Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-01-18
AQUEEN's BUSY LIFE.
How victoria works and Moves.

Few people suspect what elaborate arrange
nents have to be made when Queen Victoria
toes on journey, says the Modern AYE.
70 keep her secure from harm within her
,wn residence, requires no little slertness,
out when the Queen travels from London TO
I,slmora- distance Of about 800 miles,
which takes nineteen hours to perform
hundreds of men, railway employees, police
men and other officials have to be told of
for special duty, and scores OF trains carrying
passengers or freight are delayed in their
progress. The lines If rail on which the
Car journeys bristles with spldcrs and,
during the King of SPANS late voyage to
Estramadura, one heard Of whole regiments
being modified to form cordons along the
passage of the royal tain even M.
Grevy, when he goes from Paris to
his seat at Monsous Vaudrcy, is re-
minded Of his greatness and its dan
gers by attachments Of mountcd gendarmes,
and by sentries with fixed b0yunets in every
station. In England there is nothing of
all this the Queen has no military guard or
escort, and vet all the measures for her pro-
lection are admirably complete. pilot
engine precedes the royal train by IL miles,
and for half an hour before it passes all
traffic on both tracks along its route is sus-
nended There is M rosnmntion of the
traffic ot the different stations until quar-
Tor of an Lour oftcr tho Ouncn's train has
gone nv thom. and duripS Ills lime. dam
Ger signals are exhibited nj all stations.
Moreover, every grade crossing has its gate
locked aud guarded the switches have all
been safely locked, and men are posted
along the lines to see that by no chance airy
human being or animal strays on 10 them.
ont" men besides The ordinary ruard. One
| Of tbano s,onde on tbo crrirr anl faces the
rear of The train 70 watch for signals from
onv of tho windows. the other is stationad
in J Ib" gnord,s van and kccns bis eve on the
| trarl, h1hind tho tr,in An electric apnara-
ms connects ali the carriages and the engine
and guards van and three telegraph opera
TORS travel in ono Of tbe COMMITMENTS with
onrltanoos Gov ro,si,irI, tlo ,riros m the
road if in the event If an accident these wires
sbould he fonnd damarrd Finally. n dl-
rector Of the Northwestern company goes
with the train. and il sunnosed to have
charge of ia NECESSARY nrccaution. for if
ANYTHING went wrong i, would be desirable
that an official should BE- on the spot with
nnwer to issue orders 70 all railway servants
in the name of the company. NO'clpricious
ursOcial feeling on the Queens mart dictates
thn arrangements madcto secure full privacy
during her travels
When shn ia in rood health if ia neces.
sarv thnt She shouId travcl in such a way
thoi ~, irrnads he made on tbc time which
she deyo,es to business. There is not a lady
in her dominions So constantly occupied as
she and She can only transact public and
private affairs to her satisfaction by never
allowing Yesterday business to overlap to-
davis Every morning while Parliament
sits. and twice week at other times, she
receives ren0rt on the general state of af
fairs from The Prime Minister, who writes in
the third person-'Mr. Gladstone presents
his duty 10 your Majesty" etc. and these
hn p,'S ora hroms,rt Into The Queens train at
ali the stonnin9 stations while she travels,
and she dictates letters 10 one of her ladies'
&C The train hurries her q,ong-,besr nissives
heing aftrrwards handed for registry and
conying to the private secretary.
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