Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-03
AUGUSTA GREETS 4
PRESIDENT SUNDAY;
FUNCTIONS BARRED
Health Of Hardings Greatly
Improved by Florida Trip.
Weeks Rest in Georgia TO
End Vacation Il

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early hour Sunday morning the spe.
| cial train bearing President IIar.
ding and his official party slipped
quietly into the Union Station here,
A committee of five Augustians,
Mayor Julian M. Smith, Joseph B.
Cumming, George r. Lombard, s.
H. Cohen and Spencer l.. Hart greet
ed the president when he was ready
to leave his car, welcoming him to
the city, and escorting the entire
party to: waiting automobiles, which
carried them direct to the Pom
Air Vanderbilt for breakfast.
This program was the sum total OF
entertainment arranged for the presi-
dent, in keeping with the PERSONAL
request of President Harding, made
to Secretary Spencer L.. Hart, of the
board of commerce, who waited
upon the president at ST. Angus.
tine few days ago. The presi-
dent and Mrs. Harding will be left
alone" and permitted to enjoy week
| Of quiet rest and recreation here. IL
| the president desires to attend any
| public function of any kind while
in Augusta, that fact will be COM
to the local entertainment commit.
| tee. In other words. the president
himself will be the judge as to the
entertainment accorded him. J. M.
Haley, the presidents personal rep
resentative, who travels ahead of the
party to arrange hotel and other ac-
corLmodations, reiterated the presl.
deLt's desire not to be disturbed.
AS to other members Of the presi-
dents party, including senators,
railway officials and newspaper cor
RESPONDENTS, an elaborate program
ct entertainmept emhracfA4 each
day of the week, has been prerarc1
for them.
The program begins Monday
! morning with barbecue at Car
nichaePs club, and in the afternoon
the party will attend a barbecue at
the club, to be given by the Elks.
l Tuesday the visitors win be the
guests of the Rotary club at din"
ner. Wednesday the program calls
for an automobile ride over the city
and county, and on Thursday the
Kiwanis club will tender thea "a
barbecue at Carmichaers. Friday
night the program is completed with
an elaborate banquet at the Par
fridge inn, which will be stag ar
fair, and for which the best local
talent is preparing an amateur Vau'
deville performance.
The presidential party proper Il
composed of the following, not in
GLIDING the men of national note
who will join the party here and
! who are already in Augusta.
President and Mrs. Harding, Mr..
and Mrs. George B. Christian, DIR.
Charles e. Sawyer, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward B. Mclean and children.
Senator Frelinghuysen, Senator
Hale. Albert D. Lasker, Reeve
Schley, e. r. BARLEY, of the AS
ISOLATED Press; George r. Holmes,
International News Service; +. s.
Rousa, Universal Service; Harry N.
Price, Washington Post; Ralph A.
Collins, New York Herald Samuel
T. Williamson, New York Times:
Glenn l. Tucker, New York World;
X. w. Fassold. Pathe News pho
| tographer;. l.. c. Martin, United
! Press; George p. James, assistant
general passenger agent of the At
lantic Coast Line.
Among the prominent visitors at
the Bon Air, Vanderbilt and Par
fridge mp who welcomed the
president upon his arrival here are
the following:
F. Fl. Gillette, speaker of the
house; Gilbert M. Hitchcock, former
senator; Ansley Wilcox, Nicholas
Murray Butler, Charles BROKER,
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Ramsdell Charles II. Hilles, Watson
Marshall, Burton White.
HEALTH OF PRESIDENT
AND WIFE IMPROVED
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, March 81.
Rested and improved greatly in
health, President and Mrs. Harding
tonight brought their Florida vaca-
ton to an end, departing by special
train for Augusta, Ga, to spend
another week before returning to
Washington.
Those who saw the president and
his wife step from a train 20 days
ago at Ormond and who also saw
them board the train here tonight
| could not but see plainly the bene-
fits derived from vacation spent in
warm Florida sunshine, away from
the cares of Washington and with
out schedules or any firmly estab-
lished routine.
The president, through the open
life of the houseboat trip and the
ed bv the Florida sun and, in the
words Of a member of the party,
"has improved 100 per cent"
Mrs. Harding, who left the White
House for the first time since her
fitness of last fall when she boarded
| the train to Florida March, 5, has
been recuperating rapidly. and dur,
ing the week spent here in st. Angus.
tine, where she has appeared in pub.
lie a number Of times, she has sur
prised old friends by her improved
condition.
| Members of the party ascribe the
benefits derived by the president and
Mrs. Harding during the more than
! three weeks spent in Florida to tho
fact that their whole thought has
been, as they put it, ''to play"