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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1919 Visit of Prince of Wales in Chicago in 1860 > am wm 0 § By J. Seymour Currey In the fall of 1860 the prince of Wales, afterward King Edward VII, paid a visit to Chicago. The visit was made while John Wentworth was mayor of the city. The prince was then nineteen years of age, making a tour of Canada and thz United States, he and his party being under the charge of the duke of Newcastle. The Canadian authorities were op- posed to the extension of the prince's tour into the Unitad States, and Mayor Wentworth, hearing of this, went to Montreal with a committee of citizens to give assurances for his safety, as there were fears that disturbances might arise especially in Chicago where large numbers 'of foreigners were residing. Mr. Went- worth assured the duke that he had only to make his arrangements through the British consul in Chica- go and he, as mayor of Chicago would see that all of them were carriad out. The prince was storm-bound while passing through Canada and remain- ed at Toronto for nearly a week, from the 8th to the 13th of Septem- ber, probably the same storm which prevailed over a large extent of the west when the "Lady Elgin" was lost on Lage Michigan. On the 15th he arrived at Niagara Falls, where he saw the celebrated Blondin cross the Niagara gorge on a tight rope with a man on his back. He continued his journey in the United States as Baron Fenfrew. On the 21st he and his party arrived in Chicago on a special train over the Michigan Cen- tral railroad from Detroit and were driven to the Richmond house, the largest hotel in the city, along the streets lined with an immense con- course of citizens. The second floor of the hotel, which was situated at the northwest corner of Michigan avenue and South Water street, was reserved for the royal party. The next day after his arrival the prince made his appearance on the balcony of the hotel and was greeted by a large number of people who had assembled in the street. The reception committee consisted of the mayor, ex-Mayor W. B. Ogden, William Bross and E. W. McComas, who presented him with an address of welcome which was acknowledged by Lord Lyons, the British minister, who accompanied the party. While here the prince was taken to the court house and bravely ascended the three hundred or more steps of the tower (there were no elevators in those days), ably supported by the strong arms of the mayor at his el- bow, to obtain a view of the city from | that eminence. The irrepressible Fernando Jones was designated by the mayor to be. his conductor, and presumably td entertain him with a few stories; and as he had expressed a desire to see the grain elevators at work he was taken to the top of one of them while a vessel was lyi in the slip loading with a cz grain. While watching the operat the prince was told tlrat this particu- lar cargo was intended as a present to his royal mother, Queen Victoria, as a souvenir of his visit. George P. Upton, then city editor of the Trib- une, in later years wrote of the oc- casion as follow: "Some of the city authorities went to the hotel and have much to say; in fact, the lords who were with him wouldn't permit him to say anything. I went to the hotel but none of the newspaper men were granted any audiences or interviews. He was not much more than a boy in manner." In later years it will be remembered that Richard Somers, who was formerly a resident of Evanston, -became 'proprietor' of the Richmond house (in 1866) but two years afterward the house failed completely and the building was sold for business purposes. The next day the prince went down to Dwight to see a large grain farm there and he also engaged in the } sport of prairie chicken shooting, and while there he is said to have plant- 2d a tree supposed to be still stand- ing. While at Dwight he was ac- companied by Frederick Sparrestrom as a member of the hunting party. | Sparrestrom had formerly been a life guardsman for the king of Sweden and had a reputations as a fine horse- man and successful hunter. He lived in Chicago for many years afterward, finally going to Colorado, where he died. Another day the prince visited the mayor's "Summit farm." and the prince at a later time sent him a pair of Southdown sheep from the queen's herd in England as a present, to- gether with a large portrait of him- self. Mr. Wentworth himself super- intended all the arrangements, and so entirely satisfactory were they to their guests during their stay that on the return of the party to Eng- land the duke of Newcastle wrote the mayor a special letter of thanks. The prince thereafter showed a marked preference for Americans, and by some of his friends his house in London was nicknamed the "white house." His policy in this respect, it was said, "had much to do with furthering the union between the countries which his mother had aid- ed in cementing and in making Am- ericans feel that they were welcome in England." Mayor Wentworth, then holding the office of mayor for the second time, took a great pride in the ab- solute control exercised by him over the police and fire departments of the city. He was, indeed, onz of the most popular mayors the city ever had, known familiarly as "long John" because of his great stature, six feet and six inches. At the time of which we are writing great events were impending. The country was in the throes of a presidential campaign with Abraham Lincoln as the candi- date of the republican party, while the air was ringing with the threats of the slave-holding states to secede from the union in the event of his election. The country, indeed, was rapidly drifting toward the opening of the tremendous drama of the civil war, the great conflict of arms even then sweeping upon it "like an ap- proaching eclipse," as Horace White phrased it. Chicago had a population of 109206 souls, according to the census of that year, and was fast be- coming the greatest grain market in the world. "Such a- flood of golden grain as poured into Chicago on every transportation line from the west in 1860 was never seen before in any primary market on earth, says C. A Taylor in his history © he board of trade. In that yea t William H. 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