Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-18
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NOr[Olk, Va, Aug. IA receptlOI befitting his royal blood will be ten dered his royal highness, Prince Will Sweden, who is due to arrive here Monday on board the armored cruiser Fylgia of the Swedish navy. Diplo- mats, exposition officials, army and navy officers and society leaders will vie with each other in entertaining the young prince during his stay of three days in Norfolk. The United States navy will join in the reception and the battleships in Hampton Roads will boom out royal salute upon the arrival of the Swedish cruis- CT with the prince on board.
 Monday will be spent by Prince Wilhelm in paying and receiving calls. In the evening the prince will be the guest of honor at a dinner at the Hotel Chamberlain, given by Minister Lagerorants, Sweden's diplomatic rep resentative in Washington. Henning Fernstroi, Swedish vice consul, will entertain the prince at dinner on Tuesday evening, the banquet to be held at the Virginia club. On the same night the sixty Swedish naval cadets accompanying the sailor prince will be given a grand ball in the ex- position convention hall.
 From Norfolk the prince will go to Oyster Bay, where he will have an audience with President Roosevelt At Newport, where the prince will arrive next Thursday, the social features in- cident to his American visit will reach their height. When he reaches the Rhode Island resort the usual sa- lutes will be fired and he will re- ceive a few callers on board the cruiser. In the evening he will dine with Mrs. StuYGesant Fish, and will meet all the prominent members Of the summer colony, numbering more than 100. From Mrs. Fish's dinner he will go to ball to be given in his honor by Mrs. E. J. Berwind at her Newport villa, the Films.
 The second day at Newport will be devoted to sightseeing about the city. In the evening Mrs. Ogden Mills, who entertained Prince Henry of Prus- sia on his visit to America, will give dinner in his honor.
 On Saturday Mrs. Richard Gambrill will give a garden party, and in the evening the prince will return the courtesies by a dinner on board the Fylgia. On Sunday, the final day of his stay at Newport, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish will give a farewell luncheon to the prince at the Crossways.
 On the following Monday, August 26, the prince will arrive in Boston, where he will be the guest at dln- ner given by Vice Consul RosentWist. The prince will stay in the Hub over night and will leave the next morning for Providence. On August 29 he will reach New York where he will be giv' en a banquet by the leading Swedes of the metropolis at the Hotel Astor. At this celebration there will be sev- eral hundred students from Lindsborg college, Lindsborg, Kan, who Will give a saengerfest in the princes hon. or. Prince Wilhelm will remain in New York until September and will pay a visit to Coney Island while there.
 Prince Wilhelm is the second son or Crown Prince Gustave, and bears the title of Duke of Sodermanland. He IS said by those who have met him to he charming and democratic in man. ners and wholly unaffected by his royal position. He speaks excellent English, and iss so anxious to ac- uuire the correct American accent ana to be conversant with American ex- pressions that for months he has been conyersing daily with teacher or lan- guages. He is an enthusiastic sports man and an expert at golf and tennis. His love of the water has won for him the title of the sailor prince.