The Sentinel=record., 1913-03-05
ENDS LONG TERM OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND LEAVES FOR A
 BRIEF VACATION.
GIVEN A CORDIAL FAREWELL
Without Bitterness and With Cor dlai Pledge of Loyalty to His Sue cessor, Taft Lays Down Off
 claI Duties and Departs.

Washington, March 4.-Wm. How ard Taft, public servant since he wa- 21. said farewell to public life today and became a citizen of the republic that he has served over the seas and Throughout the world for so mary years that he has almost forgotten when he enlisted
 His good bye was smile A hand- shake fer the members of his caHt net; a courtly bow 10 the women friends who braved the inauguration discomforts to bid him and Mrs. Tat God speed in the union station; q wave of the hand and another smile for the people who stood in the train shed and watched his train pull scw- ly out for the south.
 The last that Washington saw of the 27th president was the dim out line of a big smiling figure in froek coat, with hair a little awry, stand ing on the rear platform of private car as 1t was swallowed in the curl ing smoke of the tunnel that leads under the city to Dixie. His last glympse of the city where four years ago he became chief executive and today a private citizen by the peo- ple's will. was when he looked from the platform of his car across the broad Potomac to where the Wash ington monument lifted it's gray, pointed peak to the gray sky.
 Tomorrow he expects to be in Geor- gia. to rest and play as the guest Of the city of Augusta for three weeks. On March 27 he plans to go north again to New Haven tn settle down under the elms of Yale to the peace and quiet of life as professor of law He left with no bitterness in his heart. he told friends but only with thankfulness that he had been given the opportunity to serve.
 Absorbed, as it was, in the inaugu- ration pagoant, Washington dia not forget the man, the retiring president Although he was hurried in one or the White House cars from the back of the White House down through the Mall and over back streets, hundreds of those on the sidewalks who recog- nized him cheered lustily He was forced to break through the line of march in front of the capitol to get to the Union station and the massed thousands forgot the parade for moment to pay their last tribute of applause.
 At the station most of the members of the Taft cabinet and their wives and several close friends of Mrs, TaN were waiting Miss Helen wept gent ly as the farewells were said and the eyes of some of the others were far from dry. With all the ceremony that has attended his departure on other occasions the roped wide pas sage way across the broad concourse the scores of station police, the secret service men and his former aide, Major Thomas l.. Rhoades, with his spurs. clicking on the stone. Mir Taft marched through a cheering throng to his train.
 He stood for a few minutes by tlB side Of his ear. shook hands once more with his friends and then step- ped aboard.
 am now retiring to pedestrian life" he said:
 This had been busy day for Mir. Taft. Although he was up until o'clock this morning he slept only four hours and was at his study dew again to wind up the business of his administration. He worked with oll- ly few minutes for breakfast. until Mir. Wilson started from his hotel to the White House. He spent an heuT in the presidents room in the senate side of the capitol signing bills veto ing others and in between times talk ing with Mir Wilson and with sena- tors and representatives who had their last call
 At the White House luncheon the president sat and chatted for ten mln- utes with Mrs. Wilson He left by the south door and his last view of the mansion came as his automobile