The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-04
200 POLICEMEN TO
GUARD WILSON HERE
Opera House viii SUarn,
With Detectives.

With 700 uniformed policemen guard
ing the route OF his approach and de-
parture and 500 plain clothes men as
signed to the Metropolitan Opera House.
the Pennsylvania Station and other
strategic points. President Wilson will
come to New York tonight to make his
public appeal for the League OF Nations.
He will leave Washington later than
was originally planned and will stop in
Philadelphia for an hour instead of the
scheduled hour and a half He is ex-
pected to reach the Pennsylvania Station
here at S.l5 o'clock. There Cleveland II.
Dodge and Abraham !. Elkus, represent.
ing the committee in charge of the meet
ing. will meet him
Twenty motor cycle policemen will es-
cort the party through Thrty-second
street TO Broadway and to the side en-
trance of the opera house in Thirty-ninth
street. A squad of detectives marshalled
by Inspector Faurot will have the Pres!-
dents safety in their custody from the
moment he arrives until he goes to Ho-
boken to board the George Washington
for his return to Paris. In addition In
spector Gray will have plain clothes men
on the stage, on the orchestra floor. in
the balconies and even on the roof.
The first thing on the Presidents pro-
gramme at the opera. house is a meeting
with eX-President Taft in private
room. Then he will receive a delegation
of Irish representatives. This is the
aieett which a committee, including ex-
Justice Goff and Justice Cohalan, tried
to bring about in Washington. 1t was
to take place after the Presidents speech
tonight, this being another feature that
has been changed
After President Wilson has taken his
place on the stage OF the opera house
Gev Alfred f. Smith, as chairman OF
the meeting. will present Mr.. Taft. and
after Mr.. Taft has spoken Enrico Caruso
win sing the Star Spangled Banner"
Then Gov Smith will welcome President
Wilson, who will deliver the address he
has prepared.
President Wilson will go to the opera
house from Pennsylvania Station by
| way OF Thirty second street to Broad
way and up Broadway to the side
entrance OF the opera house on Thirty
ninth street. On leaving the opera house
he will go downtown along Seventh
avenue to Twenty-third street and
| through Twenty-third street to the Ho-
boken ferry.
The ONCE OF the Citizens Welcoming
| Committee, at Ill Broadway, has been
swamped with requests for tickets for
to-night's meeting. 1t was said there
|, yesterday that offers as high as $1,000
| for a single ticket had come in from
persons who did not realize that money
could not procure tickets.
Upon information that spectators had
obtained possession of from 600 to 100
| tickets and were selling them at
fabulous prices in the neighborhood OF
! the opera house Edwin p. Kilroe, AS
sistant District Attorney. sent a squad
Of raiders up 10 catch the spectators
yesterday, but the raiders could md no
| traffickers.
| 1t was said that a committee OF labor
| men interested in the case Of Thomas
| Mooney would endeavor In some way
| probably by parade, 10 call the atten-
ton OF the President to their presence
during mis- journey 20 OF frohl tas opsia
house.