Show TAfT IN WASHINGTON READY fOR OR INAUGURAL NEW EW YORK Feb eb 27 Returning to lo Washington ashIngton to a await alt his Inauguration as president on March I 1 I. I Pre President elect Taft Tart left Xe New York loric today Ho lie was s accompanied ac ac- ac- ac companied a by Mrs Taft Ct and boarded a a. atrain atrain train leaving tho the Pennsylvania railroad station in Jersey City at 1017 a. a mIr in m. Mr Ir and Mrs Irs Taft left the homo home of or Henry V. W. Taft Tarl in West cst Forty eighth I street in an automobile accompanied h by I Timothy 1 L. L Woodruff chairman of ot the Now New York ork s state st t Republican committee who Joined thorn them a few Cw minutes before their departure from the Taft homo home On their way to tho the terr ferry tho the Taft Tart party stopped for a few fow minutes at the tue studio of George e Burroughs Torrey who ho has nearly completed a n. portrait of or tho the president elect The painting is made mado at tho tue order of Mr Ir Woodruff and In Is a 0 three- three quarter ClUI length poi portrait trait similar to that of or Mr Mi- Roosevelt lt which Mr Terre painted d for or Paul Morton Mr tIr Taft pronounced the tim portrait satisfactory Mr Ir Torre Torrey to I whom Mr lr Taft has already given shen two sittings sittings sit sit- I tings when n in this city in hi January last will go to Washington after tho the Inauguration inauguration inauguration ration to complete tho the portrait While hll In New York where here ho lie has ha been n since Tuesday Mr tIr Taft Tart has completed his cabinet by hy tho ho f selection of at Franklin MacVeagh Mac Mac- h for the tho treasury treasur portfolio he ho ad- ad l a 0 largo large meeting In Carnegie hall hail hallIn hallin in iii of negro education and andIn andIn andin in particular aid of or Hampton Institute and he last night attended the Pence Peace so society so- so clety dinner given in Iii honor of or Senator Senator- elect Ellhu Ellilu Root noot Besides tho the engagements Mr rr Taft Tart has d devoted some fome time to literary work ork al although although al- al though he lie has s not done as an much OH as he lie hoped honed to towards the production of ot magazIne magazine mag snag azine articles ho hI has agreed to write |