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Show SORROWING MARION PAYS Fl NAIi TRj BUTE THOUSANDS SEE HARDING'S FACE FOR LAST TIME City of Silence Grieve for Famous Son; V Throughout Night Casket Lie Open "jr..'-! ' ' ". in" Marion Honife ; . . . : -. MAJUOK. O. Aus. It (By A. P.) Blow Movlnt ' thronss crowded the streets of Marion asaln today In the last public honors Warren Hardins will know before (he doors of the lvr-STOwn vault close upon '-. him. j" ' . . ' It seams that not alone Ohio bu erery surrounding ctatef from which Marlon could be yeached before be-fore the end. had sent lesion here to oaaa beside the bier ',"'' elltftt na the r"ld"t "' carried to hie rest. n",,d walk fUnked Center treat, where Tho Some ofble fathar, ah.Ur "J V the treat eon asreJn, etande behind slowtnt waU of flowers. THRONG UN WALK. o- tha north aide, down tho tree kours of darkness last night the emakat which -held him lay open in tha humble home and all were freely welcome to paa beside it nsain. Today the faee of the dead chief wae made vielble for the last time to the "boys" who knew him "the boa In the offlcaa of the Marlon Star when he sat there as editor. A few others came privately pri-vately to the casket because of their close association of their by-one by-one years with the dead. Iq the depthe ef her sreat sorrow Mra Hardins had not failed of the thousbtful kindness that haa marked mark-ed her evory action before and elnce death cam to Jaer huibtnd In San Francisco. v . ALL PAY" HONOR. &ast night it seemed that a vary man. woman and child In Marion stood ions on th shsded, quiet streets to pay this last honor to the dead. No roan knew with essoinee essoi-nee how msny thousands had walked through th modest room whar the casket lay and gased a moment on the peaceful face under the glass. There waa a hush of mourning about th dark streete despite th hundreds waiting to enter and . the other hundreds streaming slowly swsy, talking with hushed voices of the neighbor and friend whose greatness they had acclaimed. They had seanhlm In death as they had known him In life. The calm, kindly dignity that marked him In his hours ss president presi-dent remained with him even when life had ceaead. Ha was th same Warren Hsrdlng some1 Of them hsd known for year and he seemed only to eleep ss he lay there. It wae hard for them to real! that this old friend was dead. . . . The lat (lay before the tbm hall claim thae "hallowed rellca'-began rellca'-began peacefully and with no etlr of marching legions to Join In lajt honors. Here and there on the etreets walked men of the Ohio national na-tional guard, but thsy walked for ths most part unarmed and merely to see that the peace and quiet ef the eleeper waa not disturbed In thoughtlessneea. They would not so with htm to his tomb. Again today ths stir of movement move-ment of life In Marion wae huehed In honor of the dead. The great mills that surround It wot silent and deertd. No rattling traffic of commerce broke the quiet of the shady streets. On the railroads long trains came In to odd -new thousands from distant places t the throng already gathered, but no whistle blew and the clanging of the bells was stilled, CITY OF 4ILENCE. Except for tho multitude that grew hourly to fly the eldewalka with movlnt humanity, Marion waa a city of silence in her sorrow i a silence that would not be broken until the simple funeral train gathered gath-ered lata In th day to bear the dead president to the tomb that awaited him. ' Then there must com an added stir ant movement that could not be avoided: then would voices be raised in prayer or sacred melodies as th last rltee were said. But the morning hours were peaceful and calm and as un-(Contlnued un-(Contlnued on page 11.) lined stone walk that hema. a close crowded line, kept la p7ey jS?dmi, atretch.d away orblocks. The far end was down beWnd th draped courthouse and . umovea away Tom the house of aadnes Instsad of toward It. Hun-, drVoon hundred. cn. to lln the gathering every hour cams fasts' than th. slownvemnt past I th bier could absorb thsm. A .thin hsnilful seemed the line of thoej ralni from thogulet r-m around sfhich the sorrowful thought of sU ImeHcan. centlj today Thou-, sands must bo turned away te die- appointment, although houre atui f intervened before the slmpls funeral .'. train was formed. ' UNDAV CALM. I A thin base dimmed the sunlight a little In the morning hour but It f waa a bright day for all that. Th b Town bad the julet .f aJJJ bah , morning. Ih li'i!l Vrwara ana th. utter cassation from work-.- Tent tbrongt that waited on the lorth walk .f Cit.r strswt. Inch-' Inch-' Tng sWwfy eastward to the boyhood L. Zt the dead man, served to Srk ?h. nU of Bundsy calm. Other hundreds walked among the iliinv drives and many atonee 23 monuSenti" th. tMi of the died where Warren HaM wu Zen to sleep. They passed before tn. vau't ; dP rn the Ire. grown nceesee of the cemetery lo pause a mXbTror. 1U ivy clad front, wh.r. " ,,V 0f th vast freight of flowers toon too. plaoW there J. us th" o'ncrtTcd th. trlum-nhal trlum-nhal way up Mount Vsrnon avsnus fothrporch sbara th. Uad pre.l-Sini pre.l-Sini T stood proudly just a nsndful ; of hurrying month ago. HOU IN MOURNIN0, Th hous where he had lived, the - comfortable, quiet home .ported eltteen. like a "n oihere about It, was graced a ngle fist and mourning band. Th railed and covered circle abov ?h broad lawn where the --porch campaign" waa planned and carried through, wae vacant and undeco-- undeco-- rated escept for the swinging baa-keuyof baa-keuyof feme It has long known. fto tn sidewalk stood a little knot of guardsmsn to see that the strolling stroll-ing hundred, who came to view that ' atiace ef Warren Harding's great-nrtm, great-nrtm, did not block snd crowd too closelr to mar the peace and quiet r "Thls was th. dsy of the home - 'people, wbe beet knew and best loved tho man who had gone from , them to greet noes, only t come back eo soon In death. Whatever of porno and parade thers was about these last hour, before he wae carried to the grass grown vault was mad by those thousands thou-sands for themselves. No ceremo-nlal ceremo-nlal of sorrow filled the waiting houra before the funeral. Tba great ones who had left the oaree of the nation for an hour to be with their dead chief at the end did not leave thair hotels or th private homes that had tsksn them In. Around the casket, with :hc sln-gl. sln-gl. line of mon mere tiling by with soft etep snd dimmed eyea, the me- tiontess vigil of the armed men who bav ceaselessly guarded the deed through th long day and nights since his death, atlll was continued. And thus Warren Harding Hard-ing passed bis hours, among tha friends and neighbors ho loved. , MARIO!. O, Aug. It By A. J) Tbe dsy when human eyes would look their last on th face of War-ten War-ten Gamaliel Harding, twenty. - ninth pretont of the United Bute,' cavmed with many W.io loved him still waiting to pass slowly beartd the bier resting in his fatber-e horn. Before the shadows of .venlng steal across ths wide peaceful fields of the valley wlyi'e be was born the gate of his torn . -ear 111 have closed behind blm ant th long, long way of his funeral ' .nded. . In gracious kindliness ths sorrowful sor-rowful woman who longed for ths end of the public ordeal that ha. ait-etched Int. mora than a week of ceremonial and pageant that the peopit of the nation, the etate end the town that claimed him as tls f - son might testify to their grief, set aside her own wish to be alone with her dead at tha last. Throughout ' i .-' . . : ! JHGMDSSEE ' . - . - (Continued from Page I.) troubled as ths sleep of ths man Ihus honored. Another president was riding toward Marlon during these morning morn-ing houra, coming to say his farewell fare-well -to a man he loved and a chieftain chief-tain to whom, he had baaa loyally devoted m publlo servioa. Arrangs-menta Arrangs-menta for reception of tha special train bearing- President Ooolldgs from Washington had been completed com-pleted long before hla arrival, and for once the flrat coming oft ths natlonls . ciief .szscutlve to an Amrtca community would .be burked by no cheering or clsmor. Before darkness falls ths presidential presi-dential train will ba speeding over ths rails again to Washington, for ths business of stats csnnot wsit for mors thsn a brief moment of sorrow." however greet ths loss Then also will Mrs. Harding have turned back to tha dreary task before be-fore her at tha Whits House, leaving leav-ing hoc heart In tha tomb at Marlon. Ma-rlon. Eventually she will come bark to live hare, closs to her deed, as hsr plans now ars known. But tomorrow tomor-row In Washington aha faces a nsw and tsrrlbls ordeal when tha Intimate family treasures, cherished cher-ished by her dssd -husband and herself. her-self. 'must he dispersed 'to 'new surroundinga that ths msnslon can ba made ready for the now president. presi-dent. ' . - , '. -President and Mrs.' CpoHdca assured as-sured Mrs.- Harding days ago that' he might continue to consider the White House her home, but she would not hevo It ao for mors than ths brief time required to ship away tha peraonat things thst surrounded sur-rounded her there during her short time aa first lady of tha land. In her decision to lesvs for Washington immediately after ( vault had been doeed upon President Presi-dent Harding' casket, Mrs. Harding Hard-ing gsvs further proof of the dauntless courage which haa brought her the admiration of the nation In th.ee hard days of trial. Her spirit would not brook delay In faring tha task she must do. The everyday things of Ufa moat go on. however sick ths hesrt.' " a . |