The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-02-18
TO be a Big Thing Sure.
GRAND PREPARATIONS BEING PER-
FECTED FOR THE INAUGURATION
Of PRESIDENT GARFIELD
"unv THE PEOPLE ARE

GRAND PREPARATIONS BEING PER-
FECTED FOR THE INAUGURATION :
of PRESIDENT GARFIELD
HOW THE PEOPLE ARE
TO BE ACCOMMODATED.I
[Fxom the St. Louis Globe Democrat :
What with the most elaborate dec
orations and colors, parade, fireworks,
and the brilliant reception and ball, the
Inauguration of President Garfield will
pass into history as the most memOra-
BILE event of the kind known in the an
nails of the nation. The general COM
mittee, having matters in charge, is
constituted of men who appear to have
given over all thoughts OF business, or
of anything else, and devote, their en-
tire time to perfecting details to insure
a success which will stand unparalleled
The most important requisite for the
complete fulfillmcnt of all OF the elab-
crate plans, namely, money, appears to
be on demand in almost unlimited
amounts, and certainly Washington is
out-doing herself in the way Of liberal
subscriptions and this, together with
the offerings of public funciionaries,
Congressman and the like, Swell the
aggregate to a little fortune. Indeed,
it will take little fortune to carry out
the programme; fol-, among other things:
it as proposed to erect grand arches for
each and every State in the Union, and
in addition, triumphal arches at the
entrance to the Capitol Grounds, and
! at the White House and Treasury
Buildings, and other PROMINENT points
in the city. The arches will be con-
| structed after pattern at once artistic
and effective, and, together with the
general display throughout the city,
will alone repay the cost and trouble OF
d visit to the National Capital. The
military parade promises to be the
grandest in all the country seen since
the memorable review at .he close OF
the war. There is hardly doubt but
what the number of soldiers participant
ing win exceed twenty thousand, and
this, with the civic associations and the
carriages containing the President-elect
President Hayes, the Cabinet and the
most distinguished men of the country,
| will make parade witnessed only once
| in a decade. The action of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company Is
agreeing to run trains every half hour
between Washington and Baltimore
has very much simplified the question
of accommodating the great crowd OF
people in attendance; in fact, has prac-
tically settled it, for by this means the
hotels Of Baltimore will be as advanta'
geous to stop at as those OF Washing
ton. The regular schedule time of the
Baltimore and Ohio between the two
cities is but one hour, and with its
Washington depot is but one square
from the Capitol Grounds, and its
Baltimore depot within a few square;
of the leading hotels, the visitor
will be enabled to reach the Capt.
tai fully as quick from Baltimore
as from most of the Washington hotels
The fare between the two cities ha:
been placed at the nominal rate Of six
ty cents, and there will be no increas'
whatever in the charges at the Balti
more hotels. For the accommodation
of those who desire to remain in Wash
ington to witness the grand display O
fireworks and attend the grand recep
ton and ball, trains will be run wa.
into the night and as late as there ar
people who wish to return TO Baltimore
The Baltimore and Ohio being the Onl.
direct line from st. Louis and the ives
to Washington, it has nGde every pre-
paration for the accommodation OF tn
very largely increased travel which
will have next month. The "Dais
Train" which leaves here in the morn
!. ing, and which arrives in Washineto
, seven hours in advance Of the quickes
trsins by other roads, will he run in a
. many sections as will insure meetin
the demands upon it; cv.ry care wi
be taken to insure the arrival in Wasl
+ ington promptly on time: The passeI
. ger department of the Baltimore an
+ Ohio has just gotten out very hant
some ii tile ciscular containing, anon
;. other things, a brief sketch of the di
q ferent presidents and also the offici'
: programme of the inaugural proceet
!, ings. It can he had of any of the Ba
!, timorc and Ohio agents, or will |
o promptly forwarded by return mail
: all who care to drop postal card, 81,
- ing their address, to c. X. Lord, G.
n A., Baltimore, Md.