Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-11

terpreting the republican platform,
which the national convention wished
on him in Chicago before it nominated
him. Estimates of throngs in adj
vance frequently are inaccurate. But
some of the men in charge say that
the crowd may run as high as $4,000.
and others run it up to $4,000. IT
$4,000 visitors should descend upon
Marion for a whole day. the conges
ton in Washington during the war
would not be a patch on what would
occur here. t4-.s.- ~
Civic Association Plans.
The Marion Civic Association, an in
stitution which has been organized since
the nomination of Senator Harding to
make all arrangements for this oc-
casion and others which are to fol-
low, is struggling with the problem
of feeding the visitors and providing
other comforts for them. The restau-
rants here could not come anywhere
near coping with the situation. So the
housewife to bake five extra loaves of
bread, make pail of coffee and to
boil a ham along about July % SO that
the visitors may be assured of getting
some sustenance while they are in
town.
The owners of homes have been ap-
pealed to, also, to file with the COM
mittee list of rooms which they are
willing to rent during the summer
when out-of-town visitors are here,
and several hundred have responded.
It is expected that thousands of per-
sons will come to Marion in auto
mobiles and will sift away rapidly as
soon as the ceremonies are over.
Many special trains are expected, and
they will take visitors away the same
evening.
Ceremonies In Garfield Park.
The ceremonies are to be held, by
the way. in Garfield Park, one Of the
three public parks owned by the city.
1t lies on the eastern outskirts Of
psble of seating 1900 persons. There
Senator Harding will deliver his key.
note speech of the campaign.
The people of Marion are kindly and
hospitable. They are proud of Sena-
tor Harding They are his friends
called him by his first name. They
have not quite got used to the fact
that he may be President within a
few months. But they are putting
their shoulders to the wheel to help
elect him and to entertain the thou
come to Marion this summer and next
fall.
Senator's Family.
his father. DR. George T. Harding,
and sister, Miss Abigail Harding,
make their home here. DIR. Harding
has a house "just around the cor
ner" from the home of Senator Hard
| ing. Miss Harding is a teacher of
English in the high school in Marion.
Mrs. Carolyn Votaw, another sister.
is here visiting DR.. Harding. She
| lives in Washington, and has been
| connected with the metropolitan po-
| lice in child welfare work. A brother
of Senator Harding. DR.. George T.
Harding, jr, is a nerve specialist in
Columbus t+sss.
Senator 20 Harding's immediate
lneighbors are, on the east, George
Christian, his private secretary, and
| on the west, Mrs. J. w. Freeland.
The Christian home has been con-
| they are used daily by the senator
and the force of twenty or more
secretaries and assistants that have
been transplanted to this near" sum-
mer capital, Mrs. Freeland was
formerly president Of the Ohio News
written poetry of considerable merit.
| 1t was she who twenty years ago
refused to sell her home because, as
she put it, she lived next door to
Warren G. Harding. and he was sure
some day to be President of the
! United states.
| Another old friend of Senator Hard
ling, who lives next to the Christian
home. is Charles c.. Fisher, an at
| torney, graduate of Yale.
| A short distance from the Hardings'
home, almost diagonally across the
street, is located the spacious home OF
Mrs. George w. King, whose husband
was president of the Marion Steel
Shovel Company. Its beautiful grounds,
| including a sunken garden and little
lake, would make it a place Of mark
were it not for the handsome home
itself.
Marion is a division point of the Chi
cago and Erie railroad. and the COM
pany has about 1000 men in it's offices
and shops here and operating trains in
and out of the city. The Big Four, the
Pennsylvania, and the Hooking Valley
operate trains in and out of Marion also.
It is ideally located, therefore, as a ship
ping center.