The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-27
GUARDING THE QUEEN.
Rema rkable Precautions Taken for
Her Majcsty's safety.

| Correspondence London Mail.
The arrangements made for the Queens
! personal safety during her stay on the
/ Riviera are this year far more elaborate
| than formerly. The tragic death of the En-
press of Austria, the continual spread OF
anarchy in France, and the marked hostil-
| ity towards the English have combined to
arouse the authorities to an increased sense
| of duty.
The Kissing Of representation of her
Majesty at a Nice music hall-for which,
after all the denials given to the report the
mayor, at the order of the City Council of
Nice, called upon Sir L. Monsoon. the British
ambassador. and apologized-may have been
but slight incident but it served TO show
the hostile feeling abroad. and to open the
! eyes OF those responsible for the Queens
safety. Thus they have been induced to
make the most careful preparations to in
| sure the constant surveillance of any sus-
| pected persons.
a large staff of both English and French
! detectives are to be employed in watching
her Majesty.
The English section will, as usual, be under
| the direction of Mr.. Superintendent Fraser,
| OF Scotland Yard, who is always on duty
| wherever the Queen may be, and VINO. as
ner personal sc protector mas receSnd many cf
| the royal household no man probably stands
IN higher esteem with the Queen than Mr.
| Fraser. and certainly no one has more del
| icate CT difficult task to perform in these
| days or cranks and Anarchists.
| Eis assistants while AZ Nice will consist
| Of two of his own inspectors. together with
| quite number of officers from Scotland
| yard, and these, under his direction VIII
| Keep an Argus eye upon any or the many
| cemented Englishmen who somehow always
! appear at the gates of the Excelsior Hotel
| and demand audiences Of their sovereign.
| IL is surprising how many there are whose
one idea in life is to seek audience of the
| Queen in order that their imaginary wrongs
| may be redressed. and such persons, know
| ing the impossibility of entering the royal
presence at BalmOral. Osborne or Windsor,
follow the Queen abroad in the belief that
there she Will be more accessible Many of
these people bear hgh-sounding titles: but
as Mr. Fraser has made them one of MS
studies, and is personally acquainted with
their grievances, he interviews them all
deals with them and "chokes them off, with
diplomacy worthy that OF an ambassador
The French detective system is perhaps
the best in the world; merely because of
the power of arrest and search il possesses.
| The French officers whose duty il is to
guard her Majesty's person will. as before.
be under the direction of NJ. Paoli, the chief
| of the surveillance of the Garde de Lyon, in
Paris, and will include some thirty detec-
tives of various grades. The duty of these
is to keep watch upon any French suspec ::
The manner in which the police worked
last year was marvellous. In Nice and
Cfmiez they go about unknown and unrec-
ognized by the local authorities, but with
such effect that suspected Anarchists or
those arriving i'm Nice with suspicion
| against tneln, quickly receive a visit from
local detective. bearing an order for their
instant expulsion from the town. In this
manner: during the two past years while
her Majesty has been at Cimiez, more than
one hundred suspects were expelled.
No lady of any rank or nationality holds
a higher place in the esteem and affection
of the majority of the Nicois than our
sovereign. Her coming is eagerly antici-
pated. and the fact of her preference of the
residence is the subject of the proudest sat
isfacuon 10 the inhabitants. Nevertheless.
there is quite a large Anarchist center. and
1t therefore behooves the French police to
exert every precauton for the Queens pro-
lection from insult or injury.
! Last year. certain were the authorities
of the arrangements they had made for the
safety of their royal visitor that upon her
afternoon drives TO the various villages she
police officer. Many times indeed. was the
royal carriage drawn up beneath the olives
at the roadside, where al fresco tea was
served. the servants and utensils having
. been sent on ahead. The Queen delights i'm
taking tea at the roadside during her drives
on the Riviera, and the absence of any
guard was due to her own request.
This year, however, her advisers have
impressed upon her the necessity of ex-
| IRENE caution. and although the display of
, police protection will not be ostentatious, as
1t is with many foreign sovereigns. never
, theesS there will not be q single moment
5 | when her Majesty will not be under the
r | protection of her own police, combined with
2 ! those of France. On the of her visit
| however, il is scarcely reassuring when one
| reads such articles those appearing in
4 | that anti-Semetic organ. which has of late
? | become somewhat influential. the Libre
I | Parole. This interesting specimen of mod.
| ern Partisan Journalism frankly advises the
/ Queen TO go somewhere else, and openl,
charges her with displaying constant anC
deeprooted antipathy toward France.
Z | Articles such these calculated to in
! | crease the present hostility towards oul
: | country and our Queen. Nevertheless, Eng
, lshmen at home may rest assured that then
: Fraser and NJ. Paoli. Inside the little greer
| gate which gives entrance To the wing OF
: her apartments there is small lodge
3 | wherein during her residence there sits al
elderly French concierge presiding over hel
but natural that English people-and for
r elgners too-should call at the hotel and in
from ea 1r morning tin dusk there is aeon con-
e | slant stream of persons passing in and on
4 of that gate. where the Alpine sentry II
1 | beret and blue stockings stands for the ad
I miration of the small crowd of the Nicoi:
! | outside
+ Each person passing in to sign his name
: Is carefully scrutinized, yet he Is utterly
I | unconscious of it, While he signs his nam,
j and departs by the way he came nothins
q | step in the direction of the door leading e
! | the royal apartments he will be confronted
by a tall gentleman in silk hat and i'm
Z | maculate frock coat. who will politely ash
| his business. smile affably, and then gra
Q | ciously bow him out. No one ever contrive
A | TO escape the eye OF the ever-watchfu
: | Fraser.
\ Should it chance to be a person of any
. | Other nationality nut EnSlSn VINO mas -
I | unwiseiy taken a step forward upon the for
hidden ground, then NJ. Paoli. a short
rather stout, well-dressed man of typica
| Partisan aspect will instantly arise befor,
him, his shoulders elevated to his ears. hi:
: palms exhibited. and his face beaming will
Z | smiles. A few words, much gestcula ton
. | many apologies and the unfortunate person
who, prompted by curiosity. has taken th'
e false step is quickly shown out into The
| roadway.
, Her Majesty has always been efficiently
guarded when on her continental visits, bu
| this year, with the great increase in the
, | number of detectives who Will surround her
| there need be no apprehension whatever
{ | Indeed il is not too much to say that there
will not be a single known Anarchist OF
even a dangerous character in Nice OF
\ | Cimiez curing the time the Queen Is there
: | The French police deal with such persons a:
. uncerem oniously as they deserve.
DOoicy and the English.
| Chicago Post
, | Our old friend and colaborer, Dooley o.
\ | the AFchey R-road, will be immensel,