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PAGE SIX Body of Dead President At Rest Under Capitol Here Body Will Lie in state Until Time For It to Be Taken to Marion, Where Burial Will Take Place. THOUSANDS JOIN FUNERAL MARCH Procession Headed by Persh ing, and Among the March ers Was Woodrow Wilson, Striken While in Office. Washington. Aug. s (By the Associ ated Press). —A swelling tide of honors ’bore Warren G. Harding today back over the road by which he came triumphantly to the Presidency two crowded years ago. For him the urge of ambition was end ed, the compelling call of duty stilled in death. Amid the tens of thousands of his countrymen grouped along the way he passed in such as only the great dead of the nation may know. And beyond the br'fcf hour of the ceremony of sorrow there awaited for him rest eternal on the soil that gave him birth. Down the wide avenue he was carried today with marching legions tramping ahead to lay him under the dome of the capitol. awhile ere he goes back to his native state to stay forever. That high resolve of duty had brought him death and with'it the peace and quiet he loved, but whidi_he could set aside at the na tion's call. With Pershing riding ahead, the march ing thou.-ands of the escort led the way. the steel of their bayonets glittering above them. Soldiers, sailors, marines and civilian soldiers were all there; be hind them came the new President, still bowed in grief that his high office came at such a price. Came also two men who before hint bad held that office, out* to be stricken like him ami so crippled in illness that he might not give him self as lie would to the sorrowful duty of tlie day) Behind these in endless ar ray marched the great body of American citizenry and the men who keep the wheels of a great government moving in the huge silent buildings about. Military bands interspersed in the col umns played all old hymns that stirred and comforted. The hush and dim mys tery of last night- when_ the Hag draped cu<kot came, to its brief -space of quiet in the White House was lacking. But there was no sound or movement in the great crowds that lined the way until that fateful burden'under its color ful glorious bunting had been carried by on silent wheels to be lifted to the cata falque in tlie great stone chamber of the capitol rotunda. There, In keeping with - the simplicity of the man who lay dead, tin* funeral services were of a brief impressive nature. Afterward in its place of honor beneath the dome, the body was to lie until night fall while thousands upon thousands til ed past the pier with bent, uncovered heads to bid farewell to the kindly upright man so soon to leave Washington forever. It was a few minutes past 10 o’clock when the great procession of sorrow swung out. from the Whit* House gates to begin its pilgrimage up the historic avenue where so many long caravans of grie£ and rejoicing, of regret and triumph, had' preceded *it in years gone by. Tenderly the President had been car ried for the last rime from the portals of the White House and placed again on the artillery caisson that had borne him last night from the funeral train to the Fast Room to lie for a few hours amid the flowers that had been placed there in tribute by the potentates of the earth and by the plain people the fallen chief tain loved so well. As the«fnuneral hour approached the casket was opened so that near~relatives and friends might have their last look there in she Hast Boom at the features of their beloved dead who lay with a peaceful smile in the repose of eternity. Former President Wilson, himself broken by the cares of the Chief Magis trate, came to the great portico just be fore the hour of departure to take liis place in the cortege at the invitation of President Coolidge. Chief Justice Taft., the only other living ex-President, also was waiting when the casket, enshroud ed in tin* Stars and Strikes like that of other soldiers who have made the su preme sacrifice in the service of their country, was lifted from its setting of flowers to be borne to its place amid an other and perhaps grander array of floral coloring and fragrance in the rotunda. I‘resident Coolidge, who enters thus with a heavy heart upon the duties of the highest office in the land, arrived to take his place also just at the hour set for the departure. As the cortege was forming underneath the shadows of the'great trees through which many Presidents have looked out oil the world, sometimes in triumph and many times in sorrow, the bell in St. John's Episcopal Church across LaFay ette Sqmfre. known as the church of the Presklent, began tolling its doleful la ment at tlie passing of a great heart into a galaxy of immortals. Only as the procession started did it become known that Mrs. Harding had been with, the body in the East Room for a half hour at 1 o'clock this morning. She was alone at times, and at other times attended by one or two relatives. While officials were gathering at the funeral hour to take up their places in the cortege she remained in her room alone with her grief. Before the casket was carried down the steps walked the two ministers who were selected to officiate later at the funeral in the rotunda. In Pennsylvania Avenue, the long si lence that had hitherto been disturbed only by the trampings of the restless mounts of the troopers, was broken by the strains of Chopin’s funeral march, played by an army band. There was on ly a brief delay then until the last jour ney of Warren narding along Pennsyl vania Avenue had begun between the dense crowds of humanity that made a long aisle of grief from the very gates of the executive mansion to the towering capitol a mile away. At the same time a bugler came to the portico and sounded shrilly the soldier’s single note of the call to attention. Service Very Brief. Washington, Aug. B.—(By the Asso ciated Press). —Under the vast dome of the capitol with low spoken prayer and the tender words of old hymns, Warren Harding was given into God's keeping at noon today by the men of high place in the nation who had served with him in the short years of his leadership for the glory of the Hag that was his wind ing sheet. As simple in its dignity and its high faith in the goodness of God as the man whose passing it marked, the religious ceremony took a bare twenty minutes. Then under the ceaseless vigil pi motion less sentries who stood at the corners of the bier, the great doors were opened for the waiting thousands outside ,to pass slowly by the casket on which the sorrow of the nation.and the world poured out today. Through the brief service a slender womanly figure sat erect and motion less beside the casket on the high base of honor with a heavy veil hiding her features. Mrs. Harding faced her pub lic ordeal of sorrow with stoic courage. Never a break in the firm spirit that has borne her up through the tragic days was visible, to the pitying eyes that dwelt upon her. When the last word had been said she walked slowly through the Senate cor ridor. her hand barely touching the arm of Secretary Christian, her slender figure straight with no hint of the (‘rush ed heart within. And for the first time since he died, with her eyes upon him far away in San Fram-iseo. the precious casket was left by this strong, loving, loyal wife and widow to the keeping of the nation for tin- little hours until she claims it again to bear it back to Marion and its long rest7 . MARION TO BURY HER BELOVED ONE SIMPIA Mrs. Harding’s Wisli For Quiet Cere mony Is to Be Carried Out. Marion. Ohio. Aug. 7. —Though the nation will conduct appropriate funeral service for Warren G. Harding as its President in Washington Wednesday, Marion, Friday, will attempt to forget his exalted official position as head of the nation and bury him as one of its distinguished citizens. For Marion, the funeral services will be for the late President as that of a private citizen with the recognition that he was the most distinguished in the na tion. 'lnhere will be no pomp or elab orate ceremony in the laying to rest of the dead President. What. dignity there is will be more through the pres ence of distinguished persons who jour ney here to pay last tribute than through any efforts to make it so.. Tin* funeral insofar as possible, will be a meeting of relatives and friends to bid a last farewell to a loved one. Such is Mrs. Harding's wish and her wish will pre vail. Orders for a simple funeral were re ceived by Col. F. P. I/ahn, from Col. (*. <>. Sherrill, in charge of funeral ar rangements at Washington. Details for carrying out this order were to be furnished bv Mrs. Harding to those near the family who met the funeral train in Chicago. According to Colonel Sherrill's in structions. the funeral train will arrive in Marion at 10 a. hi. Thursday. On this train with the President's body will be those who made .the Alaska western trip with him and watched:and hoped for his recovery in San Francis co. It will be the same train that bore the body t<> Washington. ad dition to those who have so far made up the funeral cortege, the funeral train al so will carry Speaker Gillett and-Sena tor Cummins, president pro tern of the senate; cabiue officers, (’apt. Adolphus Andrews of the navy, and Maj. O. M. Hal dinger of the army, aides to the late President. President Coolidge, accompanied by other high government officials, will ar rive on a special train at 8:30 Friday morning. All Marion citizens were officially called upon by proclamation today by Mayor George W. Nelly to suspend all activities the day of the funeral "and join as neighbors and friends tot tpay the tribute which is truly felt in our hearts.” MR. COOLIDGE’S SILENCE CACSES G. O. I*. TO WORRY Many Absorbing Questions Are Asked About the New President. H. E. C ; Bryant in Charlotte Observer. Washington, Aug. (!.—This day was given up to the new President, but to morrow. Wednesday, Thursday and Fri day will be devoted to last sad rites for Warren G. Harding.^ Mr. Coolidge is very busy with call ers. Leading republicans are gathering for the funeral and party conferences. Chairman * Bramham and National Com mitteeman Reynolds and other prominent party workers in North Carol in a-are ex pected tomorrow. Many old time republicans are con cerned about John T. Adams. They want to have him retained as head of the party organization. » A number of committeemen called on the President in his behalf today. The promotion of Mr. Coolidge lias brought about a most interesting situa tion. Nobody knows just where he stands. Being under obligations to no one, he can do about as he pleases. If be should commence to cut and slash, he would wreck the party machinery in short order. His friends assert that he will not adopt such a policy. Mr. Coolidge has told no one what he wlill do. His silence worries republican leaders. Here are some of the absorbing ques tions asked about him: Is lie for or against the world court} Is lie friendly to organized labor? Is lie sympathetic with the wets or drys? Does lie belong to any 'church? Will lie reconstruct the cabinet? These and many more are disturbing the job-holders, big and little. Pelzor Mills Sold. Spartanburg. S. C.. Aug. B.—The sale of the Pelzer Manufacturing Company’s mills at Pelzer, to Lockwood Green ’ & Co., of Boston, was announced here to day through A. M. Law & Co., of Spartanburg. Laddie Boy Bids Farewell * To His Beloved Chieftain Washington. D. C.. Aug. 8 (By the As sociated Press).—Laddie Boy said his last goodbye to his master in the East Room of the White House this morning and there may be some hard hearts who will say that a dog couldn't know, but it seemed to those about him as though he did. Mrs. Harding, who loves Laddie Boy no less than her husband did. told the at tendant whose special charge the pup has been, to take him into the East Room a minute because lie seemed to want to go. Alertly lie sniffed the heavy air freighted with the fragrance of funeral GOVERNOR ASKS PEOPLE TO PAY PROPER TRIBUTE Morrison Issues Proclamation on Death of Harding.—Forget Party Politics. Asheville. Aug. (>.—Governor Morrison tonight called upon the people of North Carolina to pay tribute to the memory of the late President Warren G. Harding, declaring that in this hour of sorrow par ty differences should be forgotten and the nation join in mourning a universal loss. The proclamation issued by the governor follows: “Funeral services over the remains of the late beloved lTesident of the United States will be held in the capitol at Washington during (lie noon hour on Wednesday, the eighth, and I ask the people of the state on that day and at she hour of 12 noon to suspend all business for 1.7 minutes. On "Friday, the lOtli at some hour which has not been definitely fixed at this time, the remains of the President will be interred in the city of Marion, in the state of Ohio. This hour will be an nounced by the press later, and can be come known to the people. At the hour of interment in Marion, Ohio. I • ask the people of the state to arrange in every community in the state to have joint re ligious service, and to pay spoken trib ute to the great public servant who has departed. . "1 am sure in this hour of sorrow and sadness over the death of our President we recognize the smallness of party dif ferences between the citizens of our great countey. and that in all fundamental principles of Americanism we are one people and that we have sustained a uni versal loss. "The President of the United States has set aside Friday, the 10th. as a day of mourning and prayer, and I hope up on this day the people of North Carolina will suspend all social amusements, re frain from -everything *>f a festive and merry ebaraeter, and in every possible way make due acknowledgement of our dependence upon God. "Signed CAMERON MORRISON. "Governor of North Carolina. “GIVE NATURE A CHANCE” * HARDING’S LAST WARNING The Son of a “Country Doctor” Favors Rest For Healer. Sidney, Neb.. Aug. 5. —What might well be taken as Warren G. Harding's parting injunction to the world was contained in tlie speech six weeks ago made at Cheyenne, through which his funeral train passed today. He said; "Having been a witness to the life of activities *.f a general practitioner of medicine commonly known as a Coun try doctor (his father, from whose home in Marion the burial will take place). 1 am a firm believer iu giving nature a chance, instead of overdootoring a sick patient. It has been my strong belief that the world, fevered by war nerves, exhausted and disposition made irri table. needs less of experimental remedies and more of u elihnoe to calm down while nature takes a turn at the longed-for restoration. . "We have seen fevered madness turn to violent revolution, Jtrat the patient lias not improved. We have seen capital so enriched in the great saturnalia of expenditure that men lost interest in the normal pursuits and the ustifiable profits of righteous, .-endeavor. Wo have sc**n workmen so liberally rewarded for a little toil that many men are striving ever to do less. Both are wrong. The world’s work must he done. There is no escaping it. God willed it so. The biggest need of tin* world today is work, hard work, honest work, efficient work, work to make amends for war's madness, work to effect the needed restoration and put the strain of human progress on tie* right track once more.” TWO YOUNG MEN MEET DEATH IN SMASH-UP Their Car Run Into by Larger Auto mobile That Did Not Stop. Weldon, Aug. 6. —-Two men were killed last night'when tlie automobile in which they were riding was run into by a larg er car that did not stop and she driver of which is unknown. Marvin Robinson, son of Rev. B. .P. Robinson, of Jackson, was killed out right, and Ellis Bradley, who was in the car with him. was so seriously in jured that he died today at a hospital at Roanoke Rapids. The smash occurred just outside this city at 0 :30 o’clock last night. The body of young Robinson will be taken to Raeford and the interment will ' take place there Tuesday afternoon at jfi o’clock. Col. €. O. Sherrill is a Newton Product. | Newton, Aug.fi.—Col. U. O. Sherrill, who has charge of the funeral ceremonies of President Harding, is a Newton boy. | He is a son of the late Miles O. Sherrill, ! and was born in Newton and lived here till he entered the West Point Military Academy. He graduated second in his class, and has filled many assignments, at home and abroad, requiring the ex ercise of superior executive and diplo matic talents. The people of his old home have followed his successful career with much pride. The famous old Arrow Rock Tavern, on the Missouri" River, in Missouri, has been purchased by the state and turned [over to the Daughters of the American Revolution. The old tavern was a place of rest and refreshment for the south western trader and plainsman. For jSo he time it has been a depository for ar deles of historic interest. One of th *se articles is Daniel Boone’s fiddle. Perfumes, which still retained their semt after more than 3,000 years, were so ind in four alabaster vases in the tomb of King Tutankhgmen in Egypt. THE CONCORD TIME? blooms, walked solemnly around the bier lying under the great crystal ehandalier. and poked his nose in the flowers as if looking for the master he knew was there but couldn’t see. and then turned brown eyes on the White House attaches with an inquiring look which was too much for them to endure without their own eyes turning misty. Laddie Boy knew bis master was back in the house, but he seemed to sense that for wtme reason he couldn't find him, and like a good dog would, he concluded there was nothiug to do but go back to his favorite spot and wait, faithful to the end. CALVIN COOLIDGE NO ENIGMA. New York World. When the forefathers wrote into the Constitution the words of the oath to be taken by the President of the United States before entering on the execution of his office, they could not foresee the conditions in which it was to be adminis tered in the long future. Custom has prescribed for the occasion a form of cer emony impressive by its solemnity. But in its simplicity nothing could have been more solemn than the scene as Calvin Coolidge stood with upraised hand be fore his old father, the village notary, iu the sitting room of the Vermont farm house. with its wood stove and flickering kerosene lamp. There in the family homestead iu the hills, shut off from com munication with the outside world, lie was in a background of 300 years of Am erican history. Mr. Coolidge could not help knowing that the oath lie was required to take on becoming President was embodied in the Constitution. But it was in keeping with his character that he should have guarded against any possible mistake through trusting to some chance text within easy reach and should have wait ed to get from Washington each comma cor’rfet according to the State Depart ment’s authentic copy of the original. It was not iu his nature to act on hasty im pulse or iu emergency to be rushed into avoidable error. The rule of years in public office was inflexible and iu all cir cumstances was to be implicitly obeyed. Mr. Coolidge is commonly regarded as a man of mystery, as the greatest enig ma coming to the Presidency. Tyler had had a political career and was well known to the people when on Harrison’s sudden death he became President. .Andrew Johnson had been war Governor of Ten nessee and had achieved distinction in the Senate before lie was called to the White House. Arthur was well known at least to the politicians, and Roosevelt, of course, had been a popular figure as the Rough Rider and Governor of New York. None of the four was caught up out of obscurity and unexpectedly thrust upon the attention of the country. If Mr. Coolidge as Vice President has boon little in the public eye and lias lived a life of self-effacement in Washington, he has been no different from the average Vice President, whose functions have been mainly to preside over the Senate aud make occasional public addresses. Yet Mr. Coolidge is no great enigma to those who have studied the picture of his taking the oath of office as President in the Plymouth Notch farm-house. He is the product ofi New England, a true New Englander with all the dowu-East er's faults and virtues, all liis tenacity and. grim'conscientiousness, all his re serve and deliberation. The country can be certain that he will do nothing rash, that he will not be stampeded into any action or decision and that he will not be betrayed into any act of sudden folly. Mr. Coolidge is no strange type. His roots go deep into the soil of the Amer ican continent. He comes of a breed of men who have been farmers and toilers among his native hills. From boyhood, life to him was no easy road to travel but an ascent to Im* won by grim determina tion. The members of the farm bloc aud so-called ‘dirt farmers” will hare noth ing to boast of as against this unassum ing man who has become President. For, the son of a Vermont farmer, he was. helping his old father get iu the hay when he came into the highest office in the land. Calvin Coolidge in no "dirt" farmer but a “rock” farmer of New Eng land, born of a race which blasted moun tains to grow their bread. He, the true Vermonter, should easily find real kin ship with Mangus Johnson of Minnesota. If Calvin Coolidge seems at fii*st glance to be an enigma, it is because no one has studied his background. There is the key to his character. Quiet, self-con tained. master of himself, he unquestion ably is, with none of the facile arts of the professional politician. He has nev er been a grand-stander, not even in the Boston police strike. The country has no cause to worry that he is a man who urges change for the sake of change or disturbance for the sake of noise. TUCAPAN soil) TO BOSTON COMPANY Purchase of Spartanburg Textile Plant Involves 53.000.000 or $4,000,000. Spartanburg, S. C„ Aug. fi. —The sale of the Tueupan mills, capitalized at $1,076,000 and operating 65,186 spindles and 1.830 looms td* Lockwood Greene and company qf Boston, was announced today by A. *M. Law and company of Spartanburg, who repre sented the prieipal stockholders, ,T. B. and Dr. ,T. F. Cleveland ofSpartanburg. and Alfred Moore of Wellford, in the deal. The price secured per share was not stated but the purchase involves be tween $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. it is understood. The stock bought by Lock wood Greene and company represents 85 per cent of the outstaning stock. The remaining stockholders will have an opportunity of selling at the same figure, it was stated. Public Barred From Capitol Rotunda. 'Washington, Aug. 7 (By the Associat ed Press). —Temporary gates barred the public from the capitol rotunda today while workmen re-draped and set in place the catafalque first used that martyred Lincoln might lie iu the majesty of death beneath the great dome. Beside this same place of honor for the great dead only a few mouths ago, , Warren G. Harding stood to pay homage at the bier of America’s unknown soldier, and no sign or portent warned that he too would soon lie there as peacefully un der the eyes of his sorrowful country men as did the nameless hero her hon ored. HARDING'S BODY TO BE PLACED 111 MAUSOLEUM IN HOI TOWN, MARION Will Not Be Buried Beside His Mother and Sister There, But Will Be Put in Mausoleum to Be Built. FUNERAL PLANS ARE VERY SIMPLE Body to Be Placed in Receiv ing Vault at Marion Ceme tery on Arrival. —To Lie in State at Father’s Home. Marion. Ohio. Aug. 7 (By the Asso ciated Press). —President Harding will not be hurled beside his mother and sis ter in the Marion cemetery. His body, after the funeral services here Friday af ternoon will be placed in the receiving vault at the cemetery and held there pending the erection of a mausoleum to receive it. Even the plans approved by Mrs. Hard ing are contingent upon the condition of the body on its arrival from Washington. The coffin,-it was said, had not been op en during the trip across the continent, and would not be until it reached Wash ington. ' This was part of the funeral arrange ments agreed to by the widow of the late President as communicated to Hr. Geo. T. Harding. Jr., the President's brother, and Dr. Carl W. Sawyer, who boarded the funeral train west of Chi cago yesterday, and which Dr. Sawyer is bringing back to the President’s home town this morning. He left the funeral train at Willard, Ohio. The funeral plans approved by Mrs. Harding, call for the utmost simplicity. Rev. J. M. Landis, pastor of Trinity Bap tist Church, the late President's place of worship when in Marion, will conduct the funeral service. Among the tenta tive plans'vetoed by Mrs. Harding was for troop B. Ohio National Guard oval ary to act as an honorary escort at the funeral. The troop will attend the fun eral but will not act as an escort. This was said to be in keeping with Mrs. Harding’s request that no military dis play be made at the funeral services con ducted by the late President’s home folks. In order that Mr. Harding's home folks and friends in his native state may have the privilege, of a last look at their de parted friend, Mrs. Harding’s plans call for the body to lie in state at the home of his father from soon after its arrival morning until 9 or 10 o'clock that night, and again a few hours Fri day forenoon. The would not approve of tentative plans for the body to lie in State in the court house. NEW PRESIDENT FACES MANY BIG PROBLEMS Coal Strike. Agriculture, Bonus. Am nesty, Cuba. Philippines. World Court, a Few. Washington, Aug. 7. —Although Presi dent Coolidge will receive no official dele gations for a month, the many import ant problems with which he will have to deal speedily will keep him at his desk almost continuously. Some of these questions are: The threatened anthratice coal strike and the possibility of a bituminous strike. Mr. Coolidge’s friends look for the same firm measures that ended the Boston police strike. The agricultural legislation problems. The President faces the task of devis ing a policy radical enough to. suit the farmers, but not so radical as to alien ate business. The amnesty question. The Sacra mento group of political prisoners are not released and a movement is on foot to obtain their freedom. The soldiers’ bonus, proposition. The American Legion is preparing another drive to obtain compensation. The Cuban problem, which Ambassa dor Crowder, who will arrive in Wash iugto n tomorrow, will lay before the new Executive. The Cuban Legisla ture has passed a resolution condemning American interference in the island’s affairs. The Phillipine situation. Gen. Wood, she governor, is forwarding a report on the, critical condition arising from the demand for independence. The world court problem and the question of new immigration, transpor tation and ship liquor bills. OFFICIAL CEREMONIES AT WASHINGTON’ WILL END When Dead President’s Body Is Placed on Train For Journey to Marion. Washington, Aug. 7.—President Cool idge authorized the statement today that the official eeremdnies attending the fun eral of President Harding will end to day when the body lias been placed on the funeral train for the journey to Ma rion. “The participation of the President and the representative group of the legis lative and judicial departments in Ma rion.” the statement said, “will be en tirely on the basis of that of guests of the town of Marion. They will not partici pate officially in any way in the funeral there.” The representatives of the army and navy at Marion will be the same officers who will form the guard of honor for the body here, but their participation in the services at Marion will not be as guard of honor, but as guests. , This is in accord with the wishes of Mrs. Hurtling. , Funeral Train At a Mile a Minute. < Chicago, Aug. 6. —Traveling nearly a 1 mile a minute to make up lost time, 1 the Harding funeral special speed ' through Indiana tonight toward Wash- 1 ington. The train passed Milford June- 1 tiou at 10:40 p. m„ centraltime, 1 covering the nearly 24 miles between < La Paz Junction and Milllord June- 1 tion in 24 minutes. { 1 i The Hon. Joan Ogilvie-Grant, 16-year- i old daughter of a British peer, has made 1 a success as a writer of fairly tales to * 6e broadcasted bf radio, 1 : Harding Funeral Tram” | Still Further Delayed .MODERN MARK HANNA PUZZLES POLITICIANS Frank W. Stearns. Closest Friend of the President. Refuses to Talk on New Ad ministration. Washington, D. C., Aug.—A new Col onel House, a modern Mark Hanna or maybe a Warwick appeared on the po litical scene in Washington today when a man on the shady side of 60, short, thickset, business-like in appearance and dress, sallied forth from the Presidential suite in the Willard. “That’s Frank Stearns, of Boston, the President’s oldest friend, who has more influence witM Calvin Coolidge than any other man in'jpr out of Washington; he’s the man who discovered the political Coolidge. backed him for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, was leading booster; for him in his Gubernatorial cam paign in the old Bay State ami predicted years ago. to Murray Crane and other leaders of the old guard that some day 'Silent Cal' would be president," said a man from Boston. The newspaper sleuths pricked up Lheir ears and listened. They decided that there was the making of a real human in terest * story in the new President’s friend. They went out on his trail, landing him after a hard chase, in a room adjoining the Presidential suite. They were introduced or introduced themselves individually and in groups, but to eaeh and all Frank W. Stearns said that he would gladly talk on -any sub ject that lie knew anything about, ex cept Calvin Coolidge and the new ad ministration. "But you are his closest friend," per sisted one ambitious newspaper man. •'And that is all the more reason why I should not talk about him." said Stearns pleasantly enough but with em phasis. "If I should talk folks would immediately say that I was speaking the sentiments and the ideas #*£ the Presi dent. He needs no interprefVr of spokes man. President Coolidg*- is able to speak for himself and when it is necessary for him to talk he talks and* one don't need any footnotes to understand what he is talking about.” With these words Stearns bowed the newspaper men out and returned to the inner sanctum of President Coolidge, as much a mystery to the Washington scribes as he was when he arrived last night with the new Chief Executive. But Massachusetts politicians know him well. To outsiders the relationship between President Coolidge and Frank W. Stearns has always been a conundrum. They are as different in their natures as chalk and cheese, and yet each is as fond of the other as if they were brothers. LONGEVITY OF PRESIDENTS. Scarcely One-Half of Them Reached the Age of Three Score and Ten. Washington, I). C.. Aug. 7. —It has been said that of the Presidents of the United States who have died, scarcely one-half of the number reached the age allotted to man by the Psalmist. On the other hand, taking an average of the whole number, the longevity of the Pres idents is rather remarkable. Their -ages were as follows: 67. 90, 83. 8.7. 76. 80. 78, 71), 68. ’ 71. 53, 65, 74. 64. 77. 56. 66. 63, 70, 49. 56. 71, 67, 58. 60 years. Tliose at 56. 49 and 58 were, respectively. Lin coln. Garfield, and McKinley, who were assassinated. The ages of these twenty five men totalize 1,723 years, or an aver age of 69 years each, showing, as is be lieved. that the stress and responsibility of leadership seem to have no effect on longevity* The following causes of death are those popularly accepted : Washington, pneu monia (more correct accounts sta'te ede matus affection of the windpipe or mem branous croup); John Adams, debility; Jefferson, chronic diarrhoea : Madison, de bility ; Monroe, debility; John Quincy Adams, paralysis; Jackson, consumption and dropsy; Van Buren, asthmatic ca tarrh ; W. H. Harrison, bilious pleurisy; Tyler, bilious attack (with bronchitis) ; Polk, chronic diarrhoea; Taylor, cholera morous and typhoid fever; Fillmore, de bility ; Pierce, dropsy aud inflammation of stomach ; Buchanan, rheumatic gout; Lincoin. assassination; Johnson, paraly sis of heart; Garfield, assassination ; Arthur. Bright’s disease, paralysis aud apoplexy; Clevetand, debility; Benjamin Harrison, pueumonia; McKinley, assas sination ; lioosevelt. rheumatism. Taken according to longevity, the table of the departed presidents offers an in interesting sequence. President Age at Age at Inaug. Death George Washington . . . .57 67 John Adams .. f»l <Kt James Madison .. 57 85 Thomas Jefferson 57 83 John Quincy Adams 57 80 Martin Van Buren 54 80 Andrew Jackson 61 78 James Buchanan 65 77 Millard Fillmore .. .....50 74 James Monroe .. 5K 73 John Tyler 51 71 Grover Cleveland .47 71 Rutherford B. Hayes .. ..54 '7O William Henry Harrison .68 68 Benjamin Harrison 55 67 Andrew- Johnson 56 66 Zachary Taylor .. 64 65 Franklin Pierce 48 64 U. S. Grant 46 63 Theodore Roosevelt ..42 00 William McKinley 52 58 Abraham Lincoln 52 56 Chester A. Arthur 50 56 Janie* K. Polk 49 53 James A. Garfield 49 49 Stocks Show Faith in New President. New York, Aug. 6. —Wall street’s confidence in Presient Coolidge, which has been voiced by many of its auKmg and business leaders, found expression in today’s stock market, prices re covered the ground lost Saturday and mounted up to higher levels than those prevailing at the close of business last Thursday. The rally originated in the buying orders of professional operators who either covered stocks previously sold short or ought for a turn on the theory that the market had been tem porarily oversold. A net gain in the averages of 20 leading railroad stocks and the 20 leading industrials was about 11-4 points each. U- S. Steel, Baldwin and Studerbaker, often re ferred toas pivotal stocks, showed a net gain of about 2 points each.. Thursday. .. . - ‘923. __ H Railroad 'offing d That It May Be Ten O’clock t, • , e * forp itr ♦ \ {h tore It Gels to Washing CANNOT REGAIN TH h TOST TUij Thousands 1 non Th .'if;* Voiceless Tribute t„ 1' Cate President Harding On Board Hardiil7~T** louugsitown. old.. \„„ -"’ ! l Tray Sociated PressE-i,,;,^/ ms the night th*. , iim / , caused railroad ,f, funeral train ~f l*r^i, lpilt predict on arriving ] K . n . ... fc that it might be arou.nl ii „ .**» tonight before the end of J'\’ reached at Washington. Train Loses Mere Ti», «a««T .Inn,•».!„. t, <T entire population ~f the v'iSl*i« ( . ' lets, augmented i ;v ? (l from the country l road flanked the Vi > as the Harding, funeral train reduced speed, passed through Pennsylvania. The inmv Wr , f * numerous that the train j, ; st ,j' * time on its journey to W'a.fii Many Thousands halher at Pin k , Ktt»bnr»l,. IV. .V., B 7 V elated Press).—Thousands , ands of men. wvnien and ehihhv /■'*’ industrial city -forming a ji„e . Baltimore & Ohio right of J tip of the most distant suburb .t ■ Glenwood station, made a voice'* \ . impressive tribute to the W lCy! . Harding today as the funeral • : the Pacific coast passe,] on its • Washington. The train am, : I at 32;32 p. i„, Eastern Standard ti:.* It halted at (v lon worn! while of engines was. made. ' The mourners standing haro-M^ ■ der a scorching sun. were number]*,", * she train made it.* way slowly tlimn* the city. Crowds unprecedented * : history of Pittsburgh, thronged rbe kid sides, bridges, and every point us age. At the Glenwood station, eiyv county officials, delegations i different organizations and other-. 1 the train of sorrow with floral fribiita. I the great throng stood if, diene,.,*' conscious of that fact that dhe b 4 4] the late President lay still in cleat-: ii the funeral car. The speed of tin 1 train was reducedttf the minimum from Etna, a suburb mi tit outskirts of the city, to the (;|ew<»«i pot. So slow was the progress than at required 44 minute* to negotiate the miles to the station. To those accustomed to vier/ng,ii.t? gatherings it seemed that the ptiyiuki* 'of the entire city turned out, \ q the hills Hanking the .Monongaicia K!nt were thousands- of mourners' 51*. striking was the tribute paid M mill toilers as the train passed a industrial plants on the river fi t' The din of the mills was still, i a- * body of the President went by. • Ta» workers, unmindful of their «oM clothes and besmeared faces and lank stood with bare heads, pressing (Hr caps to their breasts. Within nine minutes after arrjvat: >' 'Glenwood the necessary chans 1 * been made and tin* funeral trial, pr'S'4 ed on its way to tin* capital leaving •'* at 1 :19 p. m. Railway officials said additional 4 ] motives would be attached to ‘f" !rJ “ for the haul across the {nountains Mrs. Harding Objects. Willard. Ohi Aug. (i.—Mr-.TM* aboard the special train has r*n: railroad officials to see that tin 1l! travel no faster than 50 miles at any time and that it* speed in cities and town* wln-re er have gathered he 10 miles per tec: _ r cording to a telegram made - tonight by Superintendent H I , of the Baltimore and Ohio i;iilroa,i. Stevens predicted in view * *f '■ j of Mrs. Harding that the tram not. reach Washington until » morrow or possibly tomorrow 1 * / Delayed in ( Imago. Chicago. Aug. 0 ■ bowed his head in mourning nation's burden of sorrow cago. Through miles upon .mi!*' the 'funeral train bearing *' “y,. 4 . Warren G. Harding passed -'; !l er than a man might warn Slowly the black draped ■ - through the great throng- y dense that they were < tracks in front'of tm- ! even as they tried t«> mim train of mourning. I _ k* it wl Traffic was halted M try street intersection were massed so d< • -• . of way that the train i* and at times stoppeu probably was the gr« for a public figur* nessed and can ■' ception accorded the ‘ other chief executive. < t ‘ ;se brought here—rAbraliaia Not only did * -j,• r . dusty railroad yard.- • ' . ;d wedged so tightly ’ . ~+pi. could scarcely breath* by the hundreds fr mi w ; ,‘._ r M hopse-tops. Ever} I" its complement of ni" ' . ; r>ue to the crowds th.! . •. rj the funeral train ns >' ' , j,,«a ' s *j densely populated v <' ~ . < •' Illinois, the cortege shortly before ♦» '! v It # one-half hours Minui i;r parted at 7:lt* o cl.x . behind the estimated i m The train paused •>> ' ■„ for '* nental flight only - change of engines erating delays. ... jr *** Due to the cmw-Is here more than an (l " • T irn*'- v a snail's pace, nun 1 : g sides the city's floral " ‘ 1 ‘ I er floral pieces were i"- I train here. I
The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.)
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