Show HARDING PARTY S WElCOMED AT ST. ST AUGUSTINE President Concludes His Houseboat Cruise Along Florida Coast Receives Enthusiastic Reception ST. ST AUGUSTINE Fla March larch 24 2 By Dy A. A P. P P. Concluding Concluding their houseboat houseboat houseboat house house- boat cruise along the Florida east coast President and Mrs Mra Harding and their vacation companions arrived ar- ar arrived arrived ar ar- rived In St. St Augustine lato late today and received reception reception reception recep recep- tion from hundreds of ot old friends The people of St. St t. t Augustine know the president anti aira his wife perhaps more Intimately than tho the people of oC any other city In the United States except Marion Marlon 0 O. for the Hardings have been coming to this old Spanish Spanish Span Span- ish Lab founded city for nearly twenty years fears For that reason the arrival of Df the presidential party here differed dir dif from that at the various other east tast coast cities visited It seemed like something of ot a homecoming Several thousand lined the seawall seawall sea sea- wall traIl within a few after arter the presidential houseboat the Pioneer was sighted coming up Matanzas bay while a hundred o OJ or so 80 had kept a a. patient watch during the afternoon Even the band was there to play playas as the Pioneer docked Mr and ana Mrs Harding recognized a number of old friends inthe the crowd that pressed around their automobile automo automo- bile bUe and lined the streets leading to the time Hotel Ponce de Leon where the party will ivill stay for a week before before before be be- fore leaving Florida These the president and his wife v-wife greeted warm warmly Arriving at the hotel the chief executive and Mrs Harding were formallY welcomed by the governOr governor governor gov gov- of ot Florida and Mrs Hardee who had come come over from see I IA A previous welcome had been ex extended extended ex- ex exI I tended at Jacksonville by a committee com corn mitten reporting the governor gov on March when the presidential party party party par par- ty entered the state PRESIDENT ON DECK The Pion Pioneer er arrived much later than had been expected it being behig 5 15 o'clock when she drew up to the dock It required twenty minutes min mm- utes to get her around so so that a gangplank could be put out and during this time the president and Mrs Harding stood on the deck watching the operations The de delayed delayed delayed de- de arrival was wat due toa to to a late start tod today Y The week to be spent here Is expected to be much like the previous previous ous eighteen days the president and his party have spent ln n Florida quiet and restful The executive will not be able to secure the se seclusion seclusion se- se elusion here that has marked the houseboat t trip which took him from Ormond to Miami and backup back backup backup up the coast to this city but arrangements arrangements ar ar- ar- ar have been made to assure as assure assure as- as sure a continuation of ot the rest and recreation A game of golf will be bethe bet bethe t the e principal feature of his daily daily- program Several administration officials I including Attorney General Daugherty Daugherty Daugh Daugh- erty will join the party here and I the president on his arrival found Fred member of or the war finance corporation and one of ot the most prominent In his tion and election in 1920 awaiting I him Jt would not be surprising If 11 the president and Mr had a apolitical apolitical apolitical political conference conference- during the next few days CONFERENCE HELP Another administration official who met the Harding g party part here was Walter C. C Brown rown chairman of the joint v congressional committee on department reorganization Mr I Brown also was prominent In the Harding campaign of ot 1920 1020 and it is I fair to assume that politics entered somewhat into a conference he had with the president tonight Tho The conference however dealt I primarily with the he work of reorganizing reorganizing reorganizing izing the administrative machinery I of ot the government with which task Mr Brown has has been been occupied for I more than eighteen months and I with respect to which he recently presented a tentative report to the full committee Hearings on the tentative reorganization plan will willbe willbe be e held soon after congress convenes convenes convenes con con- venes next December Mr Brown said adding that It was was- hoped by bythe bythe bythe the president that the reorganization tion scheme might be made effective effective tive at the coming session of ot con con- gress |