The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-02-07
WILSON ACCEPTS
STUDENT ESCORT
Princeton Men to Be Prominent
Feature In Parade.
Special Trains of 13 Cars Each Will
Convey President Elects Del
egati0ns to Washington.

New York - Woodrow Wilson has
accepted the offer of the students of
Princeton University to escort him
from his home in Princeton to the
White House on the day he is inaugur-
ated.
Just century ago Princeton gave
its last president to the nation-Ja mes
Madison. The centenary will be cele-
brated in unique program, to which
Mr.. Wilson gave his consent when
Paul F. Myers, Princeton senior,
rode on the train with him to New
York and outlined the details.
The Princeton youths will charter
two special trains, of 13 cars each, on
March 8. One car will be put at the
disposal of the president-elect and his
family and accompanying newspaper
men. The governor smiled when he
found the number 10 confronting him
again, for he believes it means luck to
him.
The students, more than 1000
strong, will take Mr.. Wilson direct to
his hotel on arrival at Washington,
and will attend the smoker given that
night by the Princeton Alumni as
ISOLATION of Washington. The next
morning the students will escort Mr..
Wilson from his hotel to the White
House, where President Taft will join
the incoming President and ride with
him to the capitol.
After the ceremony at the capitol
the Princetonians will take their place
in the inaugural parade, just behind
the military and at the head of the
civic organizations.
81 will be delighted. That will be
fne," exclaimed Mr. Wilson enthus-
iastically when the plans of the stu
dents were explained.
The governor intimated while on his
way from Philadelphia that he might
not limit himself, in choosing his cab
met, to the names that had been sug
gested to him. He said this in re-
spouse to an inference drawn by a
newspaper man from talk recently
that the selection of Bryan for secre-
| tary of state was indicated.
"There is absolutely no justification
for that inference, declared Wilson.
81 could not call the names which
have been suggested for other port
folios, either"
He paused and added after mo-
ment's reflection:
"And might be making some nom
nations of my own, for certainly
will not feel bound to confne myself
to names that have been suggested to
me-"
The Round Table club, whose dinner
Mr.. Wilson attended Friday evening,
has been in existence between 40 and
SO years, but Professor Brander
Matthews, one of it's members, said
that not line had ever appeared in
print about it. 1t consists of about 20
members, every one Of whom is emf
nent in some way in literature, public
affairs, or otherwise. Among them
are the President-elect, x-Ambassador
Joseph H. Choate, John L. Cadwallad-
er and DR.. S. Weir Mitchell.
The members of this mysterious
club do not know who organized it or
what were the circumstances leading
to it's formation. 1t has no officers, is
not Incorporated, and has no rules.
For nearly so years it has met at din
ner on the last Friday of each month.
It's members, who live in different
parts of the country, journey to New
York when that day comes.
No speeches are permitted at these
dinners. After the dinner proper is
over the members rearrange them
selves and flow of table talk begins.
Governor Wilson, when asked if he
intended going anywhere after the
dinner, replied with some surprise:
"Oh, no. The talk is always SO in
teresting that the whole evening" is
taken up with it. :"