38 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
Sept. 1, 1916. 
A North Shore Prince 
By ALEX. G. TUPPER 
WHEN the. Japanese ocean liner Tenyo Maru of the 
Hong Kong and San Francisco Line, one of the 
largest and finest Pacific sea-going craft, reached her 
dock at the Golden Gate several days ago, among her 
large number of passengers was a real prince. From 
far-off Siam, the antipodes of America, a royal personage 
had completed a long sea journey of gooo miles, though a 
stretch of 3000 additional miles still lay ahead of him, 
before he should reach his final destination at East Glou- 
cester on the North Shore. 
The Young Prince of Siam accompanied by Phya 
Chanindra, a government official of Siam, had an un- 
eventful passage. Upon landing in this country, the 
young prince and his escort were not met with the usual 
pomp attending the arrival of an Eastern prince in his 
own country, with the blaze of color and the elephant 
cavalcad*. It was all a new world to these tourists and 
with a few exceptions, they passed unnoticed upon Amer- 
ican sol. 
Last Sunday evening, the Prince of Siam, 24 years 
of age, rather short in stature, bright-faced, keen-eyed 
and smiling, reached Bass Rocks, the summer capitol of 
the Siemese Legation. With the prince and his com- 
panion, was the Siamese Minister Phya Prabha Kara- 
vongse. who had gone to Boston to meet the prince. 
Mahidol, the Prince of Songkla, is a brother ot 
Somde’ch Phra Paramendr Maha Vajiravudh Mongkut 
Klao, King of Siam. When the prince arrived at the 
summer capital after a journey of 12000 miles, a distance 
half wey around the globe, he appeared anything but a 
weary traveler. Instead he was in splendid form, a fin2 
example of his sturdy and enduring race. 
Neturally North Shore society folk will wonder if 
royalty will be entertained and generally it is asked, 
“What can be the young prince’s mission to this country ?” 
“Has it anything to do with the war?” etc., etc. Well as 
a matter of fact the prince comes here incognito. He is 
here pzivately and not on official business. In the present 
CAPE ANN.—The “exit day,” Labor Day, is close at 
hand, when as usual, hundreds of people leave Glou- 
cester and her suburbs. Things have been in rather an 
uncertain state for several days and the threatened rail- 
road strike has effected several of the hotels, where guests 
registered from far-off cities considered it expedient to 
return home before the strike is on. It is rumored that 
there is no cause for alarm, because the strike is apt to be 
brief. However, people are very much concerned and for 
days “‘the strike” has been a topic of general conversation. 
There is a large New York contingent who will remain 
here strike or no strike because of the infantile paralysis 
situation. Those people stopping here, touring in their 
own machines are fortunate and can go when they like. 
The Thorwald hotel, Bass Rocks, is another hostelry to 
keep open doors until October 1. 
Distinguished guests the past week-end in Gloucester 
were Lord and Lady Aberdeen of England, who were 
guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Hays Hammond at Lookout 
Hill. Lord and Lady Aberdeen, accompanied by the 
Hammonds, attended divine service at St.. John’s Epis- 
copal church on Sunday morning. 
She—lIs Princeton.in New York? 
Student (truthfully reflective)—Yes, a great part of 
the time.—Princeton Tiger. 
European situation he is neutral. At the outbreak of 
the war, he was an officer in the German navy and being 
neutral, he withdrew. He is on the North Shore for 
absolute quiet and rest. Simplicity and quietness char- 
acterized his entire trip to the summer capital. In San 
Francisco, the prince was met by the Siamese Consul at 
Chicago, Milward Adams. They dined together, then 
in Chicago, the prince dined with his consul at the latter’s 
club. The trip east by way of the Union Pacific railroad, 
touching at Omaha, Chicago, Buffalo and Boston, was 
keenly enjoyed. 
The Prince of Siam comes to this country for the 
purpose of studying American education and conditions. 
He is a student. He was educated in England, Denmark 
and Germany, and is nearly as fluent in the English, 
French, Danish and German languages as in his native 
tongue. After a rest on the North Shore, at some uni- 
versity in this country, possibly Harvard, the prince will 
take a course in American hygiene, medicine and sanita- 
tion, 
The headquarters of the Legation at Bass Rocks, 
where the prince will spend the most of the time is 
charmingly situated and from the broad veranda with its 
growing vines and brilliant flowers, can be seen the 
broad stretch of golf links and the ocean beyond. Every 
member of the legation is fond of golf and the Bass 
Rocks Golf clubhouse is but a short distance from the 
cottage. The Harding house contains the Ambassador, 
his wife and daughter, and attachees, while the first sec- 
retary, Edward H. Loftus, and family occupy a cottage 
nearer the beach. The Siamese Legation has been lo- 
cated at East Gloucester for fourteen seasons. Like so 
many noted people who came to this section of the North 
Shore for quiet and healthful recreation, the Prince of 
Siam, already delighted with the place will receive what 
he has sought after his long journey by sea and land, 
from the Orient. 
HE, first exhibition of prominent American artists, who 
have painted at Gloucester every summer, will be held 
Sept. 2nd to Sept. 16th at the new “Gallery on the Moors” 
in East Gloucester. 
The gallery was built by Ralph Adams Cram for 
Mr. and Mrs. William Edwin Atwood, at whose invitation 
the artists who have made Gloucester famous will lend 
their canvases. 
Among the painters and sculptors who will exhibit 
are: Cecelia Beaux, Anna Vaughn Hyatt, Martha Wal- 
ters, Louise Allen, Adelaide Cole Chase, Louise Upton 
Brumback, John Sloan, Haley Lever, Henry Snell, Ran- 
dall Davey, Guy Wiggin, A. H. Atkins, Charles Grafley, 
Charles Hopkinson, Arthur Wesley Dow, Louise Kron- 
berg, J. William Fosdick, M. B. Clossen, Walter Palmer. 
The “Gallery on the Moors” is expected to start some 
sort of an association among Gloucester painters, such 
as exists among the groups at Lyme and Cos Cob. 
On Wednesday evening, Aug. 30th, the gallery was 
opened by an exhibition of moving pictures of the Ameri- 
can ambulance field service and American aviators in 
France for the benefit of the American Field Service. 
The “Gallery on the Moors” will be open to the 
public free of charge, daily from 10 to 5, Sundays from 
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