New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-11

the cause. The story as told here was
that a German fanatic had attempted
the Presidents life. Another had It
that bomb plot had been discovered.
The tension was high therefore when
the Presidents train arrived IN the
Broad Street station. He was at din
ner and for half an hour. or unit, he
had finished. his car remained on Il
sidetrack. Then il was shunted over TO
main track and backed almost to the
exit Of the station.
About the platform were grouped
many policemen in uniform under Cap
tain George Tempest. Between them
and the car was Chief Flynn and a
group of his men. Still other secret
service men had accO.. ,-nicd the Pres
ident from Washington. Not even the
members of the reception committee,
with the exception Of Mayor Blanken-
burg. passed them without being
"frisked." though the work WIS done
so skilfully that no one not familiar
with detective methods would have
noticed it.
Close Guard a. Station
While the reception committee was
in the car, Chief Flynn allowed
group Of newspaper photographers
known to him to take up , position
where they might snap the President.
The local police had forbidden the use
of flashlights, but Flynn and Secretary
Tumulty said one bomb just one
might be fred, and the President, ac-
quainted with the plan, paused momen-
tarily to allow the men &c get one shot.
That was the only fashhght taken.
Because Of the danger Of starting
10 IN
the crowd, none were permitted in the
Convention Hall, though a bevy of pro-
fessional camera men followed the
President to the building and back
again to be on hand, whatever might
happen.
Outside the Broad Street station the
city troop, Captain George McFadden
commanding, and a troop of mounted
police, under Lieutenant Charles Bueh-
Ter. awaited the President, and with
this escort and secret service men and
city detectives following in automo-
bles the Presidential party started for
the convention hall through Penn
Square and Filbert Street to Allegheny
Avenue.
Policemen Line Streets.
On the eight-mile drive were police
men every few hundred feet, and save
for few of the members Of the recep-
ton committee, a few newspaper men
and the party which accompanied HIM
from Washington no civilian was with
in twenty-five feet Of him until he
stepped into the convention hall.
Even then some Of the bodyguard de-
tailed by Chief Flynn was within arms
reach Of him, while ten feet away 9TH
ers sat. Just beyond them and between
the platform and the audience was an
other body Of police the police band,
TO be sure. but armed. just the same.
Returning to the station, the same
elaborate precautions were taken, ana
until the train pulled out any one who
approached the Presidents car had 10
show good reasons for the privilege.
Up to the last moment there were
those on the local committee that hoped
President Wilson would accept It's hos
pitality at a club or hotel, but those
close TO him refused TO entertain the
suggestion. saying that while the Prosi-
dent would appreciate their wishes, he
had intimately personal reasons for not
wishing 10 be entertained.
Earlier in the afternoon precautions
similar but less elaborate than those
taken for the care Of the President were
taken TO safeguard Secretary OF the
Navy Josephus Daniels and Secretary Of
Labor William Wilson. When they ar
rived, at 3 o'clock, detectives escorted
them TO the Bellevue, where they dined,
and afterward to the convention hall.