The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-11-21

countenance, indicative Of a happy DISPOSE
tion, good-natured, humorous, fun-loving
boy. who knew precisely what be was
ABOUT, and could not be easily fooled: hair.
soft and fine, though disposed to grow
rather low down the neck and forehead:
weil-snaped head, indicating firmness,
penevolence, quickness of perception, and
love OF music; lar, Q hands and feet, doubt
less reproductions of those of his royal
mother. to whom nature has been very gen.
erous In that regard; form, small quite
contrast from now and very well proper
modes.
did ! see the Prince of Wales when be
was In Portland? Most certainly l did,"
saia William @. Kimball, Esq. Of Ridge
cottage, Bridgton Highlands, In answer to
my question. Mr.. Kimball, it is hardly
necessary to state, is veteran Portlander,
formerly prominent in its business, educa-
tlonal and municipal affairs, and whose
series OF historical articles on Old Port
land have attracted wide attention. "Yes,
! stood within ten feet Of the Prince when
he passed from the carriage on
to the wharf, to take passage home.
DE rode frem the hotel to the wharf
IN an open barouche, he and the
Mayor OCCUPYING the rear seat, the Duke of
Newcastle, and another magnate the OPP
posite one. The party walked two-and-two
held back the crowd. The Prince walked
beside the Duke, and behind them followed
the rest of his suite. He wore a jaunty cap,
and looked anything but m0narch-like.
The crowd cheered. and some demonstra-
tive persons moving their hats as they
shouted.
"But the richest scene was yet to come.
This was when the royal barge left the
wharf to convey the Prince to the Nero"
in which he was to take a voyage home.
At that instant the British squadron all
fired a royal solute of tweaty-one, guns,
and from Fort Preble. The harbor was
full of steamers, sail-boats, barges, ETC..
which accompanied the royal barge from
the wharf. AT the f0tilla neared the, roy
al squadron. the yards were manned, and
this, with the strings OF bunting ana nags
ed magnificent spectacle, one of the fin
est | ever saw in Portland, and I've
seen good many public displays there In
my day, and was witnessed by an immence
concourse Of people. T0sall the parting sal
utations the British ships responded by
dipping their colors; and as the squadron
sailed the bands on board each vessel
played Yankee Doodle and Fort Preble
saluted the party with farewell guns as
they passed.
SO heartfelt. generous and enthusiastic a
reception of the Prince in America pro-
England. The Queen officially c0mmuni-
Gated to the President and to the people Of
the United States "her grateful sense of
the kindness with which they had received
her son." and when, year or two later. a
rupture was imminent between Great Brit
ain and the loyal North, on account of the
capture by our naval forces of the rebel
emissaries, Mason and Slidell from an
English vessel, she gratefully remembered
the kindness of our people to her boy, and
by her earnest influence the fierce ultima
tum Of her excited ministry:was so modi-
fed that war between the two countries
was happily averted.
And as the young Prince sailed out from
Portland for his native shore, his mind
thrilled with happy, grateful memories OF
his truly royal usage by his American cous-
ms, his feelings might we'll be expressed by
those noble lines of Bayard Taylor, sung
on another notable occasion:
greet with a full heart this land of the West
Whose banner of stars DER world Is I'M
fnred:
Whose empire oershadows Atlantic's wide
breast,
And opens to sunset its gateway of gold.
The land of the mountain, the land OF the lake,
And rivers that roll In magnificent tide,
Where the souls OF the mighty from slumbers
awake,
And halow the soil for whose freedom they
died.
CHARLES o. STICKNEY.
Brighton. November. 20, 1891.
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