After the four hundred torches had died out on the bridge, the Prince was serenaded by the Duquesne Grays, who had met him on his arrival at Alleghany City. The front of the hotel was at the same time illuminated with gas jets, and the crowd of spectators numbered several thousands. The cross of St. George and the stars and stripes swayed to and fro from lines spanning the street, and notwithstanding the wet the enthusiasm of the people was very great. The popular expectation ran in favor of His Royal Highness presenting himself to the admiring audience on the balcony, but the expectation remained unrealized, for the future King of England wisely partook of dinner and went to bed at an early hour.

At half-past eleven the entire party entered a long file of carriages, and drove by a circuitous route to the Pennsylvania Railway Station. The crowd near the hotel was as large as on the previous evening, and the streets through which the cortege passed were lined with spectators, who cheered and shouted as the procession passed. It was a source of much disappointment to some of the citizens that His Royal Highness did not visit the rolling-mills, at Birmingham, on the opposite side of the Ohio, the coal mines, and other places of industrial interest.

On arriving at the station, the Grays, who were ready to receive the party, cleared a passage where the Prince alighted.