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Show GREAT CROWDS CHEER PRESIDENT ALONG HIS ROUTE ON" BOARD PRESIDENT WILSON'S SPECIAL, TRAIN. Sept. 22. Crowds of cheering Californians greeted President Wilson at many points today as his special spe-cial train turned eastward to begin the last week's run of Us In. non-mile, journey. Long before Ih president was up in the morning his train ran through I dense throngH that had gathered at the i smaller stations in the hope that he mig:.t j come out and wave them good morning, i At Merced. Turlock and Modesto the 1 crowds llnd the track for a block on i each eirle of the station, but the train i did not stop. At Stockton, where a ten-minute stop ' was made during the forenoon, a band was out. a ppeakers' stand had ben erected near the track and a turbulent : crowd tried in vain to Induce Mr. W 11 sun to make a speech. Failing that, thy surged around the raar plat form in an effort to shake his hand, but few of them succeeded because of the swirling currents cur-rents of pushing, shouting t-nt hustusts which swept everyone back and forth irresistibly. One member of the president ia I part v got caught In the whirlpool nnd was carried car-ried back Into the center of the croud o far that t wo secret service men hud to tight their way out and resriin him. There were many children In the crowd, which i kept up such ;j (n Gf homing that, 'when Mr. Wilson lea nod over t ho ra II ! to say a word of greeting, his voir, was I scarcely audible to those nearest him. |