The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-12
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN's GUARD.
Provided by secretary Bayard at the
C.nat nf IA1n11t q . 900

Provided by Secretary Bayard at the
Cost Of About $4,000,
Erastus Wimans friends in the Canadian
Club were greatly astonished, says the New
York sun, when they discovered at the
close of the dinner that tho club gave at
Demonicos last week TO Joseph Chamber
lain, NJ. 7. and British Fisheries Commits
sioner, that Pinkerton detective had been
watching Mr.. Chamberlain all through the
banquet to see that nobody harmed him Their
surprise was greater than ever when they
found three other detectives waiting at the
entrance of Delmoncos to guard the Eng
lish NJ p. on his way to his carriage. One
of the detectives with a revolver in his out
side pocket sat upon the carriage box when
the NJ. p. started for the steamship Umbria,
and three others, with more revolvers in
their clothes, followed close in another car
riage and kept upa strict surveillance of the
NJ. p until the Umbria was out in mid
stream.
1t was not until the day after the dinner
that the Canadian Club members learned
that the detectives were present at tho ban
quet by the special order of the American
State Department. All four of the detec-
tives We're engaged by the government a
few days before the steamer that brought
Mr. Chamberlain over in December arrived,
and they were on hand IN a cluster when he
landed, and never left him during his entire
eighte EN- weeks sojourn in America and
Canada Their work Of guarding him was
divided into twos, so that at least two Of
them could be in personal attendance upon
him while the other two were asleep. Every
where he went at least two of the detectives
were within twenty feet Of him. and on
certain occasions all four were present as II
body guard
1t was stated the day after Mr.. Chamber
lain started for home that the government
had engaged this guard and kept it up so
steadily because the American government
could not afford to have Mr.. Chamberlain
even run the risk of being insulted, much
| less molested, and it was said that Secretary
| Bayard had engaged the detectives as a pro-
| tective measure because he feared that GER
| tain citizens who are outspoken in their
anti-English sentiments might engage Mr..
! Chamberlain in personal debate in the street
upon the Irish question.
1t is fact that the detectives we're or
| dered to keep at a distance from Mr. Cham
| berlain anybody who showed q desire TO
| approach him in this spirit, or who evinced
a disposition to do anything but doff their
| hats in deferential salute to him.
The detectives watched him when he
went TO attend the conferences of the Fishe-
| ries Commission with Secretary Bayard,
| and followed him everywhere in the streets
| at distance of few feet upon all occa-
sions. When he went to dinner in the
| hotel they were right on the threshold, and
| when he received friends in the parlor they
| walked up and down the corridor, keeping
an eye on the visitors. They patrolled the
| hotel corridor when he was asleep in his
room, too, and one or more Of them invaria-
| bly, slept IN an adjoining room TO be on hand
| instantly if he called for help. This sur
veillance was maintained with as much
| strctness in Canada as in Washington and
| New York, for when he crossed the border
| the detectives were informed that there was
a feeling Of intense dislike for Joseph there
also.
1t is said that the detectives looked upon
their task as a sort of vacation. Whatever
the personal bias of the citizens on the fish
cry question might have been in any par
| ticular locality, no one, the detectives dis
covered seemed to consider j. NJ Cham
| berlain a person sufficiently important to
bother about.
On three occasions only in the whole
eighteen weeks of his travels did the detec-
tives have any chance 10 make them
selves known. One night in the first
week of Mr.. ChambeTlain5 sOjourn he came
out of Delmonico's cafe and entered his
carriage. a man followed and thrust his
head in the carriage door and spoke TO the
Member of Parliament The detectives on
the carriage box instantly ordered him TO
leave, and the stranger looked up in cOnsid-
erable astonishment and turned on
his heel cvorpowered by the singu-
lar courtesy. On another occa-
sion when Mr. Chamberlain was walking
on Pennsylvania avenue, and after he hBd
been pointed out by several Washngtonians
who were promenading, citizen stepped
up and spoke TO him. Tho two detectives
NJ 1 l..
rushed to his side and ordered the man off,
Finally, when them. Z. was in Philadelphia
n man stepped up to his carriage and essayed
TO address him, but was promptly orderc1
away by the detective on the box.
A New Yorker who heard of this detec-
tive surveillance sad yesterday that il
would cost the Government between 81, 900
and 81 800. A Sun reporter asked Chief
Detective Robert Pinkerton il this was 10
be the cost If his guardianship Of the Brit
isher, but Mr.. Pinkerton declined to say
anything whatever Oh the subject. He
hasn't yet sent in his bill TO Secretary Bay
ard.
1t was learned yesterday that it is not an
uncommon thing at all for the government
10 thus employ detectives TO guard certain
foreign visitors to this country, and the
statement was made 10 the reporter th at
our own government officials are constantly
under the guard Of detectives, both in
Washington and when they are visiting
other cities. Whenever President Cleve-
land or Secretary Whitney or Secretary
Bayord visits this city, Inspector Ryrnes
always assigns four Of his best detectives TO
guard the President or Secretary all the
time he Is in town, and the inspector per-
sonally meets tho distinguished visitor at
the railroad depot on his arrival and bids
him good by on his departure. The govern
ment doesn't have to pay for this incidental
guardianship, however
Crops at Grand Island.
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