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Show GREAT CROWDS OELAYFUNERAL TRAirHH OHIO ThouMnds Wait With Uncovered Un-covered Head in Native SUto of Dead Chief tain . a . Train . Loses Time x BALTIMORE, Md, All 7 Th. Harding fumral trli will net rMeh Wa.hlnston nyieh bvror. midnight It. frmnt ratal progNM, In tk. .pinl.fi at .pwatlng offlelai. h. littimtn Ohi. railroad t th taMutiv. Hie hw. Thi. liaf w. baaad an tn. Maumptlon that, in dafaranee to th. wiahe. ot Mr. Harding, tha train would eon. tinua to run alewly thraugh eam-munltiaa eam-munltiaa daairing ta pay thair trib-uta trib-uta ta th. mamary f th. d.ad pro, id ant. " . . ON BOARD HARblNO FUNERAL. FUNER-AL. TRAIN AT WILXARD, Ohio. Aur. T (By A. P.) Tha body of W-rrm O. Harding eama homa to Ohio aarly today, but not to raat Btron aa la tharetalra of th. alat. Of Ohio upon tha man who wu It. moot dl.Unguiahed .on. th. nation haa a graater rT.ht and It la thl. right that will ba aiarclwd tomorrow tomor-row In th. formal funaral aarvlca. In tha capitol. . ' Tha funeral train, running far o-hlnd o-hlnd tha .ehadula outlined for It whan It loft Baa Prancteco but Friday Fri-day evening on tbo tooa-mlla trane-eontlnantal trane-eontlnantal trip, entered Ohio Juet before reachlnr Sherwood, after traveraing Indiana In tlm. that .1 molt eonetltutad a record for that portion of tha route. Deaperate af-(acta af-(acta ware mane through ike wight by railroad official. In charge or th. train to gain at leort a portion of tho time loat yreterday In iowa and Illlnol. and Chicago. It waa practically certain aarly today that tha funeral train would not reach W.shlngton at th. acheduled bour of 1:9 p. m., but bow much later tha arrival would be waa aomewhat of a quoatlon. MANY TRIBUTES PAID. Though th. trip through Iowa and Illlnola, Including Chicago, caoeed tha train to loae time on Ito aatward Journey, tha tribute paid to tho memory .f th. lata preaident throughout that paction will be told and retold for yeare to coma. E.tl-matee E.tl-matee of tho. accustomed ta gauging gaug-ing tha alaa of erowda were that mora than l.aoo.OO. peraona had wlt- nesaed th passing of tbs corteg, all with bared heads and sorrowing hearts. No chief executive of the nation, living or dead, vr received i such a trlbut. In th opinion of membr of th funeral party. j Indiana, not to b out don by her sisters to th west, paid an almost : continuous trlbut last night as th train thundered along In the darkness. dark-ness. Those who reverently wslted the passing; of the train could be distinguished by those aboard only by th light at th station platforms plat-forms and th glare of automohll light at almost every point the railroad crossed a highway. But they were there and they Were able to present their respects to the honored hon-ored dead and catch a glimpse of the flag-covered coffin wlp. Its military tfuard on th last car. CROWDS INCREASE. Knterfhg Ohio, th throng seemed to increase In aim, despite the ex treme lateness of the hour, and at th larger cltlea of Akron and Taungatown severAl thousand wer waiting to pay a final mark of re-apect re-apect to their fellow Oh loan. If th bereaved widow could bar directed di-rected th train without- regard to th other considerations, it prob-ablv prob-ablv never would have left the boundaries of Mr. Hut-ding! native state, but the consideration of th nation claim prevailed with ber approval and th train ped cn. Mrs. Harding was steeling herself her-self today as ths train hurried onward on-ward for ths scenes of sorrow and mourning in th capital Trios who had talked with her said ahe was quit prepared to go through ths forms 1 services In, ths same calm ' manner she had maintained during the trip across the country. Every-thin Every-thin will be made as eaay for her as possible and when the train ar rives In tha capital she will be escorted es-corted from the station be for the J body la taken from the train and driven to tho Whit House in advance ad-vance of the cortege. She wilt tak a route through tb quieter a treat a avoiding tb mora crowded thoroughfares, thor-oughfares, such a Pennsylvania avenue, Mr. Harding will bo acomnanled to the White House by a few or ber most Intimate friends fmm among those on board the train. The other members of ths party which ! accompanied Preaident Harding to the Pacific coast and to Alaska wlU go to the White House with the body and Its military and official offi-cial civilian escort. Floral tribute In large number continued -to be placed aboard the train today with the result that fresh blossom ever lay beside the ber. Among the wreath presented present-ed In Chicago wa one bearing th card of th grand drag-on of the realm of Illinois and tbe Initiate of the Ku Klux Klan In blue letters Ihrouah U- canter of cross. |