The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-18
PRINCE At
EXPOSITION
Kings Grandson to be Made
Much of During Stay
in America.

Norfolk, Va, Aug. ia reception
beftting his royal blood viii be ten
dered His Royal Highness Prince
Wilhelm, grandson of King Oscar OF
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 joi min the recep-
ito nand the battleships in Hampton
Roads will boom out royal salute
upon the arrival of the Swedish
cruiser 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 Min
lister Lafgerants, Sweden's diplomatic
representative in Washington. Hen
ming 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 ar
rive next Thursday, the social fea-
lures incident to his American visit
| will reach. their height. When he
reaches the Rhode Island resort the
| usual salutes will be fired and he will
receive a few callers on board the
cruiser. In the evening he will dine
with Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, and VIII
meet all of the most prominent mem
| bers of the summer colony, number
| ing more than 100. From Mrs. Fish's
dinner he will go to a ball to
given in his honor by Mrs. E. J. Ber-
wind at her Newport villa, the Palms.
The second day at Newport will be
devoted to sightseeing about the city.
| In the evening Mrs. Ogden Mills,
who entertained Prince Henry, of
Prussia; ON his visit to America, will
give a dinner in his hoOnr
On. Saturday Mrs. Richard Cambria
viii give a garden party, and in the
ewing the prince will return the
courtesies by a dinner on board the
Fylgia. On Sunday, the final day of
his stay in Newport, Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish will give a farewell luncheon to
the prince at the Crossways.
On the following Monday, August
&c, the prince will arrive in oBston,
where he will be the guest at a din
ner by Vice Consul Rosentwist. The
prince will stay in the Hub over
night and will leave the next morn
ing for Providence. On August 30 he
will reach New York, where he will
be given a banquet by the leading
Sweeds of the metropolis at the Hotel
Aston. At this celebration there will
be several hundred students from
FLlndSbOrg college, Linsborg, Kan,
who will give saengerfest in the
princes honor. Prince Wilhelm Will
remain in New York until September
3 and will pay a visit to Coney Island
while there
Prince Wilhelm is the second son
of Crown Prince Gustave, and bears
the title of Duke Of Sodermanland
| He is said by those who have met
him to be charming and democratic
in manners and wholly unaffected by
his royal position. He speaks ex-
cellent English, and is so anxious to
acquire the correct American acenr
and to be conversant with AT
can expressions that for months he
has been conversing daily with a
teacher of Languages. He is an en-
| thusiastic sportsman and an, export
at golf and tennis. His love for the
water has won for him the title of the
! "SaiIOr nrince'