Evening star., 1925-09-10
PRESIDENT RETURNS
WELL RESTED BY I.
WEEKS OF VACATION
Special Train Arrives at 1:2O
Pm. After Overnight Run
From Salem.
CROWD AT UNION STATION
TO WELCOME EXECUTIVE
Officials Also Are on Hand.
President Is Facing Well
Filled Program.

President Coolidge came back to
Washington and an abundance of
work today, smiling and visibly i'm
proved in health, by his eleven-week
sojourn in the cooler climate OF
Swampscott. With him was Mrs.
Coolidge, attractively tanned by the
healthy outdoor life she led on the
Massachusetts coast.
Union Station was lined with a
crowd of close to 1000 spectators
when the President stepped from his
train, and he was not spared the
ordeal of submitting to the orders OF
score of camera men.
The first person to greet the Presi
dent and Mrs. Coolidge was Sec -etary
of State Kellogg. The two shook
hands heartily and the President,
gripping the gray-haired Secretary OF
State by the arm, asked: How are
you, Mr.. Secretary? I am glad to
see you"
Secretary of Commerce Hoover was
then greeted by Mr.. Coolidge and Un-
dersecretary of State Grew, who COM
pleted the official reception party,
presented his compliments.
The train from Swampscott rolled
into its shed here exactly at 1:20. on
time to the minute. Long before,
began to arrive and ii was soon neces-
sary for the police to stretch the lines
across the concourse to the Presi-
dents entrance:
Along the entire concourse the
crowds were banked 5 and deep, and
as the President walked through to
his waiting car he was cheered and
applauded
Mrs. Coolidge seemed delighted to
q % he
tirely in black, and a small black hat
with big bow on the side, served to
bring out strongly the sunburn she
acquired up North.
Mrs. Coolidge Happy.
She greeted the score or more of
friends and newspaper men, the only
ones permitted down 10 the train,
vivaciously. AS 1.-The presidential
party walked slowly up the platform,
after having been in the hands of the
dictatorial photographers for a full
Il minutes, the members of the train
crew stepped to the doors Of their
cars. and shouted good-byes.
The President returned each, and as
he passed the putting locomotive he
doffed his hat 70 the grimy engineer
and firemen who stood on their tender
TO see their celebrate passengers pass
Mrs. Coolidge turned and waved a
little white handkerchief at them and
all three men snatched their black
ened caps from their heads and grin
ned.
There was no ceremony to mark the
return of the President. The atmos-
phere of his meeting with old friends
seemed to be one of biase expectancy,
Washington seeming to take it for
granted that this is now the Cool.
tdges' home and that they should be
tickled to death to get back.
Be it said for both that they acted
the part well and as the President
sank back into the cushions Of one OF
the White House nmousines he ac-
tualfy sighed as though in relief.
Great Precautions Taken.
Extraordinary precautions were
taken by the police to guard the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Coolidge. Their train
was brought in on the nearest track to
the Presidents entrance, and the next
four tracks were kept entirely clear
so there would be no chance for out
going or incoming passengers to jos
tie In and out.
Admission beyond the gates was only
by card and then after a careful scru-
tiny.
The President made no remarks 9TH
er than those of greeting to the recep-
ton party.
Once, however, after he had cor
daily shaken the Secretary of State
by the hand, photographer who had
missed the important operation yelled
out: do that again, Mr.. President,
please. The President smiled broad
ly. and the crowd laughed out loud,
and then Mr.. Coolidge said, mo, I
think that's enough" and thereupon
ended the barrage of sensitized photo
graphic plates and endless yards Of
movie films
The party then moved Immediately
TO the waiting cars. Even outside
the station, where the sun and a
sitting humidity made life seem too
much, large crowd waited patiently
for more than an hour.
AS Mr.. Coolidge and his party ap-
peared it cheered with a vim and
scores of persons tried to run beside
the automobile as far as Columbus
Monument until Secret Service men
and police waved them back. The
President and Mrs. Coolidge. accom-
panied only by the official reception
committee. then moved off quickly
10 the White House, taking the usual
route through the Capitol grounds.
Many Problems Up.
The Presidents first general round.
up of administration problems after
the summer lnterlude VIII take place
as at cabinet meeting tomorrow morn
ing Secretaries Mellon and Davis
had beaten their chief back to Wash
ington by only few hours, and were
putting in a long day at their desks.
The former was wrestling with
tax-reduction plan, and the latter was
gathering information about the an
thracite suspension to lay before the
President. In the ofing Acting Secre.
tary Davis of the War Department
was scratching his official head over
the behavior of Col. William Mitchell
If any of these things troubled the
equanimity of the President, he con-
cealed II completely.
Surnames Ordered for Turks.