Show HARDING BEGINS lONG JOURNEY SPECIAL TRAIN CARRYING CHIEF AND PARTY LEAVES WASHINGTON WASH WASH- INGTON FOR WEST st St SL Louts Louie Is la First Stop Step Scheduled President Will Make Addresses From Rear of Train Voice Will Be Amplified d Washington President Harding wae on an the way Wednesday toward realization of one of the tho hopes he has bas held ever eer since he be entered the White House louse nearly Dearly two and a n half years ngo OJO go The chief chief executive has looked for forward ward practically ever since March II arch 4 1021 to the time when he could leave leae the capital long enough to visit Alaska and there study at first hand the problems which he feels are still stilt lacking the solution that will make for proper development of the terri tory That time came Wednesday with the departure from Washington of a n special train carrying Mr Harding Hard Bard In ing Mrs Harding and a party of seventy with Alaska as the ultimate The first scheduled stop atop of the presidential special is at St. St Lout Louis with a seven-hour seven visit planned for that city elty end and with the the- first of the presidents president's formal addresses there It was considered more than probable when the train left here Wednesday that the president would open the speaking portion of ot the trip with one or more rear platform addresses before before be be- fore tore arriving in St. St Louis To permit rear platform addresses to large crowds special voice amplifying amplifying am apparatus has been installed on the presidents president's special car This apparatus t will carry 1 the he voice of a speaker so 10 as to reach all in a crowd as al large as 81 persons whereas rear platform addresses addressee in the past usually have been heard only by a narrow circle about the rear of the train |