r, In regard to the reception of Prince
Alpxis in New York Harper's Weekly
It of December 9th says:
One of the accounts of the reception
e of the Russian Prince in New York
d stated that " Alexis certainly received
such an ovation as no man on earth
ever received before from New York
e ers between the Battery and Union
Square." That is strong language,for
g New Yorkers have heretofore' olered
a similar "ovation " to the Japanese
e Tommy and the prince of Wales, and
it seemed we had exhausted all the
resources of parading all the soldiers,
- and packing the windows and house
- tops and street lanterns with specta
- tors, and shouting auntil we could
shout no more in honor of the hero of
the hour. Certainly nobody grudges
L the handsome young Russian his en
I thusiastic welcome, under the stress
of which, according to the report, he
bore himself with good-humored dig
nity. There was, of course, in itself
something very comical in the eager
interest of a great city and country in
a youth of whom nothing whatever
can he said but that he is an emper
or's son " and it was very natural to
say that Yankees love a lord. But
the truth is, that such an excitement
for such a cause is not so insignificant
as it appears to those whom it affects
with impatience and contempt.
If any body, for instance, were dis
posed to sneer at the affair as illustra
ting the essential snobbery ofa vulgar
society, the ludicrous climax of the
reception, namely, the introduction,of
Mr. Jim Fisk to the Prince, should
have restored entire good humor.
That, of course, turned the idea of
social exclusiveness into utter ridicule.
