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Show IltS ATTENDS tAKE fitesra i Royal Visitor Duplicates Program of Grandfather 60 Years Ago. ST. JOHNS, N. V., Aug. 13. The .shores of Quidlvfdi lake, two miles from tho city, where a few weeks ago crowds assembled to watch the start of the first .successful non-stop transatlantic air-piano air-piano flight , were again thronged with enthusiastic Newfoundlanders today when tho prince of Wales, on his official offi-cial visit to this colony, went to the lake for (he annual regatta. After a program of events which kept him up until long after midnight yesterday, yester-day, tho prince slept at Government houso in the room occupied in !JbU by his grandfather, the lale King Kdward Vlf, when, as prince of Wales, he vla- (Continucd on Pago 2, Column 1.) "WJIlfS ATTENOS I LAKE REGATTA (Continced from Pase One.) I !"ed Newfoundland. Early this momir.? . the pirince went aloard the Brit.n . cruiser Iraon for break:fat. and at 10 j .o'c,o'-k made his second official landing ' in this city. A crowd greeted him. re- J peating the enthusiastic welcome of yes- j terday. and ai along- the route- to .the t -la he he received an oation. j In witnessing- the regatta. .'. feature of Eurnmer life here for nef- riv pev nty year:j, the prince was once at-ain f'O'ow-in f'O'ow-in the footstenj-' of hi. gnandfaf her, ..v.-f:9 was the gje-,t of honor at a L-imhar fr:t sixty yearfi aro. The raciner program occupied the entire en-tire da:-, but tne prince was restricted - to a two-hour visit, as he was to leave h e city at noon to r e -e m b a r k on the battle cruiser P.enr-vrn. avr;-::.p him at , Conception bay, an-3 proceed to i-'t. John,' ; . V... to beg"in h:s visit to Canada. - OTTAWA. Ont., A:?. No decision h&ri yet been reached as to the dae or -length of the vi-t r,f the prince of V.'ai j to the t'nited H'ate-, it was said here tod': y. He is not expected to so there i until the clo:e of lAz Canadian '.vjr, 1 -Tf'-.'.'ft wi'l take him as far west as Brit- -h Columbia. ' |