The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-15
A Queens Busy Life.


arrangements have to be made when
Queen Victoria goes on journey, says
the Modern Age. To keep her secure
from harm within her own residence,
requires no little alertness. but when
the queen travels from London to Bal
Imoral-ra distance of about 500 miles,
which takes nineteen hours to perform
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 car journeys
bristle with soldiers; and, during the
king of SPANS last voyage to Estra-
madura, one heard Of whole regiments
being modified to form cordons along
the passage Of the royal train; even M.
Grevy, when he goes from Paris to his
seat at Montsous Vaudrey, is reminded
of his greatness and its dangers by de-
tachments Of mounted gendarmes, and
by sentries with fixed bayonets in every
station. In England there is nothing
of all this; the queen has no military
guard on escort, and yet all the meas
ures for, her protection are admirably
complete. A pilot engine precedes the
royal train by twelve miles, and for
half an hour before it passes all traffic
on both tracks along its, route is sus-
pended, There is no resumption Of
the traffic at the different stations until
q quarter; Of an hour after the queens
own train has gone by them, and, dur
ing this time, danger signals are ex-
hibited at all these stations Moreover,
every grade crossing has its gate lock-
ed and guarded; the switches have all
been safely locked, and men are posted
along the lines to see that by no chance
any human being or animal strays on
to them.
In the royal train itself there are two
''look OUT men besides the ordinary
guard. One OF them stands on the en-
CINE and faces the rear Of the train to
watch for signals from any Of the win
dows; the other. is stationed in the
guards van, and keeps his eye on the
track behind tho train. An electric
apparatus connects all the carriages
with the engine and guards van; and
three telegraph operators travel in one
1.-The compartments with appliances
for repairing the wires on the road if.
in the event Of an accident, these wires
should be found damaged. Finally, q
director OF the Northwestern company
goes with the train, and is supposed to
have charge Of ia necessary precau-
ton, for II anything went wrong it
would be desirable that an official
should be on the spot with powers to
issue orders to all railway servants in
the name Of the company. No capri
cious, .unsoeial feeling on the queens
part dictates the arrangement made to
secure full privacy during hor travels.
When she is in good health it is nee
essary that she should travel in such
way that no inroads be made on the
time which she devotes to business.
There is not lady in her dominions so
occupied as she; and she can only
transact public and private affairs to
her satisfaction by never allowing yes
terday's business to overlap to-day's.
Every morning, while parliament sits,
and twice q week at other times, she
receives q report of the general state
Of affairs from the prime minister, who
writes in the third person-"Mr. Glad
stone presents his duty to your majes-
ty," etc.; and these reports are always
answered. Dispatch boxes are brought
into the queens train at all the stop
ping stations while ,she travels and she
dictates letters TO one OF her ladies as
tne train hurries her along--these mis-
sives being afterwards handed for reg
tary. 80, l1yna
Coopie: Of all dispatches sent out from
the foreign. Colonial and India officers