The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-09
DR.. Wilson. However.
Fails to Give Crowd
of 5OCuriouS Persons
a Glimpse of Him
SECRET SERVICE
MEN IN FORCE
They Jump OF Train and Surround
Presidential Car When It Stops on
the Way From Indianapolis to
Washington This Afternoon

Woodrow Wilson, President of the
Uni ID States, spent ten minutes in
Ha, isburg to-day and during that time
he was not seen by single person for
the reason that he secluded himself in
a stateroom of the private car Ma
tional' and didn I even look out of the
window, much less appear on the rear
platform TO say Howdy' to the fifty
or more persons who had knowledge of
his coming and waited in the Penn
sylvania railroad station TO try at least
TO get glimpse of him. Nary a
glimpse did anybody get.
The President was ON his way home
from Indianapolis where last night, at
a jackson day dinner, ne made a speech
in which he broadly limited that he will
again be candidate for President by
saying that ''the time may come when
the American people win have to
Judge whether he Is fit TO stay where
ne is now-in the Presidential chair.
Naturally, after that remark, and
the construction that has been placed
upon it by the American people at large,
it was expected that President Wilson,
in passing through the capital of a
state which so Loyalty supported him
at the Baltimore convention, would at
least get out on the platform and be-
gin his 1916 campaign right off the
reel, as an earnest that he meant
what he said in Indianapolis. But the
'Schoolmaster President" failed to
show himself. He kept in the back
ground, and when the train from the
West pulled into the station at
clock this afternoon, he was not too
be seen.
Secret Service Mem in Force
As the train stopped half dozen Sc
cret service Pinkertons, Sherlock
Homeses, Old Sleuths, Hawshaws, Old
Cap Golfers, Burnses and others well
known as protectors of the great and
good, jumped from mysterious places
and began to pace up and down the
platform beside the car, which meant
that the few curious spectators should
keep away. They did. Not one of them
had the temerity to approach the Presi-
Dental presence or even to attempt it.
The President was accompanied BY
his private secretary, Joseph P. Tum-
ulty, and his private physician, DR..
Carl L. Grayson, U. s. N, but even
these two kept themselves secluded. In
an apartment in the rear of the car
were newspaper correspondents repre-
senting the New York 'Herald. -
World and Tribune. - the Asso-
ciated Press, United Press and Inter
national News Service None of them
had anything 10 do but get out and
walk up and down the platform for the
President; not being in evidence and
not making speech, it WASH t neces-
sary for them to do anything.
Conductor ziegler in Charge
The few present stood around and
when any of them got too close TO the
car a secret service man eyed him
askance and sized him up to see if he
bore any of the earmarks of an anar-
ehlst or looked like a secret emissarv
from Carranza.
At 1.10 the train pulled out in
charge of Conductor C. Ziegler and
Brakemen J. A. Sibbetts and C. C.
Snyder, with Engineer W. C. Foster at
the throttle, assisted by Fireman +.
ii. Norris. Two years ago, even before
he was President, when DIR. Wilson ap-
peared here on his way to the Grang-
ers picnic at Williams Grove. there
was crowd of Thousand at the sta
ton, all wearing nice yellow badges
with Woodrow Wilson for President
on them. Somehow that crowd failed
TO materialize to-day.