The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-02-24

| of weather that tested Prince Hcnrys sea
| legs.
But the Prince showed his sailorly qualities
and never missed n meal.
Each afternoon and evening found him in
! the smuking-room. ana. in spite Of the
| r-il:d. wave ana spray. he spent hours on
| the bridge. The voyage was without special
| incident Prince Henry most demo-
| cratic passenger and the big company of
! feilCw-yoyagers united in declaring him an
| amiGbe. cheering and unassum;ng gentle
| man. The Kronrrinz Wilhelm sailed from
! Bremerhaven Saturday. and sunday after
| noon touched at southampton. From there
! sho ran to Cherbourg and by o'clock sun
Gay night put to sea.
The ship was now headed for New York.
! Dinner was over and the passengers who
| came aboard at Southampton and Cher
| bours We're all on deck. endeavoring to get
| L lock at Prince Henry. His Royal High
| ness did rot keep them waiting long. for he
walked along the deck alone, entered he
smoking-roum and took a seat at a table
where several of the royal party We're al
ready seated. Here he drank his coffee and
| smoked cigarettes for awhile. and then
| filled a pipe He joked and laughed with his
party continually and was the soul Of good
nature.
Sketched While He smokes Pipe.
Two American artists and i Germ an artist
sketehed him as he sat for two hours IN
the smoking-room. but he seemed oblivious
of their penciiins. The passengers crowd d
around the tables near the one occupied by
The Prince, and those of the ladies who had
rot actually ventured into the smoking
room and taken seats peered through the
windows from the deck. The attention he
attracted. however, did not seem to annoy
| his Royal HiGhness in the least. Probably
never before was the smoking-room of a
liner 50 frequented by women passengers
as was that of the kronprinz Wilhelm all
the way over. Whenever It was sought by
Prince Henry he was sure to find among
its occupants many of the sex. and he
seemed to take their scrutiny in good
natured way. Some OF them were heard to
order the same kind of beer the Prince
was drinking and the stewards brought 1t
to them-exactly the same was being
served to the Princes table. But the Prince.
German-like. is a slow drinker, and the la
dies discovered that he sat at the table
for some little time before a single glass
was exhausted
Heavy Weather Thins Out the Crowd.
This describes the situation on Sunday
and Monday nights: but on Tuesday the
great ship began to encounter heavy
weather, and the battle between the ship
and the sea made many of the passengers
stick to their staterooms. This thinned out
the smoking-room crowd considerably, but
the Prince appeared every day after lunch
con and every night after dinner, always
sitting at the same table. The heavy
did not affect him In the least, for he is an
excellent sailor
While he did not miss 4 meal or one of
his twice-aday visits to the smokingroom
during the entire voyage. some of the royal
party did fail to appear at their meals
or IN the smoking-room. Even Doctor
Reich. the staff surgeon of the Prince, had
a severe attack of seasickness. This indi-
Gates the rough weather the kronprnz
passed through almost the entire voyage.
But It was the strong head-winds and the
fact that the propellers We're out of water
every few minutes that So greatly retarded
her speed.
His Royal Highness's party occupied ta-
BILE in a far corner. or sort of wing of the
main dining saloon. A partition ran half
way across. hiding part of the royal ta-
bic from a portion of the main dining room.
But the Prince requested that the greater
part OF the partition be taken down, and
the wide opening thus made was trans
formed into an arch and decorated. The
change made the Princes corner seem more
like part of the main dining saloon and
the passengers facing his corner at meals
could see him and his party plainly.
Declines TO Change His Table.
Captain Richter had offered the Prince
The captains large table in the center of
the grand saloon, but his Royal Highness
did not care to cause the regular patrons OF
the line, who had been assigned to those
seats, any Inconvenience, and declined to
change.
Every morning after breakfast the Prince
took his constitutional around the deck two
or three times among the passengers In
fact. he was throughout the VOYAGE thor
oughly democratic. An artist for an Illus
trated weekly had been sent by his paper
to accompany the Prince. He was passing
where the Prince sat in the smoking-room
on Thursday night, when his Royal High
ness hailed him, took his hand and invited
MIN to sit at the table with the royal party,
where he chatted for nearly an hour
American Artist Much Embarrassed,
Another incident which showed his good
fellowship also had an artist this time an
American, as its beneficiary. The Prince
heard that an American had made a sketch
portrait of himself which had attracted a
good deal of attention among the passen-
gers. He sen. for the artist and after COM
plimenting his work, offered To give him a
sitting. The artist became embarrassed
when he began wcrl; that he was unable TO
accomplish anything, when the Prince re-
marked that 'if he did not feel in the hui
day
His consideration for others and his dem
ocratic ways gained for the Prince the lik-
ing of every ona a. his fellow passengers.
The American passengers particularly were
Enthusiastically enthusiastic in their
praise.
Captain Richter, commander of the Kron-
prinz had hoped to make a record trip,
but the weather was against him. They
did not leave the bridge except at short in
tervals during the entire voyage. Prince
Henry spent much of his time each day on
the bridge. When the captain expressed
his disappointment because he could not
reach New York early on Saturday, the
Prince took occasion to compliment him on
the masterful way in which he had handled
his ship and the speed he had made under
such adverse conditions.
Prince Makes Tour of Inspection.
On Tuesday the Prince went on tour of
inspection Of the ship with the captain and
the ships surgeon. He visited the steerage
and second-class passengers and examined
their quarters.