The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-06
If THE KING SHOULD COME.
Uncle Sam as Host Probably Would
Rent Hotel.

KENT Hotel.
OF Deacon Crab has sold his boss,
An mortgaged house and barn.
Don't keer, he said, when asst tc
talk,
"A continental darni
For Marys got a dozen hats,
A coat and velvet gown;
We're going to Manhattan IL
! The King should come to town.
: The anticipatory fever that has
proved so catching among society
folk has spread, alas, even to the
crossroads. Plans are being made
for a possible visit of the King and
Queen of England to this country
not only in Manhattan mansions,
but in the humble, green shattered
dwellings of the crossroads.
If the King should come to New
York. What would happen and how
and when would 1t happen and how
would it happen? Lots of things.
For 1t would be an event of inter
national significance; and there Is
no very good precedent, social or
otherwise, for the entertaining Of
reigning sovereigns. But Uncle Sam
would know what to do, and every
| body knows what social climbers
would try to do.
King George and Queen Mary
could not visit the United States in
cognito. They would sail-with a
large suite, of course-on British
warship, or on the royal yacht
which has the status of warship,
and with convoy of we :ships.
Outside the three-mile limit on
this side a squadron of American
battleships would meet the royal
party. Perhaps the whole Atlantic |
squadron would be on land to es-
aort their majesties into the harbor.
With flags fluttering in the breeze
Ind everybody logged out in full
lress uniforms the great gray
lighting machines would steam in
o New York with the English ships.
And at the landing what lot of
uss and feathersI Their majesties
'ould be the guests of the Federal
overnment, for states and cities
ould to them have the same status
) European provinces and munich
alities But that would not detract
the least from the number of Of
cials on hand to meet them.
Mayor Gaynor of necessity would
e at the battery in plug hat, un-
erturbed and ready to say how
edo to any potentate from any
here without the CULVER of an eye
ash
For the night before he would
nave taken down the discourses of
Epictetus and looked up the right
manners for the occasion And this |
is what the Greek philosopher says
is the right thing in meeting royal
ty:
when you approach Caesar or
!. - :. "; 2 - - e. e s-cn .r.-sssrs
-ourself dispassionate, icariess,
late; If you are rather an observer |
IF what is done than the subject |
IF observation; if you do not envy
hose who are preferred to you; if
you are not overcome by the oc-
casion, what need you more"
Up from the Battery to Bowling
Green and along Broadway long
lines of troops would stand at at
tention the command, Present
arms!" would run along ahead of
the royal equipage from company to
company and squadron to squad
ron, and the muskets and sabers
would come smartly into place.
Nobody would do any hand-kiss-
ing stunts or pull any comedy stuff |
like that. American men in the
presence of royalty bow and Amer
lean women courtesy So the mayor
would not have to do anything in
consistent with the doctrines of
Epietetus.
The King and Queen could not &C
cept private hospitality; and, my
goodness, what lot of heartburn
|ings and disappointments there'd
be! They could accept an invitation
to dinner with Ambassador and Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid, because of the am
bassador's official relation with the
DiitlSH court, DuJ tHdl Woulu ne tue
extent of their visiting in New York.
The United States government
would have to hire a hotel, or part
of hotel, or private house in
Manhattan for the use of the SOW
ereigns and their suite. Possibly
the government might rent Mrs.
Vanderbilt's house at Fifth avenue
and Fifty-eighth street, or the Riv-
erside Drive mansion of Charles NJ.
Schwab.-New York Mail.
f. a. Wootsey. 4 railroau man