New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-25

| some miles away; at first confused cluster
Then. minute by minute. objects detach them
| selves from each other, and presently you become
| aware that the German Emperor is approaching
English shores under the escort OF his German Meet
all in line abreast; the two yachts-hs own anu
the Prince's-ako abreast, and little ahead. IL
is a stately and splendid spectacle none finer TO
| he seen These ten or twelve great German IRON
| clads keep their line abreast tue as IL they
we're German regiment moving up the Inter den
| Linden i'm company front: distances between the
sbips exactly equal; tEeir speed the same 10
| turn of the screw. 1t is an escort worthy OF an
Emperor As we lie there between the forts look.
ing out sea, this mighty squadron bears straight
| down on us: stretching from port TO starooaru
perhaps half mile, steaming slowly; looking, so
long as you don't glance back at that vast heeV
behind US at anchor irresistible as it is majestic
But while the Germans are yet a mile away 10
seward, a signal hutters up on the Engish Al
mirars ship, and the English fleet begins saiu'ins.
| Then comes rush of fame and white smoke anu
n roar Of guns all along the triple line. thougnc
again of that sombre day in Berlin year ago
| las, March. when the old Emperor went to his
grave: then, too English cannon in these same
waters. and as in many more distant SEAS Ill
| over the globe. were heard in homage 10 a German
Kaiser.
The Teutonc had anchored almost in the PAIN
way of this Imperial procession; so near that IL he
German ships had kept their formation IN hne
abreast they would have passed both ahead ana
astern of the great ship that lay ofoao'iue 10
them. She was. in fact, in the exact spot where
she ought to be. For an hour the German hhe
was drawn across the horizon between us ana the
omen sea- Emperor and ships drawing steadily
| nearer and looming larger. Then half mile away
! the order changed; the ships fell into single
| column astern instead Of abreast. and so passeu
under the stern of the Teutonlc not TWO caples
| length away the two yachts still leading ana SUN
abreast neither taking precedence OF the o'her'
We coud see the Emperor in his English Admirals
uniform. and Prince Henry, his brother and l
Thought | made out the tall figure of Count
Herbert Bismarck The ships were in full dress
! their bulwarks lined with sailors, marines drawn
| M ON the decks Sailors and marines stood like
statues, erect, stiff, immovable and extremely
German. No English blGejackets were ever quite
| so rigid as this; it is not their way. English
| bulwsrks, too are lined and English yards are
| manned. but with living figures. Not bronze or
marble like these singular visitors who BRING
| with them as il were, a manner more military
! than naval; hint OF pipeclay and Of that ramrod
| which Ieine long since said the Prussan soldier
| looked as if he had first been thsashed with
| and then swallowed Thus heralded and thus
attended the Emperor moved on; he and his SHIPS
| in full view of the English fleet, itself
| in full view; and they vanished from our sight
after passing the English lines in the smoke OF
their own answering guns; answering the guns
of the fleet, l suppose, and saluting their hostess.
| the Queen, at Osborne.
The dinner of ceremony on the Teutonic, III
which the ships health and her owners healths
were TO be drunk was fixed for this same Friday
evening Guests who were to come down from
London TO join at g. IL was before
they came alongside, and we spent the interval
in wondering whether the South Western iEllwey
had given up trying to get It's trains through
| However, to be not more than two hours late on
that line is to be in good time, and we SAT down
| little before 3 80. Z" No dressing was MI
Ismay's order, ladies' appeared in every posi-
BILE variety of costume, from the yachting cap
and fascinating shirt and taiormade gown 10
demi-toette and in case, full evening undress.
Ii was a brilliant scene Every seat in the saloon
was filed and never | think any ships
saloon filed with a interesting collection OF
people nor in more splendid setting vi
course there were speeches, not one OF which am
in position TO ask you to read, nor would II
could. Speeches-after-dinner speeches above all
others-are made 10 be heard not read. We lis
tened in spirit Of docility to the First Lord of
the Admiralty Lord George Hamilton, rather won
dering that SO great official could make so
genial a speech; TO Mr.. 1smay, wondering again
whether he had not missed an evident vocation
| for Parliament and the platform; and to Mr..
Graves, mis- partner, whose rhetoric in higher
key than any other and needed to be- for he had TO
propose a toast in which Canada came before the
United States and Sir Charles Upper was sum-
moned as a prelude to Mr.. Chauncey De pew.
Sir Charles felt the uncertainty of the situation,
and waited for his American colleague, but the
American was even more retiring than the Cana
dian and Sir Charles had to rise first lie grace
fully began in the deprecatory, almost Apologize,
tone of one who felt that his position not
easy There was immense curiosity to hear Mr..
Depew, whose fame has preceded him, but who
had not, | think, spoken in England before that
night. lie chose TO appear in his most humorous
| manner. During the first half Of his speech he
was dry, sententious, quaint, pointed, deliberate,
giving full time TO his English audience 10 mas
ter this novel American appeal to their perceptive
faculties Every hit told, every phrase was fin
ished; the gravity of the speaker unrufied while
his hearers laughed nothing could have been bet
ter Then came story not TO the taste of the
company-the cemetery story with the transpantcd
wjfe-they WINGED and wthered up. and their
sensitive leaves refused to unfold again Mr.. De-
pew did not make allowance enough for the diff
ference between English and American at moments
he seemed hardly aware that his listeners and
hosts were English even the scream Of the Ma
tonal bird was once family heard, and he sat
down amid less enthusiasm than would have
greeted him five minutes sooner. But what is TO
be observed is this, that no man spoke thereafter,
either that night or at the speech-ma<ing luncheon
with which we wound up three days later, with
out quoting Mr. Dcpew or referring TO him and
his speech, or fathering some joke of his own on
our Anne rican orator That perhaps is the best
com pliment to be paid him.
The next day was doomed to be day Of dis
appointment. 1t was the day fixed for the Re-
view, but neither Review nor inspection was des-