New Britain herald., 1923-08-09
ALL HONORS GIVEN
TO LATE PRESIDENT
Washington Now Gives Remains
Back to His Native State
BY The Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 9.-Laden with
all the honors the American people
could hestow, the nation yesterday
gave Warren G. Harding back to
Ohio.
Yesterday while republic mourn
ed at his bier, the great government
of which he was head performed
funeral ceremonies such as are re-
Served for departed presidents.
Tomorrow, in the shaded quiet of a
grassy slope, Marion, Ohio, will en-
tomb citizens, the fifth son of Ohio
brought home from the presidency
to rest.
For at the express command of his
heroic widow there will be in Marion
none of the solemn and impressive
display with which nations entomb
their chief magistrates.
The picture in the great vaulted
dome of the capitol where the shades
of the nations other great dead look
ed down on the solemn ceremony will
give way to a simple scene in the
Marion cemetery which will commit
Warren Harding to the tomb like
other native sons before him.
Leaves Capitol Forever
Warren Harding left Washington
forever last night; and today he will
be back among the home, folks he
loved SO well, to remain until judg
ment.
The same train which bore him
away from the capitol confident and
well few short weeks ago and then
4 III ~l,o -L
nony a figure of history departed
from Washington at six o'clock last
night for the last part of its sorrow
full journey Immediately afterward
it wtlhbe dissembled and never run as
enc train again.
Tonight another train bearing a |
president westward will roll out of |
fhe capital: but 1t will not take Calvin |
Coolidge to represent at Marion the
government over which he now pre-
sides. He will go, rather, to pay the |
homage of a plain American at the |
tomb of a fallen chieftain, and to give
expression to his personal sorrow over
the loss of dead friend. At yester-
days funeral ceremonies his was
among the most solemn of the many
solemn faces in the great procession I
of woe that passed up Pennsylvania
avenue. For to know Warren Hard
ing we'll was to love him. ana Calvin
Coolidge had come thus to know and
love him through months of close as
ISOLATION.
But among all of those in the sor-
rowful caravan of yesterday the one
that will linger longest among the
memories Of that sad day is not Presi-
dent Coolidge: nor Woodrow Wilson,
nor William Howard Taft, although
they too ride behind the flag en-
shruded casket with a full under
standing of the tragedy which had
taken place in the life of one who had
planned and aspired to great things.
%a Widow Bears Up Well
All three of these will be remember
ed long as notable figures in a no.
table outpouring of a nations grief.
but the one who will be remembered
even longer is Mrs. Harding who had
done much to make Warren Harding
the leader he became, and on whom
The blow had fallen with rushing
swiftness, not to be compared to the
pain felt by any other.
The presidents widow through all
the trying ordeal had made good her
anguished promise spoken to those
about her when, at the moment death
closed her husbands eyes, she said:
IT am not going to break down;
/ simply mustn't; l won't break
town. 49,
! All through yesterday when thous- ,
lnds who claimed him only as presi-
lent, failed to choke back their tears, l
;he, who knew him as a husband, had
;tifed the outward signs of grief. She
vat by his coffin with a fortitude that
Won her the love and sympathy of
everyone, determined to lay him in
lis tomb among his townsmen with
he calm she feels is due him. S
That last sad duty performed. Mrs.
Harding plans to return to Washing
on to gather up the Harding home
hings in the White House and then
70 back to take her place again in
Iarion, among the home folks, and f.
lear the last resting place Of her be- !,
owed dead. e.