The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-04
Guards to Swarm Pier as
President Steps From His
Car to Big Liner.
MANY EXPERTS IN PARTY
Vast Quantities Of Maps and
Secret Data to Be Taken
on George Washington.

Peace Commission, will arrive at Pier
| 4, Hoboken, where the transport
George Washington is in readiness to
sail, at 7 o'clock this morning. They
left Washington on a special train at
midnight last night.
| The Army transport Service, which
| is in complete charge Of the arrange
ments for the Presidents departure
| for Europe, announced last night that
the special train will arrive over the
Pennsylvania Railroad at the Summit
avenue station In Jersey City soon
| after 6 A. d. The train will be
switched to the Hoboken Shore Road,
! and the Presidents private car will be
/ taken directly to Pier 4. BY this ar
rangement it WIFI not be necessary for
the President 10 drive through the
streets of Hoboksn.
! Preparations TO guard the President
| have been very thoroughly worked
out. Soldiers, Secret Service agents
and local policemen will swarm in and
| around the piers once possessed by
! the German steamship companies.
! Without a special pass bearing a pho
| tograph Of the bearer no person will be
allowed even in the vicinity of Pier 4,
and II was stated last night that pho
tographers will be barred absolutely
! The President will be impenetrably
! guarded from the moment he leaves
! his private car until he Is in seclu-
sion aboard the big liner. Major H. c.
Craig, chief of the military police. Is
| in charge OF the guard.
The pier is gayly and profusely dec
GRATED with flags, streamers and bunt-
| ing and has taken on distinctly
| holiday air in the last few hours. The
grim bleakness Of the big wharf from
which so many troops sailed for
I France was quite relieved last night
by the Red, White and Blue.
J Can Sail at a Minutes Notice.
Although it is not precisely GER
tain at just what hour the George
Washington leaves the harbor, the
time set tentatively was 1880 A. NJ.
The ship is ready to go at a minutes
notice, all stores having been taken
aboard. The Presidents private suite
of three rooms on the port side Of the
|
hogany with gray hangings, is ready
for occupancy. as is Mrs. Wilson's.
| which is directly across the corridor,
three rooms in mahogany and pink,
on the starboard side. Chefs Seres
and Malnati of the stan of the Hotel
Biltmore, have drilled their company
of twenty-five cooks and fifty walters
the culinary department, as is the case
with other details, having been
planned to meet the requirements OF
royalty.
There will be no lack of music to
soothe the Presidents ear, for two
musical organizations from the Great
Lakes Training Station will go aboard
the George Washington this morning
One Is the Great Lakes Orchestra of
twenty pieces and the other is the
Kensington (Kan.) Band, selected
from among twenty-three organiza
tons.
Mrs. Wilson will be served as queens
are served when they travel abroad
The stewardess selected for her is Mrs
Anna Hamilton of Limerick, ireland
who had the experience OF being or
, three ships that were torpedoed. I'm
, der her direction for Mrs. Wilson's or
ders will be Mrs. Annie Glasscock. Mrs
, Mary Simpson and Mrs. Vera Stuart
! All will wear the overseas insignia Of
the knights of Columbus.
Experts Go With Com mi ssion.
Among the specialists that will sal
with the peace commission are Lieut..
Col. Leonard p. Ayres OF the Genera
: Staff, who goes as chief statistical Of
, ficer, and Dir. William Z. Lunt profes
sor OF English constitutional history
at Haverford College, who will be al
expert adviser on national boundaries
, Col Ayrss volunteered his service:
soon after the United States entere.
, the war, and built up an organization
of statistical research which Is re
garded as very valuable. The Secre
, tary OF War has stated that the or
ganization will be maintained as a per
manent part OF the military establish
ment
q DR.. Lunt, a graduate OF Bowdoil
College, is regarded as an authority oil
the subject OF boundaries.
Columbia University will be repre-
scented by Prof. James T. Shotwell,
historian, and by Major Douglas "
= Johnson, professor of photography
They have been collecting data for Co
Edward NJ. House. Back in Septem
= Der, 1917, as a result OF conference
' between the President and Col. House
the latter was authorized to organic
: forces for use at the peace conferenc
:, and to obtain the most complete in
forma ton possible. Expenses wer
paid out of the special emergency fun
placed by Congress at the President
q disposal.
Col. House held conferences with d
s. r.. Mezes, president of the City Co
|. lege; Prof. James 7. Shotwell OF Co
lumbia. and Archibald c. Coolidge {
= Harvard University about the broa
lines OF the work and the organization
Then the American Geographical Sc
i ciety placed its building and STAFF 6
- the disposal of Col. House.
Vast Amount OF secret Data.
% Since November. 1917, the work ha
- been under way, in cooperation wit
the Military Intelligence Division, an
an immense amount Of data, Yer
carefully guarded and kept secret, ha
been prepared for use at the peac
conference. Much of the data will l
10 carried to France by the Georg
Washington and there will go aboar
the ship this morning also twenty
l. three members OF the inquiry fore