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Show monies, the r, re si. lent and Mrs. Wilson ! drove directly to the White Housv. ! c 1 c n r n i n the chief executive were I representatives of the Non-Partisan t Leam; (jf Nations, the War Camp I Community erviec and the central labor la-bor union and :i coin in it tee of Washington Wash-ington citizens, headed by Commissioner Commis-sioner liro wnlu'A', who extended greetings greet-ings on behalf of the city. As the president and Mrs. Wilson lift the train shed they walked beneath be-neath a bower of flowers and passed, on to a waiting automobile between lon lines of pirls rcpresesenting heralds her-alds while the murine bund played. Plans to strew roses in front of the presidential party at the station were disapproved by the police. At the city postoffice, adjoining the union station, a tableau of Columbia welcoming the president was illu initiated ini-tiated by searchlights. A battalion of ycowomen in white uniforms also was present to greet the commander-in-chief. WILSON WALKS UNDER BOWER OF FLOWERS AT WASHINGTON, D. C. WASHINGTON, July 8. President Wilson returned to Washington at midnight mid-night after an absence of four months at the Paris peace conference. He was accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, Miss Margaret Mar-garet Wilson and by Vice President Marshall , and most of the members of his cabinet, who groeted him on his arrival ar-rival today at New York. Tho presidential party was greeted at the station by a crowd of several thousand persons who had waited several sev-eral hours. After brief welcoming cere- |