The Alaska daily empire., 1916-01-29
JAM WHITE HOUSETO
 SEE THE BRIDE

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 The Washington. D. c. correspond- ents are a wise lot. They know SO much, says Ashum Browr in the &c., attle F. l.
 Hence, 1t was that on tho night of the Presidents Pan-American recep- ton. one of the very few receptions held under the Wilson administrat on end the first in which the new Mrs. Wilson was to appear in the line, a correspondent out of accumulated wisdom. craftily ordered his taxicab for 9:S0 o'clock, the very time the re- ception was scheduled to begin.
 This plan, he thought, would keep nm out of the first big jam, and sti prevent him from being among the stragglers. His wife was nervous about his craftiness, for 1t was com mon talk that the crowd was to be tremendous and she deemed an early start advisable. Back in the old days. when White House receptions were more common than now. this talk al. ways prevailed, and the wise guests always arrived about 9:45 o'clock
 But wisdom of this sort is vain think. There had been left out Of the calculation the fact that everyone m Washington wanted to see the new Mrs Wilson, and that every one Of the 4,26O invitations-the 620 being Secretary Tumulty bending under the blast of influential demands - had been accepted.
 Proceeded at snairs Pace
 So the correspondents taxicab got into the line only at Nineteenth St and thence proceeded at snail's pace to East Executive avenue, just abaft of Fifteenth Street. In front of the White House during the pause two policemen and a plain clothes man looked searchingly into the cabs in .erior. As t swung from Pennsylvan. la into East Executive Avenue. more secret service men surveyed the oc cupants of the cab.
 It was 10:2O o'clock when the cal 'inally drew up in front of the east entrance to the White House. where lilk hated setcret service men lott ared in the snow with an cir of elab- orate carelessness, but giving keen glances to all the many pedestrlans md vehicle-borne arrivals.
 A uniformed footman opened the loor, handed out the occupants and produced a duplicate carriage check "27S" which must be cherished care 'ully. Then. the correspondent went trough receiving doors and, to the tight, to the cloak rooms. A tremen- lously long room. this. its sides set 'ff into numbered sections. every sec ton containing exactly 100 large pig con holes. with a smiling darkey ser vitor in charge. Hundreds of men md women. a colorful picture of start. ing tolettes. brilliant uniforms end lress suits of every vintage since the year 1850. were here. all clamoring -or storage room for their wraps. The correspondent gave up his cards of identification and joined the crowd
 Throns Presses Forward
 Back in the corridor then he had to 90 to find places in the throng press Ing forward in a column of fours - iometlmes sixes and sometimes in ,ights. On and on. SO slowly, the correspondent moved, while about him he heard the chatter of women be- wailing the fact that there was no dressing room, and furtively applying powdered rags.
 To the south the wall is almost sol i'd glass. giving an outlook on the White House lawn and gardens, a sharming snow scene under the glare of electric lights.
 Presently the moving mass of hu- manity reaIed the corridor in the basement of the White House proper. Looking down from the walls are the portraits of the dead and gone m S. tresses of the White House. while lcattered about are glass cases con- taining samples of historic china and tableware used in the executive man. iion in past generations.
 The stately Virginia woman in front conveying a bevy of young girls. de- liyered a lecture an ancient families as she passed.
 There is Mrs. Tyler my dears," she observed. "She was the grand mother of my cousin Charlotte, and another granddaughter is so and so," md so on interminably.
 Enters Famous East Room.
 By and by. in the slow march, the came to a staircase and mounted up under the eyes of gaudy military and naval aides, pol 'cemen, and even firemen. who stood on the top landing, observing. At the top the mass swung the correspondent into a huge apartment, the famous East room. It was packed with hu- manity, but somehow room was made Tor more. Oddly, many guests faced 3 blank wall.
 The silken ropes. invisible under the clouds of guests. separated the room into three parts. Six or eight abreast the crowd moved south in one lane. turned and moved north m an- other, and then. in a thinning line. t passed through a doorway into the green room.
 It was an ordeal. Twice the cor had to lift the ropes and ! ielp out richly dressed dowagers who lad been overcome in the crush. A