The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, February 21, 1909, Section Six, Image 53

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Newspaper Page Text1909. una A 1 N jsis2SJs ALL PRECEDENTS TO BE BROKEN BY NEW MAM REIHG THE GUEST OF THE RETIRING r -executive; details or the great ceremonial I n - . f: Jl'tijAH J? , $n:'ltiKfr,Mfrt-'IL - - f M - V - Sft r TT: if..1-i ,Kr .Tjp J3 H 'nf1 j ' i?V ' Jn.---" , f r ' "- i ' -miBfMiiiiiiMirfi?''m li I, mi!... "t g1 trmm ' - naMMMiat Ji'iiJI' r iii hu m mm'- : - : - --1t-'-ji- LMriMMMMIllilWtti'iM!'W'M Hilliriiiil;iWilimiMiwi' n..,,.,.. , . MnimwiMimiMiUMiwni BY JOHN ELFRETH W ATKINS. I R. TAKT'S inauguration will be replete with unique features and will establish some intereistlng precedents. When the President-elect enters Washington a day or two before the Inaugural ceremony the. new '"presi dential Suite" of the great Union Sta tion will be formally used for the first time. This suite, occupying1 the east King of the new depot, contains two handsomely furnished retiring rooms and a magnificent reception-roon. SO by 100 feet. When Mr. Taft enters the suite by a vestibule leading from the foyer of the station he will find a com mittee awaiting him in this reception room, whose walls are beautifully pan eled In mahogany and whose floor is covered by coFtly rugs. Mr. Ttt will not go to a hotel, as . other Presidents-elect have done. He and Mrs. Taft will drive to the White House, where they will be the guests of the Roosevelt family until tha " stroke of noon on March 4 makes Mr. Taft himself the landlord of that man sion. World's Biggest Crowd in One Rooli ThlB happy blending of one Adminis tratlon Into the ther will be made possible not only by the fact that the Roosevelts and Tafts are warm per sonal friends, but by the further fact that since Garfield succeeded Hayes this will bo the first inauguration par ticipated In by a President and Presl dent-elect of the same political party While the Tafts are visiting the Roosevelts Washington will witness the assemblage of the biggest crowd ever previonsly gathered together one room In any part of the world. This space, the biggest single room under one roof to be found on earth. Is the vast concourse of the Union Sta tlon. It is 755 feet long by 130 feet feet wide, which means about 100,000 square feet of floor space. The Wash Ington Monument could be laid on this floor with 100 feet to spare at either end. and it is estimated that the en tire army of the United Slates could be lined up in the Immense room at one time. Thus arriving and departing In augural guests will not be squeezed and Jammed at this, the biggest station In the world, as they have been on pre vlous occasions of the kind. Their trains will come Into the depot on 33 tracks, some having platforms on both ides. Visitors will be interested to know that under the room of this new station are a chapel, a police station, a club and a Y. M. C. A-, besides the President's private station and an im mense waiting-room 220 by 130 feet As President-elect and Mrs. Taft ride from the station they will find every square anJ triangle along Pennsyl vania avenue covered with a grand stand decorated with flags and bunt ing, and as they turn into the two blocks fronting the Treasury. White House and State. War and Navy build ings, they will find the space convert ed Into a court of honor lined with hundreds of festooned masts flanked with towering draped columns. In front of the White House Itself will stretcii the reviewing stand, where the new President, surrounded by the of ficials of the Federal and state gov ernments, will view the Inaugural pa rade: and Lafayette Square, directly across the court of honor, will be lined by a mammoth grand stand a block long. Beginning of the Ceremonies. The inaugural ceremonies proper will commence at 10 A. M., March 4, when the President and President-elect will leave the White House together In an open victoria drawn by four horses and escorted by a grand division of the veterans of our various wars. Mr. Roosevelt will sit at Mr. Taffs right, the former being still President and having the honor seat in the vehicle. With their escort they will pass through the court of honor and along the full length of Pennsylvania ave nue. The grand stands will all be full, even by tiits time, and the cheering will probably be deafening, for this i wlll be last appearance of Theodore, -r r TV ! .v..Jbv .arls -ntfr;& Mw . iulVJW xv . -V 1 b w V; i " 1 - 4? ,J .tUff rVL - '- "tsifTiW ja.aMa-jcM a- hvm isf i si sMaaass mi ii ssMSsssesasiiii iimif silaMssMssMaaMss eet brick structure In the world. The great court in which the bnll will be held has a floor space of 130 by feet, and is overlooked by four tiers of galleries. Fiom these Mr. and Mrs. Taft and Mr. and Mrs. Sherman will be seen to promenade the length of the ballroom before taking their places In their boxes arranged at one end of the first gallery. An Innovation will be the attendance at the ball of one spe cial representative from each state. Ches ter A. Arthur, representing Colorado, will be one of the most conspicuous of these special functionaries. Xo wine will be served at the ball supper, and the rnuslo will coass at 1 A. M. Washington. D. C, Feb. 35. Giants of Senate 50 Years Ago to t x( rx, iv st." r t -! a rjt K'a,- ' a ri tiKtt v I sr, tia w i 7 If '?X Roose'elt as President of the United States, and the people will raise their voices in a grand farewell to him as well as a vociferous welcome to Mr. Tatt. Ceremonies In the Senate. The President and President-elect will enter the Senate wing of the Cap itol by the bronze doors in the east front, each accompanied by a member of the Congressional committee on ar rangements. Mr. Roosevelt will go im mediately to the "President's room" and Mr. Taft to the "Vlce-Presidtnt's room," both luxuriously furnished apartments. Mr. Roosevelt will busy himself sign ing the bills passed during the waning hours of the 60th Congress, which will still be in session. Mr. Taft will be entertained by the committee on ar rangements. The diplomatic corps, in court dress, will assemble In the mar ble room and at 11:15 will pass In a body Into the Senate chamber," where they will occupy seats on the right side of the presiding officer. Then the Supreme Court will enter, followed by the Cabinet, the high officers of the Army and Navy, the Governors of the states and the members of the House of Representatives. The Taft, Roose velt, Sherman and Fairbanks families will pass Into the gallery to the west of that reserved for the ladles of the diplomatic corps. Meanwhile Vice-President-elect Sherman will have joined Mr. Taft In the Vice-President's room. The Senate with Its newly elected members will already have been convened by President Roosevelt. Everything being ready, Mr. Roose velt and Mr. Taft will enter the Sen ate and take -eeat in front of the pre- J siding officer. Mr. Sherman will then enter and receive the oath of office as Vice-President, this being administered by Senator Frye, of Maine, the pres ident pro tempore of the Senate. The new Senators having been sworn in, the inaugural proceedings proper will be announced. Procession Through the Capitol. All assembled In the Senate will then proceed through the rotunda of the Capitol to the east portico. They will pass fh solemn procession, headed by the marshals of the United States Su preme Court and of the. District of Columbia. On reaching the portico they will find it converted into an Im mense flag-covered stand seating 7000 persons. In the front and center of this Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft will take chairs, with Chief Justice Fuller on their right and the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate on their left. The Chief Justice, who has so acted at five for mer Inaugurations, will then adminis ter the oath of office to Mr. Taft. who will accentuate it by kissing the ope'n page of a Bible especially selected for the ceremony. Bareheaded in the open air. Mr. Taft will then read his inau gural addresss, while tens of thous ands of people crowded Into th space between the Capitol and the Library of Congress will crane their necks to get a view of him. Meanwhile the grand divisions of the inaugural parade proper will have been assembled in the streets lining the CapItoL Contrary to precedent, ex-President Roosevelt will not return to the White .House with President Taft, but at the con clusion of the latter'a adress will-drive with Mrs. Roosevelt immediately to Filipino constabulary, which has come the Union station, escorted by a dele- from the antipodes to honor their former gation of citizens of New York, who will see him on the train for Oyster Bay. Great Parade Starts. raj The head of the great inaugural pa rade will leave the Capitol at 1:20. Ahead of President Taft and his es cort will march General Franklin Bell, chief of staff of the Regular Army, who will be the grand marshal of the pro cession. It having been the experience of past Inaugurations that the civic bodies cannot withstand the strain of waiting in line so well as the regulars and militiamen, the civic grand division of the parade will march first. This will be composed mostly of political clubs men in distinctive dress, carry ing emblems of various sorts. Many unique features will be seen in this part of the procession. There will be a "'possum club," from Geor gia; an "alligator association," from Louisiana; pink-coated gentlemen hun ters, from the fox-chasing districts of Virginia and Maryland; a "prosperity division," composed of commercial and professional organizations, represent ing billions of dollars' capital; hun dreds of Kentucklans, headed by Mr. Bradley, their newly-elected Senator, and all wearing the "Bradley hat," made famous in that picturesque gent leman's political campaigns of the past 45 years. The National Guard of the various states, each headed by its Governor, mounted on horseback, will march in the order in which the states came Into the Union, little Delaware coming first, Penn sylvania second. &nd Oklahoma, laat The Governor-General all fine v specimens of the Filipino race will march with their famous native band. There will be. also a "cadet' division," Including the West Pointers in chapeaus and gray swallow tall uniforms; the Annapolis boys, in their blue blouses, and many other school ca dets, Including those of the Virginia Mil itary Institute, bearing the torn battle flag which their historic battalion car ried May 15, ISM, when it helped defeat Siegel's forces at Newmarket. Sailors From Fleet to Parade. " The bluejackets of the great fleet which has Just ended its" world tour will also parade along with the marines, and a grand division of regular soldiers, com prising nearly the whole Department of the Bast. Mr. Taft, at the head of the parade, will traverse Pennsylvania avenue In about 40 minutes, his horifcs being driven at a walk. Arriving at the White House at 2 P. M. he will there find Mrs. Taft and his children, who will have been driven back through the Mall, south of the pa rade route. The new President will then sit down to the first White House meal at which he will be host. While. he and his family eat this luncheon the parade will be halted upon Pennsylvania avenue for 45 minutes. At 2:45- the President will take his position in his private box in the center of the reviewing stand and the entire procession will then pass before him. One parade Innovation to be men tioned at this stage is the giving -of or ders that only the first band passing in front of the Presidential box shall play "Hail to iiaa.GhkilJ' former. Prasidents, H who have had to stand and listen to this air for three hours, and from hundreds of bands, have been unable to get It out of their heads, even In sleeping moments, during the first weeks of their adminis tration, and on some occasions Its mem ories are said to have interfered with ex ecutive business. !Lurulnou9 Airship Display. About 6 o'clock, the parade being over, President Taft and family will re-enter the White House, where from their rear windows they will at 7:30 witness the be ginning of what Is promised to be the most wonderful fireworks display ever seen In the world. This will Include tow ering fire portraits of Mr. Taft and Mr. Sherman, and most wonderful of all a colossal representation of a lighted city being bombarded from the heavens by a fleet of luminous airships. This "fire city," which is to be built In the grounds of the Washington Monument, will show the outlines of a typical, up-to-date cen ter of population with towers and sky sorapers, some 100 feet high. A fleet of airships will be seen to approach it and an opposing aerial squadron go out and defend it. A terrific encounter will then ensue, the airships exploding after the hostile ones have dropped explosives into the city, which has crumbled and gone up in flames. There will also be an ascent of magnesium balloons, the unfurling of a fiery American flag 1000 feet in the air and the display of a pillar of fire 100 feet high, which will give a daylight effect to the great monument and to the heavens for several miles around. j At 10 o'clock Mr. Taft and Mr. Sherman with their families will attend the lnau- fcuiai toalL-at the Pension Office, tha larg- Washlngton Letter to Louisville Cour ier-Journal. On January 4, 1S5U, the Senate was called to order in the old chamber, and soon after the Journal of the last sit ting was read, Mr. Davis made his re port which represented the new cham ber as safe and ready for occupation. Although he was chairman of the ar rangements committee, and miwlit havo appropriately taken a more conspicuous part in the ceremonies. Mr. Davis re frained from more than the simple announcement, and it was upon hfs suggestion that the ceremony was marked by the simple and impressive proceedings which made the day great and memorable in the history of the Senate. Senator John J. Crittenden, of Ken tucky, was to speak, on moving the adoption of the committee's report, and the president of the Senate was to put the question, which being de cided in the affirmative, he was to con elude with an address suitable to the occasion. No scene In the Senate was ever more deeply Impressive. How well Mr. Pa vis planned and assigned the chief roles of the parts enacted may be judged In the lofty and splendid addresses of Crittenden and Breckinridge. And what an audience they had! What an array of great American characters sat under the charm of eloquence of these two Kentucklans! There was Jefferson Davis, In two years to be the President of the con federate states, with Albert O. Brown for his colleague from Mississippi; Stephen A. Doutflas in the glory of a rcnt victory over Abraham Lincoln; Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, soon to be Vice-President to Lincoln, who was destined to the Presidency larpely through his great debate with Douglas In the Summer of 1S58; William H. Seward, to he Lincoln's Secretary of State; Charles Sumner, fit successor, as he Immediately had been, of Daniel Webster; Henry Wilson, to be Vice President with Ulysses S. Grant as President; Andrew Johnson, to be Vice President and President of the United States; John Bell, soon to be a candi date of a vast number of citizens who esteemed the Union above political parties; Robert Toombs and Ben Wade, the antipodes of Southern and Northern sectional spirit; James A. Bayard, whose father was a Senator, and whose son, Thomas F. Bayard, was to be a Senator; David Broderick, the fearless Callfornlan, who died in a duel with Judce Terry of the Supreme Court of his state; Stephen R. Mallory, to be the Confederate Secretary of the Navy; Ju dah P. Benjamin, to be the Confederate Attorney-General; John SUdell, his col league from Louisiana, with James M. Ma30n, of Virginia, to be arrested on the steamer Trent while on their way to Entrland as commissioners of the Confederate government; C. C. Clay and Benjamin Fitzpatrick, of Ala bama, Robert W. Johnson, of Arkansas, James Dixon, of Connecticut, David L. Yulee, of Florida, Lyman Trumbull, riiinnio Tesse 11. Britrht. of Indiana, James Harlan and George W. Jones, of Iowa, John B. Thompson, of Kentucky, William Pitt Fessenden, of Maine, Za chariah Chandler, of Michigan, James S Green and Trusten Polk, of Missouri, John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, Thomas L. Clingman. of North Caro lina Joseph Lane, of Oregon, to b candidate for Vice-President on the ticket with Breckinridge; oimou am- eron , or fennHyivaiun, 'i'1"-" .i" f South Carolina. Robert M- T. Hunter, of Virginia, James Doolittle, of Wisconsin, Samuel Houston, v. nu had been a Representative in Congresi from Tennessee and Governor of that state, and the first ir'ressaenc or m Republic of Texas, and James Shields, representing Minnesota in the Senate, who had previously represented Illin ois and was yet to represent Missouri In the earns body.