Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-08
THE INAUGURATION.
The Grandest Pageant of the Age.

The Grandest Pageant of the Age.
80 From the Washington correspondence
of the New York Times, we copy the fol-
lowing graphic description of how Penn
sylvania Avenue appeared on the morning
! of the inauguration #7f'
Thousands of visitors added to the thou
sands of the days before crowded the hotels
and boarding houses, and overlooked into
the streets, trayeling-bag in hand, in the
all but vain search for quarters. The troops
moved to their rendezvous almost on tile
double quick, pedestrians bundled them
selves as against the rudest blasts winter,
and on every hand, as friend met friend,
the universal exclamation was, Isn't 1t
cold ?n But, though the cold was bitter
40 and pinched the civic display on hestreets,
the arrangements on all hands were
smooth, simple and perfect in execution,
There was to the procession and inaugural
ceremony no mishap and no accident.
-rrEyerybody and everything, except the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was on time,
and though everybody but the hale and
hearty shrank from the exposure of the
day there was good feeling and gay spirits
everywhere present. The contests of the
winter session, the acrimonies of Credit
Mobilier, the charges and counter charges
of debate and controversy, all faded away
into the darkness of the past, and as the
duties of the Senators and Representatives
were lifted one by one from Off their un-
easy minds, the spirit of peace and forgive
ness seemed to resume its place, the lost
and forgotten amenities were resumed in
the intercourse of men, and the vision, here
tofore so intent upon the past, turned hope
fully once more to the future. ]
THE PROCESSION
ono President was ever escorted to the in
%ayiguratiOn ceremonies at the national
Capitol by SO large, brilliant, or representa-
tive a military procession, as that which
to-day moved with pomp and grandeur to
~thesecond Inauguration of President Grant
Though piercing cold wind swept down
the broad avenue, chilling through and
through even the most comfortably clad of
the troops in line, the bright sun-rays
4. brought out conspicuously and brilliantly
the bright uniforms, gilded trappings and
FURNISHED arms and equipments of the
troops. No betteropportunity could be afr
forded the military for displaying to fine
they enjoyed to-day on the clean-swept
broad avenue, with its smooth pavement
leading from the White House to the Capt.
tol. Thousands of people from every State
gathered to see the grand military display.
Men who had marched through dozen
States when there was but little chance for
pomp and parade, came to see the military
organizations from dozen States partici-
pate in the peace triumph of their great and
beloved leader. Pennsylvania avenue was
decorated most deliberately; every build
ing was covered with flags, and from every
window foated streamers and banners.
Every window was occupied, every bal
cony and temporary platform was filled,
and the sidewalks were thronged by peo-
pie long before the procession began NOV
ing. Choice positions affording sight of
the avenue for some distance commanded
extra prices Rushing and scrambling from
an early hour in the morning, the vast
crowd eagerly took possession of every tree,
box and railing on either side of the av-
enue, and stood through the long hour oc-
cupied by the procession in passing given
point.