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'American in thf sense that It Is conduct al
, tur^lhcr unworthy of a prrmlc which proudly
Aaimi" that each of Its 50.000.000 citizens is a
Bovercign equal to any crowned head in Europe,
tni-Axncrican because the mobbing of distin
edshfd p<»ople is lnflnltrly more common in the
Old World than in the Now, and finally un-
ILmeriean because, while It Is comparatively
ur.known in the cities of the interior, it pre
vails to a greater exte-nt in New-York than any
wnere else in the United States, that is to say.
to a metropolis that has the largest alien born
population in the world. Indeed, it would be
Interest irig to ascertain how many of those who
took part in the mobbing of Miss Roosevelt th«
siher day were native bom Americans.
Among the worst offender? abroad are fhs
Germans, the Austrians, and, above all, th»
English. The LAtin races of Franca, Italy,
Spain and Portugal, as well as the Scandina
vians, the Magyars and the Slavs, are curt
ously fro* from this form of bad breeding, an
Immunity attributable to their Inp^ fa sense of
dignity and personal pride. At Vienna, for In
stance. tb<* late Bmpvess of Austria used to be
subjected to such disgraceful mobbing that for
many years, even long prior to the tragic death
of her only son, she declined to take part in
any public ceremony, and devised the most ex
traoniinary means to secure privacy, which the
people oX the capital bitterly resented; and while
■be was bdor«a e»cjjwl*-i 1 ' •*■» *• her fcnat
toj*r» dominions, especially »• honest Tyro!
and in chivalrous Hungary, the inhabitants of
Ysr ; rrj» had scarcely a good word to say for her
eurtTHr her lifetims, Bui any one wbo like my
■rTT ha? seen to days lon* ag» tbm mar
tyrwd Kaiserm walking throng* th» etreets
fc the Corpus Christl procession, or appearing
or th* Fretjaenan racecourse, or else seated
cpon tie dais, or la the reserved caHeries at
MBM charitable entertalr^raent or popular fes
tJvui tie . nasure of every eye. with not only
isrmons, opera glasses, and rven field glasses,
trt artuaPy telt-'oopcs leveled at her by a wild,
glaring, noisy, poshing crowd. wd appreciate
wVy she • sssJi have erideavare<s, as far as pos
m -^ to «v*de lb« rare of the Viennese.
Ar.other Til mm soi-erei^TS. rrmprr<?s Augusta
»ria of GerrrsaEy. the most easygoing, good
ru.':.rui tap*irturbahle and least sensitive cf all
ivmuat ladies, baa on atveral c^caiions
t_ v .-i.T . ruDy xuoLbed by well dressed
i*>.; la at Berlin U-at her patience has cog-
Edd ilj Ctr^i. * ay. Tlucie ws-t ana Instant* la
NEW-YORK DATLY TRTBUNE, SUNDAY. FEBRU,UiY IX 1906.
THE VERY BRIEF BUT NOTORIOUS VISIT OF MIL POULTNEY BIGKLOW.
. (PTom Btcrraeraph. copyricht. 1306, by Underwood a Underwood, Now-TerfcJ
OVERLOCKrMG THE BURWED DISTRICT in COLOR, PANAMA,
7:". "■"" — yr*~ yy. txx.ui led one flay when (fee
wax shofrciru? to one of the great Jeweller's stores
In the r*riedricnstr&S3B at Berlin. The Imperial
eqtrJpagß standing before th» door, bad th* ef
fuet of speedily coDectlng an Immense crowd.
and before many minutes had passed the whole
shop was densely thronged with well dressed
but appallingly vulgar and Clbred people, who
pushed Che Empress and Jostled her In their
Intense eagerness to see her and to eramlne
what she was buying, It was only with the
utmost trouble cm the part of her charnberlaln
in- waiting aad the Jeweller that she was
able to ret back to her carriage, without com
pleting her purchases; and even after she had
taken her «eat an elegantly dressed woman,
wearing glasses, deliberately opened the carriage
floor on the off side far the purpose of paring
In and examining both the features and the
dress of the sovereign, making comment* to
those pressing behind her In the most unblush-
Ingiy Inquisitive and Impertinent way. Then
Augusta Victoria last her temper and she
abused ** •" o < T' >r"r "^ >r in such unmeasured terms
thai Om woman became frightened and de
camped, testing the carriage door wide open.
One of the most disgraceful scenes of this kind
that ever took place in Great Britain occurred
a year or so before the death of Queen Victoria,
at the railroad station at Inverness. The pres
ent Prince and Princess of Wales were passing
through on their way south from Balmoral The
Prince, who had alighted for the purpose of
greeting the Provost or Mayor of this ancient
Scotch city, was Jostled and pushed about to
such a degree that he was compelled to retreat
to his railroad carriage. The crowd Immediately
surged round the car, flattened their noses
against the window panes, endeavored to force
the doors open, arid even went to the length of
clambering in large numkrs to the roof, fur
the purpose of peeping over the edge, and get
ting a glimpse of the royal occupants through
the ventilators. The Princess, who was at the
time in a delicate state of health. Decani? <*>
greatly alarmed as tv give rise to anxiety about
her, arid it was not until a force of police was
hurried to the stint that the crowd was driven
to a distance from ti.e train. At Weymouth
VIEW OF CASS-ST, IN COLON,
PANAMA.
Prtocess Victoria, daughter 0* King F.dvrard,
having landed from the royul yacht, was, la
spite of the efforts of the gentlemen tn attend*
ance to protect her, bo disgTacefnlly mobbed
by well dress<»d persona that she had hurriedly
to seek refuge In the launch which had
brought her ashore* In London, owing to ths
certainty of belnp mobbed, not only the King
and Queen, but also the Prince and Princess of
Wales, are debarred from enjoying anything
like the same do^roe of liberty and freedom of
action that becomes theirs from the very mo
ment that they set foot in France or It:ilv or
Denmark, and the Queen, as well as the Prin
cess of Wales, is deprived when in London of
that paFtimf so dear to every woman. l>e she
princess of -the blood or servant pirl. namely,
shopping. In London they are forced to have
the tradesren;,le brine: their waves to Buck
ingham Palace or to Marlborouph House, for
the purpose of examining them there; whereas
when they are in Paris or Copenhagen they are
able to shop to their hearts' content, jus: like
ordinary mortals. From this it will be seen
that mobbinpr prevails to such an extent in
Englanl, In Gennai y and in Austria that the
>n will naturally occur as to wl
the recent examples tl reo* in New-Tors
not been what might be described as an unde
sirable foreign importation.
With regard to basing, one of the features ct
the evidence In the court martials which h.ive
lately been held at Annapolis was the* testi
mony on the part of many "f the nav.u radet
witnesses to the effect that they enjoyed haz
ing and that, evn when victims, they approved
of the process. It is testimony that wfll appeal
to every graduate of the great public tcboota in
England, Btich as Eton. Harrow. Rugby. Wm
-. etc.; of the universities, such aa N
Harvard, Columbia and Princeton, in Am :
of the naval academies of Dartmouth, Bngbn L.
and Annapolis. Md., and of the military
rnies of West Point. Sandhurst and Woolwich,
ar»- feu of these grs loates, Aj •
and English, who, if the quest on wer«3 !>u; to
the vole, would 'i t de< kle la tevor of th. 1
tenance ol haz.:.> r s con lucive to the n »
of the collet:' bo Ity and as caicnlal 4
to fit Its members f>>r their careers,
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