The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-06
EVERYBODY HAPPY
BUT THE AYPAtMATtS
Presidents Speech at Manhattan Club
Wen Received by People
nd Press.
GLAD HE GOT 1T OVER"
Executive Was Extremely Anxious
That His Position on Preparedness
should Be Clearly Understood.
Presidents Gar strikes Boy.

New York. Nov. 5.-Pres!dent WI.
son returned TO Washington this after.
noon, accompanied by his fiancee. Mrs
Edith Boiling Gait. her niece. Mis-:
Gordon and the Presidents cousin
Miss Helen Woodrow Bones The
President Was highly pleased with ths
results OF his trip TO New York
Everybody recognized that the Man
haitian Club dinner was something
mere than an occasion celebrating d
half century of successful club exist
ence: was In fact. special oppor-
tunity for Democrats of all shades o.
feeiing-those that have been be-
friended by the President. and these
might have been ignored by hin1-tr
get together and shake hands and
prepare for the Wilson candidacy In
1915. Nobody went so far as TO say
that the President bid for T'afunany
support In 1915 by attending the Man
haitian Club dinner. where he was
certain to meet those ~ the recog~
nized Tammany leaders bat IL was
pretty generally accepted that he was
giving TaRamany "A chance 70 hold out
the olive branch with one hand while
he extended another sprig. And that's
about the way things went
He Got II Over.
Furthermore the President vas
eiated To the reception given his
speech or prepa -edness and the neces-
sity OF calling for a reckoning with
the hyphenatef trouble-rnakers He
believed that his speech went welf
that. as theatrical persons say, me
got II over" He expressed 10 Colonel
+. NJ House his most intimate friend.
rhe satisfaction he felt with the way
the speech had been received by his
Manhattan Club auditors and by the
newspapers generally He himself
considered that II was one Of the most
important addresses he had ever de-
livered, IN many respects the most
important, and ne was extremely anx-
i0us he told his friends. that his ut
teTanees RS to what should properly
constitute preparedness and as to
what he thought OF the activities Of
pseudoAmcrtcsn with alien sympa-
thies should be clearly understood
Mr.. Wilson spent the night in the
apartments Of Colonel House almost
around the corner from the Hotel st,
Regis. where Mrs Gait occupied a
suite. The first thing he did this
morning. after taking plenty OF sleep
TO recuperate from the strain OF the
crowded determining dinner Of tho
Manhattan Club, was to call on Mrs
Gait at the st. Regis. The President
and Colonel House left the colonels
apartment at 8 A. NJ. waved their
chauffeurs aside and walked briskly
To Fifth Avenue and then TO the St
Regis. Hundreds of persons in the
avenue recognized the President, and
he smiled and bowed number OF
times az he stepped hriskiy up the
"a l. Lf ,-t.
Gait. her niece and his cousin, and
remained there until shortly after II
A M. when. accompanied by Colonel
and Mrs House. they went 20 lunch
con at tire home OF Mr.. and Mrs
Clevolan8 NJ DODGE. Stonehurst
Riverdale-on-the -Hudson. JUS be-
fore the luncheon, however, the Pres.
ident and Mr.. Gait. guarded by Sc
cret service men IN another automo-
bile. motored northward as far as
Tarrytown They returned to the
city. the President Foin9 to Coione
Houses and Mrs Gait the to ST Regis
for few minutes, and then made
rapid time tn the Pennsylvania Sta
ton. Mrs, Gait travelling IN one car
the President and Colonel House IT
other. Mrs Gait did her best to avoid
the CROWDS by leaving the st. Regi:
through an exit seldom used
Presidents Auto Hits Boy.
She arrived at the Pennsylvania
Station before the President got there
He had 20 hurry 10 make his train
v hile his CIR Was approaching tn,
runway on the Thirty-second Stree
side OF tha station, a small italian
boy Mario Pass, darting about th1
fringe of the crowd. managed TO re
IN the way OF the speeding car Th,
fender struck him. threw hi-n to on
side. and for a moment or TWO h
lay in a heap.
stop the car" shoVted the presi
dent. and when the chauffeur opened
he door both lie and Colonei Hous
leaned out to ask II the 10y had beer
hurt TIE youngster heard them
scrambled To his feet and yelled a.
he dus ed off his clothes: "Ah. g'wan
| amt hurt" The President laughed
and he car proceeded 10 the Thirty
second Street automobile entrance
where Station Master Egar whose fnt
smile has oeatned upon several presi-
dents and all sorts of dignitaries, was
waiting to conduct him personally t.
his private car Then Secretary Jos.
eph p Tumulty and Tom Pence came
on a run. and at 1891 p. n. the private
train Slid out OF the station and int
the tube.