r, so much akin, and upon which depends to an
extraordinary degree the financial health and the material as well as
spiritual welfare of all continents. As for his welcome, he had learnt
to appreciate the quality of American friendship from contact with
members of the splendid fighting forces that had come overseas, but
even that, he indicated, had not prepared him for the wonder of the
greeting he had received.

Outside the City Hall the vast throng had waited patiently, and they
seemed to let their suppressed energy go as the Prince came out of the
City Hall to face the massed batteries of photographers, who would only
allow snapshots to be his "pass" to his automobile.

The throngs in financial "Down Town" gave way to the massed ranks of
workers from the big wholesale and retail houses that occupy middle New
York as the Prince passed up Broadway, the street that is not as broad
as other streets, and the only one that wanders at its own fancy in a
kingdom of parallels and right-angles. At the corner where stands
Wanamaker's great store the crowd was thickest. Here was stationed a
band in a quaint old-time uniform of red tunics, bell trousers and
shakos, while facing them across the street was a squad of girls in
pretty blue and white military uniforms and hats.

Soon the line of cars swung into speed and gained Fifth Avenue, passing
the Flatiron building, which is now not a wonder. Such soaring
structures as the Metropolitan Tower, close by in Madison Square, have
taken the shine out of it, and in the general atmosphere of giants one
does not notice its freakishness unless one is looking for it.

Fifth Avenue is superb; it is the route of pageants by right of air and
quality. It is Oxford Street, London, made broad and straight and
clean. It has fine buildings along its magnificent reach, and some
noble ones. It has dignity and vivacity, it has space and it has an
air. In the graceful open space about Madison Square there stood the
massive Arch of Victory, under which America's soldiers had swung when
they returned from the front. It was a temporary arch constructed with
realism and ingenuity; the Prince passed under it on his way up the
avenue.

He went at racing pace up to and into Central Park, that convincing
affectation of untrammelled Nature (convincing because it is
untrammelled), that beautiful residences of town dwellers look into.
He swung to the left by the gracious pile of the Cathedral of St