Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-14

undergone a severe surgical operation. Mr..
Peirce and Maj. Symons will accompany
the prince to the Arlington Hotel, where
he will stay during his visit to Washington.
The program for the stay in Washington
is completely filed. Major Symons viii
act as the aid-de-camp of his imperial
highness while he is in Washington and
Mr.. Pierce will be the personal representa-
tive of the President, and has complete
charge of the entertainment of the Japa-
nese dignitafy.
Official Courtesies.
During his stay here he will attend a
dinner given in his honor at the White
House, visit the Capitol, Congressional
Library and Mount Vernon will attend a
luncheon to be given at the New Willard
Hotel by First Assistant Secretary Loomis
Of the State Department, and dinner to
be given his honor by the members of the
japanese legation and staff, and will hold
reception to the members of the diplo-
matte corps at the Arlington.
The prince will be accompanied by Mr..
A. Sato his grand master to the household;
Count S. Terashima, Maj. s. Watanabe,
master of ceremonies to his imperial high
ness the emperor of Japan; DIR. X. Kok-
kaku. the princes physician, and Mr.. Sho-
suks Akatsuka, the third secretary of the
Japanese legation, who was sent by the
japanese legation to meet the prince at
San Francisco.
He arrived at San Francisco Wednesday
afternoon, and started for Washington al
most Immediately.
He was sent to this country by the mkado
for the purpose of conveying to the Pres-
dent message of good will and to visit
the st. Louis exposition. During the
course of his stay in this country,
which will end December 2S, Prince
E'ushimi will visit New York. Philadelphia,
Boston and Chicago. He will be the guest
of this government, and will be received
with the full honors to which he is entitled
in this city and st. Louis only. He will
visit the other cities incognito
Prince Fushimi at Chicago.
Prince Fushimi, accompanied by three of
his countrymen and a retinue of servants,
arrived in Chicago yesterday on his way to
this city. On arrival in Chicago the party
was taken in charge by the japanese con-
sui, who looked after the entertainment of
the visitors until last night at 6 o'clock,
when they left for this city.
There is no question of national i'm
pCrtance nor any phase of eastern condi-
tions that l care to discuss said Prince
Fushini through his interpreter while
Japan is not at peace, we hope for a
cessation Of hos ul3<ies before long My
visit has no particular significance, except
In so far as 1t may serve to strengthen
the friendship that exists between Japan
and the United States, but this visit has
no connection with the war with. Russia"
One Of Japan's Distinguished Men.
most distinguished men of the new Japan
the Japan of progress and enlightenment
He belongs to the generation that has
grown up since the waning of the rule of
the Shoguns and the opening of Japan to
western civilization. He is a trusted ad-
visor of the ruler of the Japanese empire;
a member of the privy council; a member
of the house of peers, and a general of the
army. To the little Nippon he is some
thing more than prince; he is a demi-god
and his attainments as soldier and states
man have placed him a plane which Is
second only to the emperor himself.
With all this distinction the prince is not
Brother a cousin of the emperor as
has been said of him several times. His re-
lation to the present mikado is probably
between the house of Fushimi and the i'm
perial family The prince is the head of
the house of Fushimi, however, and in
Japan this is almost honor enough for any
man 1t will be learned by consulting his
torical encyclopedia that the empire of
Japan contains ten important families,
clans or houses" Each of these families
or clans is related to the imperial family
The ten clans are next in Importance to the
family of the emperor himself, and the
head of each is, therefore, an important
parsonage from any viewpoint. The clans
are: Arisingawa. Yamashina, Komatsu,
Higashi Fushimi, Kun, Kitashirakawa
Kanin, Kwachio and Nashimoto in the
order of precedence. The Fushimi is the
fifth, ana MS Imperial ElBnneSS, Prince
Sadanaru Fushimi, therefore ranks fifth in
the imperial court when the matter of Of
fcial precedence prevails, although he is
said to rank first among all the advisers
of the emperor in matters of statecraft.
Studied in Europe.
Fushimi was born June 0, 1883. Within
ten years after his birth the empire of
which he Is so important a part emerged
from a hermitage of thousands of years
and took its first steps toward what is