Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1901-10-23

Forty Years Of Naval Life" were PEE
cnliarly interesting, meeting as he did,
Emperor William, Prince Henry OF
Prussia, and number OF admirals OF
the German navy
On the Sunday after the arrival Of
the New York. Captain Evans attend
ed reception on board of one Of the
German battle ships, where he soon
became engaged In conyersat lion with
captain, who spoke English perfect
ly.
II was soon evident that the German
was brilliant in his profession, and the
two men got into 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 be did not catch, and finding her
charming, Captain Evans noticed that
several persons seemed TO be waiting
to speak 10 her, and took himself off
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,
/ Il 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 ! 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 the
\ Princess Irene without knowing who
they were
Two OF the most delightful people
had ever met" he calls them. and he
adds: Il certainly told them exactly
what 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 Eyans's own words:
When the emperor came on board
] had the men and officers massed aft
on the superstructnre and in the gang
WAYS, and as soon as Admiral Kirk
land had welcomed him ] made short
speech. reclting that we had the cham
pion twelye-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 graciousiy
As soon as could | turned to the crew
and called for three cheers for Vic
toria Louisa, and then three cheers
and tiger for the emperor. I dom
thing he ever heard such cheers be
fore. II was very pretty episode anc
gave our dinner good start.
AT one O'Clock in the morning thu
emperor expressed desire to visit ant
. inspect the engine room; and so W.
did He looked into every hole ant
/, corner and even had us disconnect on
OF the engines, marking time on u
himself. Then We went through tn
!, gun deck and out on the forecastle
: where he asked how long 1t would TAX
I" to close all the water-tight doors.
- Il replied that in the daytime W
; could do II in thirty seconds. but a
u night 1t required about two minutes
y To my surprise he asked IL / woul
:, mind doing II for him. OF course
y had to say yes; but when / tried I
blow the siren the signal to close tn
y water-tight doors, there wasn't stear
! enough and the blessed thing wouldn
' blow. The emperor thought he ha
:, me, and said:
y Now, you see, captain, you can
close your bulkheads.'
But he did not know everything.
said: You will see in moment, sir
! and touched one OF the general alarl
le bells. which call all hands to quarter
~ and in a few seconds the men wei
I swarming up like rats. The empert
~ took the time himself, and in OF
- minute and a half the ship was read
" for action, with all the water-tigl
doors closed"
" Admiral Evans found the Germa
" emperor the most companionable ar
ie magnetic of men.
re- HE knows more about more diffe
N ent things than any other man | ev
a. met When was at Kiel my bar
80 was playing music composed by hill
oi and on my cabin table was a book
a poems written by him. He was u
y head and front of the finest army
e the world. and at the same time W
y giving his personal attention to VIII
ne must some day be reckoned one of {
7. leading navies.
u. The Kiel Canal was of his creatio
ne and his engineers told me that he W
On familiar with all its details, as we'll
no with those OF bridge building in
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