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MONDAY. FEBRUARY 28, 192T.
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Grand Rapids, Mich.His story begins
at the point where the Michigan Cen-
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down by Jefferson. WeathetPalone"has
prevented or hindered this national
number of those sustaining serious in-
juries, as they were rused to Michigan
City and Gary by different groups of
volunteers in automobiles and ambu-
lances.
The heavy death toll. It was believed,
made it doubtful if more than a score
had been seriously hurt, according
to railroad officials, as only the pas-
sengers in the two roaches received the
shock of the speeding New York Cen-
tral train.
The engine of the New York Central
burst through the wooden coaches with
such force that It whiled half around,
far down the track. and the small
blaze which started in the wreckage
was quickly subdued.
Within a short time lights in the
upright coaches of both trains were
turned on again from an emergency
connection and any semblance of pan is
among the uninjured was allayed,
white the unhurt ministered to those
hurled from their seats but still living.
panarea for hundreds of years. It believes
that it has demonstrated its effectiveness.
The United States, however, has never
taken this leaf out of the book of the other
American republics. She might do so with
For no reason that railroad officials
could assign, almost all of the dead
taken to the little morgue at Chester-
ton. across the tracks from Porter, re-
ceived their fatal wounds in the head.
Some were decapitated, accounting for
the failure to identify nine of the twen-
ty-five which had been taken there up
to 6 o’clock.
The group of those critically injured
were rushed in an ambulance to Michi-
gan City, Ind., and two of them died on
the way. Railroad officials expressed
the belief early today that all of the
approached that it earried a placard at the
front which read "Complete." This meana
that it is filled. An American woute watch
it pass with surprise, for there would be no
rat lordot President-elect Harding will
mark the first awing of ceremontes
toward simplicity since Thomas Jerter-
son toiled up Capitol Hill afoot ill
year ago.
The ceremony of administering th.
oath will be aa it was prescribed by
George Washington. There will be no
By Associated Pres.
ON BOARD PRESIDENT-ELECT
HARDINGs SPFCIAL TRAIN, Feb
28.-With his preparations for the
launching of his admintstration about
complete. President-elect Harding wan
on his way back to Marion today to
receive a formal farewell from his home
.town before entering the White Home
The president-elect's special train,
which left Ht Augustine, Hla. lasi
night, la to reach Cincinnatt this even-
ing and Marion tomorrow morning.
Tanned by five weeka under the
Florida sun, the president-elect la re-
turning northward apparently in much
better physical trim than he was when
he left Ohio. Not only atd he have two
weeka of complete rent during his
houseboat trip. but he has since spent
a part of practically every day on the
«olf links at St. Augustine, 1nststing
on outdoor exercise even in the but-
cal period when hla cabinet selections
were reaching consummation.
speed. From one side I heard a blast
of a whistle. I looked out. There was
another train bearing down on us at
full speed.
"I couldn't move. I tried to open the
door into the day coach to shout to the
people inside. My hand refused to
function.
“It perhaps wasn't more than 10 sec-
onda between the time I saw that train
and the moment it hla us. It was ten
years to me
"The light from the headlight of the
approaching train made everything ■■
bright aa day where I stood. J thought
I was surely going to be killed.
“Aa I stood I could see into the day
coach. On the side the New York Cen-
tral train was approaching I could see
that other passengera had seen the
passed him and he were left ■landing on the
comer for fifteen minutes he had recourse.
He weald write a letter to the proper munio-
ipal authority stating the circuunstances.
That authority would investigate, would
write a note to the street car company. I*
would call its attention to the tart that a
eitizen had been forced tc stand on the cor-
ner for fifteen minutes because all the can
passing vere teompleto.’ The street ear
company would please put another car on
that Une.
"Then la much satistaction in business
relations with Latin Americana. In the
storm there ia but one pries. Than is none
of the Europeen custom of bargaining. There
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train. A woman jumped from her
seat. She held a little girl -looked as
though she was about 8 or 9 years oid-
to her breast. Men jumped up—one
even started for the door where I waa
standing.
"When suddenly the side of the car
buckled in. My last conscious impres-
sion was of everything dissolving in
front of me. I rememoer seeing the
nose of the engine. I remember the
lights in the car going out I remem-
ber hearing a scream that I'll never
forget And then came darkness.
, .. . , PORTER, Ind., Feb. 28.—Edward
caped, climbing down from their cars Flerke, who stood on the platform of
"hronek the wreekave the day coach. Just a f the
chaq«e in its utter simplicity, but Mr.
Harding by his own decision will entr
upob his great task without the pomp
idparade that have increasingly sur-
utded that solemn moment aa the
are went by. Not even the “galvos
arillery" that heralded the dawn of
Jerfefgon’s inauguration day will wake
the sleeping echoes along the Potomec
next Friday.
Without formal ceremony other then
private ndmimintration of hla oath of
oftlrw Tyler, at his home in Wash
. ringle individtunt standinz in the stole. Every-
body would be comfortably meated, but bH
the eeats would be taken. It was "eom-
pleto." It would take on no other pas-
sen gers.
"The South American would took at his
watch. He would hold up his finger to the
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angle of the investigation. An official
statement issued from the office of
the chief dispatcher of the Micchigan
Central at Chicago also declared the
Michigan Central engine crew appar-
enly failed to observe that the crossing
signal was set against theme.
With the coming of daylight officials
in charge of the wrecking crew expect-
ed to be able to clear away the wreck-
age sufficiently to enable trains to
operate on both tracks and to remove
the last of the bodies still held down
by timbers. Portions of at least six
persons were visible beteath the heavy
New York Central cars. members of
the wrecking crew declared.
Becatge of the darkness, the shock
of the castastrophe and the frenzied
efforts of volunteers, many names were
at first given out by railroad officials
as among the dead, who later were dis-
covered not to have been aboard the
train. Railroad officials had no defi-
nite estimate early today of the total
writer notes that during his incum-
bency Jackson drove much behind a
high stepping, bony old iron gry
steed” attached to a sulky presented
by “some eccentric mechanic," which
was made entirely out of "rough cut
hickry with the barek on" and hud
‘ very much the look of Old Hickory
himself."
General Harrison, though he rode his
horse to the capitol, returned to the
White House in a coach presented to
him by "the Whigs of Baltimor."
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the tracks,” he said. "We bumped "I was thrown from that platform
along the ties for a few feet at full ----•— ......
Lectures on science, literature, art, such
as would be almost unattended here, are
closely followed there by a surprisingly
large percentage of the people.
"In the United States we put little store
by poetry. A poet with us is by no means
a much revered member of the community.
We are much given to treating him jocularly.
The present generation is particularly un-
charitable to the poet.
“Quite the contrary in Iatin America.
Most of the republics to the south have poets
of national reputation upon whom all the
people look with admiration. The fact
that one of these poets is composing a new
piece of verse is a bit of news of general
interest. When it appears it is certain
to be printed ia all the papers. It will
be generally commented upon. Its appear-
ance will be an event in the intellectual
life of the community.
“The poet is given much consideration in
public matters. All are interested to know
his opinion on public matters. It is not
uncommon for him to be given high public
office. It to taken as evident that be ia a
man of intellectual quality and therefore
worth listenimg to.
“There is much to be said in favor of the
family life of Latin America. The ties
of kinship are much more binding there
than in the United States. The old patri-
archal idea still survives. In the United
States the ties are loose and easily broken
outside the immediat family circle. Not
so is Iatin America. The family sticks
together. Its members help one another.
If one prospers he to likely to bestow lib-
others injured would recover. Hos-
pitals and private homes at Michigan
City and Gary received the injured, ac-
cording to the character of the in-
juries.
Records.of the Michigan Central
train disclosed a large number of rail-
road employes, traveling on passes,
scheduled to go on the wrecked train,
but they could not be located In the
Chesterton morgue. Efforts of volun-
teer doctors and nurses from Michigan
City and Gary who rushed the injured
to hospitals. led to confusion in the
check of railroad officials on the Hat
of casualties, but it was believed the
total would not exceed thirty-five.
The speed of the New York Central
train. while fatal to passengers in
the two death cars. saved the passen
gers in the rear coaches of both trains
from worse than i severe jolting.
Engine Crew Perished.
Bodies of Engineer Claude Johnson
of Elkhart, Ind., and Fireman George
Deland of Elkhart, engine crew’ of the
New York Central train, were re-
covered early today from beneath the
tangled mass of Iron to which their
engine was reduced by the Impast,
Engineer W. F. Long of Jacksom,
Mich., and Fireman George Block of
Michigan City, Ind., were able to save
themsetves, their engine being far be-
yond the point of collision.
“I was not to blame," Towerman
Cook told the Associated Press repre-
sentative at his home in heaterton tod-
day. "I threw the distant block against
the Michigan Central train. I threw
the block two miles back from the
crossing, I do not know why they
failed to catch the signal."
Representatives of the Indiana Rail-
road Commission were expected on the
scene early today to start the state’s
tattoo. A man’s ba si sms word to depend-
able. Tew Lotta Americans go into bank-
ruptey and where one does It ia aext to iun-
possible to rehabilitate himself.
"Governmentally many evidences of bum-
nose ability have been showa. There to *
willingnes to strike afleld, to try dm thin
for which there to aa pricsdraL One of the
smaller countries, ter lest pare. fee of tha
virtually all its firs imsuranee wee beine
handled by foreign companies. Thus tW
money was going abroad. It believed theb
ths rates were unduly high. Be the covera,
ment determined to write five Imsarance II
Ma owa citisena. It placed the rats fit us I
half those they had been paying. Naturem
it got all the insuranee. Derpite the tot
rate its operation: ta immurane zieide4 11
a profit. Ito astral veotuee peeved aa hoe
—the breath knocked out of me When
I sat up—the whole middle of our train
had gone. It was a little hell there
for a few minutes. I wish I could
accurately describe the sensations of
that moment that I waited for death.
I can't understand, even now, how I’m
alive. When I could get to my knees.
I stayed there and gave up a prayer.
And I'm glad of it
■TU never forget the expression of
the faces of those poor people as they
died. The staring eyes of one man
looked directly Into mine—that face la
going to come to me for the rest of my
ute."
Flerke, aside from many bruises was
not injured.
The car platform on which he atood
was smashed into fragments.
slly, to one of the most alluring things to
be seen at the capital. More tourists go
through it than any other building. There
is a patio of Yucatan design full of tropical
plants. There to a sunken garden in the
back yard for the development of which
Andrew Carnegie gave a million dollars.
“There are many respects in which we
might learn from the peoples of our sister
republies," Dr. Rowe continued. "The edu-
cated classes, for instance, take their in-
tellectual life more seriously thaa we do.
College men ia this country, for instanee,
are not likely to keep abreast of the develop -
ment of any of the sciences they may have
studied in their universities. They make no
pretense of arranging meetings for the dis-
cussion of such subjects.
"In Iatin America it is quite diferent.
University men continue their studies. They
usually rend two or three languages and
subscribe to the scientific publications of
their owa find European countries. We
are a one-language people. This puts us
at a disadvantage, narrows our horison.
Latin Americana are likely te be less pro-
vincial because of their linguistic contaeta.
"There is less of the hurried activity
elae where is America thaa ia the United
States. The family circle takes more time
for the more leisurely pursuits of cultural
studlee. Music and the arts are given
prominence. Classic literature has its true
devotees. People congregate for the dis-
cussion of purely intellectual subjects.
spectacle in the years that followed.
Gone alao the decorated floats and
the soldiery from many States which
accompanied President William Henry
Harrison aa he rode his horse to the
capitol to took the oath; gone the
tramping ranks of cabinet oticers and
clergy and professors and studenta of
Georgetown University which made
the historic journey with Polk; gone
the military splendor of ths pageants
that marked elevation to high office
or soldierly Zachary Taylor and U. s.
Grant.
Among things of the more recent
peat not to be revived for Mr. Harding
will be the gray and white clad Hane
of West Point cadets, stepping proudly
and with perfect unison up the great
avenue. Inauguration has been for
rial. They are more likely to know what
has been dune in other countries than their
owa.
"The municipality has complete control
over new constructiom. Your ownership of
a lot on a certain street does not give you
tbs right to put up any sort of house you
want to on iL The plnn for a prospective
house must be submitted to the authorities.
They consider the plan without reference to
its surroundings and determine whether or
not It to acceptable. If it is they study it
with relation to the other houses ta the
street. It must harmonize with them. There
may be a house next door ot such’a desiga
that the new structure would throw it out
of key, would overshadow it, dimeredit IL
The man who built bia houme Brat has rights.
He win be protected. The new house most
not clash with his to Ms disadvantage. Thee
are streets developed harmoniously, beauti-
fully.
“Ia some of the cities to the south prises
are offered for the most attractive designs
of buildings. It to not uncommon that III BBSS
of certain quality should be freed from the
payment of taxes for certala periods. Ip-
centive ia developed for building wall. The
idea of proper development la kept con-
stoutly to the fore.
“It to a peculiar thing that the inatitutien
of the straphanger, bo rommoa ta tha United
States, is entirely nonexistent in Iatin
America. The Latta American will not
straphang. His municipality will not tol-
erate conditions that make it necemsary for
him to do bo.
“The resident of a South Americas city
might start from hla suburban home ta the
morning, might walk down to the cormer
where he takes the car. A car might ap-
proach and he might signal it to stop. U
with It in time because of. muddy roadw
left Mr. Jefferson afoot and he walked
with friends from his lodging next day
to his inauguration. *
Jefferson was not accompnied by
his predecessor, John Adams. In pro-
test against the action of the House
in settling a tie by election of Jefrsre
eon. President Adams left the city at
daybreak inauguration day.
President Monroe was the first ex-
ecutive to take the oath of office on
the east portico of the capitol. A con-
troversy is to whether the Renate .r
House chamber should witness the
proceedings was sett led by this de-
cision to beg the issue, and President
Harding, weather permitting, will take
his oath in the same place. Otherwise,
he will be conducted to the Senate
chamber, for the House ill not be in
session.
Aside from Jefferson's coach and
four, which failed to arrive for his
inauguration, several Presidents have
used conveyances in riding to the cap-
itol. Jackson rode to the ceremony in
a four-homo phaeton fashioned from
the timbers of the old frigate Consti-
tution and with a picture of ship und or
full sail painted on the panels. "Alto-
gether it would be a very creditable
turnout for Lang Acre,” said one con-
temporary writer. The phaeton was
also used at Van Buren's inauguration
to succeed Jackson, though the same
son in the office' of the President,
Arthur at his home in New York City
and Roosevelt in Buffalo, thus took up
the presidency.
Curious tales, many now almost
legendary and some of them tinged
with bitterness of partisan feeling of
their day, have drifted down the years
from inauguration periods long gone
by. Much has been written and said
of the “Jeffersonian simplicity" of the
third President, yet not all of it ap-
pears to be well founded on fact.
It has been often repeated that Jef-
ferson rode his horse to his Inaugu-
ration, hitching the animal to a fence
near the capitol while he went to take
the oath. Investigation by historians
appears to have established, however,
that it was an incident eight years
later, when Jefferson surrendered of-
fice to Madison, from which this ac-
count sprang. He did ride to see his
successor installed, leaving his horse
at a hitching poet meanwhile, then set
off for his Virginia home at Monti-
cello.
It also appears that Jefferson had
planned a more elaborate inauguration
ceremony than actually was held He
was escorted into the city b a troop
of cavalry the day before taking lodg-
ings at “Conrad and MMMann's" on
New Jersey avenue, 200 steps from
the capitol. where he waa to take the
oath. A coach and four.Was en route
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deserved plaudits an their appearance.
When Polk rode to his inauguration,
a "kid glove" troop of young Virgin-
tana, tho Fairfax Cavalry, clattered
before him aa special escort. It was
the first time a military organiztion
had been specially distingutshed in
such fanhion, but at times thereafter
incoming Presidents have paid and
received complimenta of the kind
which will be lacking at Mr Harding's
inauguration. President Benjamin Har-
rimon rode at the head of his old regi-
ment. the Seventieth Indiana Volunteer
Infantry. President McKinley was es-
corted by Troop A of Cleveland's Black
Horse Cavalry.
Great with problems aa may be the
four years ahead of Mr. Harding as
he turns with the weight of hie oath
upon him to the work he has himself
said will be calling, a grim tenseness
that has hung over the inauguration
of sormhe ot his predecessors will be
lacking
Madison was to see Washington in
enemy ybands and the President's
house fired by the British. The drum-
ming tramp of troops in full war gear,
called to guard the capital in the
brewing storm of civil war, was In
Lmeoln's ears as he pledged his faith,
his very life, to his task. Yet Dougies,
his defeated rival, stood at his side
and held his hat as Lncoln bent hla
long figure to seal bia oath with his
Ups upon the Hile.
Four years later, again called to high
servic, LAncoln saw the wrack and
ruin ot war sptading for to the south
beyond the Potemac; war maimed men
were groaning tn hospitals hard By
where he etgod to take hla oath, and
ahead lay bitter days of reconstruction.
.L^fesklent Hayes was twice sworn in.
March 4 was a Sunday that yeer. The
election decision had lett a rankling
sore be IL for one electoral vote
had defeated Tilden. On March a,
privately, the oath was Bret adminis-
tered to President Hayes, to be re-
peated In public March f.
When Woodrow Wilson rode down
Pennsyicanta avenue and back again
at hi second Inauguration In 1917.
American entry into the world war
was at hand. The last remnants of
the court of honor before the White
House erected for Inauguration had
not disappeared before the nation waa
aflame with war bustnens
There have been other inaugurations
over which even a darker cloud hov-
ered. Andrew Jackson took office In
1829, soon after the death of his wife,
which curtailed inauguration cere-
monies. and five times Vice Presidents
have been called to the presidency
through death ot the President, three
times by ansanination. In each case
the Vice President took up hie duties
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tie® in the life and customs of the peoples
to the south that might be studied with
profit up here.”
The man speaking was the director gen-
eral of the Pan-American Union, and his
.utterances, therefore, had authority back of
them. Dr. Leo S. Bowe is the new head
of that permanent organization of the
twenty-one republics of the western hemi-
sphere, which was the first such agency ia
the world to provide an ever-ready means
by which such a group could get together
around a table for the discussion of interests
and differences.
Dr. Rowe is the successor of John Bar-
rett, who, starting with the encouragement
of President Roosevelt, and assisted by four
clerks, built up this remarkable ageney of
hemispherical amity. John Barrett made
for himself a master reputation as an or-
ganiser and as an advertiser.
“The Latin- American theory,” Dr. Rowe
was saying, “is that one of the most com-
mon incentives to crime is the need of im-
mediate money. When one is hungry, when
there is illness in the family and no money
with which to buy medicine, when there is
a mastering desire for any sort of thing
without the means of gratifying that desire,
resort is had to theft, burglary, robbery,
murder. The immediate nerd of money,
the Latin American holds, is the major
cause of crime.
“That crime may be prevented, Latin-
American communities provide a. means by
which sn individual facing an emergency
may get a little money. They establish
municipal pawnshops. In those pawnshops
almost anything is accepted as collateral
The formalities of procuring a loan are very
simple. The interest charged is low. There
are small profits or none at all. The belief
in the power of these municipal or govern-
ment-owned pawnshops to prevent crime
is widespread. It might be demonstrated
this side of the Rio Grande."
Dr. Rowe gives one the impression of
being a very incisive sort of individual. He
is of average stature, somewhat spare and
sharp-faced, with a stiff, close cropped mana
tache. He is always hurrying from one
conference to another, usually diplomatic.
His interruptions are more likely to be
spoken in Spanish than in English. He is
very fluent in the former tongue.
One goes to see him in the building of the
Pan-American Union which, architectur-
oun-
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erally on his kinsmen. Distant cousins are
helped if their roads are rocky. The case of
aa individual without close relatives seeming
entirely alone in the world is rare. They
stick to each other ia time of trouble.
“If one goes into the home of a well-to-do
Latin American he will notice at mealtime
a thing that will seem to him peculiar.
The table is unduly long for the sine of
the family. There are no leaves that may
be removed to shorten it. Covers are laid
for the members of the family and the
known guests and then there are a half
donee places that may not be occupied.
These are always kept ready for relatives or
late arriving visitors. All are welcome and
the larger the circle the happier the hosts.
The eleemosynary institute does a poor
business in Latin America. This is not
because they are without their poor, their
cripples, their otherwise unfortunate. It
is because there is greater charity among
the masses. They take care of the un-
fortunate among themselves. The spirit
of neighborly assistance is strong. They
would not allow the cripple, the blind, the
aged, to become public charges."
“Governmentally,” I suggested, “what
are the lessons we might learn from the
South?"
"latin America,” said Dr. Rowe, "got a
different start from that of the United Statea
ia city building. From the standpoint of
ground plans and architecture their munici-
palities are better thought out. They were
not allowed to grow up haphasard as have
many American rities. The city beautiful
idea was in existence from the very begin-
ning.
“Latin-American towns are well laid ut.
The sites of public buildings are carefully
selected. They are strategically located from
the standpoint of being seen to advantage.
They are not crowded into narrow streets.
Latin America has learned much from the
French in this respect. The percentage of
the influential citizens who have studied ia
France is very large. They are not provia-
sideration elmewhere."
This mam, who has become tha ehiet ee-
ordinator between the ropubnes of Amerlea,
to aa authority et leng standinc e what to
happenine betweem Tia Laaae and flam de
Fuego. Be begaa twemty-five ram mb a
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