PRINCE OF WALES.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 248, 18 October 1924, Page 66 (Supplement)

PRINCE OF WALES.

ORDERED OPT RACECOURSE. A rOLICKMA.VS ERROR, Entering- Belmont pnrk unheralded, and avoiding tho crowd, the Prince of Wales succeeded so well in achieving the status of a private person us t<> get a rough order from a park policeman to move on. eroßsed the tracks and took a poßltlon near the last jump of the steeplechase course. Policeman Timothy Brogan and another park policeman came running after him. "Hey, bey. you there." shouted Brogan, "Get out of that. Get back out of that. You can't go there." Tae Prince, taken aback, turned to Joseph E. Wldener, who waß near him. "Must I get out?" he aeked. "I think they'll let you Btay here," nalfl Mr. Widener. Knllßhtenment soon came to Progan, and ho backed off, muttering apologies. The Prince remained in his position ahont one foot from the steeplechase track. Through his field glasses he watched with Intense excitement whllh tho Corlnthlau Steeplechase started. After the race the Prince went back with Mr. Wldener and looked carefully over the three horses. Tho I'rlncc again wore the same grey suit, giving another destructive blow to the myth of the Prince's endless wardrobe. Jle wore also the same grey hat turned up on one Bide and down on the other. There were signs to-day that be had ect one faehlon. lie has been wearing brown eucdc shoes. It was asserted there was not a male walking Shoe of this unfinished leather In the rnited States before the Prince set foot hero, but today brown suedo shoes were visible on many a foot. The Prince drove back from the race track to ten house of Clarence 11. Mackay, where he and his host played snuaeh racquets. The vPrlnce dined and danced at the Mackay's home In Itoslyn, L.0., which was elaborately decorated. The Mackay home stnnds upon nnrbour Hill, upon which revolutionary patriots once placed Deacons to signal to"the Americans In their struggle with the soldiers of the third reipning member of tho dynasty from which the present Trlnce of Wales sprung.