The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-04
And QUEEN
The Royal Reception Given to
Germany's Ruler.
MEETING OF THE sQUADRoss.
SalvOes> Of Artillery, Such as Were. Never
Heard in Battle, Greet willlam-T The
Gorgeous Uniforms. -

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rather strange to thus WELDON a nations
;uest on the national threshold with Ems
fish bull dogs lying in wait, but it was
greeting perfectly in accordance with tn
international amenities of the nineteent
century, and perhaps the kind of WELDON
best appreciated by the latest upholder o
the 'blood and iron policy of the Hohen
zollerns.
The evening opened brilliantly The SIX,
was a dome of royal blue, hung witt
| tangled masses of snowy cotton here ant
| there. Portsmouth harbor and the Solen
were a stretching waste of light greer
1 waves, f1eeced with foam and spangled will
| silver by the August sun. The breeze blew
fresh and steady from the southwest
/ remnants and ensigns stood out as straigh
| as boards; the yachts going outward ben
| gracefully as the wind freshened or less
9ned; ships launches staggered sulkily
through the water as they breasted
| the pillows, and all the sea wss alive with
many kinds of craft, in many different
sizes, rushing in as many different direc
lions.
On the shore things were eGnally pictur.
3sque. Large crowds hurried to points
If vantage along the shore and
IN all the piers and ietties, Ports
mouths inhabitants and visitors were
putting to sea in multitude of many
thousand. Out in the channel lay thirty of
Gngland's war ships in three long parallel
lines. Stretching down the reach seward
were ranged 112 vessels of war, carrying
3, 900 men. They were the most imposing
tight collectively and the most impressive
sight individually.
FOR hours before the big ships of Ger
many arrived to greet ana pass them, they
were objects of great interest to all kinds
IF craft approaching as near to them as the
olack Tipped scowls of the heavy cannon
made them feel inclined. They were
harmless, of course, but they had yester-
lay a surly ''don't-come to-near- me-look'
that kept the cheapest excursion steamers
1t a distance. Inspected closely, these
great castles of floating metal with their
black hulls and yellow upper works really
loo zed all the millions they have cost.
They were in all the styles of naval archi-
lecture which have resulted from the con-
slant changes of the last thirty years.
they were shapeless, shapely and sym
netrical; some of them were decked in and
rthers displayed an amount of complex
hamper in the upper works that would
disappear into shoe strings early in an en-
gagement. There were iron hulls and steel
hulls; simple, compound and triple expan-
sion engines; single screws and twin
screws; broadside and central battery
ships, Barnetts and monitors.
Every vessel represented lot of new
facts in plating, propulsion and armament
mat require liberal education to COM
prehend and the close study of several
sciences to grasp, but they all looked ex
cessiVely injurious to foreign power, and
IS if they had the capacity to do harm, that
was intelligent to the worse informed
Imatuer. The long, lean, black cannon
)eeped from port holes; stuck out of gray
ron sponsors, projected from turrets or
lay in pairs upon barbettes. Lines
If marines in red coats stood with
5heir rifles perpendicular on the
iecks; solitary sentries in red paced
the sides and walked the bridges;
brilliantly dressed officers in gold laced
caps, dark blue coats with gold braid, white
trousers and patent leather shoes, were on
every deck. With them were lady guests
IN dresses of white, pink and pale blue,
perched among the cannon like birds in
sunshop, lending to the picture touch of
feminine friviolity in strong contrast with
the deadly portent of their surroundings.
The Prince of Wales and his party ar
rived from Goodwood as per programme,
and reached the railway in the dock yard
at / o'clock. The approach to the royal
yacht was decorated with flags, and an
awning passage way was carpeted with red
cloth leading to the gangway. With his
royal highness were the Princess of Wales
in light suit of gray silk and cloth, the
two princesses, Prince Albert Victor ard
Prince George. The party on board ais o
included the Duke of Cambridge, Admiral
Sir Harry Keppel, Admiral Sir George
Phipps Horribly, Captain Stephenson, c.
B., Major General Hewitt, Lord Calthorpe
Mr.. Barring, Mr.. Tyrwhitt Wilson and Sir
Francis Knowlys.
AS soon as his royal highness stepped on
board, the royal standard rose glittering at
the main and the party grouped on deck as
the yacht got under way. The Prince and
the Duke of Cambridge were lost to view
Tor a short time and when they reappeared
they had exchanged their Goodwood suits
for uniforms, his royal highness wearing
that of an admiral and the duke field mar
shall uniform. They took position on the
bridge, the Prince lifting his white and
gold cap in response to the flag salutes from
the war ships and Tightening the monotony
of the voyage by cigarette.
The interest centered in the German
squadron which was still invisible to the
hundreds of glasses that swept the horizon
of the channel At $50 there was pictur-
esque group of crowd of vessels about the
Mob light, the Osborne leading the way.
She wore around and with only steam
enough to maintain steering way moved
slowly back At 3:45 the little German
feet of ironclads was deserted with
the hulls down on the horizon but
rapidly came int complete view
under full head of steam
AS they came nearer and nearer it was seen
that the Hohenzollern, black screw
yacht, seemingly about the size of the Os-
borne, but looking like pigmy in front of
the big black war ships behind, was flying
the German imperial standard at the main
and the white British ensign at the fore
As the Hohenzellern passed the light ship,
the German ensign of blue bars on white
ground broke out at the fore of the Os-
borne, and the British ensign came fiutter-
ing down instantly. The same thing took
place all along the line of the fleet, the red
and white of Great Britain giving place to
the blue and white of Prussia. On the
bridge of the Hohenzollern stood Emperor
William in cooked hat and the uniform of
an admiral of the German navy. Beside
him were Count Herbert Bismark and
Prince Henry of Prussia, also in cooked
hats, and dark blue uniforms, all three
being heavily ornamented with gold braid
and bullion fringe. The Hohenz 0llern
came up abreast of the Osborne, the bridge
of the latter being occupied by the royal
party. There was much fiuttering of hand
kerchiefs and nodding of heads between the
royal reception party and the imperial
guest, and then the German feet thun-
dered out salute of twenty one gnns,
their salute to the royal British standard.
The effect, though small in comparison with
the noise that followed, was very striking
one. Flashes of light and shoots of smoke
sprang from the sides of the big floating
batteries, and the smoke rose in clouds to
envelope them, with big white wreaths'o of
it curling away up into the sky. The Ger