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Show PRINCE LOUIS AND PARTY LOST .. .. - - .. Adrift on the North River and Cannot Find the Landing Pier. NEW YORK. Nov. 10. Prince Louis of Battenberg and about a dozen boatloads boat-loads of officers bound for the Si. George society dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Waldorf-Astoria had an exciting experience as a result of their small craft getting lost in the North river last night. A strong flood tide was partly responsible, but the British sailors who manned the launches could not find the West Thirty-fourth street pier, A reception committee from the St. George society and a squad of five mounted policemen were at the pier before be-fore 7 o'clock to rpeet the Prince and other officers who were expected by that hour. All of the boats left their ships before 7 o'clock. The skipper of Prince Louis' launch finally succeeded in locating the pier at 8 o'clock. Five other boets had straggled In at intervals inter-vals before the Prince. When he got there it was found that two boats were yet missing, but the Prince was then so late that all hands got into carriages, and escorted by the policemen, made for the hotel at a lively live-ly gallop. A rumor got noised about that two of the launches had been lost. This report proved untrue, for the two boats got In all right, but not at Thirty-fourth street |