Special train $ 400 Room and board for the President and Mrs. Wilson 480 Rooms and board for President’s valet 64 Room and board for maid 64 Transportation autos 120 Room and board for stenographer 96 Room and board for seven Secret Service men 352 Salary for Secret Service men 688 Garage fees and gasoline 48 Servants’ wages 48 Salary of stenographer 64 Tips and fees 75 Flowers 240 ------ Cost to President $2,739 Cost to newspapers of telling Americans all about it $16,000 Upon returning to Washington, President Wilson took hold of his problems with new vigour. Mrs. Wilson, a Virginian of distinguished lineage, proceeded to brighten up the White House and carry on its traditions of hospitality so charmingly inaugurated by Ellen Axson Wilson, whom she had never known, since she did not become acquainted with the President until a number of months after his wife’s death. When the President’s friendship with Mrs. Galt was noted and their betrothal predicted, rumours were circulated that the political leaders of his party were filled with anxiety lest the wedding prior to the election result in his defeat. Their idea was that the influence of the women of the land would be directed against him if he were to remarry so soon after Mrs. Wilson’s death. While little conferences were held and it was agreed that the matter should be presented to the President, no one would undertake the mission. In the last year of the first term, when criticism of his personal life and executive performances was at high tide, just prior to election, Professor Stockton Axson, brother of the President’s first wife, one who had long been a member of the Wilson household in Middletown and Princeton, was moved to write some of his reminiscences of the Wilson home and family life, through his own desire to present to the public a side of the President’s character little known.