The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-05-23
HARDING HA 5.
BUSY PROGRAM.
IN new YORK
President Participates in
Memorial Ceremonies in
Honor of More Than
5000 War Dead

ton on the Mayflower and landed at
West 96th street at $40 to face days
program that will leave him scarcely
a minute for rest.
President Harding's visit today be.
came all the more momentous when
IL was announced that the chief execu.
tive will participate in memorial cere-
monies in honor OF more than 5000 war
dead whose bodies are at Hoboken, an
arrangement made by wireless byt the
American Legion.
More than participation in the me-
mortal exercises, plans for the presi-
dents activities remain unchanged. On
his return to Hoboken. he will go 10
/ the Hotel Astor, Address the Academy
| of Political Science, at one o'clock, then
/ to Brooklyn to review the 23rd infantry
regiment, from there returning to the
Hotel Commodore, to be serenaded by
a boys band of 500 pieces.
Saluted by all manner Of craft, the
Mayflower steamed up the Hudson
TO her anchorage in the center of the
great line Of destroyers that arrived
here last week from the south. Presl-
Il bFill IfNtlNtl ullblItI VI
81 guns, as he put off in the yachts
barge for the naval landing stage.
Amid continuous boom Of guns the
swift little craft darted with the pres
ident's party toward the New York
shore, whore thousands Of persons were
amassed along the River Side Drive
10 greet the nations chief executive.
n At the dock were hundreds of blue
Sackets and police surrounding the mo-
tor cars assembled there for the party.
reception will be held at the Hotel
between Z and o'clock and then New
York's distinguished guest will deliver
his main address of the day at BAN
Vuet celebrating the l25th anniversary
OF the New York Commercial.
N The presidential party will return %
the Mayflower and start for Washing.
ton Immediately after the banquet
Former president Menocal of Cuba.
who arrived here yesterday. will stan
beside President Harding at the review
Of troops in Brooklyn.
President and Mrs. Harding were mot
1 at the pier by Col. +. w. Galbraith, ma.
\ tional commander of the American Le-
gion.
The part motored through the wind
ing roads Of Central Park. down Fifth
Avenue. on which all traffic was haltc
and across 2ith street To the Hudson
river, where they crossed on n ferry
10 attend solemn ceremony In Hobo
i ken.
This ceremony was funeral service
4 for more than 5000 American war dead
representing every state In the un'
ion and every combat division OF the
A. +. F.-whose bodies We're brought
home last week on the transport Wheo.
4 ton. The presidential party landed at
l the great army piers In Hobokcn al
i 1880.
Preceded by a military guard. steel
helmered and garbed for the battle
field. President and Mrs. Harding enter
ed the great hall Of the dead.
With barred heads. the president anl
his party trod softly down the white
walled shed with coffflns TO right. COZ.
\ fins to left and coffins ahead as far as
the eye could see. Each was draped
with an American flag. Finally the par
~ passed into one section. holding
alone, nearly q thousand bodies, II was
In this section that the ceremony YVES
to take place. As the president stepped
| On the platform. military band struck
I lp the Star Spangled Banner.
1T must not he again"
With these solemn words. President
| Harding today laid wreath on ihC
coffin Of the first American soldier q
die on German soil at q funeral cere.
mony for 5000 war dead at the army
/ piers In Hoboken.
i His voice husky and his eyes brim
ming with tears. the president gazet
at the rows and rows OF coffins. then
he said;
"one hundred thousand sorrows ar,
touching my heart. IL must not b,
again. God grant that Il will not be.
IN ~ do not pretend that the millcnna
days have come and that there will b,
no moro war. | would wish n nation :,
powerful that none will dare TO provok,
it, wrath" ~
Then In the great army shed on th'
shores of the Hudson. with its stark
whitc-washcd walls. there fell n silencl
profound and deep. Mrs. Harding coult
be seen weeping softly.
The president continued:
tine republic will never forget tn
sacrifice these men have made-whcthe'
they lie In the soil OF the home land o.
the crmsoned sell OF the battlefield"
when the president had finished hi
brief address. he stepped forward. stop
ped In front OF the coffin that had beer
selected TO symbolizc the army dea,
surrounding him and laid upon 1t hi
wreath OF roses and orchids.
There was another moment Of silence
II was as u the great piers. bustlins
with life as men went forth 10 death
had been turned into tomb after N,
| return Of those who had survived.
on the coffin decorated by the prcsi
Dental hand was plate chronicalln.
| the fact that Joseph Guyton Of Evar,
I Mich. a private In company OF tn
S,eth infantry. had given his life 10
/ his country on Nav a. iais, in the Gid
wilder section Of Alsace.
After the ceremony President Hard
ing. accompc MED by Mrs. Harding. sc
k,ral senators and their wives and arm
mfficiais Of high rank. returned TO Man
1Yhattan where he was scheduled to ad
dres the academy OF political science a
its luncheon In the hotel Astor and late
-. r,raoLivn This afternoon.