The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-04
.,,,.or Girls Have a Pillow Fight and
cuddIe up Baby Josephine
While Black Nanny
Looks On.
WERE ALL UP EARLY
Thirty-eisht Relatives q the New
President Are Housed on the
Fourth Floor Of the
shoreha,r.

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WASHINGTON, March A sleepy
Main clothes man on the fourth floor
If tne shoreham hotel. rubbed his
ewes vigorously at 8 o'clock today at
an apparition that peered through a
nartly opened door, stepped gingerly
mi into the hall, han clad, and grab
he'd a pair Of shoes that had been left
outside the door to be blackened.
Minus the glasses and few habili-
ments. the Waterman had difficulty in
recognizing the angular figure as that
If the incoming president of the Unit
ed states. 1t was Woodrow Wilson.
with his shoes in his hand, the
president-elect slipped back into his
room, got out his shaving parapher-
nelia, stropped his old-fashioned razor
and shaved himself.
Wilson went to bed last night at. III
o'clock. Mrs. Wilson decreed that he
should 60 to bed at IL and her hus-
band obeyed Mrs. Wilson saw that
he went to his room at that hour and
then went to her own room for rest.
Long before o'clock the corridors
on the fourth floor were peopled with
eager Wilson's. Most Of the thirty
relatives ,pere astir early tip-toeing
along the corridors, seeking their bag
gage from heap of trunks, suitcases
and bags that Uttered the hallway.
There were whispered conferences,
subdued peals of laughter and a flut-
tering exchange of VISITS.
Baby Josephine Cochran, grand
niece of the president-elect, was one
Of the very first Wilson's to be astir.
She toddled up the corridors, guarded
by her negro nanny" Miss Jessie
Wilson, emerging from her room, en-
veloped the tiny girl in a laughing
embrace, sitting down on the floor of
the hallway, the better to exchange
condolences with her. Miss Eleanor
Wilson came out of her room carry
ing a big. bolster over her shoulder
which she flung laughingly into her
sisters room.
James Woodrow and Fitzwilliam
McMasters woodrow, the two young
sons Of Joseph Woodrow of Columbia,
$. c., joined the Wilson girls In the
corridor next.
The two boys are great pals Of
the president-elect's daughters, and
they scurried off to corner OF the
hall to exchange experiences, look
out the window at the overcast sky
and excitedly comment on what the
day would bring forth.
Stifled laughter and a good rig
ging" awaited Colonel Thomas Fl
Birch, who has acted as Governor Will
sons military secretary. Colonel Birch
appears today in his full regalia OF
gold-lace, gilt buttons and sword
The Wilson's weren't used to seeing
him in such style and the ysSnger
folk who are the chnmmiest sort oil
friends with the colonel, poked much
fun at him.
President-elect Wilson was ready
for breakfast before his wife and
daughters had finished hooking w
Their dresses and 80 he had his mea
brought to his room. He finished II
quickly and was ready for the day.
Good morning he nodded to Z
united Press correspondent, Howe
the weather outside?" he continued.
The correspondent replied that The
prospects we're good
tsyyt .
That's fine" Wilson remarked EN-
phatically.
Did you sleep well?' he was asked
I rested nicely and feel very flint