In the morning there were services at Trinity, where Dr.Vinton preached; then a quiet afternoon at the hotel.

With Monday came the Prince's departure.

At half-past nine he left the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and in company with the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of St.Albans, and Mayor Wood, was driven down to the harbour where the "Harriet Lane" was waiting to take him to West Point and Albany.
The next reception that the chronicler of Fifth Avenue events has seen fit to record was that given to General Grant after the close of the Civil War.

At the Fifth Avenue Hotel a number of the city's leading business men met and planned the public greeting, and one hundred and fifty men subscribed one hundred dollars apiece.

The reception to the returning soldier, which took place at the Fifth Avenue Hotel November 20, 1865, was hardly one of which the city or the street had reason to be proud.
Loose management led to disorder and dissatisfaction.