New Britain herald., 1926-03-19
COL. COOLIDGE
 DIES AT NIGHT
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 automobile. It took the presidential
 party one hour and a half to cover
 the sixteen miles from Woodstock.
 The temperature, which dropped
 last night 10 six degrees above
 zero, climbed gradually, a warming
 sun contributing 10 comfort.
 May Return Tomorrow
 Although definite arrangements
 for the presidents return 10 Wash
 ington have not been made, it is
 likely he will return to his special
 train, which Is being held on a
 siding at Woodstock, immediately
 after the burial tomorrow. Under
 this schedule ho would be back in
 tho capital Sunday morning,
 Died Last Night
 Plymouth. Vt,, March 10 P) -- Colonel John c. Coolidge died at his home here last night while the president was hastenlng from Washington 10 his fathers bedside, As his train passed through Bridge port, Conn, on its northward jour- ney. the president was informed by telegram that he had lost his race with death.
 A long and yigllant struggle with illness and age ended last night when Colonel Coolidge, within two weeks of his Slst birthday, gave up the spark Of life after q week /. of steadily failing strength. A heart . attack early yesterday proved 10 be . the beginning of tho end. His pass ! Ing was without pain and very peaceful The president, speeding from the capital by special train nt news ot his fathers extremity, jailed by many hours of reaching his bedside before the last of the ugel mans strength tbbed.
 Friend Remains Faithful
 In tho white farm house where the president spent his boyhood q faithful guard watched through the night hours by the bier of the squire of Plymouth" Deputy Shcr- if Angus MacAulay, who acted as bodyguard for Colonel Coolidge since his health failed finally last June, remained at his post still A few of the neighbors came 10 pay their last respects, but while others came and went, MacAulay kept vigil always.
 Tho large parlor of the farm house where the cuskct was placed held many associations. A folding floor had been thrown open to in clude in one room the parlor and the little sitting room in which the colonel in August. 1923. adminis- tered inc oath to his son as ,presi- dent Of the United States. In this same room six years ago the body of the colonels wife lay in state :: while neighbors passed in silent final tribute.
 Today for the fifth time since he became the chief executive of a na- lion. Calvin Coolidge turned toward Plymouth, and of these visits three had been undertaken in circum- stances of sorrow.
 Son Died in 1924
 In the summer of 1924 the presi- dent and Mrs. Coolidge came here in order that their son Calvin might rest with his ancestors in the hillside cemetery Last June e the president was summoned has, tily from his summer home at Swampscott, Mass, when his father was to undergo an operation. Today he comes 10 find the last firm link that bound him 10 the Vermont \ hamlet broken, <
 The neighbors recall that the ss president sought to have his father go to Washington last fall and that < Colonel Coolidge refused to spend M he winter away from familiar 'aces and scenes. Almost persuaded, W he colonel at last went 10 his phy- N iician, Dr. Albert NJ. Cram. N
 Preferred Old Home Will you guarantee that if I go H 0 Washington I will be alive to kl 'cturn in the spring?" he asked K he physician. Dr. Cram could give N 10 guarantee, and Colonel Coolidge H nmaincd in wintry Plymouth, M Knowing the desperate nature of K liS malady, he arranged his affairs K tHrn to tl" preparation Of his N grave, and prepared 10 die as he tad lived among the Green noun M ain hom"toIk. N Early today the funeral ar VI engagements had not been made H 'ulIic, p"n1ins the final decision M 't The president. I At that time not even the date l D1I b",7 announced. Ncighbora E ,"licved, hoWryor that the services S 1onld he uuId in the Union meet M ng house over the way from the 1 .oolidg" home. where Colonel 4 'ooIidee Norshippol, Months ago a bc colou.l instructed Solcctman N ,zro Johnson to prepare his grave N n the c"m.tcry on the hillside.
 Career of Col. Coolidge M When Calvin Coolidge succeeded M p be presidency upon the death Of M resident IIarIms in August, 1923, !. is father John C. roolidg-. sudden 4 Y Spraug from the ohscurity of 3 uict, little Vermont town 10 na- onal prominence. Up 10 that timc he father of inc now president, al lough he had been actively inter "A ste1 in public affairs for many N ears. scarcely was known or heard N i outsid" his native slate. A Not many of the 9s mon who ere fathers of presidents lived 10 20 their sons induced into the high st puhlir oGara, and among those .ho did roIon'l Coolidge had tho N sF tv7t- f y.,A4y 41 +