New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-03
Joyous Crowds
Hail Harding
Auto Caravan
President Halts in Union
town to Visit at Sickbed
of Senator Grow; Will
Reach Marion Tomorrow
Tents Prevent Drenching
Congregations Defer Their
Services to Pay Tribute
to Executive on Journey
By Boyden Sparkes

UN1ONTOWN, Pa, July 2.-Presi
dent Harding, completing the second
leg of his journey by automobile from
Washington to Marion, Ohio, arrived
this evening at Summit House, an
Allegheny Mountain top resort hotel.
In every town through which the party
passed to-day after leaving the brown
tents of Camp Harding at Gettysburg,
the President and General Pershing
were welcomed by throngs that lined
the sidewalks.
A few miles from the hotel here the
President halted the expedition in or
der to call on Senator W. f. Crow, who
is lying desperately i'll at his summer
home, Chalk Hill. Senator Crow has
been confined to his bed since last De-
cember, and his relatives have slight
hope for his recovery. Mrs. Harding,
General Pershing, Governor Sproul and
few other members Of the party &C
companied the President. Later 1t was
said that the surprise visit had ckeered
Senator Crow immeasurably.
The party is scheduled to leave here
at o'clock in the morning and run to
Columbus, Ohio, spending the night
there. This would permit them to ar
rive in Marion in the forenoon of July
4, just two years to day since MIR.
Harding returned to receive the con-
gratulations of his fellow townsmen on
his nomination. About thirty miles
from Uniontown the party was over
taken by heavy rain, and all the cars
were drawn up at the side of steep
mountain road until the first fury Of
the storm had spent itself.
Last night the camp of the marines
was drenched by the savage storm that
began early in the evening and did not
Hardings, however, were sheltered COM
fortably and were not disturbed by the
weather. This morning a Marine Corps
caterpillar tractor, normally used for
hauling artillery, extracted the White
House automobiles from the morass of
sticky clay that had been a dry park
ing place yesterday afternoon, and then
hauled the machines to Confederate
Avenue along the crest Of Seminary
Ridge.
Warren Late to Breakfast
While the machines were being put
in shape, Mrs. Harding was tucking
away q comfortable breakfast in the
mess tent. Half an hour after she sat
down, the President poked his head in
the door of the tent and his wife
greeted him with:
Warren, hurry. These hot cakes
are the best you'll ever taste"
When the President had an ample op-
portunity to confirm this statement all
of the marine regiments were marched
on to the parade ground before the
headquarters tents, and religious serv-
ices were begun by marine chaplain.
Major General Lejeune, Governor
sproul, of Pennsylvania, and Governor
Trinkle, of Virginia, and Assistant
Secretary Of the Navy Roosevelt,
stepped down from the dry hillock that
had been reserved for them and stood
in the ankle-deep mud amidst the
leather necks. Bishop Darlington, of
Harrisburg, preached the sermon and
Senator Pepper read the scripture les-
son, the story of the Centurion from
the eighth chapter of Matthew.
1t was $3.50 when the start was made,
and as President Harding waved good
BY to General Lejeune and his staff
tn first of a twenty-one-gun salute
echoed across the DaCtleneiQ Wnlcn
fifty-nine years ago to-day was the
stage of the second day of the Battle
Of Gettysburg.
"A squad Of Pennsylvania State Po-
lice, mounted on motorcycles, guarded
the progress Of the automobile cara
van as it sped along the Lincoln High
way winding through the Blue Ridge
Mountains.
Hailed by Churchgoers
At Chambersburg, Pa, which was
reached at 10:45 a. M, most of the
pastors had delayed morning services
or at least the congregations had de-
clined to enter churches-until the
President had passed through the
town. From one end of the town to
the other the street along which the
Hardings passed was lined with folks
in their go-to-meeting clothes, ar-
plauding and waving flags.
Hagerstown, Md, offered the Presi-
dent his first concrete evidence of the
industrial disturbances. A large sign
board near the station of the Western
Maryland Railroad, and intended for
the eyes Of potential strike breakers,
confronted him This read:
"Strike on the Western Maryland
Railroad. Be a man and stay away"