Evening star., 1902-02-24
PRINCE HENRY'S TOUR.
It Will Be Under the Personal Super
vision Of George w. Boyd.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Prince Henry's personally conducted tour
Of the United States will be made under
the guidance of the greatest expert in such
matters, George w. Boyd of Philadelphia.
No other man in the United States or
Europe has had SO much experience in per-
sOnally conducting the tours Of distin-
guished men. Every trip Of any distance
taken by any President Of the United
States or any foreign visitor of Importance
to this country has been made under the
personal care and direction of Mr.. Boyd.
Probably no man in America has come
into such close touch with the notable
celebrities who visit this country as he has.
No one citizen has been SO intimate with
SO many Presidents and makers of Amerf-
can history. When they travelled they did
so under his care and with him. Besides
being well-known railroad official, he Is
a diplomat. He knows just the proper bal
ances Of relation to hold between himself
as the representative of a great system, as
American citizen, as any potentate or
President who is travelling under his care.
His position Is both executive and social
Everybody on the train that will take
Prince Henry sightseeing through the WON
derful country of which the kaiser is SO
anxious to know will be responsible to Mr..
Boyd. He will be socially the next man to
the prince, for 1T is part of his work to re-
main with the celebrity and put America
and it's railroading, it's commercial impor-
tance, its development, its resources. it's
history, before him. What the kaiser
knows when the prince returns will be very
largely what Mr.. Boyd told. On this trip.
as on others, he is the Interpreter for the
United States.
Before the trip of Prince Henry. which
begins on Washington's birthday, February
%, Mr.. Boyd will have his hands full The
State Department consulted with him as
the representative of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, as soon it was decided that the
royal visitor would come Everything was
then put in Mr.. Boyd's hands. His task in
volved the choosing of cities to visit; routes
to take, hotels at which to stop, the time
to be made and the locomotives and their
crews that are to bear the special train of
seven cars.
The making of the time schedule is a
hard bit of work in itself. Every road
over which the train passes has to be con-
suited with. Coaling. fresh food. switch
ing are few of the incidental things that
Mr.. Boyd must arrange for. In short. he
must carry train of seven cars flied with
people of great Importance over thousands
OF miles SO that they may live in luxury
and not miss anything of interest or i'm
portance and never receive moment s
annoyance.
No other country has these tours for the
pleasure and observation of the great. 1t
is not possible in any country except Amer
lea. In no other spot in the world can
one travel 5000 to 5000 miles without
changing cars.
The feat astounded President Harrison
and President Mckinley, American citi-
zens used to the marvels of this land 1t
is almost impossible for a foreigner to
grasp it at first. Prince Henry will prob-
ably hand down the story of this feat to
the third generation OF Hohenzollern roy
atty, just as the infanta of Spain is yet
doing, though she didn't make a quarter
of this trip, and as Earl Lii Hung Chang
did to his last day in China.
It is safe to say that no American saw
Ii Hung Chang at such close range and
knew SO much Of his opinion of America as
did Mr.. Boyd. He personally conducted
this grand old celestial through the United
States from the time he set foot in New
York.
Ii Hung Chang had eighteen servants
thirty-five sacred birds, his coffin. boxes Of
food about 100 pieces OF baggage and three