The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-25
PRESIDENT HERE
TO SEE AID WED
Few Recognize Him as He
Rides Up Fifth Avenue in
an Open Auto.
HE CALLS on COL. HOUSE

President Wilson was in New York
eearly five hours yesterday afternoon.
before accompanying Mrs. Wilson TO the
chapel Of ~. Georges Church for the
Grayson-Gordon wedding he managed u
snsnd an hour and a half at the home
~ his conndant and adviser, Col. T.. NJ.
tio,,se. li5 East Fifty-third street.
The faithful Dudley Field Malone
rent with him to the House residence.
m, did not tarry. In the library the
President and Col. House had one Of
,he,r intimate talks. No hint was
Aronned afterward as to what II was
about. II could only be surmised that
as the President has been giving seri-
Gus thought Of late to a speech he Is
"a make before the League to Enforce
peace In Washington on saturday he
desired to exchange views with the mar
whom, he has twice sent TO Europe to
re-, impressions that might be helpful
II the time arrived for the United States
TO suggest mediation.
President Wilson has never looked
stronser on his visits to this city than
ne did yesterday. There was no doubt
among observers that DR.. Grayson, his
physician as we'll as nava aid. has
;aken good care OF the Presidents
health, through these p%erplexing days.
Greeted by Handspring.
As to the demeanor Of New Workers.
Vho saw him. there was nothing up
r~oa,!ous in their salutations. There were
three periods o. handclaping and cheer
,rs-at the Pennsylvania station when
the Presidential party arrived at l:l0
o'clock. IN West Tenth street. where the
~ LA-A
OF Mrs. Henry Wood Flournoy. Miss
Go-don's aunt. while he went uptown TO
Gee Col. House, and in Stuyvesant Square
when the party drew UP in front of ST.
Georges Chapel.
Along the streets a hat was lifted
here and there, but mainly the few per-
sons who realized hat their President
was passing were not denonstrative
He twice rode In Fifth avenue from
Tenth TO FIfty-third street In an open
automobile withou; any manifestation
along the way. excep, from saluting
traffic policemen and waving Of hands
from the roofs OF auto buses.
With the President and Mrs. Wilson
there came from Washington Secretary
Of the Treasury and Mrs. McAdoo, Miss
Helen Woodrow Bones. the Presidents
cousin. John Randolph Boiling. Mrs.
. NV hAaNA
six men Of the secret service. Col. House
and Collector Malone met them at the
station. About a hundred delegates 10
the convention of the Federation OF
Women's Clubs waved handkerchief and
scrut.n!zed Mrs. Wilson as the Presiden,
escorted her TO their automobile.
A load OF policemen In plain clothes
led the way TO Mrs. Flournoy's home a,
le West Tenth street. with the secret
service guards trailing the Presidents
car. In five minutes the President
emerged from the F%lournoy home and
was of to Fifty-third street with Col
House and Mr.. Malone.
In his absence Mrs. Wilson and Mrs
McAdoo went TO the apartment of Mrs
Charles r.. Crane at 81 West Twelfth
street and changed from travelling attire
70 the garb they were to wear at the
wedding.
Rides Alone In Fifth Avenue.
Returning to West Tenth street from
HE chat with Col. House. the president
was alone in a big automobile. but he
travelled fast and was not generally
recognized. He rode to St. George:
with Mrs. Wilson, Miss Bones and Mr.
Boiling. Fifty policemen KEEP; spectator.
away from the church behind stra!gh'
hhVs' oIIbsINf the CHURCH,, III NY We
sant Square, many men. women and chill
dren peered between the bars of an iror
fence and set up a shrill hooray whei
the Presidents car swung from Eas'
sixteenth street into rutherford place
and halted before the chapel. The Pres
ident raised his silk hat and smiled. Mrs
Wilson smiled too.
They all went back to Mrs. Flournoy'.
residence for the reception after tn,
wedding. When the OF Or. an,
Mrs Grayson's departure arrived Mrs
wilson parted the curtains in a secon,
floor window and laughed as confetti
rice rose petals and finally a white sho.
were showered from other windows Owe
me heads Of the bridal couple. The sho,
landed squarely on the top Of pr. Gray
sons limousine and STAYED there, tn,
waite silk steamers to which II was at
tached futtering a telltale Message a.
me car turned from Tenth street dow
Fifth avenue.
president and Mrs. Wilson had theii
snare OF the White House wedding cak,
which Mrs. Wilson brought from Wash
'nston. They left Mrs. Flournoy's hon,
!l't!e after O'Clock, drove to the Penn
syl'ania Station and entered their pri
Nae car attached to the Washington