Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-21
WAITING FOR HIM.
Prince Henry Is Expected to Arrive To-Morrow Morning
MARcoNI WIRELESS SYSTEM

Win Be Brought Into Play Tonight in
 an Effort to Locate the Princes
 Ship-Admiral Evans and Members
 of Committee Will Meet the Prince
 at the Quarantine Station-Dinner
 Parties and Other Functions Ready
 and Waiting for the Princes Pres
 ence.
 New York. Feb 21.-All preparations have been made for the reception and entertainment of Prince Henry of Prussia, who is on the Kron Prlnz Will helm, which is expected to arrive to- morrow. The imperial yacht Hohen- zollern, after having been cleaned up and partially repainted, lies at her pier, at Ihe foot or West Thrty-tourtn streel, awaiting the princess arrival. Her man gangway has been placed dI- recJly opposIte the door through winch Prince henry will land from the kron PrnZ Mnnem. He will cross the pier and board the Hohenzollern. At the gangway lie will be met by Admiral yon baudISsin, whie the other officers of the yacht will stand at the sides of the gangway. BehInd, on the decks of the boat, the crew will be drawn up and the ships band will play national air as he steps Gil the boat. The Mar conf apparatus on the Hohenzollern has been tested and found to be in good working order. Tonight the Op- orator on board will begin to send mes sages in the effort to locate the princes ship. On board the Cunarder Etruria the wireless apparatus is also in readi- ness, and an operator on watch for signals from the kron Prinz Wilhelm.
 Admiral Evans, General Corbin and Assistant Secretary of State Hill, the presidents delegates. will board the Kron Prinz, probably at the quarantine station, and will greet Prince Henry in the name of the United States gov ernment.
 All arrangements have been com pleted for the dinner to be given to the American press in honor of Prince Henry on Tuesday next.
 The Irving Place theater. where a gala performance is to be given to- morrow evening, has been beautifully decorated and orders have been given for the festooning of the princes box With American beauty roses. more than 4OO of the roses to be used for this purpose. Heinrich Conried. manager of the theater, has had q special en- trance broken through the wall on the Fifteenth street side of the theater. in order to permit the prince to enter the royal box immediately on stepping from his carriage
 The play selected for this perform ance is Blumenthal & Vadelburg,s Ihree-act comedy, "I'm Wessen Roes- sel. This selection was made by re- quest, as the prince has thus far had no opportunity of seeing the play.
 Everything has been made ready for the special opera performance to be gwen Tor the prince It is believed that this will be the most brilliant per iormance in the history of the Metro poIltan opera house. Not only will the interior of the building be decorated proIuseiy, but the entire frontage on Broadway will be illuminated with TO- OoU 1ncandescent bulbs. On a back ground or flags and colored bunting an enormous model of the imperial yacht Hohenzollern will be constructed of electric lights. Three imperial eagles
 HI A4SbtS. III HI JQ6 corners. while bulbs will outline the building. the entrance and the arches.
 The ceiling of the opera house will De covered by streamers of cape smilax and the proscenium arch will be banked with smilax relieved by bou- quets of roses and electric lights. An original scheme is the gala curtain. which will be composed of ropes of smilax and incandescent lights. This curtain will be raised at each act be- fere the electric curtain. and the stage picture will be seen first through the meshes of smilax and electric lights. The boxes will be draped with smiIax and large punches of American beauty flowers.
 The partitions of five boxes will be torn down to form the royal box. The front of this box will be swathed in white satin, embroidered in gold. and the railing will he banked with Amer ican beauties. The back ground will be hung with crimson velvet. An ad- ditional lobby will extend across the corridor and will be upholstered in old tapestry