New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-29
WILSON SPENDS
LAST HOURS HERE
WITH HIS FIANCEE
Shuns All Appointments
for Farewell Talk, Then
Dashes for Train.
COUPLE AT CHURCH;
THEN GO FOR A DRIVE
Presidents Auto Barely Escapes
Collision When Trolley Car
Blocks Path.

Woodrow Wilson set down his Presi-
Dental burden last night on the door
mat Of an unpretentious red brick
house in West Tenth Street, just off
the avenue.
The door opened to his ring and
closed behind him-and then for more
than two hours, while secret service
men, detectives, reporters and plain
hoi polloi awaited the temperance OF
the President, Woodrow Wilson, the
human being, the accepted sutton, en-
joyed the companionship Of the woman
who is to become his wife.
1t was thus the President close to
finish his brief vacation, which started
with his quasi official attendance at the
Army-Navy football game Saturday
Most of the day the President had
been in the company OK hrs. Gait, but
that had been different. Then, save
for a brief time at supper, when only
intimate friends of both were about,
they had been on exhibition.
At church in the morning, despite
their hope they might be received as or
binary worshippers, they had found an
ovation waiting at the end of the ser
vices On a motoring trip in the after
noon they had been recognized by
hundreds of other motorists and
pedestrians in every block and the
President was occupied chiefly in bow
ing and lifting his hat
But with the evening call came
change, an opportunity for privacy.
Mrs. Calf was more than at home to
her fance. She was at his side as he
entered the red brick house-the home
of Miss Gertrude Gordon and the stop
ping place Of Mrs. Gait.
The two had made the trip together
from the residence of Colonel Edward
VI. House, at 1T East Fifty-third
Street. With them in the Presidential
motor was Miss Helen Woodrow Bones,
the Presidents niece and the one who
is credited with having been something
more than an Onlooker the White
House romance blossomeG The three
had been Colonel Houses guests at
supper.
il was about o:40 o'clock when the
party, after q brisk and uneventful
ride down Fifth Avenue, entered the
old-fashioned house OF the red brick
front The Secret Service men and
detectives had been unable to get from
the President an estimate of how long
the visit would last. He frankly didn't
know himself. Time, for the re-
mainder of the evening, had ceased to
be an object All he could say posi-
lively was that Woodrow Wilson, the
private suitor, would not cause Wood
row Wilson, the President, to miss the
N 20 tue
the shackles of the biggest job in the
United States.
However, those on the outside were
beginning to consult their watches
anxiously before the visit was at an
end II was within a few minutes OF
midnight when the President emerged
lie was alone, and alone he remained
until, arriving at the Pennsylvania
station, he was Joined by Secretary
Tumulty and DR.. Grayson, his personal
physician.
The three were chatting as the train
pulled out, the President seeming more
cheerful than he had at any time since
his arrival.
Mrs. Gait Radiant.
After an early breakfast the Presi-
dent had a long conference with his
liItuu' most anu duNlStIf Co4ONci IlOuse'
II was not until 10 o'clock that a sud
den furry among the city detectives
and Secret Service men picketing the
big apartment building presaged his
appearance on the street
BY dint of much craning Of necks
several hundred patient and curious
persons were able to glimpse, over the
human fence formed by the protecting
stalwarts, the upper reaches Of the
Presidential silk hat. They saw the