Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-14
from ne Nel0 York Tones.

Cathedral Spoiled Because IL was seen
from Private Parlor.
! From the Velo York Times
81 am very glad TO find that my old
friend Salisbury is doing so we'll" said a
/ Brooklyn gentleman one morning recently
as ne looked up from his paper, TO friend
who sat with him on the piazza of his
summer residence on Staten island.
''What Salisbury do you refer tor
asked the friend. "surely you don'tmean
the Marquis Of Salisbury the Prime Min
ister of Englandp
THAT is exactly who mean" said the
| former. "Why, nave | never told you
about nv meeting with Lord Salisbury at
Cologne? 1t was an impromptu affair,
but ii made deep impression upon my
self and my family, and ! believe that his
lordship was aiso impressed at the time.
And I believe that her ladyship-he was
accompanied by a daughter was also i'm
pressed ] have frequently related the de-
tails OF our meeting, and have no doubt
that Lord Salisbury has done the ame
thing. | shouldn't wonderif he had rclat.
ed the matter at the dinner table OF Queen
Victoria herself that IS, provided his
lordship's noble legs have had the oppor-
tunjty OF disporting themselves beneath
but roy al 0AuuAdbYs
'SOme ten or fifteen years ago." con-
tinued the gentleman, "business took me
to Europe for a few months. took my
wife, my daughter, and one of my sons
with me. One pleasant afternOOn-l think
it was in Augustine arrived at Cologne.
and stopped at a hotel which was not far
from the magnificent cathedral for which
that city is famous. We LETT our apart
ments early in the evening intending to
take a stroll, but as we we're descending
the stairs nv wife spied the open door Of
an ordinarily furnished parlor. She
looked in and said, That's the public
parlor. Let us 90 in We entered the
room and found the windows commanded
a superb view Of the cathedral. noticed
on tue floor carpet bag and one or two
umbrellas, but ] supposed That these had
been left there by some guests, and the
idea that the room could possibly be any
thing but public parlor did not then
enter my head.
I'VE gazed at and admired the vast and
stately work Of architecture for some mo-
ments. Then we heard steps, ard looking
around saw a gentleman, apparently OF
middle age, and accompanied by young
lady. They were evidently English.
observed that the gentleman was looking
at me sternly, and it flashed through my
mind that he might imagine that we were
m0nopOliZing the window accommoda-
tons of the room. We accordingly moved
aside, leaving the strangers at liberty to
select the window which they preferred.
Still the gentleman looked sternly a t. me,
while his companion looked haughtily at
my wife and daughter. we must be
more Outspoken in our pOliteness,' thought
|. Approaching the gentleman, bowed
and invited him TO step 10 the window
and look at the cathedral. 1T would
be impossible said /, 'to find any,
where in Cologne a better view Of
the cathedral than Is to he had from
the windows of this parlor.' Even this
failed TO induce the strange gentleman to
part with any portion of his stern glance.
In the meantime, my wife and daughter
and son had turned their attention to the
naughty young lady. Mywife approached
her in motherly way and extended TO
her an invitation to view the cathedral,
but received no response. But the strange
gentleman had evidently grown weary OF
merely regarding me sternlY, and he re-
4 spOnded to my pressing invitation. He
responded by announcing that the room
/ was a private parlor, which he himself
had engaged, and thereby indirectly in
vited myself and my family to leave the
apartments as soon as we could conve.
niently do so. Then II flashed across my
HlthA iildL III EuiOu6du uUbeiS ike IUG one
in which we then We're there were nc
! public parl0rs, and ! cursed my own stu
pidity IN not having remembered the fact
( before.
81 apologized for my mistake, and said
that finding the door open | had taken the
/ apartment for public parlor. NY wife
/ apologized, my daughter apOlogized, and
1 the apologize fever even seized upon my
son; But we did not apologize as fully as
we had intended to because neither the
strange gentleman nor his comranion
made the slightest response toiour expla
nations. They continued to gaze at us
/ he sternly and she haughtily. Apologizing
under such discouraging circumstance
is not pleasant. We could do nothing
consequently, but beat retreat, which
we did with our countenances sufiuseC
with bushes and our bosoms filed with
modification. The pOssessor of the sup
posed public parlor watched us, still with
a stern expression, until we were out o
the room. Then the door was closed. W.
had forgotten tor the time being all about
the beauty and msgniticence of the grea
Cologne Cathedral.
q hunted IN the landlord. and asked
him to tell me the name of the gentleman
into whose private parlOr we had stun
bled. why replied re, in an awestrucl
| whisper, that gentleman is my Lord. the
Marquis OF salisbury, a great Englishmaf
"a statesman had heard OF the Mar.
quis, who was then beginning to cut 8
considerable figure in English politics
The tact that his Lordship was man o.
some distinction did not IN the least tend
to lessen the modification and anger
which ! felt. ! spent the remainder o
the evening with my family IN our apart
ments. In fact we locked ourselves
in with the determination that on
that evening at least we should
not render II necessary for The
American Eagle to again hang hi,
proud beak in shame, owing to our igno
rance Of European customs. After think
ing over the matter carefully, could moi
decide wEo ! Was most angry with, my
Lord salisbury, tor refusing to accept ml
/ apologies. as Il seemed 10 me thar any
gentleman should have done under the
circumstances, or with myself for having
tailed 10 remember that IN the hotel Their,
was no such thing as public parlor.
ever since our little conference al
Cologne ! have spoken of the present
Prime Minister OF England, somewhat
ironically perhaps, as my old friend sails
bury"
The silk Trade Of Lyons.