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Show COiEHTIS DUE TD I ARRIVE Royal Party Leaves Ottawa Amid Enthusiastic ( Jieei s i 1 ( Canadians ( iathered at lhe Station. GO( D EXPliC'l UU YO ( X )MI. OF THE VISIT New York Society Excited Ovei the isil of Son of Victoria; President Is Not Put Out, ' h international Now.- Service. OrTAWA, 'u!. Jan. 21. Amid the enthusiastic cheers of several hun-l dred Canadians who crowded! the Ottawa .-i.-itioii. the Duke of Con-naught Con-naught and partj lefl tonight for Ni w fork, nrnere they will be mie.-os for h fr"' d?.. s of ISmbas-Sador ISmbas-Sador Whltelaw Refd nnd Mrs. Ieij. I The part traveled In a .private oar attached to th- regular train leaving leav-ing here al 3:80 and Is dm- to arrive at I tho Grand central Btation In Mew Srork at iialf past 7 tomorrow morning. Accompanying Canada's governor general gen-eral are the dUCUCSS and hr daughter, ti'o Princess Patrlcta, the duke's private secretary, a military aide and a representative repre-sentative of the International News Service. The visit of Canada's highest t f i i -1 1 I., tii- American embassador to the court or St. .lames is commented on highly and favorably by all the newspapers news-papers and representative people in all walks of i.fc. See Good in Visit. II is taken to mean a further cementing cement-ing of the wod will between the two countries and to possibly foreshadow fa-vorable fa-vorable action upon pepdldg legislation of great interest t. both the 1'niled States and Canada. The duke Is looking forward to his visit, to New York with the greatest pleasure and expects to utilize every moment of his brief stay in the metropolis. metropo-lis. The party Will spend tomorrow morning at Embassador Uei,r. homo on Fifth avenue, resting after their all-night all-night Journey, Monday afternoon will be spent in sightseeing, the day's events winding no in a dinner and musIcsJe, Prom Tuesday On every minute will be taken up In socials in honor, of the party. The return to Ottawa will begin Thurs-day Thurs-day morning Will Visi Chicago. By International News Service; CHICAGO, Jan. 21. His royal highness, high-ness, the Duke pf Cohnaught, governor Kcnerai of Canada; the duchess and their daughter, the Princess Patricia, will visit Chicago in August. Tins fact was confirmed by officials of the I ahadlan Pacific and Grand Trunk Pacific railroads, who came to Chicago ; arrange for railway accommodations for the royal party. With their royal highnesses will be the aides do i amp of the duke und the ladies in waiting ol the duchess ajid Princess Patricia. It will ic the first Lime a member of the lnglish royal famllv has visited Chicago since the memorable visit of ihe lat King Ldward in ISn, Taft Not 'Offended. WA8H1 NCTON. .Ian. 31 -In confining bis xisit. to the United States-to a short Stay in New fork, the I'uke of ton-naughti ton-naughti the uncle of Georg's V of England, Eng-land, iia- not offended "resident Tan., nor has the fact that he would not come to Washington caused any aieat surprise sur-prise in official circles here. The White house knew several weeks ago that the duke would not come ' Washington Whlte)aw Reld, United states ambassador ambas-sador to Great Britain, when he was at luncheon at the White house early in the month expressly told the officials the duke wished to pay only an unofficial unof-ficial visit to the United state-, and that "he wished to avoid all the official pomp and circumstances" that necessarily neces-sarily would accorapan) a irlp to the capital He was undonBtood t' with for A "day oi tWQ Off" to see something, of w York, and President Taft was aald lo be thoroughly In sympathy with the dUke'S wi-hes. Although the president probably never officially notified the star department that the dUkc would hot visit. Washing-(Hon, Washing-(Hon, it was said tonight that uodoubt- j .-illx officials then- must have UndefBtOOd tim rnaso,n, i . SOCIETY LEADERS ! PREPARE WELCOME Ni:v voi:k. Jan. si, The arrival hen- tomorrow of the Duke and Duchess I Connaugbt will mark the first vigil of British royelt to New rorfc City staoe flftj v. .1 years ago. tvhen the Prince oi VV.nlos, who later became King bldwgrd x' 1 1 . . traveled from New Yorh to the far w it, v. here he luinti .i buffalo 'nie leaders f society her have prepared to extend a welcome befitting the rojal vial tors, whitHo w- Reld, embassador i. the court of St. James, with Mrs. Reld, will UCl as hosts i,f the ducal part v. In addition to th duke, who is gov-srnor-goneral at Canada and uncle of (Continued on Tage Three,) DUKE OF COIflUGHT ON WAY TDBEW YORK (Continued from Page One.-) King George V., and the duchess, ths party will Include their tWenty-flve-year-old daughter, Prlnoess Patricia: Miss Pelle; of the ladies In waiting at the government house, Ottawa; Lieutenant-Colonel Low t her, military secretary secre-tary to the duke, and Captain Rivers-Bulkeley, Rivers-Bulkeley, controller of the vice icgai household Tho party will be driven to embassador Reld s home and remain there un Ml Thursday afternoon Programme Is Social. The programme Is altogether social, as the royal visitors desire to avoid the round of public functions whioh an official of-ficial visit would make necessary. The programme thus far arranged follows: fol-lows: Monday noon, the rteids give a. luncheon lunch-eon at theli home with the visit or a and several New York frlcuda as guests, Monday afternoon, alghtscelns tours about the city, Monday evening, an informal dinner al tho Reld homo, with Cardinal Farley one of the guests, A muaicale 111 follow the dinner Tuesday afternoon! luncheon and a SlglltSi-eing lour. Tuesday evening. ;l formal dinner at the Relde', With hcvo al hundred New York Boclet; leaders invited to meet the royal gnosis, followed by a small dance Wednesday evening, dinner and musical musi-cal e at the home of Mr. and Mrs Ogden Mills. Mrs. Mills Is a brother of MtS Reld. Thursday afternoon, departure for Ot- 1 B -' Details Withheld. More minute details of the programme have been withheld because the visit is considered wholly private. Embassador Reld made i; known thnt both he and Mrs Held felt keenly the public report i;t they Intended to "Weed OUt" certain elements in BOeletJ in Ihe mailer of Invitations, it was said there was no attempt to discriminate No general list of those united will bo made public. in none of the arrangements has any particular reference been made to the entertainment of Princess T'atrn-ia she Is the first prlneesa of the royal blood of Knglanri ever to set foot on the aoll Of the United Stales She I pretty and democratic. Her popularity at home is unbounded and she was the favorite nleer of th late King Edward. She te an accomplished horsewoman, and ha shot big game In Africa II la sntd she ntie refused the proffered liaml of Kins Alfonso of hSpaln. |