Evening star., 1923-07-29
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
| ON BOARD PRESIDENT HARD
| INGS SPECIAL TRAIN. July IS
Although still confined to his bed
aboard the special train en- route from
Seattle to Yosemite National Park,
| President Harding was described to-
! night as recovering from the slight
| attack of ptomaine poisoning from
which he suffered last night and to-
| day. Brig. Gen. Charles L. Sawyer.
his personal physician, and Lieut..
Commander Joel T. Boone, medical
| assistant to Gen. Sawyer, who are
in attendance upon the chief execu-
tive, said the President was respond
ing to treatment and no complica-
tions were probable.
Suffered from Heat.
The heat had troubled the Presf-
dent somewhat during the day, Gen.
Sawyer said and from other sources
it was learned that one of the factors
| in the decision to proceed direct 10
San Francisco was the hope of Oh
| tanning cooler weather. The heat was
intense as the Presidents train ira
versed the state of Oregon and enter
| ed California.
The President and Mrs. Harding, on
arriving in San Francisco tomorrow
morning, Secretary Christian said,
will go direct to the Palace Hotel and
will spend tomorrow and Monday
resting. During these two days they
| will receive few If any callers and
participate in no functions of any
kind. Beginning Tuesday morning
they expect to go through with the
program for that day and for We'd
nesday as has been arranged, includ-
ing the address on Americas foreign
relations, to be delivered by the
President Tuesday evening at the
Auditorium. The party will leave
San Francisco Wednesday, as treaty
arranged, for Los Angeles. the trip
to the Yosemite being cut out alto
gether.
Illness Not Alarming.
Mr.. Christian said in answer to
i inquiries that the Presidents con-
dition was in no wise such as =
give cause at this time for consid-
Grafton of abandonment of the trip
] from San Diego to New York by
way of the Panama canal.
Although ptomaine poisoning re-
sulting from having eaten crab meat
| was the direct cause of the Presi-
dents indisposition, the change from
the cool weather of Alaska to the
| heat of the Pacific coast aggra-
waited his condition.
The presidential train will be run
into the Sd and Townsend streets
station at San Francisco, arriving
there at S:45 o'clock tomorrow
morning.
The day of complete rest, although
it resulted in disappointment to
thousands in dozen or SO Oregon
cities through which the presidential
train passed, was held by the two
physicians to have been of great
beaneft to Mr.. Harding. who had
been slightly indisposed for several
days since he ate something which
did not agree with him aboard the
transport Henderson just before
reaching Vancouver, British CO.
lumbia.
Secretary of the Interior Work,
q
by the President to his compartment
and instructed to explain to people
who had gathered at the railroad
stations the reasons for his inability
to appear. This was done by the
Secretary at Roseburg and later at
IGrant's Pass.
Secretary Explains.
"You should know at this point"
Secretary Work said at Grants Pass,
that 1t comes about that during our
last day at sea many of US were
attacked by a temporary indisposi-
ton. not seasickness. but due to ar
item of food put up in a can. win
not say what the item of food was.
The indisposition was temporary.
All have recovered almost completely
and the President has about recov-
lered.
Had he been able yesterday to
take care of himself he would have
been in his usual vigorous health this
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