Show ON WAY TO IRELAND QUEEN VICTORIA LEFT WINDSOR WIND-SOR LAST NIGHT Great Precautions Taken to Protect the Royal Train Million Peoplo Will Greet the Queen in Dublin London April 3 12 10 a mQuc Victoria left Windsor at halfpast 0 last evening on route for Ireland Her Majesty In accompanied by Princess Christian and Princess Henry of Bat tenberg and Is attended by the Countess Coun-tess of Antrim Hon Harriot Phlpps Sir Arthur Biggs private secretary to the Queen Sir Fleetwood Edwards keeper of her Majestys private purse and Capt Porsonby The Queen had driven out lo Frogmore during the afternoon amid considerable enthusiasm enthusi-asm on the part of the townspeople and her depai lure from the station was comparatively quiet although iulte a crowd had assembled to riiet the outgoing train Not in the history of the Great West ern and London it Northwestern railroads rail-roads have greater precautions ever been observed to protect the royal train than those which had been per j fected when her Majesty started northward north-ward tonight Those officials who have suuerlnlended the transportation cf Czars Kaisers and the princes of all nations Jn and out of Windsor have exerted themselves beyond precedent to Insure the safety of the royal train be tween Windsor and llolybead Royal trains seldom run at night but the Queen who is I especially adverse to fast travel stipulated that the trip should occupy eleven hours although it Is usually covered In six This slowness slow-ness at a time when rattle Is light was one of the reasons for deciding upon a night run The preparations for the trip had been In hand for weeks l and the train had already run every foot of the route and every particle of the apparatus appar-atus of the train and the track had been subjected to the most careful in 9n cllon Leaving Windsor the royal train was In the hands of the Great Western com panyslofticlals to Bushberry where the London Northwestern companys of ficials I resumed responsibility at midnight mid-night when the journey by way of Crewe and Chester to Holyhead began The officials of the latter line will have little sleep tonight Station masters operators and track inspectors at every station along the route no mutter how small were Imperatively Im-peratively required to be on duty half an hour before the royal train was due to examine personally as to sig nals and switches and to see that all was In proper working order The pilot engine named Prince of Wales ran a quarter of an hour ahead of the royal train and after Its passage pas-sage all tracks were Tcept absolutely clear The royal train was drawn by two locomotives with expert engineers and a complete staff of railway experts I and electricians accompanied the train for immediate action in caso anything should go wrong |