Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-05-23
PRESIDENT HARDING ARRIVES
IN new YORK; SPEECH MAKING
WILL TAKE UP ENTIRE TINE
TAKES PART.IN
SERVICES FOR
AMERICAN HEROES
Address Delivered Before
Academy Of Political
Science. &
Will Speak Again This
Evening and Start Home
On MayAower Tonight.

~sA AASAAAS
On Mayhower Tonight.
New York, May ss.-President
Aarding 1 arrived here today from
Washington on the Mayflower and
landed at West 96th street at $50 to
lace a days program that will leave
him scarcely a minute for rest.
President Harding.s visit today be-
came all the more momentous when
1t was announced that the chief ex-
ecutive would participate In cere-
monies to honor mure than 5000 war
dead whose bodies are at Hoboken.
Arrangements for this event were
made by wireless by the American
Legion. Soon after the guns on the
DESTROYER fleet anchored in the Hud-
son river doomed welcome to the
president. bells sthroughout the city
tolled the honor of the fallen heroes,
Flags at Half Mast.
Plans called for the president
party leaving the Maynower directly
after her docking at the navy pier at
setn street, and proceeding directly
TO Hoboken to attend the services
which will honor soldier dead before
their bodies are shipped to their for
mer m, homes in all parts of the country.
Flags in New York will fy at half
mast throughout the day.
+. w. Galbraith. national COM
mander Of the legion, awaited the
arrival OF the president with auto
mobiles TO take the party to gard
street and embark upon 4 ferry for
the army piers. in Hoboken.
A reception will be- held at the no.
tel between and s o'clock and tfer,
New 1ork's distinguished guest will
deliver his main address OF the day at
a banquet celebrating the 175th ami
Versary OF the New York Commercial.
Il To Return Tonight.
The presidential party will return
to the Mayfiower after the BANQUET.
and. the little craft will put out to sea
again for Washington
Included in the party aboard tina
Mayflower are Mrs Harding. secres
tarE and Mrs. Weeks, Secretary Fail
Senator and Mrs. Knox. Senator and
Mrs. -NeR..~, Senator Calder. Senator
Edge. BriEadier General Charles. p.
Sawyer. physician to the president:
George B. Christian. secretary to the
president and Carmi Thompson Of
Cleveland "
Many Samtes.
saluted by all manner Of craft as
the Mayiower steamed up the fIud-
son to her anchorage in the center ~
a great line of destroyers, President
Harding received another salute Of
~ guns as he put Off In the yachts
barge for the naval landing stage.
AT the dock were hundreds OF blue
jackets and police. surrounding the
motor cars assembled there for the
party.
The party motored through Central
park, down Fifth avenue. and across
24th street to the Hudson river
where they crossed on a ferry boat to
attend a solemn ceremony in Ho-
boken.
This ceremony was a funeral serv-
Ice for more than 5000 American va,.
dead-representing every state in the
union and every combat division in
the a. f. F.-whose, bodies were
brought home last week on the trans
port Wheaton.
Before President Harding landed
he received Mayor Hylan aboard the
Mayf1ower.
Mrs. Harding became interested in
the inscription "P. D." on the how
of the police department. launch
which had come out to the Maylow-
er.
i've heard Of p n. O. and its
m Gaming, said Mrs. Harding, but
p. D. is something new"
Dccorates Coffin.
New York. May 2S.-.'It must not
be again. With these solemn words,
President Harding today laid q
wreath on the coffin OF the first Amer.
lean soldier to die on German soil. at
Ia funeral ceremony for 5000 war
dead at the army piers in Hoboken.
|, His voice husky and his eyes
brimmed with tears the president
gaSed at the rows and rows OF cof-
fins. Then he said:
One, hundred thousand sorrows
,are touching my heart. 1t must not
be again. God grant that it will not
be. @
Il do not pretend that the milleniaY
days have come and that there will
be no more war. would wish a ma
tion so powerful that none will dare
Ito provoke its wrath
Profound Silence.
Then in the great army shed on
the shores of the Hudson. with it's
stark, whitewashed walls. there fell
a silence profound and deep. Mrs.
Harding could be seen weeping soft
~ as she looked upon the fag-draped
cof1ins OF those who had given their
all for their country.
Then the president continued:
The republic-,wiiis never forget the
sacrifices these men have made
whether they eliessir the soil OF the
home land tho crimsoned soil OF
the baf M 90 3:
Wher y president had finished
Ibis brief: IS. he stepped forward,
stopped l. mt OF the comm that had
been sele' to symboli1e the army
OF dead 81 lnding him and laid ups
on it his Y rath of roses and orchid4
There another moment OF NJ
lence. II as as II the great fssp1ers,
bustlins v a life as men vent forth
to death, lad been turned sstd A tomb
after the return Of those who had
! survived. NJ Z. 81 u &, ssl sltssF
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