The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-26
WHITE HOUSE
 BRIDAL PAIR
 ELUDE PURSUIT
Carefully Planned Escape After Marriage Takes
 Them to Safety

Washington. Nov. 26-Mr. and Mrs.
 T. Francis B. sayre were speeding off
 on their honeymoon Journey today and
 while the few intimates of the Wilson and Sayre families in the close secret of where the newly married couple are
 bound were declining to tell, things
 at the White House were being put back to normal
 House guests, among them mem bers of the bridal party, we're depart ing and decorations in the East Room were being removed. Large quanti- against the walls and the altar were sent to hospitals. The hundreds of wedding presents which occupied one large room on the second floor of the executive mansion were being packed for shipment to the new home of the Sayres at WiIliamstown, Mass. Business in the executive offices was
 resumed, too, and President Wilson took up many engagements which had been delayed over the wedding day. Old Sherlock Holmes and his eTnin- ent friend, pr. Watson, undoubtedly l would have met their Waterloo to- night had they set out to trace MT. and Mrs. Francis B. Sayre when they
 started from the White House on
 their honeymoon. The couple evaded g large corps of reporters stationed around the White House in taxicabs ready to follow them.
 More than a dozen rurnors as to where they went are current, but each | up to date has been unverif1ed. Every
 exit to the city was closely watched,
 but without avail.
 One of the most likely clues is that
 Mr. and Mrs. Sayre went to Baltimore to the home of their. friends MT. and Mrs. Robert Garrett. Mr. Garrett is a banker, a graduate of Princeton and a close friend of MT. Sayre and tEe Wilson family. Had they gone to l the Garrett home they would have fsoue forty miles by motor car.-saizs. F Part of the way to Baltimore. which 1 is forty miles from Washington, is over an excellent pike road. The be- lief that this route was taken is find no trace of them at the three other exits to the scity by train, troll ley car or boat.
 MT. and Mrs. Sayre were like all other young couples in their determin-
 atton to steal away quietly. But.
 eyes. of the nation turned their way.
 they departed in a most extraordinary
 manner. l They left the White House shortly after o'clock, through the kitchen and then into the passageway from |
 the route taken by President Wilson every day. They entered the offices
 and then left through back door
 to an automobile hidden in the shrub bery just outside.
 This automobile is the property of
 Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to the President, who placed 1t at their dis
 posaI so that the White House seal l on other cars would not be in evil
 dence. MT. Tumulty used one of the
 White House motor cars to go to the
 wedding.
 1 Once insite the Humility automobile
 the chauffeur started at full speed over
 the grass to the gravel walk, leading
 to the southwest gate of the White
 House grounds. This gate had been
 closed and locked about an hour be- fore and the police sent away. Other 1 officers however, were on hand to open it for the machine to pass. One reporter in 8 taxicab spied the
 fleeing pair. A policeman tried to
 stop him, but the driver put on full
 speed and nearly ran over the off, cer.
 On shot the bridal pair toward Po- tomac Park, where in the darkness, the 1 taxicab was left behind. Other tax icabs carrying reporters started In chase, but the escape was good. Even then there was really no assur-
 ance for the reporters that the car that had disappeared held Mr and
 Mrs Sayre- There were several hun
 dred automobiles in the vicinity and
 they lodged here and there in suc.l disorder that no trace could be kept
 of them.