New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-03
Harding Sleeps
La Lodge Atop
MI. Prospect
Cheered From Wayside as
He Motors l2O Miles Over
Rural New England to
Weeks's Summer Home
Blankets Fend OFF Chill
Speaks at Portland, Plays
Golf at Crawford Notch;
On Links Again To-day
By Boyden X. Sparkes

LANCASTER, N. H, Aug. 2.-Retir-
ing to sleep under extra blankets to-
night to avoid the biting chill that
swept the top of Mount Prospect, Pres
ident Harding began in earnest the en-
joyment of his brief vacation from the
heat and cares of the capital. His bed
was in The Lodge, summer home of Sec
retary of War Weeks, and it is the
only dwelling on this sugar-loaf peak.
If the President had not needed rest
before, his experiences to-day would
have tired him out. Throughout the
120-mile automobile journey across
Maine and New Hampshire he was kept
busy acknowledging the enthusiastic
greetings of rural New Englanders and
folk on vacation. He made two brief
speeches and played eighteen holes of
golf over a course that follows the
Notch, at the end of the Roosevelt Trail
from Portland.
Tomorrow his program is confined to
golf and his meals. Temporarily he is
even out of touch with the two White
House stenographers who are usually
kept busy by him.
Lands in Sub" Chaser
A submarine chaser brought the
Presidential party ashore at Portland
from the yacht Mayfower at o'clock
this morning. Governor Baxter of
Maine and group of local notables
were waiting to greet him. Then there
was quick motor run to the City Hall
through crowds of flag waving persons,
who broke the police ranka and swarmed
toward the hall as soon as his car had
passed them.
Mrs. Harding's arms were filed with
fame colored tiger lilies, so it was with
difficulty she freed hand to wave back
response to the greetings called to
her. The President held a stiff straw
hat against his breast and smiled
broadly at these constituents of his
golfing buddy" Senator Frederic
Hale: Mayor Clark introduced him
simply as "the President" establishing
a local precedent and earning volumes
Of official gratitude by this time-saving
formula.
I've been among you before" began
the President, with blue eyes twinklinp
but you were not SO much interested
IN me then. l doubt if you even knew
was here. like you for it, 1t is one
OF the characteristic glories of the
American people that they are apt to
take some man from among their fell
low citizens, one of themselves, and
put the responsibilities of government
into his hands,"
He told them Of the DAYS he had
passed campaigning in Maine-in times
VIXEN he was not candidate himself
--and of devoting most Of the time
listening to Aroostook County farmers
talking over the potato crop
Il am not sectional man." declared
Mr. Harding. 81 want to see New Eng
land standing with the South, the West
and the Northwest and the Pacific
Coast for the same ideal American
isms."
Then he spoke of the part the men
of Maine had played in the American
marine of the clipper ship days. when
they carried the Stars and Stripes into
every quarter of the globe. Il hope
to be able to do something during my
Administration" he said, 'to restore
the American merchant marine and
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