The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-28
BOsTON's SOLDIERS IN LONDON.
FRINGE oil Wales Takes the Lead In En-.
tertaining Them


London Letter In New York Three
FROM many points OF view VI would be
easy to exagGerate the international siS-
zancance OF the Joyous good time which
al Classes or Londoners are conspirsng 10
give the Ancient and Honorable visitors
from Boston Individually they are types
OF the Americans who have always been
neAgEtediy welcomed here by all who had
me cnance OF meeting them. Their COM
ans W q body. with guns. flags and that
superb Salem Cadet band, which knocks
everything Londoners are in the bahst az
nearing. has simply mnat,plisd this
cnsnce or extending hospitality to an in
dcnnife degree. Their hosts are atraaav
looking rather pallid and used IN. but tba
saests are still as bright as a dollar. They
khow me whole royal family and a good
Par. OF the peerage by sight. and as for
the Prince OF Wales, ne seems ike an "a
friend TO them. 1t was de,lrh.fu1 n ma
wnen they met for the first time Thurs
Gay evening. With what electric swiffness
poth the prince and the visitors rrcog
nized that they were made for one an
other. All through the evening the prince
wore board and unctuous smile. ike
noVninS else 30 much as 1t was ike the
grsn on the conventional efiigies of King
~ eat dinner for their eagerness Ia he I'm
and on their feet. splitting the air with
yeLs or affection for this admirable good
ieiiow. who wore his blue Carter "a sh
win ordinary evening clothes and mlnia
fure orders on his lapel to give the occa-
sion Its highest possible note OF formal
importance, but at the same time to make
1t all seem free and easy.
So immense was the crush or no,ahas.
at THIS huge feast that men like Chauncev
NJ Depew and Henry Irving had incon-
spieuous seats at side tables. where they
were sandwiched In among london nrj-
Yates who had never heard Of Mr.. Danaw
ana had never seen Irving save from the
shilling gallery. These privates OF the
isohoon honorable Artillery gave no lit
tie anxiety TO those who knew them best
at the outset. for they are socially ~ a
vastly different grade from the Boston
visitors. and this generally makes things
awkward IN England. but thanks To the
Wild whirl OF activity imposed on every
body by the programme there was tiYra
for nothing but ardent and sustained
cheerfulness all round Mr.. Bayard's
nonie speech caught these young clerks
and shopmen OF London. Open-mouthed
In wonder and admiration they cheerea
him and all his words about the common
ties OF the two lands as they probably
had never cheered anything before Ga
their lives, and the Boston.ans were
equally vcciferoua Il was the Prince 81
naiess however. who was the real hero
or the occasion and who, along with the
princess. who yesterday made the pretty
point OF having the Stars and Stripes
brought 20 her and fondling the SILK In
her hands. VIII remain upncrruo.. IN tire
memory of the Ancients Nothing ha.
been lacking 10 prove what I Insisted on
last January. that. 50 far a. the court
here II concerned. II is profoundly a~x-
.ous 70 maintain the warusest relations
between the two countries A century
ago u was the court which hated America
and the politicians who deniorci this
hatred. George Ills only living grand
son. th. Duke Of Cambridge. Stir rather
shares this ancestral feeling. but his
cousin victor.s has another view, and her
son ana heir goes so much further IN the
same direction that by comparison the
modern English politicians seem almost
anti American.