Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-05
PLATTS DO NOT MEET
WIFE FAILS TO GET AN INTER
VIEW.

With a horde of reporters following In
their footsteps the Platts played game OF
hide and seek in New York yesterday-the
senator strenuously hiding from his wire
and the latter making vain efforts to see
her aged spouse and avoid the small army
Of newspaper men who were trailing in her
wake She finally failed signally In her
efforts to talk to the senator and returned
to Tioga Lodge disheartened. The New
York Herald says of the days incidents:
Mrs Thomas C. Plat, true to her word.
left Tioga Lodge yesterday morning and
came to this city, where she made de-
termned onslaught by wire in an enort TO
gain the citadel at No. 40 Broadway. where
the senator was intrenched. Mr.. Plat de-
clined to talk with her over the telephone.
and she relieved her feelings by conversinG
for a moment with one OF his secretaries.
She had heard that he intended to leave
the city for few days in search OF some
SUMMER and happier cline.
She arose while it was yet night, and by
Mills. Early as was the hour most of the
feminine population Of the little village
was at doors and windows to see her. She
was accompanied by her daughter. Mrs. ].
L. Carmody, and by her housekeeper. They
were in light travelling order and seemed
bent on only an excursion into the me-
tropolis.
Senator Plat was astir as early as was
I MS WlfST IOI IL udU OcSl HIS AulcullOh "
go somewhere at o'clock. His trunks
are packed and he has provided himself
with a consignment of ornate haberdash-
cry. The senator from his window high in
threatening sky and countermanded the
order He went instead to his Office at 9
o'clock, his usual time. He was soon i'm
mersed in the affairs Of the express BUSH
ness
Mrs. Plat, after her arrival at the 23d
street ferry, went to the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. where she merely passed through
one corridor and then made her way to a
department store across the street. She
called UP No. 40 Broadway after that and
made an Intellectual effort to arrange a
meeting with the senator.
Belief was entertained throughout the
offices Of the United States Express Com
pany that she was likely at any time to
storm the place. Three negro porters were
on the nervous watch and a strong young
man was standing at the front door wait
ing at any time to run and give the alarm.
Even the grave-faced youths who stand in
a cage in the outer room Of the company
presidents Office and count money orders
all day were much perturbed. Mrs. Platt,
however, did not arrive.
She and her daughter went instead to the
Waldorf-AstOria. where they had luncheon.
Senator Platt left his Broadway Office at
2 o'clock, after his official bodyguard had
scanned the street in both directions to see
If all was well. 1t had been announced
that Mrs. Platt would on her arrival pro-
coed to the Hotel Gotham. where she would
insist upon nursing her aiing husband
She did not go near the hotel.
AS far as could be learned Mr.. Plat had
given no instructions as to the reception
which should be accorded to his wife, and
consequently the employees were preparing
to usher her to his rooms, should she ap-
pear.
Mrs. Plat changed her mind with regard
to taking the apartments engaged for her
at the Gotham. She was seen in the even
ing near the Fifth Avenue Hotel but IL
was denied that she was domiciled there
1t was also said that she had returned by
| roundabout way to Tioga Lodge, but no
word could be obtained from the country
house,. The senator. whose son Frank sus-
tains him in his resolution not to see his
wife, Is still at the Gotham.