Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-15
WASHINGTON rs PAGEANT.
$4,000 SPENT By VIE LoCal
COMMITTEE.

witness that ceremony and to extend their
visits for a week to see the new President
escorted to the capitol, sworn in, and es-
/ cOrted back to the White House. The To-
cal committee having in charge the pa
! geantry of the Inauguration has been
diligent enough, and. with nearly 500 600
/ subscribed, has been able to contract for
the decoration of the principal streets
/ Tor their illumination at night: for the
roofing in, flooring, and decoration of the
/ unfinished pension building, where The
/ Inauguration ball is to be given; for a
night and day display of
| fireworks, and for the lodging
/ and feeding of nearly 10000 strangers.
/ The hotels will be crowded to suffOcation,
/ but only for short time. Some of the
! hotel men are beginning to complain be
/ cause they do not discover that the De
mOcracy has made up its mind to come to
| Washington in a body. As yet there is
nothing like a rush. To strangers who
/ wish to visit the capital for stay of three
I or four days, and who do not care to go to
| the expense of living at hotel, where
meals will be obtained after long DELAY
and with discomfort, 1t may be said that
/ comfortable rooms may be procured all
| over the city at a cost of about 81 a day.
| and that there will be no difficulty in OBJ
! tanning board in convenient neighbOrhOod
| to lodgings.
/ SOME IDEA OF THE SIZE OF THE PENSION
BUILDING,
! where the biggest inaugural ball ever
/ given in this country will be held on
| March 4, may be got from the fact that
st. Peters, at Rome, only holds about
! $4,000 persons, while the Pension building
Will hold about $1,000. Just now it is a
wilderness of scatfOlding. but order is
coming out OF chaos as ii by magic. On
Monday the canvas roof was put on. 1t
is like double A tent, with three great
roof trees to support it, besides an in
genious continuance to hold it in place
No such ballroom was ever dreamed of as
that of the great court yard rooted over.
1t is surrounded by large balconies, sup
ported by IA pillars. The space under
these balconies makes a magnificent
promenade.
The President will enter the room bv
the north door, which will be draped with
crimson silk curtains. The opposite door
Will be concealed by gigantic mirror.
These entrances are really carriagewavs.
so their size may be imagined. The dec
OratiOns will be of the most expensive
material. The New York contractors
have insured the decorations for $50. 900.
The balconies will be hung with dark-red
velvet, spangled with gold. Each of the
IA pillars will be hung with silk flags,
While beneath the balconies will be shields
embroidered with the coats of arms of the
different States and Territories, and hung
with silk flags, tipped with silver smear
points. The Botanical Gardens, the Agri-
cultural Department, and the White
House viii furnish unlimited palms and
ferns.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND WILL RETURN
to the custom of Washington and Jefer-
son and stand on dais during the OPEN
ing ceremonies of the ball. BY his side
will be chair made of flowers and the
dais will have over it canopy of flow
ers, such as ex-senator Tabor was mar
ried under. Every bare spot on the wall
Will be covered with bunting. and the
eight great pillars, reaching from floor to
roof, will be covered with silica to repre-
sent marble. The electric light will be
freely employed, and over the dais will
be the American eagle done in gas lets.
Among the ornaments will be the capitol |
made of flowers and large floral ships.
lie supper will be served ia the small !
rooms, Hunting Hammond Of the Murray /
Hill Hotel having the contract 1t Will |
cost $lJO to wax the floor for the dances. |
PRESIDENT Cleveland viii dance the open |
ing quadrllle with Mrs. McElrOy, ana eX-
President Arthur with Miss Cleveland.
A young man went to the committee in |
the ball room the other day and wanted |
TO know how much it would cost to take |
himself and a young woman TO the ball. /
The Chairman stopped the scratching of |
his pen long enough to ask:
"Carriage|
HNo.V
''Two tickets, $40; two suppers. 81:
four car tickets, 20 cents-S12 30. Good |
morning.
The government buildings on Pennsvl- |
vania avenue will be decorated by the /
clerks who have faith in civil service re- |
form. Other private buildings will be !
decorated a week before the inauguration |
in order to spur up the public generally |
TO do It's duty IN the way of ornamental /
ton. HOuseholders generally are re-
quested to decorate, and merchants will |
suspend business from March 3 to March /
D. Three hundred extra policemen will /
be employed for the occasion. The cleo |
trio light companies will illuminate
everything, particularly the capitol, the
White House, and the Pension building,
and among the fireworks will be a repre-
sentation OF Niagara, 300 feet high, which
Will be let of from the Washington mOnu-
ment.
There never was such a roaring, howl !
ing Inauguration as Tbs is going to be.
TO SEE TIE INAUGURAL PROCESSION
from a commanding position will not be
an easy matter for those who have never |
been here and who do not have friends
With windows on Pennsylvania avenue at
their command. The committee having
charge OF the celebration has obtained
from the District Commissioners the priv
Ilege OF erecting tiers of seats on the reser-
VatlOns from the White House to the can
ltOj, and these seats, pitched at an angle |
similar to that at which the seats in a
circus are raised, and made of rough
boards, VIII be sold at half a dollar. Win
doWs, accommodating two or four per-
sons are offered al S6 nanrY for +J,o
VERY FEW PERSONS HAVE ANY IDEA
of the number of snug berths tucked
away in the recesses, as it were. of the
various departments. Some. however. of
those who think the next administration
ought to provide for them have tumbled
to the facts, and are bouncing around
at lively rate and picking out the places
they would like to have and pre-empting
their claims. Included among those
''early bird" individuals are several who
have IN some mysterious manner gotten
their names into print as possible Cab
met selections, and who by striking
high imagine that it win give
them better chance for Sc
curing positions more in cOnsO- !
nance with their abilities and merits. The !
Treasury Department, OF course, has very |
many nice places, such as Chiefs Of Blu
reaus, etc, with salaries ranging from
9o,OUU 10 9O,VUU per dnnum, and While /
some of the incumbents Of these positions |
have held their places under more than
one administration, it has always been /
considered the prerOgative of the Execu- /
tive and of the Secretary of the Treasury
to make changes, so far as they are con- |
cerned, whenever disposed, and without /
question. There are three Assistant Sec |
retaries Of State, two Assistant Secretaries |
of the Treasury, one Assistant Secretary |
of the Interior, and three Assistant Post |
masters General.
THE SHADY RET KEATS OF THE DEPART |
MENT OF JUSTICE
are gaZed at, perhaps, more anxiously /
than those of any of the other Departments |
by the outs who want to get in, and it is 1
alleged by those who have made a study 1
of the subject that this department has |
more temptingly soft places than any |
other. The present head of the depart |
ment has proved by his frequent and |
lengthy absences thaS it can run itself in |
some sort of fashion without the super. |
vision of its ostensible chief. The depart /
ment is absolutely top-heavy with its staff |
of high sounding titles, good pay and |
liftIa Or No work If haa a Soiioito. /