The sun., 1919-09-28
WILSON TO REST
IN PREPARATION
! FOR OCTOBER 6
President Hopes to Preside
Over CAPITALIZATION
Conference.
CONDITION rs IMPROVED
Headache Eased and Appetite
Is Better, Grayson :,
Announces.
n stor Correspondent o, Tnr suv.

Ma stdr Correspondent Of THE suS.
prrrspuRo, Sept 27.-As President
Wilson approaches Washington some
Improvement is noted by his physician
A regards his nervousness and dis
ordered digestion. The tone of DR..
Grayson's reports is more confident.
rejecting his belief that a period of
eomplete rest will restore Mr.. Wilson
10 the mental and physical .vigor
necessary to his October tasks.
APPREHENSION of grave illness seems
10 have disappeared, or at least to
have been greatly modified, as the
Presidential special speeds through
Pennsylvania and comes within few
hours of the capital. The tenseness
and gravity that characterized. the at
titude Of the Presidents staff in the
first furry of the announcement that
he was i'll and that the trip had been
abandoned are relaxed.
II is stated that he rested well all
day after a somewhat trying night:
that he managed half a dozen hours
Of sleep from A. NJ. until IL A. M;
that the severe headache which tor
nented him in the night has been
e,sed and that he displays more inter-
est In the food that his solicitous chef
sends to his table. sfliis general, II
light, Improvement is noted with in
srest by Mr.. Wilson's travelling COM
nnions. who gather that DR.. Gray
nn's ministrations are making head
tay.
President Is Exhausted.
Or. Grayson does not desire TO as
sume too much. He holds merely 70
his belief of yesterday. that the Presi-
dent is thoroughly exhausted mentally
and physically.
A continuation of the speaking tour
would have resulted seriously, DR.. Gray
son asserts, and he believes that the
President was persuaded just in time to
relax the strain. The seclusion that the
White House will afford. dieting and
light exercise, may be depended upon. he
thinks. to put Mr.. Wilson again into
tiptop condition.
Due to orders tonight to decrease the
sped Of the train President Wilson and
party will not arrive in Washington I'M
til II O'Clock tomorrow morning. When
/ the route for the 1900 mile run from
Wichita, Kan. to the capital was laid
ont 1t was planned to have the Presi-
dent at home by o'clock tomorrow
morning. but tonight DIR. Grayson COM
planned of the speed of the train and it
was decided to slacken II during the
night run.
The private car of the President is
the last one of the train. and as the
special sped through the mountains
around curves and over switches the
hardest jo.ts came to the coach &C.
euried by the President.
On arrival In Washington in the morn
ing the President will be driven imme-
diatey to the White House, and he will
be inaccessible for some days at least to
callers. Every engagement has been
cancelled, including the one for the
President to meet King Albert and GU
Elizabeth when they arrive in New York
next week
few important activities in the flu
ture are likely to be restored to the
list If President Wilson continues TO i'm
prove It is still the expectation that
he will find himself able to open the
Industrial conference in Washington OF
october g. something about which he II
very keen.
II may be- too, that he will hnd him.
self strong enough within q week to be-
BIN series OF SHOW down" confer
ences with Senators regarded as still
possible supporters of an unqualified
peace treaty that he had looked forward
70. Despite all discouraging reports
from Washington as to the tendency oil
several Democratic Senators to joiT
. helr Republican colleagues In voting fol
Ie.ervations. the President still pro
Its5es confidence that he can sway al
democrats except two-Reed (Missouri)
ana Gore (Oklahoma) land that he car
nnally Impress possibly a dozen Repub
means that now lean to mild reserya
lions with his dietum that 1t must b,
an or Nothing; an unqualified ratifi
eaton or complete rejection Of the whole
document.
President CONFIDENT.
What may actually lie at the back O.
M WILSON'S mind as he gathers
strength to renew the fight does not. o
purse appear. He processes TO be
neIe certain things. He assumes al
attitude OF confidence. Up TO his aban
"p.iH'eHt OF the tour no told his audi
sshees' with the gesture and tone OF on,
uSInlsslng an sbsurdity. that rejection
VI the treaty (Which in his mind mean
any change or alteration OF the text,
was unthinkable; that he was convince,
Just what this professed conhdenc
based upon II Is difiicult for any on
see who accompanied the President I,
taeinc coast and back and VIII,
I hlS eyes and ears open. II Ger
ny cannot be derived from any hon
poHtinasd on Fourth Paoa