The sun., 1905-11-12

mon oR Weehawken is the fortunate tram;
man who will cherish souvenir right mana
to the end of his days.
The British party went at once ,,is Io syiII 9n1
live while on shore for the rest OF MS stay
lie cot into civilian dress clothes, and dined
last night at home with Col Thompson.
A Colonel at the head Of the Naval alumni
needs. explanation Col. IhomFsoh o giaot, ~
the rank of Lieutenant tie resigned,
made fortune in manufacturing and IN
the clav Of his prosperity became CoIonel
on the Governors stall. .,-.-
1t was something OF day LOT DetecelEe
Sergeant Funston. Besides acting as eX-
pert for the beauty show and passing the
Prince a cigar, he was wounded IN the
service. just as the Prince was about 10
alght at the West Point station. the norseS
on his carriage SHE'D at the crowd and tried
TO run away. Funston jumped to the bits,
and the nigh horse snapped at him and
caught a finger of his right hand. Funston
came home in bandage. It is only flesh
wound.
PRINCE TALKS OF HIS OUTING.
Waiting for his carriage at the Navarro
the Prince talked of West Point, football
and the defences Of New York.
The American game is no not .oro SO open to rns as
TO be as good game to watch. 1t is hard
10 tell what they are doing, and there
is not so much running and action.
understand that the numbers whlch
heard shouted on the field were secret
instructions 70 tell them how TO play, some,
thing like the cipher orders OF the Admiral
Of fleet That was very interesting TO
me. ,,,
II marvel at the organization which you
have brought into the game should
say that it Is too violent game for grown
men; only young and timber men could
stand it, 1t should be splendid prepara-
tion for war. o,
Il had seen Indians before, in Canada,
but | was astonished to see them taxing
up with your sports and playing them so
well.
Il don't know that can say anything
about West Point that every one doesn
know. In that and your academy at
Annapolis you have two superb scnools'
The main building struck me as superb, as
beautiful"-here the Prince paused for
comparison-"as Buckingham Palace.
Il have never seen anything better tnan
their drill. AS / watched the hles pass
me to-day l was reminded OF some OF the
old stiff engravings Of soldiers on parade
or of some Egyptian bas reliefs OF soldiers
where the men overlay each other in mathe-
matical exactness. ! was charmed, too,
by the picturesque uniforms. understancii
that in them you have perpetuated the old
uniform of the United states service lha1
s a beautiful custom.
Then the Prince asked for a correction OF
an EXAGGERATED interview where he was
made to tell how fleet could destroy New
York from the river In his earnestness he
dropped back little into his Germamc ac:
cent-and when he does that, the speech OF
Prince Louis is indescrlbably pecular his
ordinary speech has the breadth and lntona-
ton of the educated British accent, but when
his spirit is up. he adds to it the round r" OF
the high class German.
What l did mean" said Prince Louis,
as that New York must suffer greatly from
so that no feet could enter; and even II
they got at you they could do no more than
bowl over your tall houses. But the COM
merce of this city is great and important
and war at your doors would tie 1t all up;
Your houses might stand, but there would
be no business in them
The Prince refused to be led into an ex-
preston Of opinion Oh the prizetght Tor
which the sailors Of both fleets and Boo
Evans are hoping, except to say that
souadrons are one in spirit, and that it would
be like a fight between rivals OF the same
aWe had hoped for series of cutter races
between ships" he added, but we md
that the system Of building boats is different;
so the test would not be fair one ana
we have given it up
To-day the Prince will attend the II
o'clock services at Trinity. have a pri-
vate luncheon with friends, receive two or
three private parties dine en- famille with
Mayor Mcclellan. Monday night brings the
grand jackies' blowout at Coney Island.
the greatest thing of its kind in the history
of either navy, and gambol at the Lambs
Club and Tuesday is the night of the grand
ball on the Drake. report that President
Roosevelt will attend is untrue. Miss
Roosevelt, however, has been invited, and
may attend.