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Show CHEERING CROWDS NEW YORK. Nov. 2U From skyscrapers sky-scrapers to churches, and from the slock exchange to the "movie?." with ihe horse show as a side line, the Trlnce of Wales was whirled todav ir a kaleidoscopic view of the varioui actlvitlei of the metropolis. Everywhere Every-where he went huge crowds cheered him. pivlng him a reception such a? New York rarely has ever witnessed. The prlnco seemed to enjoy every minute of his strenuous propram hut. Judging by appearances, the hit of the dft for him was the "movies." The exhibition was given at the old Academy of Music, where his grand father had been B guest sixty year? ago at the historic "Diamond Ball." Seated In the same arm chair Edward VII bad oci iipi-'d. the prince laughed with the unrrstrained enthusiasm f an unsophisticated school boy that the two comedies presented. He had asked for "something to laugh at," and he got it. It was slapstick comedy of the 8lap.st ickiest kind with the hero doused in livers, smeared with pie, bitton bv doi;s and butted by goats, and the infectious laugh of the young prince set the whole great audience rocking. Presenl at tho theatre were fifteen survivors of Hie "Diamond Ball" and they were presented 10 the grandson Ul Ul1 JJIIill : iturj liru inn iU IIUUUI in their youth. At Madison Square Garden the prince was the guest at the horse show of ( 'ommandtT Eva Booth of the Saha-tion Saha-tion Army. The show being a benefit performance for the Salvation Army. The royal party passed to its box through double lines of Salvation lassies who were no whit behind the more worldly spectators in the warmth of their greeting to the boyish prince On his return to the Waldorf hotel the prince stole a march on the crowds and the small army of newspaper news-paper reporters who had formed his unofficial bodyguard. Slipping out j from a side entrance he went ror a stroll on Fifth aWnue, unattended ex-i ex-i cept by secret service men. He passed virtually unrecognizi.-d through the tremendous tide of traffic-Tonight traffic-Tonight the prince was the guest of honor at a banquet given by the various British societies of New York. Later in the evening he attended a ball given by Mrs. Whltelaw Held. The world's hope of peace and progress pro-gress has been, and will be, effectually effectual-ly promoted by the co-operation of the British empire and tho United I States, according to former President William Howard Taft, speaking at the dinner tonight. "The time will come," he said, "wtien the people of the British em-ivn em-ivn and the United States will be j found marching in the cause and triumph of world peace shoulder to j shoulder, as they did in this War, keep-in keep-in g step to the air which they have in I common, 'God Save the King,' and j 'America.' When Great Britain and the I United States stand together for righteousness, right-eousness, the world will find it hard , to co wrong." The prince provoked much laughter w hen he said . "1 thank you all for the kind way imfTii i i ii mi i i i .luniia you drank ray health." The diners sang " For He's a Jolly Good Fellow." when he finished speaking. The prince asserted that in coming from Canada to the United States he felt he was well in touch with th-great th-great objects of the Sulgrave institu ! tion and the English-speaking union, "which are. I understand, to keep Eng lish speaking people working in har-tuany har-tuany throughout the world." "I console myself with the intention of paying another visit to the United States before very long," he said. ' i' wi tmi Other speakers included Charleil Evans Hushes, Jndce Afton B. ParkerJ John H. Finley, commissioner of ed i al ion '.--a Vm.i; -i: ,., Ye --!!): John (,. Hibben of Princeton Uni-j versity and.Re Dr. Williams Thomail Manning, rector of Trinity church. I |