Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-29
PRESIDENT HARDING
GIVEN WARM WELCOME
IN ATLANTA THURSDAY

Thousands were waiting IN
drizzling rain to welcome President
Harding and his party when they
arrived at the Terminal station
shortly after / o'clock THURSDAY
afternoon, for the first visit paid
Atlanta by a president since Presl'
II Is administration, and
!. with the most notable company o.
high government officials that&eVer
visited the city in one party.
The presidents party came from
Columbus in a special train, which
made the run from Newman over
the Atlanta and West Point tracks
at a rate of nearly seventy miles
an hour in order to reach Attain
ia on scheduled time.
After a nelaborate luncheon at
the Druid Hills Golf club and
.,Mique parade through the down
town streets, the president spoke
from a rostrum at the Grady monu-
mert to an audience which packed
the wide expanse of Marietta street
tc its utmost capacity. Traffic was
halted while the president spoke
and while the great crowd gave
him an ovation in keeping with his
high office and with the traditions
Of southern hospitality.
Hours before the time scheduled
for the presidents speech, an inn
mense crowd, including hundreds of
negroes, gathered around the monu-
ment.
President Harding spoke about
ten minutes. Shortly before the pa
rade reached the Grady shaft the
misty drizzle which began shortly
before noon ceased and the sun
shown down ~ ~ cheering throng
which was gathered to hear his
speech.
From the Grady shaft, the presi-
dent and his party went to the Ter
minal station, where they joined
Mrs. Harding and boarded the spe-
cial train, leaving for Washington
where he is scheduled to attend i'm
portant confe~o-'nas early Friday.
With the president were Mrs. Har-
ding; John w. Weeks, secretary of
war; A. B. Fall, secretary of the in
terror; Oscar W. Underwood, United
States senator from Alabama and
candidate for the Democratic presi-
Dental nomination in 1872 and Con-
gresham Almond, of the Muscle
Shoals district of Alabama.
Arrive on Special Train
They came by special train from
Columbus, where the party on
Thursday morning inspected Camp
Benning, the worlds greatest school
of arms, embracing 100000 acres and
every form of modern land warfare,
and where special troop maneuvers
and demonstrations of implements OF
war were given in their honor.
Arriving at the Terminal station,
the party were met by reception
committee composed of Governor
Thomas w. Hardwick, the former
colleague and personal friend OF
President Harding when they were
In the senate; Lee Ashcraft, presi-
dent of the Atlanta Chamber OF
Commerce; Forrest Adair, chairman
of the chambers entertainment com
nittee; Nell r. Wilkinson, vice chair
man of the committee; Clark Howell,
editor of the Atlanta Constitution,
and Democratic national committee
man from Georgia; Buford Goodwin,
publisher of the Atlanta Georgian
Major John S. Cohen, editor of The
Atlanta Journal.
In addition to these, a ladies' re
ception committee was at the sta
ton to greet Mrs. Harding, the mem
bers Of the committee being Mrs. AL
bert Thornton, ST., chairman; Mrs
Charles bowman, vice chairman
Mrs. Thomas w. Hardwick, Mrs
James L. Key, Mrs. Preston s. Ark,
wright, Mrs. Samuel Lumpkin and
Miss Laura Smith.
The greeting extended to Presi
dent Harding and his party was
cordial but simple, without pomp OF
circumstance, and within ten min
utes they were on their way in }au
tornobiles to the Druid Hills clut
for. a luncheon in the presidents
honor.