Show HARDING BEGINS LONG JOURNEY ACROSS NATION i Special Train Carrying Chief Executive anc and Party of Seventy Leaves Leave W Washington for West Wes ST. ST LOUIS IS FIRST SCHEDULED STOP President to Deliver Initial Ini mi ial Add Address ss' ss i in Missouri Missour J Tomorrow oni V Voice oice Will Be Amplified WASHINGTON June Juno 20 Pres Pres President ident Harding accompanied by Mrs Harding and a party of friends an and government officials left Washington Washing ton today on a. a special train for his hu mile 1500 trip to the tho Pacific coast and anti Alaska WASHINGTON June 20 President dent Harding was on the way today toward realization of ot on one of the hopes he has held ever since he en entered entered entered en- en the White House House Hous nearly two and ond nd a a. half halt years ears ago The chief executive h has hs s looked forward practically ever since March 4 1921 to the time when he could leave the capital tong enough to to visit Alaska laska and there study at first hand the problems problems' which he feels are are still lacking the solution that will wUl make for proper development development develop develop- ment merit of the territory That time came today with the departure from Washington of a special train carrying car car- tying Mr Harding Mrs Harding and a party of seventy with Alaska as the ultimate destination Two years ears ago this summer Mr Harding was too busily engaged In getting gotting his administration Into running running run run- ning fling order to think of making a trip to Alaska although even then he was convInced d there was ivas a problem lem b oT 01 rather a series of problems problem's there that required solution Last summer he went so far as to cOnsier con cOn- consider sider sier preliminary plans prans for su such h a trip but congress continued in session session session ses ses- sion through the summer months and he finally decided to 1 postpone the visit until this year MRS HARDING IMPROVES The president had the Alaskan trip in mind throughout the winter I but it was not until two months ago that he finally decided to t make it First there were apprehensions that Mrs Holdings Holding's health would not permit her to go and the president according to his friends never entertained en en- a thought of or going without without without with with- out her But the month spent In Florida this spring did much to restore re- re storo store Mrs Hardings Harding's health and upon returning from the South her physician gave the opinion that she could withstand the rigors of such sucha a trip as a visit tO t Alaska involves Then reports began to be spread about that the trip if ma made macic Ie was tobe tobe to tobe be more or less of a political tour and that the he president through the speeches he planned to deliver goIng goIng going go- go Ing and returning from the coast proposed to make a bid for support both for and tion These reports caused the president ent to tell callers caners shortly after atter his return from Florida that he would forego forego the trip rather than make It as a political figure re The reports subsided and the president finally decided to make the trip after atter abandoning an earlier earlier ear ear- lier her plan to return overland with speeches In favor of a a. re return return return re- re turn by water through the Panama canal and by wa way y of Porto Rico THIRD OF TRIP BY RAIL Approximately only a third of i the president trip will be made by rail raU on the ho special train of ten cars leaving here today The voyage to and from Alaska will be made on the naval transport Henderson and the voyage from San Diego Cat Cal to I New York will wUl be on two shipping board vessels The next two are ara to be spent almost altogether on the train as the presidential party will not embark for tor Alaska until Thursday July 6 5 at Tacoma Wash The first stop of t the presidential special is at St. St Louis lato lath tomorrow with a seven-hour seven visit planned for that city and with the first of or the th presidents president's formal formalI addresses there there- tomorrow night It was considered more than than- probable I when the train left here today that the president would open the tho speaking speak speak- in ing portion of the trip with wan one one or m more r rear platform addresses be before before before be- be fore arriving in St. St Louis To permit rear addresses to large crowds special ice ice-am n- n apparatus has been in installed installed Installed in- in stalled on the presidents president's special car This apparatus will carry the voice of a speaker s uS to reach Continued on olf page pageS ag 8 HARDING BEGINS I Continued from page 1 1 all in a crowd as large as 25 persons persons per per- sons ions whereas rear platform addresses addresses ad ad- dresses dresses in In the tho past usually have o been heard only by a narrow circle circle circle cir cir- cle about the tho rear of ot the train TO AMPLIFY VOICE The Tho amplifying equipment consists consists consists con con- of or three pickup microphones I held in sockets attached to the tho I railing of or the rear platform of ot the tho presidents president's private car The Tho president dent dett will not need to speak directly direct direct- ly y into any anyone one of or these theae as ns they are axe so sensitive they will receive sufficient s sound sound oven und oven even at a distance of or eight of-eight eight or oj ten feet On On top of the private car at the rear end are five e projectors through which the amplified am- am voice of or the president willbe will wille be e delivered to the audience The sound coming from the projectors will vill be about 1000 times as loud as ashe the he presidents president's voIce Itself At the various 1 largo large meetings whether Indoors or out at which the tho president will speak another form ot of f the public address amplifying system will be used Through this device the remotest seat seat seat-In In an au- au I m mOr or the most distant persons persons per per- sons ons in an outdoor crowd will be brought within clear range of ot the I speakers speaker's voice When used out of or doors the system Is Is' capable of magnifying magnifying magnifying mag mag- the speakers speaker's voice up to times and will readily carry to o several hundred thousand per- per sorts sons When installed in an nn auditorium auditorium audi- audi orium a much smaller degree of or amplification Is sufficient ALASKA TO JO CUT LOOSE I FOR PRESIDENTIAL VISIT FAIRBANKS Alaska June 20 20 Alaska today stood ready to cut loose in such a n. frenzy as has not been een witnessed sed since the tho days of or orthe the ho the gold rushes when President ent Harding larding arrives But until he does arrive Alaskans are going about their business refusing refusing re reusing re- re fusing using to get excited A large proportion of them still expect that word will come corrie any that the that the tho president has abandoned abandoned aban- aban his trip and ana will not visit them hem For moro more than half haH a a. century Alaska has been annually threat threat- ned ened with a presidential visit but golf golt or fishing has Interfered threat threat-I one prominent Alaskan told the United Press Not until until the president Is known I to o be bo on a boat bound for Alaska will Interior Alaskans program his entertaInment I Bu But when he really arrives and we know that Mr Harding is among us in the actual flesh well tho the p Po ole o- o pIc le then probably will go crazy r. crar entertain h him m plenty a |