The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-09-03
THE MIsTLEToE DISASTER.
CURIOUS STORIES AFLoAT-soNE OTHER FArIp
ACCIDENTS" REMEABERED-''MAK WAY FOL
THE QUEEN

CURIOUS STORIES AFLoAT-soArE OTHER FArA1
ACCIDENTS" ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WAY ro1
THE QUEEN.
LONDON, August %, 1875
The unfortunate accident solent by which hre.
lives the collision OF the Queens steam
yacht Alberta with the pleasure yacht Misetoe CON
tinues an object Of universal comment There arr
many side issues likely grow ofthe facts developed
at the inquest which may lead to a better understand
ing OF the rule Of the road when and sailing
sells meet
The general facts which cabled 10 the HERALD on
the night OF the accident familiar all readers,
while the details were forwarded from Portsmouth BY
mail Another fact which adds interest to the accident
Is that although Captain WEIGH was the sailing master on
board the royal yacht, her official captain was Prnc(
Aehngen, g. G. b. Under him a staff Of oflcersi
consisting Of star Commander WEIGH above men
toned Commander Fullerton, STAT Commander suls
van, and Lieutenant Brltten.
Prince Leiningen is cousin OF the Queen one o.
those little German princey relatives that Her Majesty
in the qualification of a very natural preference hal
gathered about her without regard to ability or the e
act fitness OF things People say that he is not the
most able in the world, and that, in fact He
Majesty's service would not be
HIS TRANSLATION
to the native German soil But how can you beeyA
half that said at time like this when people are
discussing mot in the newspapers, by the way which
decorously retcent about the whole mater who IL
blame for the melancholy catastrophe II is natura
tendency perhaps, among the people to single dis
tnguished persons targets for tho bullets OF abuse
Therefore, the cousnly Prince it may be- is pointed al
now instead of the septuagenarian commander OF thu
Mstletoe the actual commander of tho Alberta Caps
tain WEIGH
The Coroners jury now sitting has been sworn Ia
Lvho
as is asserted the helm of the royal yacht was star
boarded at the same instant that the Mstletoes wheel
was ordered "hard aport" there may be a chance foE
censuring one of the nobility. Whether or not thl1
TACT Will be fully established. whether the jury will
shrink from the responsibility, remains to be seen Az
opinion expressed among sailors is that the sailin(
master Of the Alberta laborng under thu
impression that the royal yacht should 20 as q
bce flies, straight all obstscles-in our Ameri,
can vernacuar that the skipper felt the importance Of
his position and the nsgniAcance Of every other cram
anoat in English waters. / am constrained to write
also that find much to my surprise, very general
feeling among all classes that the accident" was duo
to rcckessness on board tho Alberta People 70
that
'MAKR WAY orKEy"
at all hazards tho guiding rule OF the Leiningena
and the welchs. They recall many other curious sacciy
dents' that have occurred from time to time in thd
private service Of the Queen and putting them all to-
gether certainly very formidable and damaging shove
ing is presented won't attempt to repeat them AM
for perhaps one half OF them would prove pure fiction
though having startling elements Of probability and
truth the reliable facts would be too difficult to reach
al this late day. But l cannot refrain from relating
one tragic incident which has TO my knowledge,
and OF which there seems to DO doubt, for 1t ID
vouched for by persons of unimpeachabe veracitI
WATCHING A HEATED WHEEL.
Not long since-and l am no. sure but IL WA
the train that carried Her Majesty from Gosport
after the sad tragedy in the Solent-on one OF
the special trains provided for tho accommodating
of the Queen and suite OF the wheels discov
cred to be overheaed in consequence OF the rapdy Of
the locomoton Immediately placed on tho
platform outside the and tho overheated wheel
to watch it and pour the customary cooling liquid over
1t as occasion might require. This all we'll But
by and by tho train approached tunnel The was
still at his post and the conductors of the train forgot
that there was for that unfortunate out
side the at that particular moment
HAPPENED.
AS the train whizzed through the tunnel the poor
faithful servant torn from his post and literally
ground into pieces There has been of this
horrible accident in the newspapers here No doubt
the discreet railway authorities knew how to keep thu
thing quiet But give it to you in its naked horror
as an evidence Of the gross negligence that sometmes
attends the journeyings Of Her Majesty.
QUEEN BLAMELEss
or course the good Queen who has heart as tender
had, hears of these reckless blum
ders She is in way to blame and only an insensato
mob could hold her responsible for such dreadful hap
penings But undoubtedly there is growing DISPOSE
ton to grumbe and grow among the people, to which
every new accident" adds force and intensity 1t is
not strange then that there should exist now smoth-
cred dissatisfaction which exhibits itself in sptcul in
distortions of the truth respecting the So
lent disaster Something of it, too may be to the
popular unwillingness pay for the Prince of Wales