People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — THOUSANDS WILL BE THERE. [ARTICLE]

THOUSANDS WILL BE THERE.

Great Crowds Expected at the Inauguration of President-Elect Cleveland—Ho-tel-Keepers Anticipate Harvest—Big Board Bill of the Clevelands—Programme of the Ceremonies Outlined. Washington, Feb. 22.- Already the preparations for the inauguration of Mr. Cleveland and the entertainment of the thousands of democrats who will be in the city on that occasion are nearly complete. The reviewing stand in front of the white house has been finished and the dozens of pavilions from which visitors may watch the inaugural parade will be ready within a couple of days, it is estimated that these pavilions, which are scattered along Pennsylvania avenue from the foot of Capitol hill to Twentythird street, nearly 2 miles distant, will furnish seats for 100,000 people. It is needless to say that another 100,000 or so are expected to line the sidewalks along the route of the procession. This great army of visitors will have to be housed and fed, and the hotels and boarding houses innumerable have already elevated prices in anticipation of a harvest. All of the hotels will be crowded and few of them have any room to spare even thus early. At the Metropolitan, for example, the prices range from $12 a day upward. At Welker’s, which is a small hotel on the European plan, the rates range from S40 to S200 a week for rooms. The Normandie has contracted to take care of 200 people at $5 a day each, and it is quite full. Mr. Morton’s big caravansary, the Shoreham, has engaged to take care of 650 people at $5 a day and upward on the European plan. The prices at the Arlington will I be $5 and over per day. At Wormley’s you would have to engage rooms at $10 a day and keep them for six days. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland will stop at the Arlington The rooms which the Cleveland family will occupy are in the northern part of the building. They are five in number and overlook Vermont aveoue and I street. They are a parlor, a dining-room and three bedrooms. The presidential board bill, it is said, will be $475 a day. The demand for rooms in this hotel has been so great since it was learned that Mr. Cleveland had engaged quarters in it that the proprietor says he has been obliged to refuse applications almost daily from persons who offer $50 a day and upward. Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson have engaged quarters at the Ebbitt. The inauguration ceremonies will begin with the taking of the oath of office and the reading of the inaugural address at the east front of the capitol at noon of Saturday, March 4. Immediately upon the conclusion of this ceremony the procession will form and march down Pennsylvania avenue past the white house to Washington circle at Twenty-third street and thence back on K street to Mount Vernon square at Ninth street. There it will disband, and in the evening the inauguration ball will be given In the pension building, where it was held four years ago. There will also be a grand display of fireworks at night. The capitol building will be illuminated by nine electric suns, and the treasury building, a mile away, will be illuminated by two. A colonial salute of thirteen guns will be fired on Capitol hill and a return salute of the same number will be fired near the Washington monument The Marine band of Washington and Zimmerman’s orchestra from the naval academy will furnish the music for the ball The band gives two sacred concerts on Sunday night and a concert on Monday night. In the inaugurai parade will be the governors of fourteen states, accompanied by their staff officers. The states to be thus represent 1 are Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Qliio, Wisconsin, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and. Louisiana. Most of these states will also be represented by their militia organizations. Maryland is expected to send 3,000 state troops and Pennsylvania at least 5,000. Two regiments will come from New York and one from Texas. The District of Columbia milkia will be out in full force, and the United States troops from Fortress Monroe, Fort Meyer, Washington barracks and Fort McHenry will lead the procession. There will be civic organizations in line from many states. | Gen. Martin T. McMahon, of New York, will be chief marshal of the parade, and his assistants in command of the civic organizations will be Col. William Dickson, of Washington. An armed escort in citizens’ clothing will accompany President-elect Cleveland. Mr. Oliver T. Beaumont, chairman of the committee on carriages at the inauguration ceremonies, has received an autograph letter from Presidentelect Cleveland in which he says: “In reply to your letter of the 6th Inst. I have to say that I desire the ideas of President Harrison carried out as to my conveyance to the inaugural ceremonies. A very sensible suggestion is attributed to him in the newspapers, and that is that I ride In bis carriage, as be did in mine on the 4th of March, 1889." Mr. Cleveland will return from the capitol to the reviewing stand in the carriage furnished by the senate committee on arrangements. Albert Hawkins, Mr. Cleveland’s old driver, who has been employed as a messenger in the pension office, will be on the box. It is said that the turnout will be the finest that ever came up Pennsylvania avenue. The vehicle will be drawn four jetblack horses. The harness will be white and each horse will be attended by a footman in white livery.