Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-12
ARRESTED IN ILLINOIS.
Edward VII and His Party Shot Quail
 in the Close Season Back in 1860

in the Close Season Back in 1S60
 It was in the midst of one of the
 most important presidential cam
 paigns i'll the history of this nation
 that King Edward VII, then the
 Prince of Wales, visited the United States. He had the opportunity of
 seeing five or six weeks of the most
 intense and fearfully earnest political l fighting that the country had ever
 known. The republican newspapers of that autumn bore in heavy letters
 at the head of the first column
 over every page: Tor President. Abraham Lincoln" In coming to St
 Louis particularly, the prince had q chance to feel the pulse of the Alneri-
 can people, for he passed directly through the country about Lincoln's home. At that time one of the cor respondents of the old Missouri Demo- crat wrote as n cause for much self congratulation the fact that he had in
 one day seen both "the future king of
 England and the future President of the United States" But the boyish prince, travelled incognito as "Baron Renfrew,' said little about these things.
 Although President Buchanan, in
 his Presidential message, immediate, fly after Baron Renfrew'' had return
 ed home asserted that the visit of the Prince, had proved "a most suspicious event." and could not fail to '.increase the kindred and kindly feelings" be- tween England and America, the Prince himself, it would seem, took
 little interest in the political develop ments of the time. According to the files of the old newspapers. his domin-
 ating motive, when in St Louis, ap-
 peared to be that love of the open air. of horses and of hunting which had
 manifested itself during all his yigor-
 ous life as prince and king Of hunt
 ing he was so fond that he and his
 party, on the way to St Louis, disre-
 garded the game Jaws in the State of
 Illinois, and actually were arrested and paid a fine because of the quail
 that they Il ad shot at Stewards Grove
 near Dwight, H. The Prince killed twenty-eight quail, two prairie chick ems and two rabbits on that day.
 history records, and there was an Irish servant In the party who was lost in admiration at royalty's unerring aim. He would scream with joy. 1t is said, at each lucky shot, and call out time after time to the Duke of Nefcastle "Gorramighty, luke, look at 'im.'' Besides the Duke of Newcastle, the 1 distinguished Englishmen who accom- Ipanied the Prince were the Earl of lSt Germains, Major-General the Hon. orable R. Bruce, Lord Lyons, Dr Ac- land, MT Engleheart, Major Tresdale, Captain Grey, MT Jenner and MT War
 re. Circumstances of time favored them in coming to St Louis. Septem-
 ber27, 1860. the day after their arrival,
 was "Gig Thursday" at the fair, and
 on the same day the St Louis Art Mus
 cum began it's life. On the steamboat which brought him from Alton to St Louis, Wednesday afternoon, ssBaron Renfrew" stayed much of the time in the pilot house, descending long enough to inspect the boats machinery with
 Captain Haller, and also, in a very democratic way, to give a friendly greeting to an old Englishwoman who
 had come from distant town in H. linois to see him, and who was moved
 to tears at his kindness. The old
 Barnum hotel, on Second and Walnut streets. was s elected as the most ele- gant place of entertainment for the Prince, and five chaises,' so the nar- ratives say, met his party at the warf to convey them thither. It was very
 good-natured crowd that thronged the
 streets, ready, as crowds are now, to
 laugh at any incident out of which
 mirth could be made. A wagonload
 of colored folk which happened to be near Barnum's hotel was seized as the but of ridicule, the '.hooters' pretend ing to suppose that these were the
 noble people whom they were expect ing. The poor colored men and wo-
 men were quite overcome by the shouts of admiration and the adula
 tory bows, and they were glad when
 the real Princes party drew attention from them.