New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-05
PRICE FOUR CENTS.
INAUGURAL CEREMONIES.
GARFIELD TIE PRESIDENT.

Extraordinary popular interest was taken in
the Inauguration of General Garfield as Presi.
dent OF the United States, and the crowds Of
strangers in Washington, military and civil
ians, were almost phenomenally great Un-
usual preparations were made to mark tho
event. and the disagreeable weather did not
cause popular enthusiasm and curiosity to
abate. At the proper hour, in tho
Senate Chamber, General Arthur was
installed Vice President, and later, General
Garfield took tie oath of Office in the pres
ence OF an immense multitude. The military
display was unusually fine, and the bearing
OF the various bodies of troops was much
commended by competent critics The ina,l-
'guration ball was considered great success.
THE CROWDS AND THE DECORATIONS
HOTELS, HOUSES AND STREETS THRoSGsn-GAY
MASSES OF CoLoR-THE PUBLIC BtILDINGs-A
| STORMY NIGHT AND DAMP MORNING
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRrsUNgl
WASHINGTON, March 4.-There is always room foi
one more and one more visitor could have ebowed
his way into the National Capital this morning: but
ne would have found it hard to get corner to sleep
n and harder work to fight for corner at the hotel
| dinner-table. sr'-
The visitors have been coming for three days, lit.
orally by train loads battalions and regiments.
They have been sleeping in palace cars in public
halls. and some of them in Railways; for some Of
the sagacous hotekeepers fenced off spare corners
of their halls put beds IN these little compartments
and labelled each of them in large letters Garfield
and Arthur Inaugural Annex" A cot by any other
name would have been quite as comfortable, but 10
certainly sounded much finer to be able to say that
you were sleeping in an Inaugural Annex" To
have room to yourself in hotel impl either that
Yeu were person of wealth or eminenc, q ,tatthe
room was too small to permit the insertion of
another bed-probably the latter. quantity Of
food sufficient to sustain tho system was to be had
only by patient waiting-frst In o queue at the
dining-room door. second upon the walters, aud
third upon the cook
Life in these hotels has had picturesque interest
of its own for these few days. The all-sufIicient
young milltiaman got up and polished bis SWORD for
two hours before breakfast, the bugler of the
company practised few of his signals
and the rest OF the occupants of the next
room-for they all slept together-went through
such parts Of the manual of arms as seemed to
possess the greatest degree of fascination and to be
capable OF making the most noise. The types Of
character to be seen in this miscellaneous and
almost grotesque aggregation of people, represented
all grades of official and social lfe and all shades Of
American civilization.
phenomenal for Washington, and would be peculiar
in any CITY, This was not diminished by the fact
that every club and company had felt in duty bound
to bring brass band. ALI the brass bands played
industrously at frequent intervals The people
fairly trooped through the streets overran the De.
partments. and choked up all the aises of the
Capitol. This morning the last instalment of be-
lated ones came, ana the city was full.
PRoFUsE DECORATIONS
If it be true, as it surely seems to be, that more
people have come to this Inauguration than ever
came to an Inauguration before it is also true that
they have found more to see. Those who saw Mr.
Hayes naugurated familiar with part at least of
the changes that have come over Washington; but
'uch visitors as have been absent since the second
of Grant can hardly know the city.
The massive new State Department Building has
sprung up as If by magic. Where the foul-smelIing
anal once RAZOR rather lay stagnant-the ground
las closed up, and broad park which will one day
,e very beautiful. stretches all the way from tho
smithsonian Institution to the gate of the Capitol
rounds.
But the greatest change of all is in these same
'aDitol grounds Under the skilful hand of Frede.
ick Law Olmsted they have spread out into
road and beautiful lawn, traversed by gracefully
'indng roads and forming perfect soping setting
D the huge white Capitol that rises in its centre
rom the summit of the hill There is a vast number
other changes for greater beauty in Washington,
hich it is not the place to talk about here. But
like a sensible woman who knows she
pretty, has been making the most of herself, and
rs been dressing herself in her best for the last
eek; and, woman-like, she just succeeded in put.
Dg on the last touches at the last minute. One
oud have supposed from the brilliant glow of
'Or IN the streets that there was enough bunting
Washington to roll the globe 10. Pennsylvania
7e., the noble street that stretches from the
reasury to the Capitol, was atiame with il. The
reefs running out of it on both sides were gay
it'll flags and banners and the public buildings
ere decorated with great taste and with lavish
splay of colors Even Out-of-the-way plac es
uses. statues. parks. which it was known the pro-
sson would not reach. and which the mass of vs-
Dts will never see, had sympathetic streak of the
d, white and blue; while in all the parts of the
~ through which the stream of sight-seers was to
Il, the shopkeepers have We'd with che another in
essng the fronts of their stores. The result was
make the city really very gay aud brilliant
hit. Washington, in the spring. VIXEN the
ives just out and every street is
long park, is city OF rare beauty,
It in the winter it is question whether her mag
iceut distances not little dismal as we'll.
he suggestion is humby made and vii. be instantly
racted If necessary When the trees are bare her
lie streets look wder, anu the local fondness LOT
nting the brick houses-the brick house Is the
e-sober grays. and drabs, and yeows. gives the
sombre look when there is no foliage tore
70 It, For spectacular Purposes the Inauguration
.ht to come in May But perhaps tho very vast
of the spaces gives better chance for effect in
orations which would be lost 10 narrower streets
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
he Presidential road begins with the State De
tment Building aud ends at the Capitol
& is TO say this is the route which