Evening star., 1923-08-09
Thousands Pouring
Into Little City
for Final Rites.
FRIENDS TO VIEW
DEAD CHIEF TO-DAY
Services at Cemetery To-
morrow to Be Simple
and Private.
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
| MARION, Ohio. August s.-His home
! town of Marion awoke today. eagerly
awaiting the arrival of the funeral
train beaping back to Ohio for eternal
rest the body Of Warren G. Harding.
| The train, with the body of the dead
President, due to arrive here at 10 am.
| central standard time, preparatory to
| the final funeral services tomorrow
that will be in direct contrast to the
official services held yesterday In the
Capitol at Washington, was two hours
! late
The elaborate services yesterday
were for Warren G.. Harding. President
| of the United States; the simple serv-
! ices here tomorrow will be for Warren
G. Harding, citizen, friend, neighbor-
and husband
Rites to Be Brief.
For two days. his friends and neigh
bors will accord the late President the
| customary funeral rites of the small
towns of the middle west, and then,
with strict simplicity, will accompany
Mrs. Harding and the body to the cem-
etery, where it will be entombed to-
| morrow afternoon.
The only funeral services here will
| be at the cemetery, and they will be
| extremely brief and simple, in ac-
cordance with the wishes Of Mrs,
Harding.
! Only relatives and intimate friends
| Will make up the small party going
| TO the cemetery. Even new spaper men
will be excluded from the services at
the tomb.
Comm to Go to Fathers Home.
When the funeral train arrives here
the coffin Will be taken mmediately
to the home of the dead Presidents
father. Dr. George T. Harding, in
East Center street The trip from the
station to the fathers home will be
made in hearse. not on military
caisson, as yesterday in Washington.
At his fathers home the body Will
lie in private until this afternoon.
From then until 10 o'clock tonight the
public will be permitted to gaze upon
he kindly face of the former Marion
newspaper publisher. who became
Chief Executive of his country.
Last View Tomorrow.
Again tomorrow, from 9 am. until
1 pm, the public will have a last op-
portunity to pass by the bier of Mr..
Harding. At 9 o'clock the funeral
procession will form for the journey
to the cemetery. and at O'Clock. the
body of Warren G. Harding will be
laid at rest. 1t will be placed in
receiving vault until suitable
mausoleum can be erected.
Only members of the intimate party
that made the trip to Alaska with
President Harding are aboard the
funeral train. Cabinet Members
Hoover, Work and Daugherty are in
cIuded in the party.
President Coolidge, members of the
hi icrh arr1r 1aT1f
officials who as private citizens will
attend the funeral services here viii
arrive tomorrow at IL am. on another
special train. 1t was Mrs. Harding
wish, and her wish Is law In her
home town.
No Ceremony Tomorrow.
In today's funeral procession from
the station to the Harding home. and
in the last journey tomorrow, from
the home to the cemetery, there VIII
not be heard the tramping feet of
soldiers; no civic or other organlza-
tions will be in line. Only the family
and intimate friends will directly fol-
low the hearSe.
Mrs. Harding's desire for a simple
private funeral for her husband re-
suited today in the cancellation OF
plans for Ohio newspaper publishers
members of the Associated ONO
Dailies, in which Mr.. Harding was
an active worker-to march In the
procession as q body.
Although there will be no military
escort either today or tomorrow, 5000
Ohio National Guard troops today
patrolled the streets of Marion. keep
! ing back the huge crowds of Ohioans
and people from other states who
came to pay their last respects to
| their dead chief.
Crowded to Overlooking.
Marion was crowded to overfiowing
this morning and other countless
thousands were blackening the high
| ways leading into the city. So great
was the crush that state authorities
stationed patrols along the main
roads to prevent speeding and con-
sequent injuries or loss of life. 1t
! was estimated that more than 100000
,, people will be here before nightfall.
Hundreds of Marion residents today
opened their homes to care for the
many visitors who could not find
hotel quarters. Many motorists came
prepared with tents and camping
outfits.
Business will practically be at a
standstill in Marion today and to-
morrow. The whole city plans to give
itself up to deep mourning. On some
streets near the Harding home, the
cemetery and the old home made IA
nous by the front porch campaign
the only activities of a usual nature
will be the deliveries Of milk and ice.
Star to suspend for Day.
The Marion Star, the newspaper
that until recently was owned and
published by President Harding, will
suspend publication tomorrow in or
der that its employees may attend the
funeral services and pay their last
respects to their chief"
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