The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-07
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 @ OUIS MARIE PHILIPPE and An
 V toines Gaston Philippe Francois A~ d'Assise Marie Michel Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga, Princes of Orleans, sons of Prince Louis Phipippe Gaston, Compte d'Eu and Isabella, Princess de Bragance and daughter of Dom Pedro, late emperor of Brazil, got back to New York yesterday after a trip trough New England and the west and put up at the Hotel Algonquin, in west Forty-fourth street. They have been in this country about three months and in that time have visited Boston, Lenox, Newport, Chi- cago, St. Louis and Philadelphia.
 Yesterday afternoon they told com posite story to a Sun reporter of what they have seen and how they like it.
 My, but we have had a fine time'" said Prince Louis, the elder of the broth CTS, "and we have been treated handsome ly by your people. You Americans are so cordial, so courteous and so hospita- ble!"
 "All very far superieus, chimed in Princess Antoine.
 America is a great country contin- ued Prince Louis, ''but of all the cities we have visited we like New York best. It is like several great European cities rolled into one. For instance, up in this part of the town and along Fifth ave- nue and immediately east of it, where the rich people live 1t reminds us of Lon don around Hyde Park, without the fog. We were surprised that any part of America, much less New York, could be so delightfully."- quiet.
 Downtown, in the great business cen- ters, 1t is unlike anything we have ever seen abroad It's just New York. Along upper Broadway, in what. l believe you call the shop district, the life of the streets is a little Ike Paris, but the streets. the shops, and the buildings are not like Paris at all. We have thought about it a great deal and have decided that New York is more like London than any European city we know.
 ''We have been asked what we think or your tall buildings and all that. They didn't surprise us in the least You know, everybody in the European capitals reads a great deal about New York and my brother and I read so much before we came here that we had a fairly accurate picture of the city in our own minds. We even knew the names of many of your principal streets and the direction in which they run.
 'There was one thing, though, that surprised us most agreeably. We had heard before coming here that almost anything was frightfully expensive in America. We have found it quite the contrary. Generally speaking. we have had to pay no more for things in this country than we would pay for the same things in our home in Vienna, in Paris or in London-except for cabs Your cap tariff does seem high to European serake your theatres as an exampie' If costs practically the same to occupy seat in the orchestra here that It ooes in Paris, Vienna or London. me Ne" York theatres are about the same as those of London, much finer than those of Paris and not nearly so roomy as those of Vienna. A man can get much more of what you call elbow room in a Vienna theatre than he can in a paly- bouse in New York, but l realize that 1 land is not so dear in Vienna as 1t is here.
 1 "As for the performances, we have nothing anywhere in Europe so delight fully light and amusing as we have found i in New York. We go in for heavier things on the other side. If Europe wants to be used, it must come to the States to go to theatre And the American stage girls! Why there are none in all Europe to compare with them. They are lovely.
 'We haven't tried your new subway yet but we are going to. We know something of subway travelling, however, I because we have tried it in Paris and in the old London underground. Yours, of course, is much finer than they are be- cause it is newer. Your electric cars and your elevated. however. are splendidly run and equipped.
 1 "We went from here to Lenox and had l a delightfully."- quiet time. It is a beauti- ful country that, and we shall always | remember its beauties. We were late foi ] the Newport seasons, but we enjoyed our | selves there. There are many resorts ir | Europe with the beach and the sea and l the bathing. but there are none where