The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-24
PRINCE HENRY EN- ROUTE.
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penciling. The passengers crowded
around the tables near the one occu-
pied by the Prince, and those of the
ladies' who had not actually ventured
into the smoking room and taken seats,
peered through the windows from the
decks. 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 so frequented by women
passengers as that of the Kron Prinz
Wilhelm all the way over. Whenever
1t was sought by Prince Henry he was
sure to find among it's occupants many
OF that sex, and he seemed to take
their scrutiny in a good-natured way
Some of them were heard to order
the same kind of beer the Prince was
drinking, and the stewards brought it
to them-exactly the same as was be-
ing served at the Princes table. But
the Prince, German-like, is slow
drinker, and the ladies discovered that
ne sat at the table for some little time
before a single glass was exhausted,
weather Never Feased Him.
Tuesday the great ship began to en-
counter heavy weather, and made many
of the passengers seek their state
rooms. This thinned out the smoking
room crowd considerably, but the
Prince appeared every day after lunch-
con and every night after dinner, al
way sitting at the same table The
heavy seas did not affect him in the
least, for he is an excellent sailor.
Every morning after breakfast the
Prince took his CONSTITUTIONAL around
the deck two or three times among the
passengers. In fact. he was through
out the voyage thoroughly democratic
A f71- N -fK-of fa6 lxr
paper had been sent by his paper to
accompany the Prince. He was pass
ing when the Prince hailed him, took
his hand and invited him to sit at the
table with the royal party, where he
chatted for nearly an hour.
Another incident which showed his
good fellowship also has an artist, this
time an American, it's beneficiary. The
Prince heard that the American had
made sketch portrait of himself
which had attracted a good deal of at
tention among the passengers. He
sent for the artist and after compli-
menting him upon his work offered to
give him a sitting. The ar tist became
SO embarrassed when he began work
that he was unable to accomplish any,
thing, when the Prince remarked that
"if he did not feel in the humor for
1t they would try again another day."
His consideration of others and his
democratic ways gained for the Prince
the liking of everyone of his fellow
passengers. The American passengers
particularly were Enthusiastically
enthusiastic in their praise,
Capt Richter, the commander of the
Kron Prinz, had hoped to make a re-
cord trip, but the weather was against
him. IIe did not leave the bridge ex-
cept at short intervals during the en-
tire voyage. Prince Henry spent much
of his time each day on the bridge
When the captain expressed his disap-
pointment 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 condi-
tions of head winds.
On Tuesday the Prince went on a
tour of inspection of the ship with the
captain and the ships surgeon He
visited the steerage and second class
passenger and examined their quar-
ters.
Yankee Doodle and Dixie.
One of the most enjoyable features
of the voyage was the excellent music.
In addition to the regular band be-
longing to the ship, the music corps
of the Second Matrosendivisien, con-
tanning thirty-eight pieces, was on
board. This is one of the great mill
tary bands of Germany and came on
the Kron Prinz to join the Hohenzol-
lern. On Thursday night at dinner the
band of the Kaiser's yacht furnished
the music, intermingling German and
American airs. Yankee Doodle" and
Dixie" were played, creating great en-
thusiasm. The royal party, with the
Prince at the head of the table cheered
heartily, as did all the German pas
sengers. At the request of Prince
Henry Yankee Doodle" was rendered
again, and it WIS no sooner finished
than a request came from the same
source for a repetition of Dixie" One
American wondered if the Prince knew
the meaning and history of the two.
Indeed, he does" said several Amer
lean voices.
Drank TO George Washington.
Friday night the Prince left his own
table in the smoking room early and
joined that occupied by George A. Ar
mour and Allison " Armour CT Chi
cago and Spencer Eddy of the United
States legation at Constantinople. AL
lison Armour had been introduced 10
the Prince as a yachting man and this
brought the whole party together on
common ground. Prince Henry sat
conversing with this party Of Ameri-
cans for two hours. He remarked that
he had always desired to hear some
genuine American plantation songs
and hoped he would have the oppor-
tunity before he returned to Germany.
On Washington's birthday after an
hour of inspection of the ship, the
Prince invited the Americans to his
room, where he opened champagne.
Now, gentlemen of America he
said, "let us drink to George Washing