Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1917 — Inaugural Parade Takes Four Hours For Review. [ARTICLE]

Inaugural Parade Takes Four Hours For Review.

The procession which marked President Wilson’s second inaugural Monday with windwhipped flags over Pennsylvania avenue from the Capitol to the white house between open lines of khaki bronzed .guardsmen from New York, home from service on the border. It was the first time since the inauguration of Lincoln in 1861, when the nation faced the crisis of civil war, that troops had guarded the line of march. Despite the wind and tfie Lowering clouds and the downpour of the previous day, almost every foot of vantage space along the mile-long was occupied and the great reviewing stands, windows, balconies and housetops held thousands more. President Wilson and his escort, Squadron B of the Second Cavalry, left the white house at 11 o’clock, the . president and Mrs. Wilson riding in an open carriage drawn by four horses, preceded by mounted police and cavalry and flanked by secret service men. The vice-president followed in another carriage with the smart looking escort from Culver Military Academy, mounted on black horses.