The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-03-07
INAUGURATION DAY
The President Elect Arrives In
hera|dsd at the Capital
GRAND MILITARY AND CIVIL DISPLAY
MuItitudas of Visitors AID Gorgeous
Decorations.
THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

Tne President Declares that Civil Service
Reform Should be in Good Faith En-
forced-scenes- AMI Incidents of the
Day.
TO man Oh top Of the Washington
monument the national capital must
have looked on Wednesday somewhat
as 1t did in the spring Of 1865, when
the Victorious armies, and the multitude
behind and with them, gathered there.
Again on Wednesday muItitudes poured
in from every side Of the city. Great
squares Of moving musket barrels
cleaned in the sun banners, flags and
uansparenCies rose above the compact
black masses of marching civilians
gorgeous btnds formed Respondent
squares here and there, an so closely
packed were the shifting multitudes OF
spectators, filing the spaces between
the car tracks and the buildings, that
the very ground seemed alive. Above
the houses rose the loud, incessant
hum of a myriad of voices, broken here
and there by the strains Of lively music
or the rattle OF ,!rims.
Washington is decked Ike a bride
awaiting the coming of her lord; but
there are many varieties of brides, and
the one Washington resembles is not
at all 4 fascinating one. She is an old
fashioned, dowdyish, cheaply dressed,
eyerpainted bride, and needs very
ardent lover to be satisfied with her.
Almost every building on Pennsylvania
avenue was profusely decorated,bu the
stylc OF enumeration made the great
thoroughfare look like a rag fair. The
Old fashioned strcamcrs of red, white.
and blue muslin fell from the cornices
to the foundations. Hideous sign pain
ters' pictures of Washington, Lincoln,
Jefferson, and Cleveland, some with the
mumps. some with water Oh tie BRAIN,
and some weo.:4s facial expressions
slcl ., George l.. Fox used to have
when Pantaloon hit him with a .,'
board brick, seemed almost - oU' III
agony from the wall streams OF penny
,o,.o,, a,os c.,ter in the wind. Notices
witt ae words missFeiied aaront one
! on every hand, and the whole effect is
such as to give 1 stranger the impress
sion that the city has been rescued
from 4 long siege, and its poverty
stricken inhabitants hay. made heroic
effort to welcome their liberators with
an impromptu display Of ornament.
The darkies from the country back of
Alexandria and the sturdy patriots from
the mountain Businesses Of Tennessee
and West Virginia stare at this parade
Of Gnery in open-molthed admiration
The visitors are in fine rainent, bought
for the occasion and bought in lots of
hundreds of suits at time. 1t is as
though the ?rincely bridegroom had
come with fine raiment and princelv
offerings, and had found Cinderella
still in the kitchen, where her life had
been spent, i'll iinery borrowed rom the
nti.hbor's servants. Washington is at
disadvantage on such an occasion,
and is not aItouethcr to blame. There
are few tall buildings and no natural
eminences 10 break the view and SUD.
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