Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-05
INAUGURATION ECHOES.


THE GREAT THRoNGs-THE FIREwoRKs+THE
DISPLAY OF THE FLAMBEAU CLUB-INCf-
DENTS OF Yesterdays GREAT PAGEANT.
The avenue last evening was q mass OF people
until late hour. The great number of visitors
in addition to the residents made the street a
perfect jam. The great majority of the crowd
seemed 10 have nothing to do except to see and
be seen. The calcium lights which were placed
| by the inaugural committee atintervals flooded
the avenue with light, and faces were easily
distinguishable. The colored globes on the
street lamps looked handsome, and the entire
avenue presented very picturesque and ami
mated appearance. All the stores, the cigar
stores and the eating places and saloons, were
hied with people, especially the eating places
ana the saloons. At the latter men stood up
before the bar four and five deep, and in some
OF the places it impossible to get in at all.
Everything to eat and drink found ready sale
al day yesterday, and lively business was
done. There seemed 10 be good deal of drink
ing, and men. more or less under the influence
or liquor. could occasionally be seen and heard.
put 1T may be said that there was but little
drunkenness, and certainly the disturbances
and inIrGctions of the peace were both Slight
and iufrequent.
THE FLAMBEAU CLUB PARADE.
The crowd along the avenue last evening
watched with great interest the parade Of the
Flambeau Club, of Topeka, Kansas, which oc-
Cured as soon as the fireworks were over This
organization of about 100 men, with its white,
ghostly uniform, its precision of drill, and It's
peculiar hollow torches. whose flames can be
plONll up INTO slender. qtllNeflug pluineS OF IRE
SIX feet in height. presented "a novel spectacle.
Iney marched down 18th street and along
pennsylvania avenue in Il perfect tornado OF
fire, accompanied by an inceSsant yolley OF eX-
plosions and the continuous roar of ascending
rockets. Every member of the club had swung
over his shouldera capacious white bag filled
Win rockets and roman candies, red and green
fires Catherine wheels, torpedoes, bombs and
fireworks of every description, which We're
lighted on portable frames, discharged from
sheet-iron tubes. with such never-slack enfng RAJ
pidity as to literally fill the street with hurri
cane of fiery projectiles. The club was supplied
with fresh ammunition from a large wagon
which followed. Their progress was marked
with great enthusiasm from the spectators
along the line OF march.
The crowd continued to surge up and down
the avenue until late hour, and the scene was
l4rther enl1Vened by the companies marching
along on their way to the depot TO return home.
CONCERT IN THE INAUGURAL BALL ROOM.
AT the new Pension building this evening, in
the grand ball room, the Marine band will
give a promenade concert, under the direction
OF Prot. SOusa. The doors will he open at
O'Clock. The entrances on 5th street and G
street VIII De used The programme contains
many popular selections.
THE RAILROAD ESTIMATE OF THE CROWD.
In Baltimore the railroad people estimated
that 10000 people were carried by the Pennsyl-
Vania railroad to this city to witness the inau-
guration, and $4,000 by the B. & 0. railroad.
making Il total of los. 900 that came into this
city over these two roads. IN addition there is
the southern railroad connection and the boats.
HOW SOME PENNSYBVANIA TROOPS AMUSED
THEMSELVES.
Some of the Pennsylvania troops, this morn
ing. on Market space, took wheelbarrow and,
capturing colored men, one after another, placed
them on the barrow, and starting with q hurrah
would ride their captives some distance, and
then dump them out Push carts were utilized
Tor the same purpose Several hundred of the
soldiers improvised funeral procession, headed
ny Il lie"k band play ing q dead march. In the
5!ne were four colored men or boys carried on
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