New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-08
son-in-Law and Daughter
of President Guests of
Ambassador.
TRIP WAS STORMY,
BUT NOT REALLY BAD
Programme Mapped Out for First
Three Days of Visit to
British Capital.
IBy Gable to The Tribune. J

London Dec. S-The first day of Mr..
and Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre in Lon
don was one of typical fog. Neverthe-
loss accompanied by the American
AMBASSADOR Mrs. w. II. Page and
Miss Page. they went to Westminster
Abbey for the morning service. In the
afternoon the ambassador took Mr..
sayre for walk, and afterward the
Young couple, who have not yet lost
their sea legs and who were tired after
their broken rest, due to the unseasona-
bic hour at which the George Wash
ington made port, took a short nap.
Later the members of the staff of the
embassy paid a short call.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sayre reached Plym-
outh about midnight. where they took
tender and were taken ashore in the
pilots cabin to avoid publicity. They
we're met by Consul stephens and went
Immediately in the saloon car of a
special train. arriving at Paddington in
the morning about seven hours later.
Mr.. Page and his daughter were there
when they arrived. The visitors went
directly from the train to the ambassa-
doris limousine and went to the en-
tassy, in GrosvenOr Square.
on the trip over they were very dem
ocratic and mingled freely with all the
passengers. Although they had storms,
the passage was not really a bad one,
and neither of them was i'll. They
were on deck most of the time. They
did not sit at the captains table, but
had a small one TO themselves.
This evening Mr.. and Mrs. Sayre will
be the guests Of the Authors Club.
Long before they contemplated going to
England one of the members of the
club invited them.
When Ambassador Page heard they
we're coming, he, being member of the
Authors Club for the last three or
four years, realized how pleasant it
would be for them TO attend as his
guests, and made a suggestion accord
ingly, but the council Immediately sent
word back that the club wished to
honor the young couple as its own
guests.
On Tuesday Miss Page gives lunch
con in honor Of Mrs. Sayre, inviting
young married and unmarried women
and no men. That evening the ambas-
sador goes TO Cambridge to be present
at the feast of one of the colleges and
has asked Mr.. Sayre TO go, too, know
ing that the Presidents son-in-law is
interested in collegiate and university
work and ideals.
On Wednesday evening Ambassador
Page gives a dinner for Mr.. and Mrs.
Sayre to about thirty guests, including
friends of Mrs. Sayre and the Presi-
dent, among whom will be Canon
Rawnsley, Sir Edward Grey, Sir Will
am Osler and Sir William Mather.
SO other plans have yet been made
snd the visitors will be left largely TO
follow their own inclinations. 1t is
probable. however that Ambassador
and Mrs. Page will give a large recep-
ton for them later on.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sayre are still lodging
publicity, and yesterday Mr.. Sayre ex-
planned the reason why he kept re-
porters so positively at arms length.
When representatives Of London news
papers called he said: I'D like 10 see
them, but I've nothing 70 say. 1t en-
barrasses me. We have got absolutely
nothing at all to say. Can't you ex-
plain that 10 them? We are simply a
couple away on a honeymoon, not Of
hcial people at all If l knew any
Thing worth while to say I'd see them.
That is the real reason we wouldn't
see reporters al home. We hadn't any
thing 10 say"