People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — INAUGURATION SOUVENIRS. [ARTICLE]

INAUGURATION SOUVENIRS.

Tasteful and Handsome Design to Commemorate the Event. The souvenir that will accompany the invitations to the inaugural ball is considered a very handsome design. The front page of the cover contains a clear and striking engraving of the pension building as it will look on the night of the ball to observe™ outside. The windows show the brilliant illumination within, and a silver moon sails in the heavens over it. At the lower left hand comer of the cover is an engraved view of the interior of the pension office court while the ball is in progress, shpwing the columns that support the massive roof and the crowds on the floor. In the lower right hand comer, in gold letters, are the words, “Inaugural Ball, March 4, 1897.” The back of the cover contains a striking effect, a dazzling American flag emerging to view from the midst of a cloudburst. The inside pages of the souvenir were designed and executed at the bureau of engraving and printing. The first page is devoted to portraits, which are particularly strong and characteristic likenesses of President Elect McKinley and Vice President Elect Hobart. The portraits are arranged on either side of an erect figure of Liberty, holding in her right hand the national standard, whose staff rests upon the ground. On the lower part of the page are engravings of ■ thejfhite House and the United States cajffol building. The second page is devoted to a beautifully executed engraving of a large tablet, printed i® terracotta tints, which contains the names of the officers and members of the inaugural executive committee. On the right hand lower comer of the page is a beautifnl woman representing the allegory of music, and on the left hand side is a vase, from which spring a palm and laurel boughs. The last page is particularly appropriate in its design for the oocasion it will commemorate. In the center is a coat of arms of the United States, flanked on either side by the coats of arms of Ohio and New Jersey. Altogether the production is by far the most artistic aud striking souvenir of an inauguration ball yet designed.