Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1898 — Useless Royal Barges. [ARTICLE]

Useless Royal Barges.

Queen Victoria's watermen are disgruntled nt having no part in the jubilee procession, the more so that the queen Las never made use of her state barges. She has two of them, kept at Teddington, which should be rowed with two watermen to an oar. The uniform consists of scarlet jacket, waistcoat, breeches and stockings, with a remarkable black jockey cap and low shoes. On the front and back of the jacket is an enormous royal budge. The barge has only been used once, when the prince of Wales and Khedive Ismail of Egypt were taken by water to T’ichniond.—jChicago Inter Ocean.