Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-07
HARDING S BROTHER
ON SPECIAL TRAIN :
SPEEDING To WEST
General Sawyef'S Son Also
to Meet Funeral Party
ThrongS Along Route Hon.
or Memory of President

CHICAGO, Aug. 6.-(By the Asso-
GATED ress.)-Riding in a special
train, DIR. George Z. Harding, broth
er of the late president; DR.. Carl w.
Sawyer, and one other man from
Marion, Ohio, accompanied by w.
H. Finley, president of the Chicago
and Northwestern railroad, left Chi.
cago at approximately 10 a. m, cen
trail standard time, today to meet
the Harding funeral train.
At the time the funeral train
was approaching Cedar Rapids, Ia,
having passed Beverly, Ia, ten min
utes distance at 9:5S a. m, central
standard time. At that hour the
funeral train, which left Omaha
about one hour late, and had ira
versed half the distance between
Omaha and Chicago, had made up
fully thirty minutes of the time lost
by engine trouble before reaching
Omaha.
DR.. Harding. Jr., and DIR. Sawyer,
son of Brigadier General Sawyer,
the presidents personal physician,
scarcely appeared until they were
whisked aboard the westbound spe-
clal and were off.
Railroad officials were uncertain
exactly where they would meet the
funeral train, but President Finley,
of the Chicago and Northwestern
railroad, who arranged for the train
and accompanied the Marion men,
directed that it proceed as far as
possible.
Skies were clear and the train was
fine time, railroad advices
from Belle PLANE, Ia, and surround.
ing territory stated.
In Chicas o, where a downpour &C.
Cured this morning, the skies still
were partly. overcast, and weather
foreca SITS indicated the possibility
OF more rain today or tonight.
Running Time Slowed
The running time of the train from
Cedar Rapids, Ia, eastward, was or
dered slowed down by Colonel Walter
V. Shipley, division passenger agent
Of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
at Washington, who is in charge of
the train. He believed that OH &C.
count of the crowds at the railway
stations, the speed of the funeral
train should be reduced. This led
railroad operating officials to esti-
mate that the train would not make
up further lost time, but would
reach Chicago about 80 minutes
ate, or approximately 3:45 y. H.,
central standard time.
81 The westbound special carrying
DIR. George T.. Harding, Jr., and his
from Marion, was ex,
oected to meet the funeral train at
Dixon. Or Sterling, Ills, according to
e. Terpening, assistant general
Of the Chicago and
railway.
FUNERAL TRAIN SPEEDS
STEADILY TOWARD CAPITAL
ON BOARD, HARDING FUNER-
III TRAIN, Neb.. Aug. 6.-(By the
Associated Press.)-The trans Mis-
curl west has paid it's final tribute
o the memory Of Warren G. Har-
ling and the east was given it's first
today as the funeral
rain bearing his body from San
Francisco to Washington sped stead
ly towards the national capital.
AS eloquent and silent and impress
i've as were the tributes of the west
m states traversed, those manifest
ID by the people eastward from the
Missouri river along the railway line
o Chicago showed plainly the love
md affection of the section of the
country for the man who was until
asst Thursday evening their chief
Executive.
Crowds Increase
1t was only because OF the in-
reased population of the states ira
'ersed today that the groups Of per
ons who have stood mourning along
he steel trail since the train left
he Golden Gate city appeared in
anger numbers and at more frequent
intervals. Their manner of tribute
vas but that of the smaller gather
ngs seen in the western stretches at
very ranch, mining camp, railroad
tation or center Of greater habita
ion, and the effect Of none was lost
~ the woman who journeyed with
he dead in the last car and who
still resisted bravely against any
sign Of surrender to her
orrows.
The route followed today led
through Iowa and Illinois.
Arrival within the city limits of
chicago was scheduled for $3.50 p. m.
central standard time), and after
hort pause there the train will
peed onward around the tip Of Lake
Michigan and through Indiana.
Though it was in the early hours
his morning when the funeral train
cached Omaha there were thousands
# persons who had kept watch for
or it and who, like the other gath
1rings at points passed everywhere
since Friday evening when the train
rev out of San Francisco, would
lot permit a time factor to prevent
hem from making their Offering Of
respect to the dead and of sympathy
% Mrs. Harding.
In Omaha as in the other places
where stops were made, floral pieces
also were offered thus making it pos
;ible for those attending to such af-
'airs on the train to keep the bier
always decorated with fresh flow
ers.
The train passed through Jeffer-
son, Iowa, at 6:20 this morning, near
y one hour behind it's schedule.
Accident to Engine
The train was somewhat late in
Omaha because OF the storms and
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