Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 11 March 1897 — Page 2

THE lUAUGBRATIOK! Os William McKinley as President of the t'nitcd States Great Oiitporing of the People to Witness the Ceremonies. 1 Grand Display on Historic Pennsylvania Avenue. Full Particulars of the Eventful Occasion. Stately (’eniiiony—Glittering Parade -The Kall. Special to the Democrat. Washington, March 4.—William McKinley of Ohio and Garret A. Hobart of New Jersey, iii compliance with the will of the people as expressftl in thegeneral election of last November, were today inaugurated as president and vice president of the United States, to serve for a term of four years. The occasion was one of stately and solemn ceremony, gorgeous decorations and glittering parades, accompanied by the huzzas of strong-lunged men and boys and the less feeble but equally enthusiastic cheers of women and girls. Every detail had been carefully arranged, and seldom has a similar event been characterized by a more perfect working of the plans as outlined. First in the or-

' ■ i LS£JM CORNER OF A REVIEWING STAND, der of the proceedings of the eventful day came the parade of escort to the capital; then the inauguration of the vice president in the senate chamber; then the administering of the oath of office to the president, which was conducted upon a platform constructed at. the east of the senate chamber; then his inaugural address, at the conclusion of which was formed the parade down historic Pennsylvania avenue. It is moving as this dispatch is written. That portion of it already witnessed promises that the whole will fulfill the prophecy that it will be the grandest ever witnessed in this country. ESCORT TO THE CAPITOL. Bow the Crowds Gathered and Awaited This First Movement. Washington, March 4—lt was on the 4th day of March, 1801, that Washington city witnessed the first inauguralceremony. Thomas Jefferson was inducted into office on that day. The weather was and balmy and the son shone brilliantly. In its simplicity of disp’ay that iceremony was in strik- ' iug.’con.rast with many that have since occurred, and that is particularly true as compared wim today’s event. History tells us thutuarge crowds watched Jefferson take the oath of office. But history also tells us that Washington city could not in those years of long ago begin to take care of such multitudes as have thronged here for more recent , events of this character. For days the city has been in a state of'congestion in anticipation of today's ceremonies, and all those thousands who retired last night without assurance of good positions from which to view the incidents were astir very early this morning. Only the specially elect could be provided for in the arrangements for the inaugural proper and the parade. Hence it was that in the crowds which surged here and there from early dawn there were many people who on less important occasions would have been provided with reserved seats. The famous old Ebbitt House, at F street and Pennsylvania avenue, on the third floor of which were quartered the McKinley family and immediate friends, was a point of greatest interest to sight seers. It was evident that the occupants of these apartments were about early this morning, and interest in the locality, though nothing special was to be observed from the outside, made this a point of view until more important moves began to be made. All morning long frequent conferences were held between the presidentelect and tnose naving arrangements in hand, th ?se incidents being secondary, however* to the discussion of state affairs casi al'y ent red into between the members or the incoming cabinet and others high in the counsels of the party j.ist about to iucc eu to the management of affairs. At 9 o’clock it looked as though every point of vantage had been t jkmi Windows* reviewing stands and sidewalk

room all seemed to be occupied, but the crowds kept coming. The excitement of expectancv was multiplied by the movement of uniformed regiments and organized clubs, the blare of bands grow into an inharmonious din, and the eventful hour was impatiently awaited. Just a little before 10 o’clock there was a movement of importance about the hotel. The escort to the .ciwitol was about to begin. The organizations assigned to tins duty had already formed on New York avenue, Pennsylvania avenue, Seventeenth and Nineteenth streets, where they awaited the command to "Forward, March!” in the assigned order. This march, which began but a siiort time later, was up Pennsylvania avenue to the capitol. and was led by a platoon of mounted police. An enthusiastic cheer rent the air when the president-elect issued from the hotel and entered the open carriage provided for him. He was driven to the executive mansion, where he was joined by President Cleveland, and almost immediately the procession moved, the central figures naturally being Grover Cleveland, still the greatest potentate on earth, and William McKinley, at that tithe only the Ohio major, each of whom was rapidly nearing a turning point in their careers. ¥ In this parade to the capital the Governor’s Island band, which immediately followed the police, voiced the enthusiasm of the crowds, who added their cheers as the inarch eastward was made. The procession, under the command of the gaily caparisoned grand marshal, General Horace Porter, and aides, was comprised of about 5,000 men, and gave 4in inkling of w r hat was to be expected in the later demonstration. The first brigade of this escort was comprised of a battalion of U. S. engineers, Seventeenth U. S. infantry, U. S. artillery (foot), regiment U. S. marines, ba i ta|ion U. S. marines, battalion U. S. sfilmen, U. S. cavalry Troop A of Cleveland, 0., as the personal escort to the president-elect, while in carriages came the president and president-elect, detachment of veterans of the Twenty-third Ohio Volunteers, vice president-elect and senate committee of arrangement, members of cabinet, the major general commanding the army and the senior admiral of .the navy. The second brigade comprised the District of Columbia national guard. This parade alone, with its glitter of arms, decoration of uniforms, splendid equipages, etc., was a sight well worth seeing, but ’twas only a feeble sample of the more pretentious demonstration to occur in the afternoon. Arrived at the capitol, Messrs. Cleveland and McKinley stepped out under the carriage porch at the basement of the senate wing and proceeded thence to the historic marble room at the rear of the senate chamber, there to await the conhmand for their presence, while others were disposed of in accordance with the arranged plan. OATH OF OFFICE ADMINISTERED. Description of the Scenes Incident to the Induction Into Office. Washington, March 4.—Soon after the arrival of Mr. McKinley and Mr. Hobart at the capitol they were escorted by proper committees from their places\f waiting to the floor or the senate. This august body Pad shortly before concluded its duties as an organization, and in being dissolved was briefly addressed by retiring Vice President Stevenson, who referred feelingly to the uniform courtesy extended him and commended the rules under which the body transacted its business. He remarked of those who clamor against the senate and its methods of proceedure that “they know not what they do.” Before the advent of the distinguished principals in the happenings of the day there had gathered the justices of the supreme court, the members of the diplomatic corps and members of the house, and tqese, with the senators, arose as the new chief of the nation and the new presiding officer of the senate were ushered in. The president and the presi-dent-elect took seats immediately in front of the vice president’s desk, while Mr. Hobart was escorted .to the vice president’s chair and there took the oath of office, the same being administered by his immediate predecessor. Mr. Hobart delivered a brief address, in which he made formal pledge of Ins best efforts for the faithful and impartial discharge of his duties. The entire ceremony occupied but a few moments. In concluding his address the vice president announced the arrival of the hour for the inauguration of the president! Then he and Mr. Stevenson left the platform together, and two by two those assembled in the senate chamber followed to the platfotm at the east front of the capital: ThereonJ had been arranged seats for the principals, officers and guestij of the occasion, and the appearance and view of Major McKinley standing at ihe front and near the center of the platform'was the signal for an outburst from the more than 10,000 people who crowded the broad plaza extending off to the east. At this point in the proceedings Mr. McKinley bared his head, bowed slightly to the applauding multitudes, and was almost.immediately approached by Chief Justice Fuller, who, holding in his right hand a Bible, administered to-the nation’s new chief this oath of office: 1 do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute lhe office of president of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve', protect, and defend the constitution o f the United States. Immediately upon acknowledging the oath which made him the chief of all among a nation of freemen, the president reverently bowed his he®, kissed the B-blc. and then turned to bestow A-i ffw : y-tWOra r ‘ "Jl ■ V firing the signal. the same evidence of love upon the lips of tin >se who took more delight in the honor conferred than he himself. These scenes, not unexpected, nor unusual in

similar proceedings heretofore, thrilled the vast crowd surrounding, and cheer and cheer broke forth again. Just as the oath was concluded a man located at the extreme corner of the stand, who during the ceremony had held aloft a small national flag, unfurled and dropped the same. This was a signal to another a little farther away, and at the instant this sign of completion had passed along the line the batteries broke forth in remnant explosion, informing all the people within hearing that a new ruler had been made. The president, then turning to the vast throng in front of the platform, gtwd silent for a little time, while scenes of great excitement were prevailing. The knowledge that ho was about to speak, however, soon had the effect of producing comparative quiet. At the beginning of the delivery of his inaugural address he spoke slowly but plainly, devoting his utterance to an appeal for divine grace in the discharge of his manifold and arduous duties His words of thanks to the people of our great nation for the confidence bestowed in elevating him to the exalted position were full of feeling and evident realization of the responsibility. The address was not lengthy and in no sense sensational. subjects of state being left tor discussion in subsequent papers. y At the clo- ' of the address there wore the usual attempts of spectators to reach, the presides' for the purpose of hand shaking or other enthusiastic display;,, but these were successfully repelled i»y the excellent police protection afforded. Mr. McKinley hurriedly retired to the senate marb’e room, while there were at once put into effect preparations for the gorgeous inauguration parade. INAUGURAL PARADE. Glittering Pageant of 20,000 Men Passing lu Review of the President. Washington, March 4.—lt was a little after 2 o’clock when the inaugural parade started. It is moving from the capitol byway of Pennsylvania avenue (which presents a great and glorious wealth of bunting and other decorations) to Washington circle, thence east through K street to Vermont avenue, where the organizations will be reviewed by Grand Marshal Porter, who«e untiring efforts have won for him what little of reward can be thus bestowed. President McKinley and ex-President Cleveland reached the white house in advance of the marchers, and together with their wives hastily partook of a light luncneon. At the conclusion or this diversion Mr. and Mrs. McKinley took leave of ex-President and Mrs. 01 eveiand. The latter left at once for a trip down the river and Mrs. Cleveland started for Princeton, N. J. Mr. McKinley repaired at once to the reviewing stand erected in front of the white house, where he at once began the arduous task of giving some sort of recognition to the hosannas sung in his praise or the greetings hurled at him as the line of marchers passed. The best estimates obtainable fix the number of men who will pass in review before nightfall at 20,000. Os these about 12,000 will be military and 8,000

111 1 11 I I IJI w-L ) AWAITING ORDERS TO FORM, civic organizations. Almost all of the latter are Republican League clubs. This organization numbers 8,000 clubs, scattered over the country, with an aggregate strength of two and a half million, and wag a great fighting force in the' past campaign. Three civic divisions are composed almost wholly of its members, with only about eight detached organizations of any sort, one of which is the famous old Harmony Fire company of Philadelphia and another the Indian School battalion of Carlisle. A list of tlie military and civic organizations participating would extend this dispatch into columns. Its brilliant grandeur can only be imagined from familiarity with the resources at the command of the participants, their preparation for the event, the elegance of uniforms and the precision of movement. Dusk will be close upon us before the end is reached. PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. Its Appearance In Holiday Attire Daring the Great Parade. Washington, March 4.—The center of interest in the decorations is Pennsylvania avenue, stretching a mile long from the foot of the capital to the foot of the treasury and thence, after the short break, for another mile and a half past government department buildings to Washington circle. There the inaugural procession turns on its backward march. It is one of the most remarkable thoroughfares among the capitals of the nations, and its decoration for the American olympiad is a .matter of long thought and great money expenditure. The avenue is a wealth of bunting. There are flags of all nations waving from the windows or floating from 'every available flagpole. The presence of the crowds on the streets lends a good deal of brilliancy and movement to the scene and detracts from the need of excessive decorations. From house front to house front, except in the center where the police have cleared away, there is a solid mass of humanity, manycolored and constantly shifting—a veritable human carpet for the greirt avenue through which the flood of the inaugural procession is rolling. At the foot of the capital the Peace monument, that dry rock of statuary that has waited a decade for the Aaron’s rod of an appropriations committee to turn it into a fountain, has been surrounded by a neat white picketfence to prevent the economical public from making a grandstand out of the granite shoulders of Faith, Hope and Charity. From the summit of the white picketfence, however, there are waving innumerable bartners, a decorative tribute to the isolated graces. 2 From this point to Seventh street the decorations are much the same. At Seventh street, one of the great business arteries of the city, the stands commence. The reservations on each side

t f the avenue have been occupied by grandstand*, bannered and embattled with canvas fronts painted in imitation of brownstone, which tends to make an imposing display. Frim thence on to the toot of the treasury building the decorations are of a slightly different character. This is the region of newer and more imposing buildings. The larger stores ami office buildings are decorated with more of real bunting and less of print muslin and cambrics than farther east. Besides the banners floating from the nxifs, there uro streamers from the cornices to awning rods—red, white and blue most frequently, but almost as often soni > other gay and striking combination, lending a carnival air to the Ordinarily prosaic structures. Garlands of red. white and blue incandescent lights are mingled with the bunting, to be flashed tonight, into a brilliant display. But more substantial and' extensive are the decorations of the public departments. Every department has thrown abroad all its store of bunting in honor of tlie day. The base of tire treasury building is one of the favorite vantage grounds from‘which to view the parade, and there hi« v e been erected stands on the south, east and north fronts. These, with their uniform salmonlike tint and frieze of brilliant crimson, together with their li"ing freight of spectators, add to the decoration of the building. Further on in the stretch, before the president’s house, the stands are of the most classic form and substantial style. From over the white reviewing stand of the chief executive floats 100 banners, and its snowy walls and flagdraped sides make it the gem of the whole collection of reviewing stands. The stretch of the avenue past the presidential reviewing stand is the most choice bit of the whole panorama through which th“ great procession moves, and thenc" westward the decorations fade gradually away.

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