Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-07
VICTORIA AT OSBORNE.
How the English Queen Rules the
ROost in Her Marine Palace.

Isle Of Wight Letter an Ph1lGdeIphSd Press
Her Majesty has moved her court TO her
summer residence, Osborne, on the north
ern shore of the Isle Of Wight, and 1t IS a
curious fact that on the eve OF her ue-
parture from Windsor Castle one OF the
1unatic visitors frequently 10 be met WIN
here turned up. with large knife upon
shis person, and almost the first Individual
the Queen observed on her arrival al
Cowes was man of somewhat eccentric
manners, similarly stricken with ad-
imlratiOn of his sovereign. victoria IL
the butt of madmen. They hover ABOUT
her as moths around candle. More than
once her life has been threatened by them
and she scarcely makes public appear.
ance without the arrest by the police OF
some deranged subject is the cOnSe-
quence. Indeed the yigilant waicbful-
ness OF the civic force alone prevents the
greater frequency of these contretemps,
and some say that it is the dread OF these
occurrences acting upon woman's
NERVES which drives the Queen into the
'sOlituIes OF Scotland or the secluson OF
the Isle o. Wight tor the better part of the
year.
Her Majesty's Isle of Wight crankish
adOrer is a man of some means, and
whence he comes or whittier be goes no.
body knows; but just before the Queen is
due at Osborne he puts in an appearance
at Ventua or Ryde. One of his great pc
culiaritIes is that he hates to be stared at,
and when he detects person looking at
him will tear along the street at full pelt,
and then hide IN an alley or court until
all danger OF observation Is past. But bis
great craze is to drive fOur-in-hapd with
positions TO boot, and in such guise be
drives down 10 the landing where her
Majesty dlsembarks from the royal yacht
bringing her from Portsmouth.
H. rsv.t. 10 ral1 20 h nj
residence, although the principal one, is
not available for people dependent on the
steam packet service, as boats to Cowes
are run in the summer only. There have
been occasions when Cabinet Ministers,
summoned to Il council or attending 10 re-
ceive or else to return the seals OF office,
have had 10 drive all the ten miles OF road
from hyde TO Osborne. TWAS this route
" hich was taken by Gladstone when he
displaced Disraeli in 1874 and kissed
hands at Osborne on his appointment as
First Lord OF the Treasury. The hackney
carriage drivers OF Ryde are on the look
out for these visits, not because they
get extra fares from such dstin-
guished travellers, but because
tue hospitality OF Osborne is ex-
tended to them. They are treated to a
good square meal, with a horn of beer, in
the royal kitchen. No money is gwen
them at the front entrance, but they are
required to drive round TO the side door,
where royal footman pays them. AS
every entrance to the royal demesne is
watched by police as well as military, no
one without proper business is admitted,
and the occupant of the carriage, be he
who 1t may, has to deliver his card,
whilst the number Of the vehicle and that
of the drivers badge are duly noted. On
returning from the PARK the driver has to
sign book, as kind of delivery receipt,
to make sure that no carriage once hav-
ing gained admission can lOiter about I'M
detected for any nefarious purpose.
There are some Iive or six lodges occu-
pied by police and military during the
reason, besides the gardeners and others
VINO are regular tenants. They are band
some buildings. OF red brick and with red
lied roof, wainscoated windows, and
some with stone verandas. In architect
IRE they resemble that OF all the buildings
"a the estate, and 1t may be observed that
lie Queen keeps special brick yard for
ts,a manufacture OF the red bricks requir-
ell 1t is situated near TO the Prince Con-
; farm. There are others, known by
1e names of the royal children, but thew
ail sublet to farmers. They are we'll
-.ii. 0B the model system, brick taking
OF wood, with some loss perhaps In
'a'csque effect, such as d tum ble-dOwn,
'uvI-worn barn gives, but much gain
HustaDtiality.
itbOrers' cottages are similarly de-
. ana are we'll worthy of their own
Inese tenements are usually in rows,
s.ea With a large piece of garden ground
e' stocSed, so that the position of the
rcIltural la5orer. with SO week
y ~ living rent free, is rather enyied
~ lie locality, tue more especially as the
Queen does not forget her servants In
their old aud declining days. At Whip
bingham, opposite the church where
Princess Beatrice was married, she has
erected some pleasant almshouses, which
are entirely supported out of the royal
prlvy purse.
the regular congregation of Whipping.
ham church for the most part consists of
the Queens pensioners and employees.
She paid for the entire cost OF it's erection.
it was designed by the Prince Consort, to
whose memory 1t contains a beautiful
mural monument, put up "by his devoted
and broken-hearted Victoria" 1t is under
the shadow of this monument, secure
from the vulgar gaze, that the Queens
chair is placed, in view Of the members
of her own household seated in the chan.
Gel, but completely hidden from the curl.
GUS crowd who throng the little church
whenever there is a prospect OF her Ma
jesty attending one of it's services.
Victoria never permits herself to forget
her husband, but in ner remembrance of
the dead she does not NEGLECT the living.
Her nearest neighbor at Osborne Is her
youngest daughter, VINO has had allotted
10 her little bit of house, such as nav
be found by the dozen in suburban Lon.
don, having double 'front.'. e., a door
in the centre, with a window each side, a
grass lawn and flower bed in front. The
residences OF the Grown Princess of Ger.
many and OF the Prince of w ales are only
divided by wire fence stretched across
The ground, and they are within easy
reach OF Os. orne. There Is always some
one at Osborne, the Queen having plenty
of grandchildren, and consequently the
establishment is somewhat of a large one
But the stables are by no means eXten.
siye, most of the horses aud carriages be-
ing hired. In fact, the Queen keeps only
eight on the island.
To look after these eight horses there is
such number Of upper servants that thu
poor stabiemen get very badly paid
Three dollars week and a bed is the re
turn they receive for day of twelve
hours. They rise at S a. III. and knock of
Mt D p. m, with an hour for dinner, and In
the absence OF the Queen the occupants
OF her house take care there shall be nc
lack Of work. Women servants, buffers
tackles, walters, and flunkles ride about
III imitation OF the ladies and gentlemet
in waiting who ara muoh moro rovo'