PRINCE OF WALES

Evening Star, Issue 18741, 17 September 1924, Page 7

PRINCE OF WALES

HIS AUEBIOAH HOLIDAY.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

NEW YORK, September 15. The Prince of Wales may prolong his stay at Long Island. Although his departure for Alberta has been tentatively set ■ for next Thursday, members of. the Royal party said to-day that he might again change his mind and put in a few days more of holiday and play. His Royal Highness has had a little more peace lately, for ho has been more foilnnate in dodging the curious crowds since the large formal social affairs fixed in his honor are virtually over, and his programme remains empty save for informal dinners arranged at short notice. It is understood that the Prince wants. to go his own way, with as little publicity as possible. His movements during the lust twenty-four hours have not been, revealed, and members of the staff explained that ho had not told them where he had gone. It is announced that the Prince has given Ashby, one of his finest polo ponies, to Miss Diana Guest, daughter of the Hon. Frederick E. Guest. Captain Guest, whose home is on Long Island, married an, American girl. It is also announced that the auction of the Prince’s remaining polo ponies will take place after the Royal visitors have gone to Canada. —A. and N.Z. Cable. LANDING INCIDENTS. NEW YORK,. August 29. The Prince of Wales arrived hero from England very quietly. The first official welcome came from an aeroplane soaring above the Berengaria, which sent a wireless message from the President (Mr Calvin Coolidge). Sir Esmo Howard, the British Ambassador, met the Prince. The New York newspapers term the Royal visitor “the British Empire’s most priceless possession.” To a gathering of seventy-five reporters he pleasantly declared that ho hoped to see some great polo games, and then to travel leisurely westward to hie Alberta ranch. * His Highness went through the usual formalities of examination and quarantine. An immigration official questioned him, and got so many smiling replies replete with American slang. Then a doctor examined him, and found him sound in mind and limb, and a fit subject to mix with the great American, people. When asked if he might not marry some American girl, the Prince laughed heatrily and replied: “ That’s the one question 1 cannot answer.” A moment later he closed the Interview with: “I hope you boys will make it as easy as possible for me by staying as far away as you can."