Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 March 1889 — Page 5

THE 1NAUGU

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Programme for To-Morrow, Day and Night, at Washington.

THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE GREAT BALL.

Joe Howard Contrasts Two Significant Inaugurations—Lincoln and Cleveland.

The following programme of the inaugural exercises and parade is taken from the New York World:

The inaugural committee started business, as the custom hitherto has been, on a guarantee fund of $50,000. This fund is made up of voluntary contributions from public spirited citizens of the District of Columbia and from a few outsiders, including Messrs. Drexel, Moore, General Horace Porter and Colonel Elliott F. Sbepard. The subscribers to th« guarantee fund generally get their money back in full, but they run a risk, nevertheless, for on at least two occaBions the inauguration bail was a dead failure- It is remarkable that on these two occasions the price of the ball tickets was raised to an unusual and a fancy figure.

The parade is expected to be eight miles long. The different organizations, civic and military, that will tftke part in it are expected to number not less than fifty thousand men. Already places have been assigned to40,000 and quarters have been engaged for their accommodation while they remain in the city. Of these about one-third are military and twothirds are civic. The grand marshal of the parade will be General James A. Heaver, of Pennsylvania, with General Hastings as chief of staff. The Pennsylvania National guard will be 8,000 strong in the procession and will have a division all to itself. There will be six divisions in the parade.

Klrat -lTnlted States troops and ttie Nation*! guard of Uie District of Columbia. Second—National guard of Pennsylvania.

TUlrd-Ail other military organization*. Fourth O. A. H. and other veteran organizations.

Firth and Sixth Civic organizations. Most of the military organizations during their stay in town will be quartered in the public buildings some in the state, war and navy department building, some in the postoflice building, some in the city hall, and others as well provided for. The rooms in the department buildings will not be open to the visitors, but only the corridors.' Some will bring their beds with them, and others will have cots furnished to them here. Pennsylvania militia will be prepared to pitch their tents anywhere, either in the open air or under any .available roof.

The rendezvous for the parade will be ou. the Btreets and avenues immediately east of the capitol grounds. The president will be escorted to the capitol before the inauguration, as well as from the capitol after he has taken tbe oath. On the way to the capitol the eBcort will consist of only a single division. President Cleveland will call at Willard's hotel for General Harrison about 11 o'clock. The front seat of the carriage will be occupied by a couple of senators who will be delegated by the ^United States sena.e to conduct &he outgoing and the incoming presidents to the cup'.tol. Having escorted tbo presidential carriage to the senate end of the oapitol, the esoort, consisting of the United States troops and the National guard of the District of Columbia, will take up its position at the southeast corner of the capitol grounds and after the inauguration will march westward, escorting the outgoing and the incoming presidents again, as the first division of the great inaugural parade from the oapitol to the executive mausion.

When Mr. Cleveland and President iHarrison get into their carriage again :ind start at the head of the procession westward toward the executive mansion, President Harrison will occupy the right of the seat and Mr. Cleveland will occupy the left, the reverse of the order in which they rode from the executive mansion to the capitol.

Mr. Cleveland and President Harrison will mount the reviewing stand erected for them and their friends, and will review the vast procession, which, it is estimated, cannot take less than three hours to pass. The entire line of march, from the capitol to Mt. Vernon square, will be about three miles, and although the column will be division front, covering the avenue from

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sidewalk, the head of the proressiou will have reached its destination and been dismissed before one-half of the parade has started ou the march.

Having reviewed the procession from '\.be stand in front of the White house, l'nwident Harrison and Mr. Cleveland \will tmter the executive mansion, where vr,hey w.'ll take luncheon together. This a part of the programme which is never umftted. Whether Mr. Cleveland or

Proswient Harrison is the host on that occasion is a question which the casuists Jhave not s'-et determined, and until the question has beon autoritatively settled ft may serve the purpose to regard that ceremonial luucheon in the light of a "Dutch treat." It is the last point at which the old administration and the new meet. After the luncheon the outgoing president leaves the White house behind him and starts for home, and the new president is left for the first time in possession of the oflicial residence of the chief executive of the United States.

The uroceedings at the capitol—the inauguration proper—will be entirely in charge of a seuate committee of arrangeaunits. Mr. Brittou and his committee 'will have no jurisdiction there, and the parade will be entirely iu charge of Chief

Marshal Beaver and his numerous aides. For the purposes of the parade a number of telegraph stations will be placed at intervals of a few blocks along the line of w.arch and connected with the •marshal's headquarters in the Butler building, adjoining the capitol grounds- The chief marshal or any of his aides will be able at anytime to communicate by telegraph from any one point of the procession to any other uoint. and so the gigantic moving mass will be kept well in hand from beginning

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where the new president is to stand while he delivers his inaugural address, and while Chief Justice Fuller administers to him the oath of office, and around which an immense concourse of people will be gathered on inauguration day, is already in course of erection. After Mr. Morton has been sworn in by Senator Ingalls in the senate chamber at noon on the 4th of March as vice president of tup United States, and after the senate of the Fifty-first congress has been organized iu the presence of the house of representatives, the incoming sod outgoing presideuts, the cabinet officers, the justices of the suprecis court, representatives of the army aad navy, the diplomatic corps and

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other invited guests who will be entitled to the floor of the senate, and in presence of the great American public who will crowd the galleries on that day, Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Harrison will be conducted by the executive officers of the senate out to the portico on the east front of the capitol.

After delivering his inaugural address General Harrison will take the oath of office from Chief Justice Fuller, who will afterwards grasp the new president by the hand in ratification of the inauguration. That simple grasp of the hand is our republican equivalent for the pompous monarchial exclamation, "Long live the king!'' Many a strongvoiced American citizen around the capitol that day will proclaim, "'.Long live President Harrison!" or, more probably, "What's the matter with Harrison? but the proclamation will be entirely voluntary and unofficial.

Rooms have been set apart for the police department, Which will have a large squad of men stationed^ in th© building, and adjoining them will be a company of the fire brigade ready for any emergency. In the room set apart for the newspaper correspondents there will be telegraph instruments for sending off newspaper reports without necessitating the correspondents leaving the building at all, and Mr. Britton promises that there will also be hand a large number of district messenger boys. The interior of the pension building will be lighted, on this occasion only, by a thousand incandescent lamps, loaned to the committee by the Houston-Thompson company.

READY FOR THE BALL.

Brilliant Preparations For the Inaugural Party at tlie Pension Building. The scheme of decoration of the pension office for the ball, says Wm. E. Curtis, in one of his specials, has been to drape the gallery all along with flags and garlands of laurel, spruce and pine, while the four big columns, which divide the area into three great sections, will be decorated in the same way. Bunting is suspended from the ceiling running in all directions. The hall affords a good field for the arrangements of colore, it being without question the largest construction of the kind on this hemisphere, and, barriDg 'churches and cathedrals, has few, if any, equals in the world in floor and balcony area. Its in.mense size may be realized by a few figures. The length is 310 feet, the width 111 feet, and height to the surmounting roof 149 feet. The hall is broken by two screens of four immense pillars six feet in diameter, or over eighteen feet in circumference at the base, five feet at the top, and seventy-five feet high, surmounted by artistical arches which support the roof. These screens greatly enhance the superb architectural features of the hall and give the effect of dimensions, horizontal and vertical, which otherwise would not be so impressive. The area of the marble tessellated floor is 37,000 square feet, or very nearly an acre. On the four sides of the floor extends an arcaded corridor twelve feet wide and twenty feet high, formed of seventy-six iron Corinthian columns, thirteen feet and six inches high, with a range of elevation surmounting arches 6 feet 0 inches around the entire interior, ond supporting a balcony of the same diminsions the entire circuit of the court, or 10 feet long and "23 feet high, and supporting ou Beventy-six marbleized columns a bulustraded promenade or parapet of the dimensions of the balcony and fortythree feet from the marble payemeut below. On this surmounting parapet, at intervals over the columns, are large vases for floral display.

The fronts of the galleries running all around the building are festooned with American flags, and in the spaces between are alternately suits of full-sized silver-plated armor mounted with a silkplush backing, and a large coats-of-arms, painted in oil, of all the states and nations, surmounted by carved and gilded eagles over the states, and crowns or other national insignia over the foreign arms, all draped with appropriate flags ef silk. Garlands of laurel and flowers have a subduing effect twined along the front of these decorations. Each one of the 300 columns supporting the galleries is draped with smilax and bears a large national banner of satin with the coat of arms embroidered upon it. Twenty calcium lights are to be placed in the top gallery and 2,(XX) incandescent electric lights along the sides of the ball-room. The floral decorations are to be on a scale never before attempted. The same New Vork florist who furnished flowers for President Cleveland's inauguration will supply them ou this occasion. It will take f,000 yards of laurel festoons, six inches thick, to cover the ceilings. The balcony and surrounding parapet are reached by brick steps, twelve feet long, laid on arches, and ascending from each gate.

The capacity of the hall is equal to the demands of an almost unlimited throng. The floor will conveniently accommodate over thirteen thousand persons. During the Cleveland ball in 18S4 S,000 people passed in the gates and yet there was ample room for dancing and promenading. It took two bands—the Marine band of Washington, 100 pieces, and the great German orchestra of Philadelphia—to furnish the music, and even then it was difficult to hear the harmonious sounds above the buzz of voices and shuffling of feet of thousands of guests on the floors.

The tickets are 85 apiece, and a lady's ticket costs as much as a gentleman's. The expenses of the Washington committee for the ball and parade will be $60,000, anrl it is thought that the total receipts will be about equal to the outlay-

The most conspicuous and prominent feature of the interior scene will be the two story Japanese pagoda. It is in the center of the building, built over and around the fountain that on ordinary occasions lends its babbling to the noise of the scratching of thousands of pens as they fly in their missions of pension giving or pension refusing. The lower part of the pagoda is a grotto of rocks and ferns built around the fountain, a picturesque retreat for the dancers, where they can rest, surrounded by the glamour of flowers, soft lights, and runniug water.

The second floor will accommodate the band of 100 performers who will play the dance music. Above them on the third gallery will be stationed the Marine band, which is to conduct the promenade concert. The whole structure wi be made gay with streamers of bunting, draperies of flags, and brilliant with electric lights. It will be without doubt the most taking thing in the whole plan of the decoration, and will Oreak the immense space of the floor with good effect. Portraits of the new president and vice president will be placed on the front, and running entirely around the structure just above the first story will be a line of shields, each bearing the name of a state or a

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territory. The glitter of the gas jets will reveal the colors of the flag oni the top of the pagoda. The word Constitution" will blaze forth in letters of fare. The eight columns lifting the dome eighty feet from the ground are twined with heavy laurel garlands interspersed with palm leaves.

Suspended from the lower gallery is a serieeof panels, 5 by 10 feet, made entirely of choice flowers, one being devoted to each department of state, on which is wrought in half-relief some suitable device. The navy department bears upon a floral background a man-of-war: the department of the interior, a pioneer scene representing a log cabin, a newly felled tree, a plow, and a sheaf of grain the

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bag and an envelope duly stamped, postmarked and addressed in a flowing hand to

Benjamin Harrison, Washington, D. C." Over each panel is the name of the department it symbolizes, and a quill of flowers. About the upper gallery are vases, alternating with the columns, filled with rare palms.

When General Harrison and Vice President Morton enter the hall at the west end they will pass under a floral ball fifteen feet in diameter. At an opportune time a string will be pulled and the floral ball will open and a shower of cut flowers will descend upon the presidential party. The same manipulation will release an entire flock of imprisoned canary birds and paroquets, which will mingle their songs and voices with the exclamations of joy and delight from the assembled thousands. When the president and attendants reach the other end of the hall another floral ball, exactly like the first, will open, and flowers and canary birds in great number will enliven the scene.

Suspended from the center of the dome will be an immense floral ship of state—a three-master and thirty feet long. Immense oil portraits of President Harrison and Vice President Morton, each fifteen feet high, mounted with American fl^gs in plush and gold frames, are conspicuous features.

The offices of the commissioner of pensions, elaborately furnished and decorated, will be used by the presidential party as reception-rooms. There are spacious dressing, cloak, supper, and reception rooms on the first floor, and broad iron stairways and tiled galleries for the immense throng which only comes to look on. The scene from the galleries will be one of the greatest animation and beauty. Every element of harmony will be there, coloring, light, music, beauty, delicious odors—a combination never to be forgotten.

All the delicacies that go to make up a sumptuous buffet supper will be provided. It will be a stand-up, take-what-you-want sort of supper, for it would be utterly impossible to provide chairs for the five or six thousand people who may decide to partake. A long buffet will extend through the different departments, parallel with the north wall and about four feet from it. Behind this will stand a corps of attendants, whose duty will be simply to carry on the communication between the supper-room and the kitchen. On the other side will be a corps of waiters to serve the guests. For the lnt inauguration there were provided 1,000 quarts of ictcream, 500 quarts of water ices, 200 roast turkeys, 500 boiled turkeys, 100 hams, 150 tongues, 16 sets roast beef, 2 barrels chicken salad, 6,000 rolls, 1,000 pounds of butter, and 150 loaves of bread, while of such dainties as pate de foi© grftp, coooora roe, ealiaon and batW) big quanf ities were on hand. Mr. Harrison will follow the example of Mr. Cleveland and decline the compliment of a separate table. Presidents are not hungry on these occasions.

There will be no business done in the pension building on the day after the inauguaation, and it is the intention of the committee to giv® morning, afternoon and evening concerts oh that day.

TWO SIGNIFICANT INAUGURATIONS.

Joe Howard, the Veteran Correspondent, Tells of Lincoln's Inauguration. Joe Howard writes as follows for the New York Press:

Lincoln was inaugurated on the 4th of March, 1861. As is the custom, he and his family and friends went to Washington some days prior to inauguration day. Difficulty was rumored. Danger was threatened. Most affecting incidents attended his departure from the little town of Springfield, 111., where, immediately preceding the departure of the train, be made a farewell address to the friends and neighbors who had known him all his life, in which in a noticeable degree, as frequently thereafter on the trip to Washington,he threw himself with all his burdens upon his Heavenly Father. I was particularly touched, for I was with the party as a corresponpent for the New York Times, by the parallel he drew botween the difficulties and embarrassments that beset Washington and those with which he was weighted, and it was interesting to hear him say that "as Washington could not have succeeded without divine aid." so he (Lincoln) was quite conscious that as a man. an individual, the representatives of the people, he could not attain desired ends unaided and alone.

Great curiosity was manifested, and anxiety, too, by the people along the route to know how the president-elect felt toward the turbulent elements in the South, ana how he would act under certain circumstances, the people hoped to forecast by such utterance as he might make upon this trip, which was the target for every eye in the civilized world. It was in Trenton. I think, in the presence of the legislature by which he was tendered a reception, that Mr. Lincoln said if it was necessary to "put his foot down hard," he was prepared to do so.

In Philadelphia word was conveyed to the confidants of the president-elect that trouble was apprehended between Harrisburg and Baltimore. Nevertheless, the line marked out was adhered to, and on the following morning, with cheerB and shouts and cannon roar, the party was sent off by special train to Harrisburg, where a very interesting and enthusiastic reception was awarded them. In the evening, about 9 o'clock, Mr. Lincoln, attended by his aids, by a circuitous route, made connection with the regular Washington train at Baltimore, leaving his family and friends to go on by the regular train from Harrisburg the following morning. At 10 o'clock of the morning Lincoln arrived in Washington, New York City, and therefore the nation, was startled by a Times extra, announcing the "safe arrival of the presidentelect in Washington."

This extra told the story of anticipated trouble, of the strategic movement on the part of Mr. Lincoln and his friends and the successful result attending such movement* In this connection it may be well to tell and explode the record of the "Scotch cap and military cloak" with which Mr. Lincoln was historically dressed, and which, with illustrations, made interesting reading in the comic weeklies for months thereafter. Mr.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1889.

Stephen Fiske, now the accomplished editor of the Spirit of the Times, was then a correspondent of the New York Herald. We had been constant companions and room mates during the trip, and on the night of the arrival in Harrisburg were busily engaged in preparing our dispatches, when Detective Burns entered the room and informed us we could send no dispatches that night. After a long and excited discussion, during which he informed us we would not be permitted to leave our room until the following morning, the facts concerning anticipated danger and Mr. Lincoln's departure "in disguise" were given. He also told us that the wires had been cut, 8nd that communication with New York was a physical impossibility. The interview terminated pleasantly, and he retired, we resuming our work, to be wired the next morning.

I began my dispatch: The presidentelect is safe in the city of Washington," and followed with the story of the threatened violence, and BO forth, to the train between Harrisburg and Baltimore, forecasting a feared disturbance in Baltimore, and winding up with the record of Mr. Lincoln's departure "in disguise." The question in my mind was what disguise Mr. Lincoln, or any other man, could obtain in the little town of Harrisburg at 9 o'clock in the evening, in the year of our Lord 1861. I know that his chief attendant was Colonel Sumner, of the army, who wore a long military cloak, so, in my mind's eye, I saw the president-elect arrayed in Sumner's long military cloak. I knew, too, that Mr. Lincoln carried a small traveling cap, but there was nothing very picturesque in that, so I called it a "Scotch" traveling cap, and with the same mind's eye saw that jauntily placed upon his dear old head.

Under ordinary circumstances a man's apparel would haye but little to do with such significant action as this of the president-elect of the United States, literally evading, eluding conspiracy ancj possibly assassination so, with jaunty thoughtlessness, that became part and parcel of the record, and to this day thousands are ready to swear that Mr. Lincoln not only sneaked out of Harrisburg, but went disguised in a Scotch cap and a long military cloak. The fact, as I subsequently ascertained, is that he wore his ordinary hat and top coat, without the faintest attempt at disguise.

But to resume. Washington was packed by direction, of President Buchanan, through the general iu command, Wit field Scott, with all of the available troops of the regular army, and all the militia of the district were also on duty on the 4th of March, 1861. President Buchanan, the personification of old time courtesy—I don't know why old time courtesy should be different from any other courtesy, but it seems to be—called upon his successor, and, together, in an open carriage, they rode along Pennsylvania avenue, from Willard's hotel to the capitol, soldiers everywhere, touching up, with bits of color and with flashing steel, the vast background and surroundings of men and women, anxious, interested, apprehensive, delighted.

After perfunctory service in the senate chamber the procession farmed. The judges of the supreme court, looking like so many old women in their black silk gowns, the diplomatic corps gorgeous in their raiment, plumes, decorations, buttons, our own somber clad senators and representatives, distinguished men from every clime, with correspondents and reporters galore, moved on ahead, followed by three men, destined to form a historic group in the presence of an assembled multitude.

There it seems to me was subject fit for the cleverest artist. On the left stood President Buchanan, tall, stately, dignified and courteous to a degree. On the right Abraham Lincoln, taller than Buchanan, with a somber, solemn look, his great dark eyes looking quietly and mournfully, even in this hour of significant triumph, upon his fel-low-men, so soon to be face to face with bloody intent and hostile hearts. Between them a shorter and an older man, Chief Justice Taney.

He presented a venerable appearance —a leonine head, a face seared and seamed with deep lines of thought, with eyes that seemed to penetrate one's very soul, and a dignity withal so natural, so unaffectedly significant, as to impress every onlooker with a sense of lofty purpose and honesty of opinion. A mighty cheer rose from the people as Mr. Lincoln stepped to the front and delivered his memorable address, and then, having finished, he turned, and in the presence of that great audience took the oath of his majestic office.

Then began a Republican rule, which lasted through a momentous period, from 1861 down to 1885, during which the nation sprang from lusty youth into maturity of manhood, proving its right to stand among the nations of the earth not alone by virtue of its prosperity and extraordinary growth and simplicity of institutions, but by reason of its ability to manage its own affairs in its own way even at the cost of millions of lives and billions of money.

But it ended. And when it ended its old time opponent, the Democratic party, which had preceded it for fifty years, came again to the front, and was escorted, in the person of Grover Cleveland, to the capitol of the nation, garlanded with mugwumpery, rejoicing in prospect of renewed succession. As Lincoln's inauguration was interesting, because it not only marked the end of Democratic rule, but began a Republican rule, so Cleveland's was interesting because it marked the end of Republican rule, and apparently a new beginning of long continued Democratic ascendency.

There was not much excitement, judged from the popular point of view, but there was intense interest in all sections of the land. From every state great delegations rushed rejoicingly to the cap ital: The year of Democratic jubilee had come. They struck the cymbals and they beat the drum. Look back, for a second only, at the group'ngs of 1361, and tell me of them all who remained to witness the renewed supremacy of the Democratic party. Lincoln's career was closed bj the bullet of the assassin Booth, and he took his place as the martyr president for all time and so long as earth endures.

Buchanan was gathered to his fathers, peacefully and in accordance with a long, patient, exemplary life. Chief Justice Taney, his name never to be forgotten, author of the famous Dred Scott decision and formulator of an idea that had reigned for a century, that negroe had "no rights which white men were bound to respect," also passed away years and years ago. The bright and beauteous maiden who presided over Buchanan's household is now a matured and matronly mother. Her successor from the far West sleeps the eternal sleep, and all the associate#, friends, advisors, close counselors of the man who, next to Washington, is beet beloved of all our presidents, Bleep in the oblivion of forever or shout with him hosannas to the highest as the case may be. Even the Democratic party, which then stood sullen and thoughtful by the

side of the Republican party full of joy and exultation, no longer existed whenGrover Cleveland came to the front. A new party with the old name bore him to Washington, and there with fewer troops, with less apprehension of difficulty, with no special embarrassment beyond the surplus in the treasury and a million applicants for a hundred thousand offices, he took the oath. It was a cheerless day, and the wind, 6harp and penetrating, cut across a multitudinous gathering that Btood, many bareheaded, as the president-elect began his address.

Cleveland never looked better than on this occasion. His coat was buttoned tight about his portly form. One hand was thrust int-o its fold, the other behind his back, and with a voice clear and ringing he uttered his address in a manly, clean cut and forceful way that produced a favorable impression upon friend and foe. Then, turning to take the oath, with those who stood beside him, he formed the central figure of a second historic group. On the left stood President Arthur, his face saddened by disappointment, lined and marked by just appreciation of unexpected responsibilities thrust upon him, with manners gentle and courteous, with a bearing becoming his high station.

On the right the president-elect, conspicuous for girth, wearing a b'hoy mustache, without associate beard, quiet, self-possessed, and not in the least surprised that he should have been selected as chief magistrate of 60,000 of people, and between them a short, inconspicuous personage, with long beard and thick gray hair, Chief Justice Waite, one of the best minds, one of the pureet hearts, one of the gentlest dispositions, one of the most equitable justices our supreme bench ever knew.

Alack and alas! If so soon they were to be done for, we wonder what they were begun for. Four little years have gone their useful way, and the Democratic party is emphatically informed that it is time for it to step down and get out. The Republicans have come to their own again, and in a few brief days a group which may, or may not, in later years, be regarded as significant, and of sufficient value to be called historic, will stand upon the same spot, and go through the same ceremo nies, as those gone through by Lincoln in 1861 and Cleveland in 1885, but under what different circumstances! Lincoln faced with rebellion, Cleveland faced with prosperity, Harrison faced with opportunity. The responsibilities put upon Abraham Lincoln, and the mighty men he brought into his cabinet,thank heaven, were not part and parcel of Cleveland's weighty duty. Equally fortunate is Mr. Harrison, in that he finds his country divided, not with hostile intent, but simply into the two great parties, the ins and the outB.

That Abraham Lincoln entered the White house as a partisan no critic was ever yet mean enough to suggest, and no one has ever dreamed that Grover Cleveland began his experiment as a partisan. It was not only his cue, but his necessity, to care first, last and all the time for Grover Cleveland. No man knew better than he the density of his ignorance of affairs. That he admitted at all times and under all circumstances. The necessity was upon him for constant thought, for hard work and for self-sacrifica.

Considering his utter unfamiliarity with national affairs in general, and with Washington procedure in particular, considering the* constant rapacity with which his giving power was assailed, and the unjust judgments formed concerning his motives, when he had no motive one way or the other, it seems to me that it is the squarest thing to pull the curtain down without a single word. We don't whip a willing horse, we don't scourge a striving scholar why should we condemn an endeavoring executive? He is not to be censured for his mental equipment. His lack of experience can not be charged against him.

He was selected by men who, presumably, knew what they were about. They took him as he stood, and it is a very small and contemptible^ act for them now, as palliation and excuse for their own mistakes, to sharply criticise one who did the best he could.

INAUGURAL DRESSES.

Those To Be Worn by tlie Ladies of the Presidential Party. The New York Tribune publishes the following description of the dresses which Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. McKee and Mrs. Morton will wear at the inaugural baU:

General Harrison and his family believe in protection more than that, they are patrons of home-made goods. Mrs. Harrison, in the furtherance of these patriotic ideas, resolved on a departure from precedents, decided to appear at the inaugural ball attired in an Ameri-can-made dress, fresh from the looms of an American manufacturer. Mrs. Harrison accordingly invited Colonel E. D. Woodruff, president of the Logan silk mills, of Auburn, N. Y., to Indianapolis, in consultation, and in conversation on the subject, Colonel Woodruff suggested that the dress should be original in design, purely American in all its features. Mrs. Harrison selected and determined on the burr oak leaf as the pattern. This oak grows in perfection in southern Indiana, and flourishes on the Tippecanoe farm.

Mrs. Harrison decided on the pattern in December, and as no oak leaf in perfect color could be found, the trees having long since shed their foliage, she summoned to her aid in this matter Miss Williamson, of Lafayette, Ind., an artist of ability. MIBS Williamson supplied the needed sketch from memory, and from this sketch the Logan silk mills worked out the design of the oak leaf and burr. The work on the design is exceedingly elaborate, requiring four weeks of constant application of the best designer in the employ of the mills. The pattern for the skirt of the dress consists of four panels, the oak leaf and burr worked on each panel in form and color remarkably close to the original. The effect is rich and striking. It is claimed by the makers that this is the most elaborate work ever attempted and accomplished on silk looms in America. A proof of the pattern was sent from Auburn to Mrs. Harrison, at Indianapolis, in January. Mrs. Harrison not only gave it her approval, but expressed astonishment that such exquisite fabrics could be produced in this country. The material for the entire dress is the product of the Logan silk mills.

The dress is a combination of brocade on a satin of French gray, with a faille to match. It is made by Gbormley, of New York. He has used a faille of the same shade as the tinge of the oak leaf, which is near an apricot, and overlaid it with a magnificent flounce of lace, both being laid in lengthwise plaits in front of skirt and in the center of sides to divide the two panels. The panels are seven inches wide and forty inches long, the design woven in the center of the width to a graceful point at the top each

edge of the panel is faced with an insertion of lace and edged with a short fringe of gold and silver. The long train, which is all of plain faille, has a slight fullnees at the top the waist is cut low, shape back and front, then'*finished up the neck with a closely fitted piece of bead work in gold and silver elbowsleeves finished with paesementerie in metal effect with gold and silver the Bame finished the neck, and from all hangs an effective fringe in gray, gold and Bilver.

So well pleased were Mrs. Harrieon and the family ^ith the pattern, that General Harrison himself expressed a desire that Mrs. McKee, his daughter, should also appear at the inaugural ball in a dress of American production. Mrs. McKee selected for the design of her dress the Indiana golden rod, a great favorite with the general. The_ Indiana golden rod is quite unlike the New York golden rod and again the services of Miss Williamson were required to make the sketch of this western branch of the golden rod family. The sketch was sent to the Logan silk mills, and admirably reproduced in silk. The dres3 made by Gbormley from this material, and to be worn by Mrs. McKee on the evening of March 4, is a brocade in the design of golden rod on a cream ground. The waist and train are of brocade,cut with a slight fulness in the back the front of the skirt is a grape-green velvet, with the brocade laid in deep plaits, each side showing only two inches of the velvet when standing, but in walking shows as if it were an underskirt of velvot. Over the brocade is a skirt of gold silk, laid in "very fine plaits, seven inches below the waist, then left to fall full to the bottom of the skirt. The lower edges of the seven-inch plaits are fastened with a band of amber beads, with long pendants. The waist is cut low and a unique arrangement of the amber bead work put over the corsage, fitting up close around the neck, elbow sleeves, with the same amber trimmings.

The dress which Mrs. Levi. P. Morton will wear at the inauguration ball was also manufactured to order from the raw silk by the same company, the design being the most equisite ever seen here, and the texture abd finish of the fabric aa fine as anythiag of the sort ever manfactured in America.

The trimming, a rich embroidery in gold and silver glass beads on white satin, was all made by hand by an American woman in New York, and the dress itself was cut and made by Miss Ellen Darrett, No. 19 east Thirty-first street.

The material of which this superb ball dress is made is a rich satin brocade of a ground tint somewhat more golden than cream color. The figure being a graceful reproduction of the Scotch thistle of which, in point of size and detail, it is a faithful representation. The train and sides of the skirt are composed exclusively of this material, as also the back and sides of the body the front of both skirt and body is of white satin, artistically trimmed with the embroidery mentioned, which at a little distance looks like dazzling jewel work. As a whole, it is rich, exquisite and artistic, and suggesting a delicate discrimination on the part of the manufacturer in producing a piece of goods of such admirable harmony.

Mrs. Morton was delighted when the satin was shown her she admitted that she had never seen a more beautiful piece of satin brocade, and that she had previously no idea that anything approaching it was produced in this country. Mrs. Morton's dress is cut with low neck and short sleeves, and will un­

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doubtedly be considered by all who see it a brilliant achievement of the manufacturers and the dressmaker's art.

Inangiiratlon|Xotes.

At present there are as many visitors in the cltj now as there was upon inauguration daj four rears ago.

The streets swarm with hawkers of all sorts of elecUon devices, badges and pins ard medallions and designs of ever? description, photographs, log sablns, caricatures, souvenirs, etc.

The spirit of the time may be succinctly and accurately expressed in the notice which will be hung upjln every Washington bar-room during Inauguration week, -No Mixed Drinks." While the crowd remains there will be no time for putting on frills.

There will be a fifteen or twentv-car train on every block on the Baltimore A Ohio road. As one passes out toward Washington the next following will be let into the block Just vacated, and so. hour after hour, the people will pour Into Washington. Nearly every line will duplicate the experience of tilts railroad.

Among the odd things exhibited, out of the thousands of such things on the streets, were two dressed sheep hanging in the front of a new restaurant One had carved in ml and white on his back a picture of Harrison, the other a picture of Morton, and both, by the way, really excellent likenesses. though the only materials were red meat and white fat, and the Instrument a carving knife.

People who attend thinking the Inaugural ball Is an exclusive alTalr will find themselves bumping up against all sorts of people and characters, making an Incongruous and mixed assemblage, with many shady persons of both sexes, who have paid their $5 and come In, as they would do at a theater. The Inaugural ball Is not a society event, it Is a $5 affair.

Little or no outside arrangements have been made for the protection of the people from pickpockets and thieves. Four years ago there was an ample supply of detectives brought here from New York. Philadelphia. Baltimore and other cities, who could Identity their own crooks. A great many thieves are expected from the West, and more people will come from that direction than ever before. The crooks will come along to work the crowded trains on the way.

It has been customary for the clerk of the supreme court to provide a Bible to be used for the president-elect to take the oath upon, but (Jeneral Harrison has brought with him from home an old Bible that he has used for many years and carried all through the war In his saddle-bags. He prefers to use this, and Mr. McKenney, the clerk of the court, has been so notified by Mr. Halford. Mr. Henry C. Bowen, the editor of the New York Independent, brought over with him the Bible on which Washington was sworn when'he took the first oath as president, and he wants that used, but Mr. Harrison's associations with his old army companions are too strong to permit of it. The chair In which Washington sat when he was Inaugurated on the steps of the old custom house In New York has been brought nnd will be placed upon the platform for the use of General Harrison during the ceremonies. It Is a venerable but stanch piece ol furniture.

Satisfaction Wanted.

Magistrate (to Mrs. Con Kelly)—You claim, Mrs. Kelly, that Mrs. O'Toolihan gave you that bruised and blackened face?

Mrs. Con Kelly—She did,, yer honor, or I'm not Irish born. Magistrate—And what you want is damages?

Mrs. Kelly—Naw, sir I want satisfaction. I have damages enough.—[Harper's Msgazine.

Committed Suicide with Whisky. WAHASH, Ind., March 2.—Thomas Garst dissolved an ounce of quinine iu a pint of whisky last night and drank the mixture with suicidal intent. He died at 3 o'clock this morning. The deceased was a pioneer of the county and leaves a wife and four children.

To-Night And To-Morrow Night, And each day and night during this week you can get at all druggists' Kemp's Balsam for the throat and lungs, acknowledged to be the most successful remedy ever sold for the cure of coughs, croup, bronchitis, whooping cough, asthma, and consumption. Get a bottle to-day and keep it always in the house, so you can check your cough at once. Price 50 cents and $1. Sample bottles free.

Our Closing Out Sale

Offers Another Great Attraction.

Muslin Underwear

To be Slaughtered

1,1. NEXT KKK

It will be a Lively Week in Underwear.

On Our 25c Table

You will find Ladies' Night Dress, "White Skirts, Chemises, Drawers, Corset Covers, Children's Drawers, Infant's Slips, Children's Dresses also, Lawn Aprons.

On Our Table

A splendid assortment of well-made garments, comprising Night Dresses, neatly trimmed, Tucked Skirts, Elegantly Finished Chemises and Drawers, Corset Covers, perfect fitting and handsomely trimmed, at about cost of material.

Our 50c Line

Consists of Night Dresses, White Skirts with Embroidery or Torchon Ruffle, Chemises cut Pompadour style, handsomely trimmed Drawers to match and Corset Covers in various styles.

The T5c Garments

Are made from fine muslins and cambrics. They comprise Night Gowns, .Mother Hubbard style and trimmed with fine Embroidery or Torchon Lace, "White Skirts with deep Embroidery Ruffle or Torchon Lace Chemises in newest styles and finest quality of trimmings, Drawers to match Corset Covers in all shapes, of best Embroidery or lorchon trimmings.

For $1.00

A few Bridal Sets, Elegantly Trimmed Night Dresses, Chemises and Drawers, one dollar each piece, well worth doul.»le the money also, Night Dresses, "White Skirts, Chemises, Drawers and Corset Covers.

An Early Inspection of this Extraordinary Sale is Solicited.

Carpenter's Boston Store,

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