Evening star., 1924-02-04
GRAYSON ONE OF TWO MEN
CLOSE TO WILSON TO END
Son of Country Doctor Intimate OF
Roosevelt and Taft Before Last
Great Attachment.

BY the Associa ted Press.
Many friends and confidants came
into Woodrow Wilson's life after he
entered the White House. Many also
passed out. OF all those who came,
two notably remained to his dying
moment.
One was his physician, Rear Ad-
miral Cary 7. Grayson; the other was
Bernard NJ. Baruch, the New York
f1nancier and counselor on the intri-
cacies of the postwar. problems. OF
the two, Mr.. Wilson's relationships
with DR.. Grayson were the more per-
sonal. The bond between them was
almost as a feeling between father
and son. Mr.. Wilson's friendship fer
Mr.. Baruch, although personal also,
was sustained on the foundation of
two minds that ran along together
on common causes
Grayson, the confidant and friend
OF two Presidents before Wilson,
brought to his chief touches of ma
ture which many declared were not
part Of Mr.. Wilson's natural euu1p-
fhent; nevertheless. it was a pro-
round respect for those attributes
which grew into close friendship and
companionship.
Country Doctors Son.
DR.. Grayson was the son of n vir
glnia country doctor, orphaned early
IN life, who took his hard knocks
whlie getting an education. From
ms 1ather and from experience he
probably inherited the innataly hu-
man conceptions of nature itself. as
only the old-style country doctor ac
CURES them, and these he brought to
Woodrow Wilson.
The public mind most associates
this physician. about whom it has
heaEd SO much, with the illness and
death OF Mr.. Wilson. But long he
lore woodrow Wilson ever was heard
OF as presidential possibility, DR..
Iraysom was naval officer, attached
70 the hlte House as a physician to
PRESIDENT Roosevelt. Because he knew
something about human nature. birds
trees and animals, particularly horses,
ne was not long in becoming Col
f'STsereit There trsra AIDE De and companion.
nut this young Virginia doctor,
modest. even to the point of being
shy, sort spoken and intensely loyal
IN his convictions and friendships,
was the one President Roosevelt
picked out when he wanted a com
pahlon for some exciting horseback
rae or something strenuous.
Rode With Roosevelt.
Ihe american people were thrilled
When president Roosevelt, just to
snow some army officers that he
asked of no one something he him
self would not do, made his famous
nlnety-mile horseback ride from
Washington to Warrenton and back
IN a cold sleety rain that froze as
1t fell. Nobody mentioned that DR..
Grayson rode every foot of the way
at his chiefs side and sometimes
guided the Presidents horse when
his spectacles were coated with ice.
President Roosevelt turned GRAY
son over to President Taft with a
recommendation for loyalty, and he
won Mrs. Taft's heart. with his SYM
pathetic devotion to her delicate
health.
Woodrow Wilson had never heard
of Cary I. Grayson when he stepped
into the White House on March 4,
1913. On that day came "a tide in
the affairs Of men which. taken at
the flood, leads on to fortune"
Attended Mrs. Wilson.
Several physicians of the Army and
Navy, including Grayson, We're at
tached to the White House. Inaugu-
ration day with its spectacle and
splendor lured all but one of them
from the fixed post. Grayson elected
to remain on duty.
The first Mrs. Wilson as she stepped
through the White House portals in