New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-01-02
Anglo-American Memories
XLVII.
QUEEN AT eALMoRAL puNRoeN
Copyright. 1909. by Georg. W. smali-yl

7 was once on. believe, the first Dread
nought. of a type long since Anticipated.
with q low freeboard forward and the
whole expanse of the forecastle deck so
arranged as TO be, with reference to the
rest of the vessel. a lever on which the
Atlantic might pile itself up. asked
the captain what might happen in
heavy head sea. 1.-THE chances are he
answered cooliy ''she would go down
head foremost" However. at the mo-
ment she was comfortably anchored off
Queensferry.
That danger exists no longer, for the
model is obsolete, and this particular
ship no doubt went long since TO the
scrap heap. But the unsolved problems
OF naval warfare are still numerous. a
fighting admiral in the British navy viii
tell you strange things if he happens
TO be in laxative mood. Nothing is
better worth listening 10 than the dis
course of man who has command of
a great fleet or of a great ship, whether
of war or commerce. ! quote one sen
tence from this admiral
you want to know what is likely TO
happen when two modern battle fleets
meet at sea. equal in fighting strength
and under equal conditions. No man
knows. II has never vet happened
But the chances are both would go TO
the bottom
Out Of many Highland incidents
1 choose one, for brevity's sake.
Invermark. A place renowned for
many kinds of sport. salmon fishing in
GUIDED Il belonged. when I knew it, 10
the late Lord Daihousie, who generally
let it and confined himself to Brechin
Castle. with excursions TO Panmure
House Invermark was a lodge and
nothing raore-iust room for half a
dozen guests and their guns and ser
wants. Lord Dudley and the late Lord
Hindip had it together one year. Lord
Hindlip was the head Of the great
brewery firm of Allsopp & Co. He an
uounced to us one night at dinner that
he must go to London next morning on
business. He went, returning two days
later He had spent twelve hours IN
London Somebody said II hope your
business turned out all right. Lord
Hindhp answered: Il don't know
about all right I bought s750,o00
(s3, $50 000) worth of hops at price
which makes it impossible there should
be any profit in the next twelve months
brewing" Nobody asked, but every
body looked another question: "rhen
why buy?" LORD Hindlip continued his
sentence as if he had not noticed our
curiosity But if had not bought yes
terday there would have been no brew
ing of beer ct all for the next twelve
months. nor perhaps ever
This was one of the houses-perhaps
only those belonging TO the great brew
ers-where beer was served with the
cheese instead of port. But not the
kind Of beer known to the ordi-
nary mortal Beer specially brewed,
long kept, tenderly cared for, and some
how transformed into a transcendental
fluid. transparent. golden in color, nectar
to the taste, strangely mild on the
palate. but swiftly finding its way to the
brain if you were ensnared into drink
ing a ttlnnberful. There was nothing
to warn you unless your host warned
you, which he generally did not. He
perhaps rather pressed it upon you as
they do the Audit ale at Trinity College.
Cambridge. with q hospitality not free
from guile That l knew through the
late Mr. Justice Denman, who was my
host and when I resisted he told me
how Lord Chancellor Campbell had
praised the mildness OF the ale, and had
q second drink, and then a third; and
upon emerging from the buttery into
the fresh air found himself embar
raised: he, the hardest head at the bar
of his time. \ story which I hand on
as warning TO the next conner.
q. w. :.