Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-04-03
The QUEEN In IRELAND.
She Has Started On Her Tour to the Green
Tale.

| London, April 3.-Queen Victoria who
left Windsor castle last evening en- route
! for Ireland arrived at Holyhead at $40
a. N. today.
The Queen was presented with the
usual address of welcome. She EN-
barked on the royal yacht Victoria and
Albert for Kingston.
ARRIVED AT KINGSTON.
Dublin, April 8. The royal yacht with
Queen Victoria on board arrived at
| Kingston this afternoon She was
greeted with the royal salute from the
channel squadron. No one will leave
the vessel today.
| JAMES EGAN is SPUNKY.
Dublin, April S.-James Egan, the
Dublin city sword bearer, who for nine
years was imprisoned for political Of
fenses, refused to-day to hand the queen
| the sword or to take part in to-mor-
rows proceedings. In letter to the
town clerk Egan says: II will yield
nothing to any Irishman in the respect
for the individuality of the aged lady,
but I cannot join in any act of public
which tried me upon charges that We're
false and sent me to suffer nine years
in the English dungeons-a state that
still hall marks me with the degrada-
tion of a ticket day leave man."
EXTENSIVE PREPARATIONS.
London, April 3.-Never before in the
history of the Great Northwestern rail-
road have greater precautions ever been
! observed to protect royal train than
those which had been perfected when
her majesty started northward tonight
These officials, who have superintendent
the transportation of czars, kaisers and
princes of all nations in and out of
Windsor, have exerted themselves be-
yond precedent to insure the safety of
the royal train between Windsor and
Holyhead. Royal trains seldom run at
night, but the queen, who is especially
adverse to fast travel, stipulated that
the trip should occupy eleven hours, al
though usually covered in six. This
slowness at a time when traffic is heavy
is one of the reasons for deciding upon
night run. Preparations for the trip
had been in hand for weeks, and the
train had already been run over every
foot of the route, and every particle of
the apparatus of the train and the track
had been inspected with the utmost
care. Leaving Windsor, the train was
in the hands of the Great Western COM
pany's officials to Bushberry, where the
London & Northwestern company's off,
cials resumed the responsibility at mid
night, when the journey by way of
Crewe and Chester to Holyrood began.
THE UTMOST CARE.
Station masters, operators and track
inspectors at every station along the
route. no matter how small, were i'm
peratively required to be on duty an
hour before the royal train was due, to
examine personally as to signals and
switches and to see that AL was in
proper working order. A pilot engine
named "Prince of Wales" was run a
quarter Of an hour ahead Of the royal
train, and after it's passage all the
tracks were kept absolutely clear. The
royal train was drawn by two locomo-
tives with expert engineers and COM
plete staff of royal railway experts and
electricians accompanied the train for
immediate action in case anything
should go wrong. Her majesty was ac-
companied by Princess Christian and
Princess Henry of Battenberg and is
attended by the Countess of Antrim,
Hon. Harriet Phipps Sir Arthur Biggs,
private secretary to the queen; Sir
Fleetwood Edwards, keeper of her maj
esty's private purse, and Captain Pom
somby.