The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-01-31
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON,
Extensive Preparations for the Inaugural
tion-Immense Crowds Expected
Dedication of the Monument
Uncertainty About the
Cabinet &c


| WASHINGTON, D. c., January 9th, 1885.
Editors Union But Fl We weeks from to morrow
| wednesday, will elapse before President elect
Cleveland will be inaugurated, nothing happening
to prevent to succeed Mr.. Arthur in the Presiden-
tial chair. Every preparation possible is being
| made for the occasion. Some time since a COM
mttee of fifty of the most prominent citizens of
the District, regardless of political party, APP
pointed by the Democratic Nationa! Committee to
have charge of and make arrangenen for the in
auguration. Of course other minor committees
we're appointed by this committee to attend to
particular duties assigned them, among which was
one on finance, one on securing lodgings and pro-
viding for the entertainment of visitors, one on
the inaugural ball, etc. All these committees have
been appointed regardless of politics. They have
been engaged almost day and night in the per-
| Torrance of their duties. The inaugural ceremo-
MES will not be Of the "Jeffersonian simplicity"
kind, but as imposing patriotic citizens of all
| political parties oan make them. Party heat and
| political excitement may run high during cam
pagn, but after the other of the respective
party candidates has been elected the true genius
| and patriotism of the American citizen is mani
tested by the laying aside of all party considera
tons, and the people generally, without regard to
party, joining in naugurating the successful per-
son the President of the whole people of the
country. This is being aptly illustrated in the
present instance, neither those who are taking an
active part in the preparations for Mr. Cleveand's
Inauguration nor those who have contributed so
literally to the fund of the finance committee for
defraying the expenses of what will probably be
the most numereusly attended and most imposing
inaugural in the history of our country, not be-
longing to the Democratic party alone, but to the
Republican and other parties as WE'LL
The most onerous duties of the Inauguration will
probably devolve upon tho committee to make
arrangements for the lodging and entertaining of
xr.a 80 I,,r.n kn II ~
course many thousands of these will be entertain
ed and lodged in the various hotels and boarding
houses, where, in the former, nearly or quite all
the rooms have already been engaged, some at
from ten to fifteen dollars per day, especially on
the avenue, not including board and in the latter
there possibly could not be found room that has
not already been engaged. Yet these will not be
sufficient to accommodate 1.-THE of the visitors
that are said to be coming. And it is this fact
that is now so perplexing the above mentioned
committee. 1t reported to-day that by engaging
all the unoccupied houses-which were few-and
vacant rooms that could be found in the city, it
had secured lodgings and accommodations for
only about $4,000 strangers. From this report,
although the number this committee will be able
to accommodate may be largely increased, it would
that many luckless strangers, the night after
the Inauguration, will not find indoors to ''lay
their heads" But this circumstance need not
perpIex our Maryland friends who coming
over to the Inauguration, for if they do not desire
to remain and witness the pyrotechnic display at
night attend the grand inaugural ball, which
will be held in the new Pension building, which
is now being prepared with new floor and canvas
roof for the occasion, they return to Baltimore
or their homes, where there will be plenty of
lodging room for them
In contemplation of the more interesting cere
monies of the Inauguration, those of the dedicatng
of Washington's monument, on the 2lst of Febru-
ao1n md Sc hob 10 OF
the crowd of strangers who viii come to the city
will not be large, most Of the people will delay
their visit until the inauguration, the occasions
being too far apart to combine the two visits in
one. Yet this occasion will not be without great
interest as is shown by the fact that every little
chip of stone that pertained to the monument is
eagerly sought after and often sent to distant
parts of the country, some painted and others not
in answer to solicitations for them relics. An
address for the occasion has been prepared by
Hon. R. c. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, who de-
lvered the address at the laying of the corner
stone thirty years ago, but being too feeble
account of age to be present, it will be read by
Representative Long, of that State. Also an
grafton will be delivered BY Hon. Mr. Daniels, of
Virginia.
The uncertainty with regard to President Cleve-
lands Cabinet or who to be its members, con-
tnues the same to-day as it was the day after the
election. Newspaper correspondents here all say
that they never found it as difficult in their lives
to get hold of piece of news as that connected
with this Cabinet business, Democratic Senators
and Congressman alike seeming to know more
about it than other people, Some time since it
was thought several, at least, who would partly
constitute the Cabinet were known, but now it is
acknowledged that even that is dark. However,
as Mr.. Cleveland is going from Albany to New
York city and stop at the Fifth Avenue Hotel per-
haps the whole of next week, to consult with his
Democratic friends then something of this great
mystery that is shrouding the minds of all the
qufG nincs may come out, ana tnen perhaps IL
may not until Inauguration day after That
and the shyness of Mr. Cleveland towards all
politicians since his election have been the
founding mysteries with everybody, which have
caused great comment here, constituting the
latter to mean that when he becomes President he
is going to pursue his own bent and steer clear of
the rocks that might wreck his Civil-Service Re-
form intentions. If this be true, probably it is
it would give cause for the onsaughts that appear
daily in some of the discontinued Democratic pa
pers on those principles which Mr.. Cleveland
processes, but which many Democrats favored
only before ne was elected, and which that party
in Congress assisted two years ago in enacting
into law. Under this law, which it is impossible
to now erase from the statute books for two years
a Democrat has had the same opportunity to en-
ter the civil service of the Government Re-
publican, and many did so unmolested but these
discontinued partizans now want all the "spoils.
ANON