New-York tribune., 1919-09-27

mobile accident during the parade in
Portland IN which Benjamin Allen,
one OF the correspondents in the Presi-
dents party, was killed The Presi-
dent was visibly affected by this trag-
s-edy, as he personally knew Mr.. Allen.
Inc President at that time cancelled his
proposed automobile trip to Stanford
.Lniversity, DR.. Grayson at the time
saying that the President had suffered
from bad headache, and that auto
mobile trips in the future would be
made as short as possible.
T.. ignored Friends Warning
- Day before yesterday. IN convelsa-
ton with one of his party who knows
aim Intimately the President was
swarned against overexertion and ad-
- Used to cut the trip short. but he
toutly asserted that he would finish it
according to programme.
For the last three or four days Mrs
ilson has worn a worried look, and
aHe seemed unusually depressed yester-
yay during the Presidents address at
Pueblo.
From the beginning Of the trio the
President has been in the habi; Of
= standing IL ms automobile with hat
on and responding to the applause
"ith bows and smiles Sometimes
these street parades would cover an
hour s time and the strain from stand
21ng III moving car would become
: acute. Mrs. Wilson quite often placed
her hand on the Presidents back 10
steady him and partially relieve the
xDhyscal strain.
=. I'm his Pueblo speech Yesterday aft
: ernoon Mr.. Wilson'S weariness became
more app-rert than ever. He fre
quently stopped t. think OF the right
word As he seldom # ever lacks for
=, word when he is feeling we'll, his
seisability yesterday was the more
.ss pparent.
ng which seemed to worry Dr.. Gray
~aon was that while The air was hot
outside. inside the new Auditorium Il
was noticcably cool. The Auditorium
vas used yesterday for the first time.
and there was an odor Of undried
plaster.
Walk Fails to Benefit Him
The President didn't seem to nind
MS, however, and made what seemed
20 be one OF the most effective of all
. his addresses. He had many of the
audience in tears. when he told of the
American cemetery near Paris, CON
tanning the graves Or the American
those dear ghosts that still de e-
phrased it,
Leaving Pueblo, he told DR.. Grayson
snat he was not feeling fit, and his
physician advised welll in the coun-
Try. The train was nearing small
station named Baxter--a beet sugar
>dump-when the President decided he
would take a walk then and there
-. Over the sun-baked fields to the
south Of the Arkansas River, lined
with green cotton woods the President
and Mrs. Wilson, DR.. Grayson. and four
members OF the White House staff
trudged to the river. They dropped in
on one or two farmers, talked weather
and crops with them, received head
of cabbage and apples from them, anc
after four-mile walk returned tt
the private car MayAower 1t WA.
hoped that this exercise under fine
sun and in clear atmosphere woulc
furnish the needed bracing up, but i,
did not.
The mental strain under which tn,
President has been passing is MOI
wholly matter Of conjecture. Tele
Arams by the dozen were received al
every stop. Senator Hitchcock, Of Ne
hraska, and others on guard in Wash.
'ngton were IN daily communication
with the PRESIDENT, who yesterday ex
pressed qualification at receiving from
senator Ashurst- of Arizona, pledge
that he would vote for the treaty with
OUT change. From purely political
point of view this message from the
Arizona Senator was about the onIy
tangible evidence received by the
President that his long speaking tou,