The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-27
z OF HARDING
PARTY HURT;
DECK CRASHES
Timely Warning of Half Min
ute Enables School Orches-
ira of S. Pieces to Escape
Panic Is Averted.
PRESIDENT SWITCHED
(By Associated Pressl

POINT PLEASANT, Ohio, April q.
Two persons were hurt when the
forward deck of the Island Queen, one
of the flotilla of eleven boats carrying
the presidential party to the celebra.
tion of the anniversary of Grants
birth, gave way.
The injured We're: Richard Arm
strong, Bethel, Ohio. arm broken, and
Lieut.. Eugene Weatherly, of the Gin
cinnati police department, cut by
glass.
Many women became hysterical ana
tainted but there was no semblance of
a panic. A band on the boat struck
up lively air Immediately upon hear
ing the crash.
Catastrophe Prevented
Only 4 timely half minute warning.
In which the first deck sank about a
foot before it gave way completely.
probably prevented a catastrophe
Immediately under the deck the
Manchester school orchestra of $
pieces was sitting. The warning per-
mitted them to escape before the deck
crashed smashing the chairs on which
they had been seated
President Harding was to have been
a passenger on the Island Queen bur
late last night he was switched to the
government boat Cayuga which led the
flotilla. There were two other govern
ment boats between the Cayuga and
the Island Queen The president did
not hear of the disaster until his ar
rival here
POINT PLEASANT, Ohio, April 81
The nation turned today to this
little hamlet snuggled at the base of
the hills overlooking the Ohio river,
to celebrate the one hundredth birth
day of one of its presidents and great
military leaders, u s. Grant.
Up the river from Cincinnati came
a flotilla of river craft, bearing the
president, the wife of the president
congressman, high national officers.
uniformed military officers. soldiers
state officials, men prominent in civil
life and hundreds of other citizens.
Bells rang-not Mount Vernon but
bells pealing joy and gladness 1t
moored at the landing and for the first
time, though the little village gave to
the nation a president it was honored
with the presence of the president Of
the United States.
| In the presidential party were At
| toroney General Daugherty; George b.
| Christian, Jr., secretary to the presi-
dent, and Mrs. Christian; Brig. Gen
eral Charles E. Sawyer, the presi.
dents physician and Mrs. Sawyer:
Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant; Mrs. Har-
ry C. Corbin: E. E. Mclean and Mrs.
| Mclean: James Prendergast: Jess
Smith, DR.. T. Harding the presidents s
father and Mrs. Harding; George B.
! Christian, Sr., and Mrs. Christian !;
| Coils. J. A. Penn, and T. Q. Ashburne,
/ special aides to the president, and
| Congressman Nicholas Longworth and
Mrs. Longworth, A. E. B. Stephens
and Mrs. Stephens and Charles c.
Kearns.
After viewing the place where Gen.
eral Grant was born, only the lean-to
of which still exists here the house
proper having been removed to the
state fairgrounds at Columbus-Presi
dent Harding was to deliver an ad
dress from small platform erected
near the site of the Grant home
Sound amplifiers will make the presi
dents voice audible to all in the viii
age and to crowds that are expected
to assemble in Lytle Park in Cincin
natl, 80 miles away The pgsidenr
the spirit and qualities of the former
president.
WASHINGTON, April 27.-The ma
| chinery of government was halted to
day by executive order of President
Harding in order that thousands O
federal employees and officials in com
mon with visitors and the citizenry o
! ochi nOfn aioH dn ~ h.
memory of General U. S. Grant at tn,
dedication of the bronze memorial il
the botanic garden on the centenary 0
the birth of the great union soldie
and president. At the same time tn,
memorial services were being helC
here, President Harding was partici
pating In similar exercises at Poin
Pleasant, o., the birthplace of Grant
A half holiday was granted to al
federal employees, the public school
were closed, the city bedecked In flag
|, and bunting and men and women wer'
marshalled from all sections OF tn
country to form an impressive parade
in homage to the memory of Genera
Grant
Cadets from West Point, midshiI
men from Annapolis, all the regula
soldiers, marines and sailors stationet
in Washington, members of the loya
legion and veterans of the Civil wal
Spanish-American war. the World wal
and other foreign wars as well as rer
resentatives of patriotic societies wer
, in the parade which marched to musf
to the White House down Pennsy
vania avenue to the botanic garden
just west of the capitol where the sci
vices were held.
, Vice-president Coolidge and Secre
tary of War Weeks were on the prC
gram for the principal addresses, Will
. Chief Justice Taft and all associat
justices of the supreme court. men
r bers of congress and other high OFF
cials of the government were presen
The unveiling was by Princess Cant;
: cuzens, granddaughter, and Princes
Ida Cantacuzene, great granddaughte
|, of General Grant At the head Of tn
parade rode Major General John
> Glen, selected to be marshal in plac
of Lieut.-Gen. Nelson A. Miles, who
confined to his home with illness.
! ST. LOUIS. April 27.-St. Louis d
: day celebrated the one hundredth al
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