The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-08-06
PEOPLE WAIT
FAR IN NIGHT
TOSEE TRAIN
Thousands Gather at Omaha
in Early Hours of Morning
10 Pay President Tribute
TRAIN IN CHICAGO
Funeral Train Reaches There
at $3.50 This Afternoon,
Passes to Washington
TRAIN IN CHICAGO
(By the Associated Press)

On Board the Harding Funeral
Train at Omaha, Neb,. Aug. 6.-The
trans Missouri west has paid it's
final tribute to the memory of War
rem G. Harding and the east was
given its first opportunity today as
the funeral train bearing as body
from San Francisco to Washington
sped steadily toward the National
Capitol.
As eloquent, simple and impressive
as were the tributes of the western
states traverscd, those manifested by
the people eastward from the Mis-
souri river along the railway line to
Chicago showed plainly the love and
affection of the section Of the coun-
try for the man who was until last
Thursday evening their chief execu-
tive. It was only because of the in
creased population of the state trav-
cled today that the groups of per-
sons who have stood mourning along
the steel trail since the train left
the Golden Gate City appeared in
larger numbers and at more frequent
intervals. Their manner of tribute
was but that of the smaller gather
ings seen in the western stretches at
every ranch, mining camp, railroad
station or center Of greater habita-
tion and the effect of none was lost
by the woman who journeyed with
the dead in the last hour and who
still resisted bravely against any out
ward sign Of surrender to her sor-
rows.
Through Iowa4 and Illinsis.
The route followed today led
through the states Of Iowa and Illi-
nois, beginning at Council Bluffs and
through Dennison, Herald.
Boone, Ames, Marshalltown, Cedar
Rapids and Clinton, Iowa, and Sterl-
ing, Dixon and DeKalb, ILL., to Chi
cago.
Arrival within the city limits of
was scheduled for $3.50 p. m.
Central standard time) and after a
short pause there the train will speed
onward around Lake Michigan and
through Indiana.
Though it WAS in the early hours
this morning when the funeral train
reached Omaha there were thousands
OF persons who had kept watch for
it and who like the other gatherings
passed elsewhere since Friday even
ing when the train drew ont of San
Francisco, would not permit a time
factor to prevent them from making
thor offerings of resrnct tn the dead
and of sympathy to Mrs. Harding
Many Floral Offerings.
In Omaha, as in the other places
where stops were made forar pieces
also were offered, thus making it pos !
'ible to those attending such affairs |
in the train to keep the bier always !
decorated with flowers.
Omaha was represented by about |
10000 Of its citizens with bowed and
cared heads as the special pulled into
Union Station at 1853 o'clock this :
morning. Thousands were unable to
,et past the iron gates separating the
station waiting room from the tracks
'ut they peered eagerly through the
enclosure while thousands Of others
'tood by on nearby elevated streets
Until the train pulled out at 1929
!. m.
This is wonderful-wonderful," de-
Jared George Christian, secretary to
he departed president as he alighted
rom the train. "Who would expect
0 see such a large crowd gathered
Q show their sympathy and love at
his hour of the day?"