November 20, 1908
Princess Heinrich XVIII of Reuss arrived today in New York City on the Lusitania. The former Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin is en route to Havana, where her son, Heinrich, a naval office, has taken ill with a fever. The princess has been making "record-breaking time" in an effort to get to her ill son. The Princess was at her home in Germany, when she received a telegram that her son was ill. Within two hours, she was on board a train for London, and then Liverpool, where she caught the Lusitania. Arrangements were made for a tug to meet the princess and her maid when the Lusitania was docked for quarantine. Arrangements for the tug were made by the German consulate through the Hamburg-American line.
The Princess and her maid were taken to Pennsylvania station where they boarded the 9:40 train heading to Port Tampa. From there, they will head to Knight Key, Florida, to take a steamer to Havana, which is expected to arrive on November 23 at 6:30 a.m.
All told, the Princess' trip between London and Cuba will have taken eight days and eighteen hours.
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