The sun., 1919-09-08
ROYAL FEEDS FOR
ROYAL U. S. GUESTS
Best Chefs and Choicest Viands
on Land and Sea for Bel
@ gian Rulers.
THE &C. W. ROYAL YACHT
Queen Will Find Even the
Barge Covers Are Finest
Bruges Lace.

When that bluff old democrat Uncle
Sam, who cares not for coronets nor
Norman blood, entertains the King ana
Queen of the Belgians. his first gesture
10 going to be a Enthusiastically jovial
.'sit in folks and eat hearty" Whsp the
royal, not to say once more royal u D
s. George Washington slipped down the
harbor In the sultry Sabbath of yester-
dav she carried what the inhabitant Of
any New York nat will concede without
argument to be a welcome worthy OF
king and queen, even the King ana
queen Of the Belgians. She carried
couple OF good cooks.
For the George Washington has
shipped as petty officers none other than
Leony Derouet and Jean Malnau, cher
ana maitre dhotel Of the Hotel Commo-
dore, to attend to the royal cuisine from
the moment their Majesties step on board
at Brussels on the 22d Of this month I'M
til they cease to be the guests Of the said
Uncle Sam.
The George Washington. since the
peripatetic White House has been trans
ferred from her comfortable innards to
those Of the less comfortable but equally
mobile private car Mayfower-how
close we stick to those simple old names
tho George Washington has again been
submitted to little upholstery and
paint. Whether or not the change tends
toward luxury or comfort or both could
not be learned yesterday. But IT. was
10 "a Oman a.
beth and Crown Prince Leopold will oc-
cupy the same suite Of rooms formerly
occupied by President and Mrs. Wilson.
The Crown Prince is presumed to have
been allotted a room to himself, being
quite a boy now. 1t is probably the room
occupied by the American fidus Achates,
personal physician and Rear Admiral OF
the Blue. Carey Grayson.
War Gray Has Vanished.
Everything else on board was equally
prepared. Bright work long dulled by
war gray was scraped and polished
and will be kept polished. Decks that
doughboys used to hammer with their
hobnailed shoes to the disgust of the ma
tive fiatfoot and leatherneck had been
holystoned to velvet smoothness and
snowy Wilderness The black gang had
been drilled to fire as smokelessly as in
the days of the submarine peril. New
flags were in the lockers, including
gorgeous Belgian royal ensign for the
main truck.
Prentice seamen will spend all the
voyage over turning wall knots. double
walls, walls and crowns. and single and
double Matthew Walkers into hand
ropes to make the hear swim. Any boy
who turns a good knot can cut 1t out
and keep 1t after the royal hands have
climbed aboard by its aid according to
the promise of the ships chief Jimmy
Legs.
And the fingers, STUDDED by a million
mariinspikes on the tattooed old hands
of the Chief Bosun's Mate. have been
flying with unbelievable skill ever since
the orders came through strange bits Of
No. duck and the wild looking threads
thereof. AS the ship sailed the result
was beginning to show in seat cover
for the barge which, says the Chief
Boeun's Mate. the Queen herself won't
be able to tell from the finest lace of
BFuges.
In fact there was only one untoward
incident in all the hustle OF preparation.
And that. after all, was merely an UNI
fortunate choice of terms Bobble Ken
needy, whose chronicles OF Pershing
Square are usually such models of me-
ticulous accuracy and gracious taste
and gosh, how mad he must be at where
Pershings staying-Bobbie Kennedy
tipped off the world that the two gas
tronomic experts of whom he is so Justly
proud were on board ito tickle the palate
OF royalty"
Thought Was Frightfol.
On board, mark you, on board a ship
at sea, "to tickle" oh, well, the thought
was Just frightful. Had 1t not been for
the fact that Chef Leony is as skilled
In French tact as in. French dressing
all might have been lost.
IF the good ship, he rolls, I shall not
fear" he cried loudly, glazing at the for
the moment inept and unjustifably
Fresh Water Kennedy. II have never
vcfore been a cook at the sea, but often
have traversed the ocean. We have
fine kitchen. a fine cuisine and we will
cater only to the royal party"
And whether it be ham and eggs or
souffle double marion au Leony, or sim
pie corn pone such as Herbert Hoovers
itinerant colored men taught some other
Belgians to eat and like, Leony and NAL
natl say they will be there. Malnati is
already in service, having been drafted
when the George Washington made its
previous voyages OF ceremony. He and
Leony will fill the larder from the mar
kets of Normandy and Belgium as soon
as they land. and they are sure that
everything will be all right