Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-10
How Victoria Travels.
Extraordinary Precautions to Protect
 Precious Life.
tFrom the Modern Age.l


 Precious Life.
 From the Modern Age.l
 Few people suspect what elaborate ar rangemeuts have to be made when Queen Victoria goes cn journey. To keep her se- cure from harm within her own residence re- quires no little alertness, but when the Qneen travels from London to Balmoral-a distance Of about 59O miles, which takes nineteen hours to psrform-hundreds Of men, railway employees, policemen, and other officials have to be told off for special duty, and scores of trains carrying passengers or freight are delayed in their progress. The lines Of rail on which the Czar journeys bris- tie with soldiers and. during the King of Spain's late voyage to Estermadura one heard of whole regiments being mobilized to form cordons along the passage of the royal train even NJ. Grevy, when he goes from Paris to his seat at Mont-sous-Vaudrey, is reminded of his greatness and it's dangers by detachments of mounted gendarmes, and by sentinels with fixed bayonets in every station. In England there is nothing of all this; the queen has no military guard or escort, and yet all the measures for her protection are admirably complete. pilot engine precedes the royal train by twelve miles, and for half an hour before it passes all traffic on both tracks along the route is suspended. There is no resumption of the traffic at the different stations until quarter of an hour after the quSeu OWu UTAH. AAS $OAo Oy IAcAI3 1Aos during this time, danger signals are exhibited at all these stations. Moreover, every grade crossing has it's gate locked and guarded the switches have ali been safely locked, and men are posted along the lines to see that by no chance any human being or animal strays on them. In the royal train itself there are two "Iookeut'' men besides the ordinary guard One of them stands on the engine and faces the rear of the train to watch fol signals from any of the windows; the other is stationed in the guards van and keeps his eye on the track behind the train. An cleo tric apparatus connects all the carriages with the engine and guards van and three teie graph operators travel in one of the com- partments with appliances for repairing the wires on the road if in the event of an acci. dent these wires should be found damaged. Finally director of the Northwestern con- pany goes with the train, and is supposed to have charge of it-a necessary precaution, for if anything went wrong 1t would be de- sirable that an official should be on the spot with powers to issue orders to all railway servants in the name of the company. Nc capricious or unsociable feeling on the queens part dictates the arrangements made to secure full privacy during her travels When she is in good health it is necessary 1 that she should travel in such way that nc 1 inroads be made on the time which she de votes to business. There is not lady il her dominions so constantly occupied as she | and she can only transact public and private affairs to her satisfaction by never allowing l yesterdays business to overlap to day s Every morning while Parliament sits, anG l twice a week at other times, she receives report on the general state of affairs iron the prime minister, who writes in the thirc person-Mr. Gladstone presents his duty tt } our majesty, &o., and these reports are al ways answered. Dispatch boxes sre brought into the queens train at all the stopping sta tions while she travels, and she dictates let ters to one of her ladies as the train hurrieI her slopg-these missives being aftervarG handed for registry and copying to the pri vete secretary.