The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-03-04
PRINCETON SENDOFF
DELIGHTS WILSON'S
Prpsidpnt-plcct Joins in STU
dents Singing Of Col
lege Songs.
CALLS on AGED NElGHBOR
He'll Write q Farewell Mes
sage TO New Jerseys PeO-
pie Soon.
CALLS on AGED NElGHBOR

tndt was given tntIn tIlS
at Princeton. The family was early
astir making final preparations for de-
parture.
Mr. Wilson went over To his next door
neighbor Mrs Ricketts,. to say good-by
at 10 o'clock. Mrs. Ricketts, is nearly 90,
years old and has been one Of those
friends of the President elect who would
take him by the arm and tell him very
plainly what she might think OF his
speeches or acts. Frequently she has
stopped him as he was entering his
home to register her disapproval or
something he had said or done. Mr..
Wilson has n great admiration for her
plain speaking.
AT 1915 o'clock the students com
mittee Of fifteen. headed by Paul T..
Meyers called at the Wilson home.
They found every one ready for the
departure. They entered the waiting
automobiles and were driven rapidly to
the railroad station. A crowd of almost
a thousand young men there formed
a lane through which the President
elects party was to walk. but Mrs. Will
son and her daughters saw many ia
miliar faces about them and in a mo
ment We're shaking hands extended
from every side. The President elect
walked on alone with the students
Once he was on the platform of his
car the student body 1e, go with Wig
orous college cheers. They kept that
up for the half hour remaining before
the special pulled out. When the mem
bers Of the party We're all aboard the
crowd surged toward the car and good
bys were kissed waved and shouted.
Mrs Wilson and her daughters APP
peared TO enjoy it immensely. The
cheering OF the students meanwhile
had given place to the singing of college
songs and the President elect went out
on the platform to JOIN in. The sing
ing OF "Old Nassau at the very moment
of leaving was impressive. Then so
many OF the students as were to go on
the first special train broke for the
coaches and the journey began.
Mr. Wilson said ne never felt better
in his life. He was in :. jovial mood
When some one suggested that his Cab-
net list must be settled by this time he
replied that it was Professionally. but
that one never could tell until the last
moment what might happen. He re-
ferred seriously to the kind spirit of the
parting sendon OF his Princeton friends
and said that ths- thing that tickled him
was that he knew almost every one in
the crowd. He said also that he con-
templated writing something in the way
OF a farewell message to the people OF
New Jersey within the next few days.
Mrs Annie Howe, the sister OF the
President elect. boarded the train at
West Philadelphia with her daughter.
Mrs. Perrin Cothran. and little Jose
phine Cothran. IA months old The child
Immediately became the life OF the
party.
When the train pulled into Baltimore
where Henry Clay Stewart president Of
the Washington- Princeton Alumni As
sociation, and Joseph r. Truesdale,
treasurer of the College Mems Woodrow
Wilson club. came on board a crowd
appeared on the platform. They wanted
to See the President elect. but the face
tha, greeted them at one of the windows
was that of Josephine Cothran. She
waved kisses to everybody.
Mr.. Wilson spent the rest Of the time
on the train talking with Mr., Stewart
and Mr Truesdale. He said he had stood
the journey we'll despite the fact THAI he
had been unabl. To get in his usual
train sleep
President elect Wilson was the guest
Tonight OF Princeton alumni who are in
Washington for the inauguration. They
held a smoker and get together feast at
the New Willard and he left family
reunion at the Shoreham long enough to
shake hands with all of them and to
say he appreciated their sympathy on
the evening OF his undertaking his pro-
fOundly great task.
There were perhaps 1000 Of them and
they came from about every State in III,
Union. The main banquet room OF the
i A. ~.
the ceiling were flung pennants of white
and yellow and about the walls were
orange and black banners from cities
and States throughout the land. A band
In the balcony blar-d forth old Prince
ton songs and everybody joined In
Meanwhile there was much smoking of
every variety OF smoke and a great deal
of eating Of steaming frankfurters.
salads and other deliCaCies.
Then all of a sudden the word passed
! along that the President-elect was com
. ing The Prlncctonians ranged them
selves in two rows from the door TO a
, dais at one side OF the room where
there was a comfortable seat and big
= banner labelled The Old Guard
Supreme Court Justice Mahlon Pit
ney, who was Mr.. Wilson's classmate.
and Henry Clay Stewart, chairman of
the reception committee for the smoker,
came in with the President elect be q
tween Them and Princeton throats
raised Il howl of welcome that put the
band in the balcony 10 shame.
No sooner had he seated himself tha n
Mr. Wilson was the recipient Of song
book and box OF cigarettes. He had no
use for either, because he does not
all ha