Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-08
THE PRINCES DRESS SHIRT.
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 Prince Henry is receiving more hon. OTIS and attention during his stay in the United States than was ever be fore bestowed on a visitor to our hos pitable shores People are vieing with each other to do him honor. As his train goes through the country people gather at the stations and cheer. The funniest story comes from Worcester, where committee of the city fathers were in readiness to greet the prince and give him q pres ent. The train bearing the royal wis itor was on it's way to Boston and did not stop, and here is the way the Ga zette of that cityhwrites about the af fair:
 All dignity was thrown to the winds. There was a rush after the last car as it slowly wended it's way through the station, because every body was sure it would stop Mayor Fletcher and ex-NIayor Henry A. Marsh did a 100-yards dash for the rear platform of the last car, and the way they sprinted was caution. The mayor beat the sex-mayor by neck, and both lost their breath in the strug- gle Everybody else was on the run, too, including Councilman Bigelow, who had the silver heart under hls arm, and J. F. McCausland, manager of the carpet department at Barnard S Summers, who cut eaperS around the station with q roll of purple vel vet carpet over his shoulder, a piece or the carpet Mir Whittall made for the princess arrival at New York, which he intended to spread on the rear plat form of the car in case the prince de- cided to show himself MT Bigelow was most picturesque figure as he dashed down the train shed after the fast receding prince He had been showing the gift to some of the mem bers of the city council who had not seen it, and the train appeared before he had time to tie the bundle up again. He tried to tie it i'll a hurry, but his fingers refused to move accurately, and he had to cut for the train with the papers not half wound around the box containing the heart, and with the red string flying behind
 The, mayor and one or two others had something of a start on the coun- cilman who carried the gift, because of his attempt to tie up the box, and so he put on spurt and was fast oyerhauling the train, when up went his hat in the air and his curly locks waved in the breeze. MT Bigelow didn't propose to lose his hat prince or no prince, and so retired from the race with the gift under his arm. William Hart made q record for 50 years, but he was not ill the running for speed and so fell by the wayside. Superintendent of Schools Carroll slipped on the car tracks as he was logging it down the station, and did gyrations in the air that would have done credit to a professional trapeze performer. All he lost was his glass es and little breath. Emil Zaeder fell down just as he was working up a little speed in the dash toward South Birmingham, and Councilman Bragg did somersault over him, but neither was harmed, although they both looked like veritable snow men when they arose.
 The man with the purple carpet who had dilated upon the fact that Wor- cester was the only city in the coun- try where the prince WIS to tread on royal purple was the most disgusted man in the bunch, for he hoped to see the princess footprint on the piece of carpet he was so fortunate as to get. He, too, was among the ssalso rans'' when the fleet footed mayor and ex- mayor started onStheir trip after the car, but when he dropped his carpet and several gamins came near wiping their feet on it he thought it was time to retire. When the racing multi tude reached the east end of the train shed the train was fast gaining head way, and so the race was given up, the party returning to the center of the train shed, where they recovered their puff and wended their wap up- town again, having seen nothing of the prince but his dress shirt which was thrown over a chair in his apart- ment. There were two detectives on the rear platform smoking cigarettes, who waved g ta-tasto the synod of Worcester's finest as the royal train drew out of the station.