The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-19
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EDWARD ARRESTED In ILLINOIS.
He and His Party Shot Quail in the
Close Season hack in 1860.

He and His Party shot auail IN the
Close Season hack In 1860.
| From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
| 1t was in the midst of one of the
most important presidential campaigns
in 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 earn
est political fighting that the country
had ever known. The Republican news
papers of that autumn bore in heavy
letters, at the head of the first coll
umn of every page, For President,
Abraham Lincoln" In coming to st.
Louis particularly the Prince had
chance to feel the pulse of the Ameri-
can people, for he passed directly
through the country round about Lin
coins home. At that time one of the
correspondents of the old Missouri
Democrat wrote as a cause for much
LIBERALIZATION the fact that he had in
one day seen both "tf1e future King of
England and the future President OF
the United States" But the boyish
prince. travelling incognito as Baron
Renfrew." said little about these
things.
Although President Buchanan, in his
presidential message, Immediately aft
ter Baron Renfrew" had returned
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, II would seem, took lit
tie interest in the political develop
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files of the old newspapers, his domi-
mating motive, when in ST. Louis, APP
peared to be that love of the open air,
of horses and of hunting which has
manifested itself during all his vigor-
Gus life as Prince and King OF hunt
ing he was so fond that he and his
party, or the way to st. Louis, disre-
garded the game laws in the state of
Illinois, and actually were arrested and
paid a fine because of the GAIL that
they had shot at Stewards Grove, near
Dwight, Iii. The Prince killed twenty
eight quail, two prairie chickens and
two rabbits on that day history re-
cords, and there was an Irish servant
in the party who was lost in admira-
ton at royaltys unerring aim. He
would scream with joy, it is said at
each lucky shot, and call out time af-
ter time to the Duke of Newcastle,
"Gorramighty, luke, look at i'm"
Besides the Duke of Newcastle, the
distinguished Englishmen who accom-
panied the Prince were the Earl of st.
Germans, Maj. Gen. the Hon. r.
Bruce, Lord Lyons, DR.. Acland, Mr..
Engleheart, Maj. Teasdale, Capt. Grey,
Mr.. Jenner and Mr.. Ware Circum-
stances of time favored them in COM
ing to st. Louis. Sept. 27, 1860, the
day after their arrival, was big
Thursday" at the fair, and on the
same day the st. Louis Art Museum
began its life. On the steamboat
which brought him from Alton to st.
Louis, Wednesday afternoon. Baron
Renfrew" stayed much of the time In
the pilot house, descending long enough
to inspect the boats machinery with
Cap. Halter, and also, in a very DEM
ocratic way, to give a friendly greet
ing to an old Englishwoman who had
come from a distant town in Illinois
to see him, and who was moved to
tears at his kindness. The old Bar
mum Hotel, on Second and Walnut
streets, was selected as the most ele-
giant place of entertainment for the
Prince, and five chaises, so the mar
ratives say, met his party at the
wharf to convey them thither. 1t was
very good-ratured crowd that
thronged the streets. ready, as crowds
are now to laugh at any incident out
of which mirth could be made. A wag-
onload of colored folk which happened
to be near Barnums Hotel was seized
as the butt of ridicule, the hooters.
pretending TO suppose that these were
the noble people when they were ex-
pecting. The poor colored men and wo-
men were quite overcome by the shouts
of admiration and the adulatory bows,
and they were glad when the real
Princes party drew attention from
them