Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-05

emperor William, PT1nce Henry OF
Prussia. and a number of admirals of
the German navy.
On the Sunday after the arrival of
the New York. Captain Evans attend
ed a reception on board of one of the
German battle ships, where he soon
became engaged in conversation with
a captain, who spoke English perfect
ly.
1t was soon evident that the German
was brilliant in his profession, and the
two men got into a rather sharp ar
gument- Evans did not agree with the
captain, whose name he had not
caught, and did not hesitate to speak
his mind; and the German, on his
part, was equally frank. Presently the
German said that he would be glad to
present Evans to his wife.
After talking with the lady. whose
name he did not catch, and finding her
charming Captain Evans noticed that
several persons seemed to be waiting
to speak to her. and took himself OF
to the smoking apartment. As he en-
tered, Admiral Knorr, after greeting
him, said:
Evans, the Prince says that you are
a good fellow, and he wants the EN-
peror to know you"
MY dear admiral replied Evans,
81 haven't seen the Prince and don't
know him.
WELL said Knorr, you ought to
know him, you have been talking shop
with him for half an hour, and l don't
know what you have been saying to
the princess during your conversation
with her,
Captain Evans had been talking
with Prince Henry of Prussia and tae
Princess Irene without knowing who
they were.
1.-TWO of the most delightful people
1 had ever met" he calls them, and he
adds: 81 certainly told them exactly
what T thought about the different
things we discussed"
On the evening of June 26th, the
emperor, Prince Henry, and ten adj
mirals accepted an invitation to dine
on the New York, and the following is
brief account of their greeting in
Admiral Evans's own words:
when the emperor came on board
I had the men and officers massed aft
on the superstructure and in the gang
ways, and as soon as Admiral Kirk
land had welcomed him 1 made short
speech reciting that we had the cham
pion twelve-oared cutter in the Ameri-
can navy, and asked on the part of the
crew, the honor of naming her after
his daughter, Victoria Louisa.
He was really touched by the
compliment and, taking my hand, he
granted the request most graciously.
AS soon as l could l turned to the crew
and called for three cheers for Vic
| toria Louisa, and then three cheers
| and tiger for the emperor. 1 don't
| thing he ever heard such cheers be-
| fore. 1t was a very pretty episode and
gave our dinner a good start.
"At one o'clock in the morning the
| emperor expressed a desire to visit and
| inspect the engine room; and 30 we
| did. He looked into every hole and
| corner and even had us disconnect one
OF the engines, marking time on us
| himself. Then we went through the
| gun deck and out on the forecastle,
where he asked how long it would take
| to close all the water-tight doors.
81 replied that in the daytime we
could do it in thirty seconds, but at
sight it required about two minutes.
30 my surprise he asked If I would
mind doing it for him. OF course l
| had to say yes; but when I tried to
| DlCW the siren, the SlSudl W ClOSo lie
water-tight doors, there wasn't steam
enough and the blessed thing wouldn't
blow. The emperor thought he had
me, and said:
| Now, you see. captain, you can't
| close your bulkheads.'
But he did not know everything.
said: You will see in moment, sir,
and touched one of the general alarm
| bells, which call all hands to quarters
and in a few seconds the men were
| swarming up like rats. The emperor
| took the time himself, and in one
minute and half the ship was ready
| for action, with all the water-tight
doors closed"
] Admiral Evans found the German
| emperor the most companionable and
magnetic of men,
He knows more about more differ
ent things than any other man 1 ever
met. When 1 was at Kiel my band
was playing music composed by him
and on my cabin table was book Of
| poems written by him. He was the
| head and front of the finest army in
| the world and at the same time was
| giving his personal attention to what
must some day be reckoned one Of the
leading nayies.
The Kiel Canal was of his creation
and his engineers told me that he was
familiar with all its details. as well as
with those of bridge building in g
large sense. The farmers informed me