AMERICANS LINE ROUTE OF PRESIDENTIAL TRAIN TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS
Sparks, Nevada (JFK+50) On the morning of August 4, 1923, "silent men, women and children...with heads bared and...bowed..." gathered at the station here in Sparks*, Nevada as President Warren G. Harding's special funeral train "paused" for a "few minutes."
The Evening Star reports...
"There was none too poor, none too rich, none too mighty or none too humble to pay their...respect(s) to the memory of President Harding."
The funeral train is on a journey of 3000 miles having left from San Francisco and scheduled to arrive in the Nation's Capital on Tuesday, August 7th.
The President's remains will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday, August 8th.
*Sparks is located just east of Reno in Washoe Coounty, Nevada. Founded in 1904, Sparks is nicknamed the "Rail City."
SOURCE
"Grieving Nation Pays Tribute To Its Dead Leader," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., August 4, 1923, Chronicling America, Library of Congress.com/
