The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-05-22


chronically out of breath.
The English king has bodyguard
corresponding to the German body
guard but the honorable corps of the
gentleman-at-arms and the yeomen
of the guard do not work for their sa-
laries as their German prototypes do.
They are for ornamental purposes
only, and never are on duty except
at state functions.
| The real work of looking after Eng
lish royalty is in the hands of Supt.
Fraser and his private police. The
late queen was always guarded in pub
lie, but less apprehension was felt
about her than about the Prince of
Wales, whose democratic fashion of
appearing here. there and everywhere
made him an easy mark for attack
and kept his police attendants busy.
Supt. WINNER, who had special
charge of the princes person, was not
allowed to accompany him to HON.
burg last year, and insists that if that
exception had not peen made, Sipi-
dos attack would never have come
off.
The Duke of York has his own pri-
vate police, much to his disgust, and
his children are constantly guarded,
even in their play, by detectives.
Humbert of Italy was one of the
monarchs who most cordially detest-
ed the necessity of police attendance,
and avoided it whenever possible. He
insisted upon driving about even the
most squalid parts of Rome and Ma
pies in an open carriage with only one
attendant, and would not listen to the
constant protests against his reckless
exposures of his life. His police SER
vice was carefully organized, and
guarded him in spite of his objec-
tions.
Whenever one met the handsome
king driving in his dashing fashion
one was sure to meet at a discreet
distance behind the royal carriage
an inconspicuous cab in hot pursuit.
and in the cab was the keen, dark
face of the head of the secret police.
In the palace the king had a special
guard, gigantic Piedmontese, who
slept at his door and was always near
him.
The present king of Italy is much
more strictly guarded than Humbert
was, but the Dowager Queen Marghe-
rita goes wherever she chooses in car
riage or on foot, and scorns all idea of
surveillance.
The Empress Elizabeth of Austria
was as democratic in her actions as
Queen Margherita and always object
ed to public attendance, which was,
nevertheless, imposed. The Austrian
emperor, whose life has not been
attacked since he was 10, is carefully
guarded, and the late empress was al
ways intensely anxious in regard to
his safety, though absolutely uncon-
cerned about herself.
The personal defense of the royal
family of Spain is intrusted to body
guard of men from Espinosa, this
town having enjoyed the honor for
hundreds of years. These men OF Es-
pinosa accompany the members OF
the royal family. One of them sleeps
at the door of each royal bedchamber
and the rest of the guard in noisless
slippers pace the halls of the palace.
But the hardest worked police in
the world is the private force OF the
Sultan Abdul Hamid. A Frenchman
M. Bonnin, is at the head OF the ser
vice, and, if ever policeman earned
his wages, he does.
The sultan has a firm and fixed be
lief that he is to die violent death;
and this cheerful certainty he contem
plates with anything but Orienta
calm. He refuses to move without
small army to protect him. When ht
goes to the great mosque 10000 sol
diers are turned out to guard TIN
route and troop of picked men sur
rounds the carriage closely.
In his palace he has fifty bedrooms
all with iron doors and complicate'
locks. and he circulates around il
them like an Arabian Nights mon
arch of guilty conscience.