The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
BELGIAN KING
WHISKED OVER
CITY BY PLANE
Takes Low Flight and Later
Seeks View From Wool
worth Building.
HE SEES BILLION IN GOLD
Speaks at Bankers Club
Queen Elizabeth Also Has
Busy Day.
HE SEES BILLION IN GOLD

The King of the Belgians left New
York city without saying just what
his sensations were. But 1t is a pretty
safe guess that his feelings were akin
to those of the man who had just
completed his first trip through one of
those trick piers at Coney Island
where everything short of instant
death happens TO him and he is finally
expelled upon the beach through a
tube.
The King has seen New York after
the manner of the American tourist
who does Paris in forty-eight hours.
He was whisked up and down around
the city yesterday in seaplane. He
was hoisted to the top of the Wool
worth Building. He was hurried
through the Stock Exchange and the
Produce Exchange and down Broad
street, where the curb brokers pulled
out an extra stop and spent five
minutes lassoing the King with ticker
tape. bowling weird assurances of
friendship and otherwise living up to
their reputation of being the noisiest
individuals in America. Then he took
in the Guaranty Trust Company's
great plant, the Chamber of Com
merce and the Aquarium.
With the Prince, who accompanied
the King on everything except the
air flight. he went to the Sub-Treasury
and showed interest in the billion dol
| lars in gold stored there. The Prince
hefted $10O.OOO,OO in ten thousand
! dollar gold certificates and seemed re-
lieved when Martin Vogel, Assistant
Secretary Of the Treasury. tucked
them back in the vaults.
Luncheon MT Bankers Club.
| From there the father and son went
| to the Bankers Club and had lunch with
a most distinguished gathering of men
brought together for the occasion by
the Belgian Relief Commission. The
King made a brief speech and then he
and Prince Leopold motored back to the
Waldorf to rejoin Queen Elizabeth, who
|
politan Art Museum and the Rockefeller
Foundation Hospital.
The average American woman would
have called that a days work. In fact
there are those who would have quit
all activity for a week afterward. But
the Queen found time to confer with a
| few women physicians (she is herself a
| gydduate Of the Medical School at Leip-
| sic), and all this bef1re luncheon. Later
| she went over to the Public Library
| with the King and the Prince and par
ticipated in the reception given their
Majesties by the War Welfare Workers.
This is but summary Of the main
points of the day Of the visitors. They
seemed quite equal to doing much more.
Without evincing anything approximat-
ing fatigue they wore out several reliefs
| Of reporters and had a number of promi-
rent citizens yearnlng for carpet slip
pers and home sweet home.
There was a story around the Waldorf
and to be heard in several sections OF
the city that the abandonment of the
tour of the country by the King was not
altogether due to President Wilson s
Illness. Reporters sought verifcation or
denial from Breckenridge Long. Third
Assistant Secretary OF State, and re-
celYed the latter.
1t is said that the King had not been
in total accord with the State Depart
ment's schedule that several things had
happened or had not happened to make
some Of the Kings cherished desires
possible. 1t Is said. for instance. that
the King yearned to do a bit of travel
ling incognito that he wanted to travel
around the country, but to do SO with
out being bothered with reception COM
mittees and the like.
Had Raised No Objection.
Mr.. Long said that he did not know
what the Kings thoughts were but that
certainly the King had not raised any
objection TO anything that has occurred
so far and had approved of the schedule
and programme before arriving in
America. Mr.. Long insists that the
abandonment of the city to city visit
was due solely, to the unfortunate illness
OF President Wilson. Buffalo and Bos-
ton being so near by. he said, the King
decided that 1t would be entirely proper
TO stop at those places.
At any rate, the King Is alleged to be
rather tired OF reporters. At the Bank
| ers Club detective accosted The news.
J paper men who had been assigned tC