Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-03-16
JOSEPH CAANBERLAIN'S GUARD.
PROVIDED BY SECRETARY BAY
ARD AT THE COST OF
ABOUT $4,000.
From the New York Sun

Canadian Club were greatly aston
ished when they discovered, at the
close of the dinner ttat the clut
gave at DelmOnico's last week tC
Joseph Chamberlain, NJ. i. aud
British Fisheries Commissioner
thai a PinkertOn detective had
been watching Mr.. Chamberlain all
through the banquet to see that
nobody harmed him. Their sur
prise was greater than ever when
they found three other detectives
waiting at the entrance of DelmOn'
ico's to guard the English NJ. p. on
his way to his carriage One OF
the detectives, with revolver in
his outside pocket, sat upon the
carriage box when the NJ. u. start
ed for The steamship Umbria, and
three others, with more revOlvers
in their clothes, followed close in
another carriage and kept up strict
surveillance of the NJ. II. until the
Umbria was ont in midstream.
IL was not until the day after the
that dinner the Canadian Club mem.
bers learned that the detectives
were present at the banquet by
the special order of the American
State Department. All four of the
detectives were engaged by the Gov
eminent a few days before the
steamer that brought Mr.. Chamber
lain over in December arrived, and
they were on hand in cluster when
he landed, and never LETT him dur
ing his entire eighteen weeks so.
iourn in America and Canada
Their work of guarding him was
divided into towns, 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, aud on certain occasions all
four we're present as a body guard.
1t was stated the day after Mr..
Chamberlain 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.. Cham.
berlain even run the risk OF being
insulted, much less molested, and
it was said that Secretary Bayard
had engaged the detectives as a
protective measure because he
feared that certain citizens who
are Outspoken in their anti English
sentiments might engage Mr.. Cham
berlain IN personal debate in the
street upon the Irish question.
It is a fact that the detectives
we're ordered to keep at a distance
from Mr.. Chamberlain anybody
who showed a 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 Fisheries Commission with Sec
rotary Bayard, and followed him
everywhere in the streets at dis
lance of a few feet npOn all Occa.
si0ns. When he went TO dinner in
the hotel they were right on the
threshold, and when he received
friends in the parlor they walked
np and down the corridor, keeping
an eye on the visitors. They pa
trolled the hotel corridor when he
was asleep in his room, too, and
one or more Of them invariably
slept in an adjoining room to be on
hand instantly If he called for help.
This surveillance was maintained
with Just as much strictness in
Canada as IN Washington and New
York, for when he crossed the Dor
der 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 sort Of
vacation. Whatever the personal
bias of the citizens on the fishery
question might have been in any
particular locality, no one, the de-
tectives discovered, seemed to con-
slider j. VI. Chamberlain q person
sufficiently important to bother
about.
On three occasions only in the
whole eighteen weeks of his travels
did the detectives have any chance
to make themselves known. One
night IN the first week of Mr.. Cham
berlain's 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 VI. =. The detec
tives on the carriage box instantly
ordered him to leave, and the
stranger looked up in considerable
astonishment and turned on his
heel oyerpOwered by the singular
courtesy. On another occasion
when cir. Chamberlain vas walk
ing on Pennsylvania avenue, and
after he had been pointed out by
several Washingtonians who were
prOmenading, a citizen stepped up
and spoke to him. The two detec
tives who were walking behind
him instantly rushed to his side
and ordered the man off. Finally,
when the NJ. p. was IN Philadel
phia man stepped up to his car.
riage and essayed to address him,
but was promptly ordered away
by the detective Oh the box.
A aew Yorker who heard Of this
detective surveillance said yester.
( day that 1t would cost the Govern
ment between $4,000 and $4,000
A Sun reporter asked Chief Detec
tive Robert PlnkertOn if this was
to be the cost of his guardianship
OF the Britisher, but Mr.. PinkertOn
declined to say anything whatever
on the subject. He hasn't yet sent
in his bill to Secretary Bayard.
1t was learned yesterday that it
is not an uncommon thing at all for
the eminent to thus employ
detectives to guard certain foreign
visitors to this country, and the
statement was made to the re-
porter that our own Government
officials are constantly under the
guard of detectives both in Wash
ingtOn and when they are visiting
other cities. Whenever President