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a Continuous Kissing Roar of Ascending
Rockets, TorpedOes and Bombs-Beauti-
full Washington Fairly Ablaze.
Beauty at the Magnifcently Bewildering
Bali Lent Its Aid to Crown
tb~ Triumph
OF tho Incoming Administration-The
Capital Scene of BriIlianey In
paraIIeIed IN History.
The Animated and Brilliant Scenes.
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The Animated and Brilliant Scenes.
Special to the Globe.
W4suryGToN, March 4.-The center of in
terest during the earlier half Of the day was
PENNSYLVANIA from Fourteenth to Seven
teenth streets, where the opening acts in the
great national spectacular drama were per-
formed in the presence of unnumbered
thousands Of eager beholders. The broad
sidewalks on either side Of the avenue were
thronged with a mass of swayng humanity.
Soon after daybreak and from that time un-
Ill the presdent-elect began his advance upon
the capitol a succession Of animated and
brilliant scenes was enacted. There was a
rapidly shifting panorama Of color and ac-
ton, Of which no adequate picture can be
presented by any process short Of instanta-
neous photography. All was life, animation
and movement. The rattle of artillery, the
pattcr and cIatter of horses hoofs,
TIE CLANKING OF SWORDS,
the Guttering Of flags and banners and the
measured tread of armed oattalions
as they marched and countermarched
"A front of the treasury building
and the White house formed all together
medley Of sounds which was only equaled in
variety by the infinite diversity of sights
which greeted the eye. The crowd, like all
American crowds, was a good-humored one.
The statement that all American crowds are
good humored has been repeated so often
that people nave come to accept it as indis
putable. Nothing could be wider
Of the truth. There are a
good many American crowds which
are not good humorod. There was one
which tramped down the lower Broadway in
New York Il night or two
AFTER THE LATE ELECTION,
whchwa not burdencl with superfuous am
liability, as more than one man conspicuous
in public life has cause TO remember. The
crowd which lined tue streets of Washington
eight years ago tomorrow, when K. B. Hayes
rode 10 the capitol to take the inaugural
oath, was sullen aud silent
one, but that Of to-day was
fairly Overlooking with good humor
and formed an interesting and novel study
during the waiting hours. 1t was u cosmo-
polilan crowd, aud in threading his way
through it one heard snatcbes of nearly all
dialects known to civilization. The rich
Irish broguc and the sweet German accent,
T. use the term employed by famous war
rior OF the last generation, while in delirium
OF raging presidential fever, were almost as
frequent Is the native vernacular
ALMOST EVERY NATIONALITr
and race OF Europe, Asia and America was
represented among the sight seers and the
dark continent had Il most formidable con-
tiuEeut. The fonduess of the average AT
rcan for any kind Of street show from Il
circus procession to a funeral cortege is
proyerbial aud never was it more forcibly
illustrated than to-day. The crowd although
cosmopolitan was distiuctvely American and
homogeneous as we'll. The underlying prin-
ciple which actuated It was that all men were
born to equality, or in homlier phrase, that
one mau is just As good rs another. Its ir-
reverence Tor authority or rather for trap
Plugs aud
SYMBOLS OF AUTHORITY