Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1914-08-07
FUNERAL MONDAY FOR
MRS. WILSON; WHOLE.
NATION M0URNS DEATf
. Press Wire.

Special BY United Press Wire.
l.. Washington, Aug. Tentative.
plans for the Mrs Ellen Wilson fun.
eral today placed the time for servis
ces on Monday. Definite arrange-
ments however were not made and it
will likely they would not be before
tomorrow.
Rome, Georgia, where Mrs. Will
sons parents are buried, will prob
ably be her burial place. The Press
ident and his three daughters bore up
well today under their bereavement
in the White House, denying them.
selves to visitors, they were alone
with their dead.
While 1t was not officially announced
1t was reported since Tuesday that
Mrs. Wilson's death was expected
momentartly. Oxygen and saline In
Jections were said to have been re-
sorted to in last desperate effort to
keep her alive.
The president, her three daughters
and the few rela tives able to reach1
here were at her bedside when the
end came. Professor Axson of Prince
ton, brother of Mrs Wilson, Is hurrt.l
ing to Washington from Oregon. "a
The senate passed the so cAfieE .ssflAe7k
1 bitl'' regulating the const
buildings along alleys and side streets,
| Ia which Mrs. Wilson has shown -
much interest. There was no debata
The bill regulates alleys and back
or side streets In Washington and n !
clean up bill In the interest OF the
, health of the poorer classes who dwell !
In the alleys.
few hours before the end came.
she told the president that she would
feel more cheerful II she knew the
bill had been passed The president
told Private Secretary Tumulty Of Mrs, !
Wilson's wish, and Mr.. Tumulty, well
knowing that congress needed but to
be informed Of 1t to pass the bill,
hurried to make sure that leaders on
both sides Of the capitol did know OF It
Congress- Responds Quickly.
Chairman johnson Of the house com
mittee before which Mrs. Wilson had
appeared, and Senators Oll1s james OF
Kentucky, Hollis Of New Hampshire
and Hughes Of New Jersey were com.
municated with. Chairman Johnson
quickly called a meeting of his commit
| tee, which after a few minutes con-
sidsration reported the measure favor
ably. Congress adjourned out OF re-
spect for Mrs. Wilson.
| The chief cause Of Mrs. Wilson'S
death was chronic kidney trouble. This
has developed as one OF the results Of,
a nervous breakdown brought on by
overwork. In her ambition to perform
her full duty in Washington Mrs. VIII
son added to her social obligations a
very great activity in philanthropioI
| work connected with the redemptionl
| of the sums of Washington city ana
In various other enterprises connected,
with the betterment OF conditions Of
life here.
| Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. whose maiden
name was Helen Louise Arson, was
| the daughter of q Presbyterian min
lister of Savannah, Ga.
The president and Mrs Wilson were
married In 1888. Three daughters were
born to them, Margaret, Jessie (Mrs.
Francis Bowes Sayre) and Eleanor
| MRS. William Gibbs EcAdoo).
Mrs. Wilson was domestic IN her
tastes and intensely interested In her
husbands career. She Is said to have
known as much about inside politics AZ
many of the eleverest politicians in the
country. But her first ambition wus to
become an artist, and 1t never quite
deserted her
Mrs. Wilson's love for painting was
not gratified until after her child.eY
had grown. In recent years, however,
she devoted considerable of her spara
time to the brush and palette, spendi|
her summers whenever possible at d
artists colony In Old Lyme, Com
Soon after Mr.. Wilson assumed the
office of president Mrs. Wilson had her
1rst exhibition of pair ttngs.
The artistic instinct inherent In Mrs.
Wilson also ran to architecture and
landscape gardening. She planned the
Wilson home in Cleveland lane, Prince
ton
"a sketch of the life of Mrs.
Wilson will he found on mage 241