Evening star., 1924-12-06
PRESIDENT BUSY
AFTER SHORT TRIP
Coolidge Is Well Pleased With
His Visit to Middle
West.

President Coolidge was at his desk
shortly before o'clock this morning
visibly benefited by his brief trip to
Chicago. The change and the long rest
afforded by the ride to and from Chi
2ago appeared to agree with him.
When he reached his Office today it
was evident that he was eager to
mulated during his short absence,
and to go through with the long list
OF engagements scheduled for the day.
The President and Mrs. Coolidge
and those who accompanied them on
this trip arrived in Washington last
night at o'clock, According to
friends with whom he discussed his
trip since his return, the President
was unquestionably well pleased with
his economy experiment in the use of
regular railroad trains and the or
dinary railroads accommodations
rather than the special trains or pri
vate cars, such as have been used
by him and his predecessors in the
past.
So we'll satisfied was the President
with this mode of travel that 1t would
not surprise his friends il, on all
future trips away from Washington,
Mr.. Coolidge should choose to travel
as he did on this trip. He and Mrs.
Coolidge occupied a drawing room on
a regular train and ate their meals
in the regular diner. At breakfast
yesterday he discounted the dining
car steward with one of his dry bits
of humor. That official appeared near
the end of the meal to inquire if the
President and the First Lady found the
coffee to their liking.
Jokes With steward.
"It was delicious" replied Mrs. Cool
idge. smilingly; whereupon. the Pres
ldent, with solemn face, asked:
why, did you think there was
something wrong with tt?'
The train made only few stops
during the day and at only one of
these - -Connellsyille, Pa. had a
crowd gathered to greet the Presi
dent. The same town had given him
a greeting on his westward trip, and
yesterday there was gathering of
several hundred at the station with a
band and a basket of flowers, Both
the President and Mrs. Coolidge left
the luncheon table to acknowledge
the greeting from the rear platform.
The former shook hands with sew
eral members of the band and thank
ed them for their music.
When the basket OF flowers was
handed UP, a man In the gathering
stepped forward to explain;
"Mr. President, we want you to
know that these flowers are from a
girls musical organisation and that
these girls persuaded a lot of Demo-
Gratis to vote for YOU"
Others Were Doing 1t.
"Well, guess somebody did q good
deal OF that sort of work." the Presi-
dent replied, with a faint smile.
The days rest appeared to have
brought complete recovery to the
President from the nasal irritation
which resulted from dust in the pa
vilion where he inspected the cham
pions of the International Live Stock
Exposition.
Whether any of the dozen or SO
conferences the President held while
in Chicago had anything to do with
the task Of cabinet building he soon
must undertake was not made known
by any members of the party that re-
turned with him. He spent some
time in conference with former Gov.
Frank o. Lowden of Illinois. who
is known to be held In high esteem
by the President. The former Illi-
mods Governor, however, declined a
place in the Harding cabinet. notified
at Cleveland he could not accept the
at Cleveiad he could not accept the
vice presidential nomination it had
given him, and recently announced
he did not desire to be considered
for tho vacancy, in the cabinet re-
sulting from the death of Secretary
Wallace.
Visit With strawz-
Silas Fl. Strawn, one of Chicago's
leading attorneys, also talked with
the President yesterday. and had .
large part In making the arrange
meHts for the. Executives. visit. ME-.