The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-01-09
HOW VICTORIA TRAVELS.
The Time Her Majesty Devotes to Busi-
ness.

Few people suspect what elaborate ar
Engagements have to be made when Queen
Victoria goes on a journey. To keep her
secure from harm within her own residence
requires no little alertness, but when the
queen travels from London to Balmoral-
distance of about $50 miles, which takes
nineteen hours to perform hundreds of
men, railway employees, policemen, and
Others 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 bris-
tie with soldiers; 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 train even NJ. Grevy when he goes
from Paris to his seat at Mont-sous-v audrey
is reminded of his greatness and its dangers
by detachments of mounted gendarmes, and
by sentries with fixed bayonets in every
station. In England there is nothing ofall
this; the Queen has no military guard or
escort, and yet all the measures for her pro-
lection are admirably complete. Apilot en-.
CINE precedes the Royal train by twelve
miles and for half an hour before il passes
all traffic on both tracks along its route Ia
suspended. There is no resumption of the
traffic at the different stations until quar-
ter of ON hour after the Queens own train
has gone by them, and, during this time,
danger signals are exhibited at all these
stations. Moreover, every grade crossing
has its gate locked and guarded the switches
have oil 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 "iook outn men besides the ordinary
guard. One of them stands on the engine
and faces the rear of the train to watch for
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
electric apparatus connects all the carriages
with the engine and guards van and three
telegraph operators travel in one of the COM
partments with appliance 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
Company goes withIthe train, andis supposed
20 have charge of it--a necessary precaution
for if anything went wrong it would be de-
sirable that an official should be on the spot
with powers to issue orders to all rilwny
servants in the name of the company. No
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
that she should travel in such way that no
inroads be made ON the time which she de-
votes to business There is not lady in
her dominions SO constantly occupied as
she; and she can only transact public and
private affairs to her satisfaction by never
allowing yesterdays business to overlap to-
days. Every morning while Parliament
sits, and twice week at other times, she
receives report ON the general state of af-
fairs from the Prime Minister, who writes
in the third person-Mr. Gladstone presents
his duty to your Majesty, &c, and these re-
/ ports are always answered. Despatch boxes
are brought into the Queens train at all the
/ stopping stations while she travels, and she
dictates letters to one of her ladies rs the
train hurries her along missiyes be-
Ing afterwards handed for registry and
| copying to the private secretary. Modern
/ line