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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
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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.
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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.
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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.