The record-union., 1891-08-15
An American Lady Finds Them
Very Uncomfortable.
She Compares Them With the Splen-
did American Service How the
German Emperor Appeared ON
Dress Parade During His Late Visit
to England.

Oud little railway carriages which await
the traveller between Liverpool and Lon
don. The exterior of the low-roofed
trains reminds one of the queer plates
representing the earliest experiments in
railway architecture. To the American
eye, accustomed to long, solid-looking
cars, they look like toys, with their low
roofs and sides painted in panels of
brown and white. The guard, who had
accepted fee from the masculine part of
our party to find me seat in one of the
compartments, showed Yankee-like
astuteness in the cleverness with which
| he managed to rid himself of all RESPONSE
bility. All seats in the saloon carriages
were occupied, and it seemed difficult to
find one in any of the compartments.
The door of one stood open, however,
and Its only occupant was queer-loOk-
| ing old woman surrounded by parcels
ana boxes. How will this do ?" asked
the guard. cit looks a little smaller than
| the Others" l Ventured. only q {ittte
smaller" said the guard, who thereupon
! deposited me in the little red-carpeted
compartment. believing, | suppose, that
! would reach London before l diScoV-
cred that l was riding in a Sec0nd-ciGSS
| compartment on q tiISt-claSS ticket.
| Rescued from this by my friends, [
yet believe that | should have been much
more comfortable travelling second class,
for anything moro uncomfortable than
| that firSt-class compartment it is difficult
to imagine. With q seat bearing no re-
lation TO the postures one would like to
! take, with no resting place for ones feet,
! the American traveller signs for the COM
| Portable cars of his native land. Nor does
it seem to the unprejudiced that the Eng
| liShman by his system secures his dearly
! iC tN
spare on a train party OF two or three
may, of course, secure a compartment to
themselves, but when the train is
crowded, and indeed at most times one
is apt to be seated vis-a-vis to some one
whom it is almost annoying to face i'll
this fashion.
Between Liverpool and London the
scenery is such as one has many
times heard described-gently rolling
hills with heavy green turf, great fields
with their focks Of sheep, comfortable
looking mansions Of stone or gray
brick, picturesque churches, and here
and there a little village with it's low
rooted cottages. There is none Of the
roughness, and little of the newness to be
seen from the windows OF cars in the
United States.
To arrive in London, as we did, at
time when the loyal subjects of the
| Queen were worked up to high pitch of
enthusiasm over the visit Of the German
Emperor, IS certainly thing to remem-
Der, since 1t gives an opportunity
to make study of the London crowd at
its best. 1t must have been at its best,
this crowd that filled the streets the day
the Emperor rode to GuildhalI, for it was
better-dressed, cleaner-looking and more
orderly than newspaper accounts of Lon
don crowds would have led one to eX-
pect. Nevertheless it was a crowd ex-
ceedingly anxious to see the Emperor,
and it formed an almost solid mass from
| sidewalk to sidewalk until the appear
ance of the guards and the mounted po-
| lice. The clearing of the streets by these
| officials was a work of art; the huge,
| sleek horses understood their part almost
| without a signal from their riders. They
| backed and backed, pressing men and
| women into smaller space, until the
| watchers from the windows above could
| but wonder when they would stop. The
! horses, however, knew when TO stop. and
! the crowd, too, was good natured. Occa-
sionally when man or woman broke
the ranks and struggled along the edge
! of the crowd, the policeman standing
near would seize the offending individual
and roughly fling him or her back among
| the crowd. Yet man or woman, as the
case might be, each one seemed to take
this rough handling good-humoredly,
| and many a one laughed in the very faces
| of the officers of the law.
The little street boys undoubtedly had
! the hardest time of all, for after they had
mounted the lamp-posts by the dozen,
and in. many cases had held their posi-
| tions for hours, the police came along and
| at one fell sweep ordered them down.
They had waited so long, and had strug-
gled SO hard to maintain themselves on
! the lamp-posts, that il seemed as if they
! deserved the reward of seeing the En-
| peror from the exalted hight they had
| chosen. The royal procession did not
make its appearance until an hour or
! more after the expected time.
1.-The German Emperor takes his own
| time," said one tired waiter; ''he has
| kept everybody waiting ever since he
came to England" In spite of their
| eagerness to catch Il glimpse of him, the
] English masses apparently do not love
| the German Emperor. They dread the
| commercial rivalry of Germany, and
some of the funniest music-hall songs
contain humorous illusions to the grasp
| ing nature of the Germans.
The decorations along the Emperors
| route were unusually gorgeous. Above
| the heads of the crowd on CheapSide
| fioated flags and streamers in protusion,
| but to an American eye, unique, AID per-
| haps most beautiful of all We're the great,
! festoons of artificial roses to be seen at
| frequent intervals suspended from one
| side of the street to the other. These
paper flowers with their soft, delicate
| tints were the most nearly perfect reproe
| duction imaginable of real flowers Par
| ticularly beautiful were they at one point
where they were extended from four
corners of a square to meet a huge impe-
rial crown hung in mid-air over point
| where the Emperor was to pass. When,
| at last the Emperor passed our window,
we were repaid for one long hour OF
waiting. The most rabid republican
must be at least interested by q glimpse
| of royalty in its best clothes. Ifone were
to find any fault it would simply be that
their majesties and the various high
nesses, and the others ofless degree rolled
along rather too swiftly-almost without
due regard to the admiring spectators.
| Yet, although it was sometimes hard to
| identify individuals, royalty collectively
was exceedingly interesting. The scarlet
| equerries, the magnificent carriages dec
GRATED often in brilliant colors and gold.
the powdered footlnen, the attendant
guards on their superb horses, formed
! spectacle impossible to equal in the
! United States. AS for the various Princes
and Princesses themselves, the ''royal-
| ties" according to common English par
| lance, they looked no better, no worse
| than the ordinary gentleman and gen
| tlewoman. Practically all the royal
| family except the Queen were in attend
ance on the Emperor and Empress, the
women in pretty, even ordinary-looking
summer costumes, the men looking al
and great plumed hats. The graceful
bearing of the Princess of Wales made
her at once quickly recognized, and she
and the Prince were loudly cheered AS
for the Emperor himself there was that
in his appearance which impressed those
who saw him with a sense of his power.
l myself was especially struck by the
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