The Sentinel=record., 1913-03-02
HOME FOLKS AND STUDENTS AT PRINCETON GIVE PRESIDENT
 A HOUSING sEND-oFF.
BRASS BAND AND FIREWORKS
President-EIeet Tells Neighbors He Has Never Been Inside White House and Will Feel Very
 Strange In 1t.

Princeton, N. J., March 1.-Thous 2 ands Of the home folk of Princeton z and with them, the students of Prince ton University gave Woodrow Wilson *a farewell demonstration tonight as q they bade him God speed to the t White House. It was a unique trib- ute to the man who, after 27 years of residence in the historic town. had been elevated to the Presidency of the United States, and both students } and townsfolk joined in cheering him.
 \ brass band, a glare of fireworks and continuous cheering brought the rresident-eleot to the door of his bungalow just as the procession of students and residents turned the corner of Cleveland Lane, marching by the house where Grover Cleveland lived and died. When they reached the Wilson home, a great cheer went up. C. s. Robinson. a republican and A. S Leigh, democrat bore silver loving cup. Col David M Flynn pre- scented it in a brief speech. The president-elect stood on a box just outside the portico of his home and said goodbye to his fellow townsfolk
 The presidentelect said he meant 10 enjoy the three days between lis resignation Of the governorship and inauguration day, in which he was a plain and untitled citizen, not be- cause he had no particular responsi. bility but because of the remini. seenees of the years that had preced- ea
 "I want you to believe me, he said. when say l shall never loose the consciousness of those years. l would be very poor president if I did lose it. 1 have always believed that the real rootages of patriotism were To- cal, that they resided in ones con. s6ousness of an intimate touca with lMrsons who were watching him with a knowledge of his character
 You cannot love country ab- 'stasctly; you have got to love it Concretly. You have got to know people in order to love them. You have got to feel as they do in ordt. to lave sympathy with them and any man would be a poor public servant who did not regard himself as part of the public himself No man can imagine how other people are Blinking. He can know only by what is going on in his own head and if that head is not connected by every thread of suggestion with the heads of people about him he cannot think as they think.
 T have never been inside of the white house and shall feel very strange when l get inside of it. shall think of this little house be- hind me and remember how much more familiar it is to me than that is likely to be, and how much more intimate a sense of possession there must be in the one case than in the other"
 An outburst of applause arose from tde crowd after the speech. A line was formed and MT Wilson shook hands for nearly an hour
 It was the climax of a busy day { for Mir Wilson. He had witnessed the inauguration of his successor in Trenton and spoken a farewell to the members of the legislature The af- ternoon he devoted to packing. Just before dinner all the Princeton mail carriers who have borne the heavy mail of the president elect since he first entered public life came in body to say goodbye Friends called in a continuous stream Practically the whole town bade farewell to him tonight and the farewells will be con. timed tomorrow.