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[page 45 of The Baltimore Sun Almanac, 1903]

THE BALTIMORE SUN ALMANACE, 1903
45

Visit of Prince Henry of Prussia.

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One of the leading incidents of the
year 1902 was the visit of Prince
Henry of Prussia, brother of the Emperor
William II. of Germany, to thee
United States and his reception by the
people and the public authorities. The
Prince arrived at New York February
23 in the North German Lloyd Line
steamship Kronprinz Wilhelm, and
from that time until March 11, the day
of his departure, he experienced a
continuous series of hospitable attentions
and gratifying ovations. He was
welcomed on arrival by Rear Admiral
Robley D. Evans, U. S. N., in the name
of the American people. The next day
February 24, he proceeded to Washington
city to pay his respects to President
Roosevelt, making a brief stoppage
at Baltimore, where he was greeted
in the Union Station by Mayor Hayes.
The United Singers sang his favorite
song in German, and little Violet Klein
presented him with a boquet, for which
she received his thanks. In the White
House at Washington the Prince was
received without formality. He visited
the German Embassy, where he received
the Diplomatic Corps; visited
the Capitol and was the guest of honor
at the White House at dinner in the
evening, later taking a train for New
York.

February 25 he accomplished the
ostensible object of his visit to the
United States by attending, as the
representative of his brother, Emperor
William, the launching of the Emperor's
new yacht, Meteor, built at
Shooter's Island, New York. Miss
Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the president,
bestowed the vessel's name Prince
Henry called for cheers for President
Roosevelt. The President responded
by calling for cheers for the Prince.
The President and the Prince went
from the shipyard to the Imperial
yacht Hohenzollern, moored at the
West Thirty-fourth street pier, New
York city, where the Prince gave a
luncheon in honor of the American
Executive. The Prince presented to
Miss Roosevelt, in the name of the Emperor,
a magnificient gold bracelet, set
with the Emperor's name in diamonds
and a minature of the Emperor in
diamonds.

On the evening of February 26 he
reviewed a torchlight procession of
German societies. He went February
27 to Washington city, and in the hall
of the House of Representatives, with
the President and a distinquished party,
listened for an hour and a half to an
oration by Secretary Hayon the late
President McKinley. In the afternoon
he went by trolley car to Mount Vernon,
returning in time for a brief rest
before dining with the President at a
small party in the evening. He visited
Annapolis, Md. Feb 28, and

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inspected the Naval Academy and the
magnificent buildings in process of
construction there for the school of naval
officers. In an address to the battalion
of midshipmen, or cadets as they were
then called, Prince Henry said: "The
workings of your school are a high
order, your drills spendilly performed,
and your genral work, so far as I have
been able to see, is of the very highest
order."

During his visit Prince Henry traveled
by rail 4,530 miles through the
States of New York, New Jersery, Pennsylvania,
Deleware, Maryland, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Missouri, Wisconsin and Massachusetts.
His trip extended as far
south as Chattanooga, as far west as
Milwaukee and as far east as Boston.
He was absent from New York nine
days and on returning to that State,
March 7, visited Albany and the United
States Military Academy at West Point.
The larger cities included in the itinerary were:

New York, Baltimore, Washington,
Annapolis, Harrisburg, Pittsburg, Columbus,
Cincinnati, Chattanooga, Nashville,
Louiville, Indianapolis, St. Louis,
Chicago, Milwaukee, Albany, Philadelphia.

The railway touring was under the
personal supervision of Mr. George W.
Boyd, of the Pennylvania Railroad.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans was
with the Prince continously from arrival
to departure as the representative
of the United States government.
During the course of the visit, the
Prince met nearly every prominent
official in the different branches of the
Federal government, and the hier
functionaries of the States through
which he passed, as well as those of
the large municipalities where he was
entertained. In New York, Cincinnati,
Chicago, St. Louis and Milwaukee the
German American populations are in
such large proportion he had excellent
opportunities of studying the conditions
of the many hundred of thousands
of people who have so immensly
bettered their fortunes and condition
by emigrating to America.

In commemoration of the visit, Emperor
William presented a statue in
bronze of Frederick the Great to the
United States, which was accepted in
the name of the people by President
Roosevelt, and a site was selected for
it adjacent to the War College in the
Arsenal grounds at Washington.

Heinrich the Navigator, as the people
of Prussia call Prince Henry, is
three years younger than his brother,
the Kaiser. He was 39 years of age
at the time of his visit. He is a
trained officer of the German Imperial
Navy with the rank of Rear Admiral.
Hi residence is at Kiel.