Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-13
GUESTS
THRONG CAPITAL
FOR RECEPTION
President Better and Expects to
Attend White House Fete
Tonight.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 1s.-President
Wilson was reported to be feeling bet
ter this morning. Dr. Cary Grayson
was in early attendance on him at
the White House. and urged his pa
tient To remain abed all morning. The
President is so desirous of being pres
ent at the New Jersey reception to-
night that his physician wished him
to conserve his strength as much as
possible.
Emphatic denial is made by DR.
Grayson and Secretary Tumulty to
the reports that the President is a
sick man. He is an easy victim to a
cold, and the conservation of his
health is taken as a precautionary
method There are lingering gyrnp-
toms of the grip he was afflicted with
before the Christmas holidays Tie
cabinet meeting this morning was
i With the exception of the Demo
cratic national committee and cabinet
/ officers. only New Jersey folk have
! been Invited to the reception tonight
The guests will include the New Jer-
sey delegates at the Baltimore con-
vention. their alternates, the New
Jersey electors. Democratic State
committeeman, Democratic leaders in
the legislature, Governor Fielder, for
mer Governor Taylor. the New Jersey
congressional delegation and editors
OF New Jersey newspapers.
Some of the formalities usually OBJ
served at the state receptions win be
brushed asiae and the President and
Mrs. Wilson will have more oppor-
tunity to mingle with the guests
Secretary Tumulty received many
of the guests at the executive offices
during the day.
The capital assumed quite a New
Jersey air today. It has the appear
ance of a sort of midwinter Asbury
Park boardwalk. One cannot walk
two squares along Pennsylvania ave-
nue. without running into pairs or
groups of Jerseymen from all parts
of the State. from the governor down
to his colored attendant
The Jerseymen and their wives.
daughters and other women folk fore
I gather in the hotel lobbies and re-
new old acquaintance that have laid
/ dormant since the last boardwalk
meeting or the final social gatherings
! at other shore resorts. They make
/ quite a large family party and the
/ capital is beginning to find out they
are here. The chief hotels are taxed
/ to their capacity, and almost for the
/ first time since the Inauguration the
hotel keepers are beginning to look
+ favorably upon this administration
One of them put It today:
IF the President would only do a.
/ little more Of this social thing It
would be better for us" Those who
/ know the President know too well
1.a
hotel keepers think about him or his
/ indifference 10 social functions.
/ Governor Fielder, free from official
cares. Is having what Roosevelt would
call "a bully time" at the capital. He
and Mrs. Fielder spent most Of YES
terday going about sightseeing. The
luncheon at the White House was a
delightful affair, infromal as it was.
After it the governor and Mrs.
Fielder resumed their tour of rub
bernecking. :,
At the Capitol they were taken in
charge by Congressman Kinkead, who
did the honors, showing them all
about the building, even inducing
them to take seats in the House gall
lery and listening to some of the de-
bate. II Just happened that the Lin
coin memorial talks We're over. and
! the visitors had a sample of some of
the poorest lot of speechma king that
has been on tap this season. But
Congressman Kinkead assured the
governor that there were real good
speeches made some times, particu-
larly during the migration debates.
Governor Fielder was not in a
critical mood, and seemed to enjoy
the poor speeches as well as if they
had been good ones.
AT night the gubernatorial party
attended the theatre.
At the Pennsylvania railroad ticket
offices it was said today that in the
neighborhood of twenty-five Essex
county people had purchased tickets
to Washington last night and today,
so as TO be on hand for the reception
tonight.