The New York herald., 1921-05-01

Ing prince-and pinned medals
on him (two of 'em. )-and enter
tanned an interesting collection Of
scientists, including Prof. Einstein,
whose theory of relativity is the SEN
sation of the scientific world and the
despair of the unscientific: it has fol-
| lowed Cor accompanied) the President
down the river-quite numerously in
the flesh and still more so in the spirit
and watched him welcome and re-
view the Atlantic fleet; and the Vice
President to Pittsburgh TO help the
Carnegie Institute celebrate Founders
I Day; it has continued it's feteing of
the Venezuelan special mission re-
ceived a few medals from them and
bestowed a few degrees on them; it
has entertained the Daughters of 1872,
the Congress of Mothers and the
Parent Teachers Association; 1t has
watched the beginning of the army
polo tournament on this side of the
river, and gone merrily ON with its
preparations for the annual out Of
the river; and it has gone about it's
usual business of dining and being
dined with unabated energy and APP
parently unimpaired digestion.
Really of course Prince Albert of
Monaco, who arrived last Sunday night,
has been the lion of the week-but he
has been rather shy lion, not in the
least inclined to roar nicely for the
ladies'" In fact he seemed to have a
theory that he is travelling as a sci
enlist rather than as a ruling sover-
eign, and about the only time that he
consciously functioned as a prince was
when he went at o'clock on Mon
day afternoon to pay his formal re-
spects to the President, and an hour
later received the Presidents return
call in such state as his hotel quarters
made possible. Members of his staff
have assured all inquirers that he
was vary busy; and the stock an
swer to all who would learn the thrill
ing details of said business seems to
have been, Il know nossing of zat!"
Entertainments for the Prince.
Prince Albert of Monaco who draws
his princely revenues-and they are all
of that-fronl the most famous gam
bling resort in the world. and spends
them in deep sea dredging In the inter-
ests of science, flung his banner to the
breeze from the upper story of the Hotel
Washington while Professor Albert
Einstein stopped at the Willard. Thus
did one little block in Washington hold
within it's compass for a good part of
the week both royalty and super-intelli-
gence, both, apparently sedulously seek
ing to avoid publicity. Both came at
the invitation of the National Academy
OF Science-the Prince TO receive the
Alexander Agassiz medal awarded to
him in recognition of his researches in
the science of the ocean; the professor
merely as a distinguished guest whom
they would be glad to entertain and
listen to.
The Prince put in most of Monday,
up to O'Clock, when he was due at the
White House, making the round of
Washington's scientific institutions In
the evening he attended the meeting of
the Academy in the National Museum,
and got his medal made an address.
and was the chief figure in n brilliant
reception in the corridors of the muse
um. From then on his time was pretty
thoroughly taken up with society and
science--about fifty-fifty. On Tuesday
he was the chief guest at highly Off
I
where the French Ambassador and Mime.
Jusserand had invited to meet him,
aside from a number of members of the
diplomatic corps William @. Sharp OF
Elyria, Ohio, one time Ambassador TO
France, and Mrs. Sharp; Prof and Mrs,
Henry Fairfield Osborn of New York,
Mr.. John Hays Hammond. Mr.. and Mrs.
Gilbert Grosvenor, Mrs. Henry C. Cor
/ bin and Mrs. Charles Bromwell ON
Tuesday night he was the guest Of honor
at dinner of the National Academy of
| Science, given at the Powhatan.
On Wednesday the Prince was host AT
a luncheon i'm his private suite at the
hotel--a very small party of friends,
/ among whom were the one-time Secre-
tary OF State and Mrs. Robert Lansing
! and Mr.. and Mrs. William G. sharp.
/ (The Sharps have been here for some
time, having their headquarters at the
Shoreham.) On that night John Hays
| Hammond gave a dinner for him
| twenty-five prominent scientists being
invited to meet him-after which they
adjourned to the Cosmos Club, where
| the Prince was the chief guest at q
large reception---also a purely mascu-
! line event
On Thursday It was the Gilbert Gros-
venors' turn to entertain in his honor
Mr.. Grosvenor being head of the Geo
graphical Society. which gave to the
Prince the second medal OF his visit
and last night Mr.. Robert Woods Bliss
entertained in his honor.
The Prince was not exactly an off
cial visitor" and he did none of the
things that the average official visitor
does-except call at the White House.
He hasn't even been taken to Mount
Vernon TO lay q wreath on the tomb of
Washington-though Ne probably did his
duty I'm that line years ago, since the
Is by no means his first visit to the
United States.
In the matter of visiting Mount Yer
non. the Venezuelan Special Mission,
which has been here all week and will
stay pretty well through next. put II
all over the Prince, and indeed all over
almost everybody else--for IT went to
Mount Vernon last Sunday--by hydro
airplane. as guest of Mr.. Walter PEN
field. who is legal adviser to half the
Latin American legations, and who Is
wearing a brand new medal Venezuelan
decoration which they gave to him at the
time of the unveiling of the Bolivar
memorial In New York fortnight ago.
They dropped their wreaths from a con-
siderable elevation. They are, however,
10 do the thing In more conventional
I fashion next Thursday-the last thing
before they leave Washington--when
1 presumably they win be entertained by
I tho Ladies' Mount Vernon Association
4 the organization that bought Mount Yer