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Show WILSONS OFF FOR CAPITAL President Joins in College Col-lege Song as Long Special Pulls Out Princeton. N. J., Mar. 3. Woodrow Wilson U i i Princeton at 11 o clock todav tor Washington tD become president pres-ident of the United States tomorrow Mrs. Wilson, the.r three daughters the Misses Marguerite, Jessie and Eleanor, and an esoorl of 660 Prince-' ton students accompanied him. s the Wilson special pulled out of! Princeton the president-elect stood mi the platform of the Inst of the fourteen ears. The smile on his lips, vanished, his lips were moving and' the crowd at his feet heard him Join. In the singing pi the college anthem: "Her sons shall Khe while thev shall I live, "Three cheers for old Nassau " As the train disappeared Princeton: saw him still standing uncovered Students Surround Train. Ing beiore the hour set for Mr ' 'Wilson's departure, the students were trooping frum u,e campus ! through Hlair arch to tho station ' They gathered, nearly a thousand strong, around the long line of steel ! cars The tow nsmen were there in I gi cater numbers. Three automobiles carrier! the pres-lldent-elect and his party from their home to the station. Mr, Wilson was j wearing his new silk hat. purchased especially for the inauguration. Locomotive Yell Given. As the president-elect stepped aboard the train the students gave 'him a locomotive yell, Atter thirtv minutes of cheering, handshaking and singing, a letber-lunge5 letber-lunge5 Princetonian who seemed to be jn charge of affairs, grabbed a megaphone and gave the order "AH j aboard " TJiree Locomotives Pull Special The three locomotives attached to the heavy train began puffing the long line of cars moed slowlv from the yards: the wall of students un-covered un-covered and five hundred voices joined join-ed in. 'Old Nassau." Off came the sill; hat from ihe president-elect'! head, he stepped near the edge of the platform and thrust his hand Fai out, waving his hat as he sang. On the baggage car of the special were twenty-five suit cases, grips and trunks belonging to the presidentelect president-elect and his part v. On the personal baegage was written, In his own handwriting: Woodrow W"llson White House ' The only thine that seemed to an- ' noy the president -elect was his high hat He has repeatedly said he would never wear one vhen he could avoid it. Thi6 was the unaidaMe ocea-slon. |