The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-15
PRESIDENT DODGES
BROADWAY CROWD
In Night stroll. Followed by
Cheering Throng. Escapes
Through Waldorf 4 storia.
TO ATTEND CHURCH TO-DAY

President Wilson came to New York |
yesterday TO spend the week end with |
Col. u. NJ. House OF 1lo East FiftyNthlrd
street During the afternoon he played
golf at the Piping Rock Club. and last
night he took stroll down Broadway
and Fifth avenue, stopping at one OF
the display windows on tho avenue to look
at a portrait of the late Mrs. Woodrow
! Wilson.
/ II was nearly o'clock last evening
when the President and Col. House took
their walking sticks and left the Fifty
third street apartment house. Three Of
the five secret service men guarding the
President accompanied them.
! The Presidents stroll WAS made un-
noticed through Fifty-third street TO Sixth
avenue. through Fifty-second street to
| Seventh avenue. and into Broadway, but
the glarlng night light Of Broadway soon
revealed the President TO the throngs, and
a crowd followed him.
AT Forty-third street the President
turned from Broadway to join a group OF
men and women who were listening to a
Votes for Women" speech being made on
the corner by a young girl named Flor
ence Harmon. Then he went on down
Broadway. but could not get past Fortieth
street without stopping again to give an
ear TO another street speech. This time
Is was man who was holding forth to n
crowd on the Mexican Const tuition. and
who was selling pamphlets which bore the
headline. "s60.0 900 TO Assassnste Gen
villa" The President stood half min
ute. smiled and went on.
BY this time the crowd following him
had reached the number OF 500. and sew
eral policemen Joined the secret service
agents. Sloan. Nye and Callahan. IN keep
ing the crowd away from the Presidents
heels.
| As Mr.. Wilson crossed Greeley Square
| and turned east into Th!rtvfourth street
/ a thousand persons were following him.
| running alongside him In the street and
| skipping ahead of him. Some ono sug-
gested three cheers for President VII
son." and the throng adopted the susges-
| ton Justify. The President looked around
| over his right shoulder and smiled
/ As they neared Fifth avenue the secret
! service men saw that the Presidents fol-
! lowing was growing too large to handle
| 40 they stcered him across Thirty-fourtr
street and into the first entrance to the
/ Waldorf Astoria. There the crowd pushed
up to the doors and raised another cheer
The President turned around. took on hi,
| hat, bowed a Good night and went In
| side To take an elevator. lie was ushered
from that elevator to another one upstairs
and came down again to leave by III
! Thlrty-thlrd street entrance. fooling tn,
crowd completely.
II Down Fifth avenue the President wen
at a. swinging gait until he came q
Marceau the photographers at 2jS nea
Twenty-eigllth street. In window fac
ing the street was a life sized oil painting
OF the late Mrs. Woodrow Wilson For
couple OF minutes the President stood an
n gazed at the portrait. Then he wen
on down TO Twenty-stxth street and afte
II n glance at the clock in the Metropolis
l. tower he climbed into Fifth avenu
50 omnibus. which c1rr1ed him and his part
Nt,.tn Ar.I IL t=..,xN l.aaa
nj with Col. House to the latters home an
3. retired at an early hour.
Il. To-day the President will attend IN
in morning services AZ the Fifth Avenu
Presbyterian Church and will then TAX
luncheon with Cleveland II. Dodge q
Riverdae. He will come blcls TO Co
Houses residence before taking a trai
ut = VI. for Washington.
y" The President came to town 90 spend
!. quiet and restful two days. He motore
= out OF the Pennsylvania Station early /
e. the morning Just as many persons wer
~. coming in TO take train for Princeton
80 see the Tigers play football with YAH
~ The Presidents automobile stopped lon
- enough at Col Houses home to take o
IN some golf clubs, and then whisked down
10 Locust Valley to the Piping Rock Club
no There the President went over u
no eighteen hole course with DR.. Cary Ora,
IA son, the White House physician, who n,
y. oompanied him, and made the round in S
a good score for his first time on thet
n links There was a rudy glow on Il
NJ Presidents face when he returned TO II
he clubhouse for luncheon. where he ws
ms the guest OF Gordon Auchincloss. Ass1s
a ant United States District Attorney II
New York. Few members were on har
ok nj the club TO greet the President. for h
ng visit had not been anticipated.
Oh motored back to tho city after luncheo
au The Presidents daughter. Miss Ma
er garet Wilson. came TO New with n
father.