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

in attendance upon him. he was charming, they
will tell YOU" An out-and.out good fellow SAID
one of them. lie had the same air Of well.bred
politeness 10 the officers of the White Star Com
pany and OF the ship. IL was TO be noticed, 700
il YOU cared TO look that the attitude here main.
tanned 10 the royalties was different from what Is
commonly seen on shore-not less courteous, but
n shade less deferential. These men OF the sea
have sitter backbone than the landsmen, ana
the officials of the White Star Company, or some
of them, had the same civil independence OF de-
meanor. One l noticed in particular; L should
like TO name him If had asked his leave lie
went over the ship in close company with Emperor
and Prince and explained her to them as he had to
her other guests in lucid, business-hke, adj.
mirable way, in which the note OF equality
as from man 10 man was always
to be heard. 1t could not have
been better done, but it was not in the manner OF
the customary courtier. friend said 10 him:
You treat the Emperor and the Prince as If
they made OF the same clay as the rest OF US
Yes, the Prince does his work well and / respect
him. and do my work, which is perhaps not less
valuable than his, as we'll as | know how, and
respect myself, too" lie is not man TO be
battered privately or publicly but If You can
manage to guess who he is you also will respect
most perfect tact could not have led him TO adopt
a tone better suited TO the circumstances. or more
acceptable to Emperor and Prince They parted
on the best OF terms. The Emperor, who, as L
said. shook hands with nobody on arriving-not
with the First Lord of the Admiralty himself
shook hands heartily with Mr.. Ismay on leaving.
The name has slipped ont unawares, and VIII
take the risk of letting it stand.
This Imperial visit lasted perhaps IN honr or
more. The Emperor expressed TO Mr.. lsmay IN
strong terms his admiration OF the Ship the like OF
which neither he nor any else had ever seen
thanked him, and so departed amid the same
pageantry and ceremonial and salutes as had
greeted him when he came The Prince Of Wales
was equally outspolSen and cordial, or more so.
As they stood in the gangway the Emperor mo-
toned TO the Prince to 60 first, but the Prince
held back, if TO give precedence to his Imperial
nephew and visitor mistake in etiquette is
the rarest thing in the world with him, but the
naval rule is that the officer OF highest rank
leaves the deck last Perhaps the Emperor
knew best, or perhaps nice Dayal customs curtsey
TO great kings and German Emperors and the
gesture was but meaningless civility. Rightly
or wrongly, down went the Emperor first and
vanished from sight, once more to reappcar IN
the stern sheets Of the smart steam launch OF
the Alberta, and once again upon her decks, and
then no more.
Within half an hour of his going our anchor
up and we were of for Liverpool We passed the
Needles at p. III. Sunday and reached port at
6 p. IN. on Monday miles IN twenty-f0ur
hours which does not seem bad stcamlng. Our
friends of the London and Northwestern Railway
had promised us a special train 10 London, 200
miles further, if we could muster dozen pas
sengers. We mustered forty easily. 10 was
when we landed At twenty minutes past no
order for the special had reached the railway
people at Lime-st. At five minutes 10 we were
steaming out Of the station. Mr.. Fndlay seemed
rather proud of it, must ask Mr.. Drpew VIII ther
lac thinks they could have done better on the
New-York Central q. w. S.