New-York tribune., 1921-09-13
Harding Gets
Big Ovation On
Arrival Here
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for the automobiles coming off the
Queens as the throng that had been
waiting for sight of the President
surged forward, cheering.
Crowds at Battery
There were five of the automobiles.
President Harding was in the foremost
one, an open touring car, with Henry
+. Fletcher, Under-Secretary of State;
George Christian, secretary to the
President, and George Van Fleet, man
aging editor of "The Marion Star"
Mrs. Harding and Mrs. Van Fleet and
their maids were in the next car, a
limousine. The third and fourth cars
were occupied by Secret Service men
and newspaper men, respectively.
Mayor Hylan and Commissioner
Whalen we're in the fifth car.
With motorcycle police clearing the
way ahead, the group of cars sped up
Whitehall Street and Broadway so
swiftly that comparatively few of those
In the street recognized the President.
In front of Wanamaker's stores, how
ever, considerable crowd was wait
ing, having heard somehow of the route
to be taken by the President
He bowed and waved his hat in re-
sponse to their enthusiastic greeting
and was occupied in returning other
vocifecous outbursts for the rest of the
trip, Fifth Avenue being on the alert
for his coming. At Twenty-third
Street the Presidential party passed
between massed barriers of crosstown
traffic which had been held up for their
crossing and the din of cheering and
automobile horns was deafening.
Hoover Joins Party at Ritz
At the Ritz Carlton the party was
Joined by Herbert Hoover, Secretary of
Commences; Senator Joseph S. Freling-
huysen and Mrs. Frelinghuysen, Attor-
ney General Harry A. Daugherty and
Brigadier General c. f. Sawyer, the
Presidents physician, who has been at
tending Mr.. Daugherty during slight
illness in Washington. Dinner was
served in a private dining room.
A small crowd was waiting on the
street when the President started fol
the New Amsterdam Theater and
cheered him on his way. The audience
at the theater apparently expected him
and WAS early and vigilant. The Pres
ident had to respond to an outburst o1
cheers before he took his seat, anc
thereafter the applause and cheering
pEOke OUT on inc SiiEhCeSC pFOVocaJlon
At the end of the first act, when the
President got up to greet Secretary
Hoover and others who came late te
the show, the audience made his ris
ing tho occasion of handclapping ant
cheering and handkerchief waving
They broke out again when Presiden
Harding waved across the house to ,
box occupied by Congressman Nicholas
Longworth. of Ohio, and Senator Franl
B. Brandegee, Of Connecticut.
Lillian Russell and her husband
Alexander P. Moore, of Pittsburgh, hat
box adjoining that occupied by the
President. The President was on tn.
left of the stage in what is known n.
the Rose box. During the intermissior
after the first act he was visited by J
Leo Replogle and Percy r. Pine.
Fourteen motorcycle policemen es
corted the President from the hotel t,
the theater and pack again, and Captain
Joseph A. Howard Of the West Thir
tieth Street police station had sew.
enty-hve policemen at the hotel to pre-
vent any disorder when the President
came out or returned.
The start from the hotel for the navy
yard will be made at $3.50 this morning