Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-26
PRINCE IN NEW YORK
Visit to Grants Tomb and
 Luncheon at Sherry'se
GALA NIGHT AT TIE GRAND OPERA.
Henry of Prussia Presented With Ctty's Freedom and Dined by Mayor Low Distinguished
 Guests at the Banquet.


 Guests at the Banquet.
 NEW YORK. Feb. 26.-Prince Henry has enjoyed some leisure today. Fol lowing, as it did, one of extreme ten sion, it afforded our royal visitor a chance to rest and prepare for the tour of sightseeing that awaits him.
 At II o'clock in the morning the prince was driven through Central park and up Riverside drive to Grants tomb. He carried with him two large wreaths of American Beauty roses, which were placed upon the sarcoph- agus Of the silent soldier. One of the Treaths was on behalf of Kaiser Will helm, who wished to show the high esteem and respect i'll which he holds the memory of General Grant.
 4 vast crowd of people had gathered about the tomb % catch a glimpse of the distinguished German, but were kept in check by small army of blue coats. The expected visit to Columbia university was postponed.
 At l o'clock luncheon was served at Eherry's, at which Prince Henry met about a hundred representative Ameri- cans, captains of industry and leading minds in the arts and sciences. The evening programme is as follows:
 At o'clock, ssyiew of torchlight procession of German societies from the Arion club house.
 At o'clock, dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in the princess honor under the auspices of the Staats-Ze -Zeitung, to @be attended by nearly 1,200 represent atiyes of the newspaper press of Amer ica.
 At II o'clock, return to the imperial yacht Hohenzollern.
 At 12 o'clock, departure by boat for Pennsylvania railroad station in Jer- sey City to take train for Washington. A day full of incident was completed by Prince Henry by attending the gala opera performance at the Metropoli- tan Opera House after being the guest of honor at the dinner given earlier in the evening by Mayor Low at the Metropolitan club.
 From the time he arrived at Jersey City early in the day with President Roosevelt and his party from Wash tngtOn he was received enthusiastical- ly. He expressed his delight.
 Hurrying from Jersey City, he went to Shooters island, in Newark bay, by ferry to be present at the launching of his royal brothers yacht, the Meteor. Again hurried trip took him to the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, at the pier at the foot of West Thirty-fourth street, where he gave a luncheon to more than fifty prominent Americans and Germans.
 From there he was escorted to the city hall, where the freedom of the city was conferred upon him. Again he returned to the Hohenzollern, and from there he went direct to the Metro politan club. There, as guests of Mayor Low, he met men prominent in American life.
 AT THE GRAND OPERA,
 The crowd around the Metropolitan Opera House to see Prince Henry en- ter the house to attend the gala per formance began to form early in the evening, and by o'clock the sidewalks opposite were thronged with sight seers eager for a glimpse of the prince and his party.
 A cordon of policemen stretched from the lower side of 1Thirty-ninth street to midway between Fortieth and Forty first streets on the side of Broadway opposite to the opera house, and no one who did not show a ticket for the performance was admitted within the lines.
 About 8 o'clock the carriages of the prince and his party drove rapidly up Thirty ninth street from Fifth avenue His arrival was greeted by a murmur from the gathered thousands, which broke into a cheer as the carriage of the prince came into the open space in front of the opera house.
 The carriage stopped in front of the main entrance, and the prince and his party alighted and passed rapidly into the lobby, on either side of which was a solid line of bluecoats extending up the stairs to the entrance to the royal box. The prince and his party passed quickly up the stairs and entered the royal box.
 The decorations were planned by Stanford White. No such display in point of beauty and magnitude has been seen before in public place in this city.
 A first view of the auditorium was electrifying. It was like vast bower in fairyland of smilax, roses and flowers. Not q yestige of woodwork was to be seen. Every inch of ayaila- ble space had been covered with creep ing vines. Creeping vines of smilax covered the ceiling. Suspended from the middle of the dome of evergreen was an immense chandelier entwined with smilax, lighted by alternate white and green electric bulbs. Similar bulbs were strung along each of the stream CTS which covered the ceiling
 The drop curtain was a solid mass of Bmilax and rows of white and green electric lights.
 The prosceniun arsn was covered completely with Cape smilax. Far up in the center, directly over the stage, was trophy shield of eleven Ameri- can and German flags, with the nation al emblems of America and Germany in relief. Each of the five tiers of boxes that form the horseshoe were rich in smilax and festoons of azalias, roses and daisies.
 The five boxes on the first tier direct Iy facing the stage were thrown into one for the royal box. Above the cen ter box, where Prince Henry sat, was Al |