Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-02-08
SALUTE FOR WILSON
PRESIDENT GREETED BY HUGE
CROWDS AT CHICAGO AND
MILWAUKEE.
TROOPS AND POLICE GUARD
Throngs Held Back by Infantrymen
With Fixed 5ayonets-Executive Is
cheered as He Delivers Speeches on
Preparedness.

Milwaukee, Feb 2.-President VIII
son was in fighting trim for what
his advisers declared was one of the
most sensational speeches of his pre-
paredness campaign when he reached
Milwaukee at noon on Monday.
The laundering of the national sa-
Lutte by a cannon greeted the presi-
dent as he stepped from his private
car after receiving members Of the re-
ception committee. A crowd of more
than $4,000 people was packed just out
side the station and thousands more
lined the route to the hotel 1t was
the largest number to welcome the
president on his present trip.
The crowd was held back by infan-
trymen with fixed bayonets and a
troop of cavalry escorted the president
during the short ride from the station
to the hotel. An extra force of police
supplemented the work of the soldiers.
When the president arrived the au-
dience stood and cheered again and
again. The band played my Country
'Tis of Thee" and the audience stood
again singing the words. The presi-
dent joined in. The Introductory
speech was short and the ovation was
repeated as the president rose to be-
gin his speech.
The Milwaukee speech was the pres
ident's fourth speech of the day and
In each one as he progressed he had
put more punch and fire.
The crowd which damned the sta
ton grounds at Racine was treated to
sight Of Mrs. Wilson, more than a
mere glimpse through the window.
After the cheers that greeted Presi-
dent Wilson had died down, he said:
1--we somebody in there better to
look at than am"
The crowd heard the remark and ap-
plauded. At that moment Mrs. Will
son emerged. Her appearance was
cheered.
An armored automobile was among
the turnouts that greeted the presi-
dent and his party at KenOsha.
Tops of cars, lumber piles, roofs OF
buildings. and every available point of
vantage were taken possession of
when the train pulled slowly past the
Kenosha station.
The applause that greeted the presi-
dents appearance had lasted so long
that Mr.. Wilson had an opportunity to
say only few words.
Chicago. Feb. Probably a thou
sand of the 100000 ticketless persons
who turned out on Monday night to
see President Wilson, and most of all
the chief executives bride, obtained a
real look at either of them.
At the Auditorium theater, where
at night he made his stirring speech
for preparedness, the same care was
exercised in making his visit one of
absolute safety. Hundreds of mount
ed policemen guarded the way from
the hotel to the theater and hundreds
more were at all entrances and exits
and kept back the great wall of people
which damned the streets leading to
the theater, attempting to effect an
entrance.
The Auditorium was a mass Of red,
white and blue, swung in festoons
from rails and bdEes. Back of the
stage hung the American coat of arms
on field of blue.
; The rousing welcome with which
Chicago greeted the presidents arrival
was echoed in the cheers of the
crowds about the building as the pres
idential party came in.
The entrance of the president was
heralded by the playing of The Star
Spangled Banner" The crowd stood
and applauded. Mrs. Wilson did not
enter with the president, but sat in a
box.
While President Wilson always is
an attraction, he was of secondary i'm
portance to many watchers, whose
eyes were fer the bride, particularly
those of the women.
There was one note of excitement
just before the train pulled out for
Milwaukee when an airbrake connec-
ton underneath the car blew out with
a loud report. Mr.. Wilson looked
startled for a moment, then, realiz,
ing what had happened. he smiled and
hurried to Mrs. Wilson tc reassure
her. The sound of the exploding hose
caused secret service men and police
under command of Lieutenant Duffy to
rush to the car, the secret service men
quickly forming n guard at both the
front and rear platforms.
Just before the train pulled out the
president appeared on the rear plat
form and bowed and waved to the
crowd. When a shout went up fer
Mrs. Wilson. she, too, appeared and
smiled happily at the assemblage.
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