal leaped f rom the Renown and there was providedan exhibitionof what war would be like if ever an immense fleet of battle ships and cruisers should engage at night. A royal salute of sixty guns was fired from every ship capable of firing it. Great guns and small guns answered each other in one prolonged roar, rising and falling in intensity as more or less of them flred together. It was truly awful. Even the certain knowledge that there vere no deadiy missiles in the guns did not prevent a chili feeling from creeping over many of the civilian spectators. "Fairy Lines of Llghtness." Then the angry roaring ceassd, muoh to the relief of thousands who w?re stopping their ears. As the panoply of unpleasant sraoke slowly drifted away the fleet again stood revealed in fairy lines of lightness. The signs of the war were dimming and disappearing in the shadow. The gentier side of things was again put to the front to instill into the minds of departing thousands that vvhile the does of war were "Ready, aye Ready," after all what the people jame out to see was the "triumph of peace and the glory of the queen." No Currency Legtslatlon Tliis Contris. New York, June 2S.- ín an interview ■with a newppaper man here Secretar}' Sherman, after declaring his opposition to trusts, which he said was the most important question of the day, added that the currency question could rot be decided at this Bession of congress; that nobody is ready to decide it. Boacl Yon liv Cornell, Poughkeepsie, N. T., June 26.- Cornell won; time, 20::i4. Yale was second by three lengths and a half; time, 20:44. Harvard carne in third, five lengths astern of Yale; time, 21 minutes.