The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1885-03-04
WAsMINaTOS 1870.
[Ffom our Regular rfs.posdea. /

WARRINGTON, Fin. q, 1855.
@There Is 9 sigh IN tie beafi,
though the lip may be gay is
what Washington Is saying and
feeling now. The streets ate COW
cred with bunting The pension
Office, the youngest ana wiekedest
.ofiall the government Offices, Is the
most gayly bedecked Of all. il is
literally covered with bunting, Cd.
giles, shields, and angels, arranged
in tasteful designs. Aspasia, Mana
and Cora Pearl we're never in their
ill gotten wealth arrayed like the
great political harlot, The United
States Pensijn Office. And what
does this atfectation Of inaugural
joy mean9 It means to catch the
eye Of Mr. Cleveland as be rides to
the Capitol, aud to dazzle him into
blindness 10 all The sinsof Dudley's
,minions during the late election.
Behold how loyal are we power.
fully converted, bran new demo-
cratic pension clerks. Nobuilding
mall Washington bedecked with
the taste and gayety Of outs.n-
"Apostnte from yourown yilsfaith,
it shall not save yefromt hedeath.a
Oh, generation Of political siuggers,
who hath warned you to fee from
the wrathto Gomez Aud think not
to say unto yourselves we have
Abraham Lincoln for a father, etc.
| could go on for half an hour and
quite Byron and the Bible against
these pension clerks, for all the 10.
vectiyas hurled against Pharisees,
saducees, and hypocritesis appIica.
BILE to those upon whom their
mantle has falleu-the fourteen
hundred clerks in the o. s.pension
office.
There are other Offices filed With
foreboding and gloom. There is a
well founded fear that the wrongs
of a quarter of a century will now
be avenged, not in the spirit of
vengeance, but in vindication Of a
cheated and long suffering public.
Nearly everything is in resdi.
ness for the great pageant on The
fourth of March. The city is rap.
idly filing with visitors. 1t isex-
pecied that fully twenty-five
thousand soldiers will be in line on
inauguration day, aud that the
procession will be Eve miles in ex.
tent The parade will not be con-
fined to one street, it would be Ion
long, but @ill approach the Capatol
by different routes, Pennsylvania
avenue is lined on each side with
huge benched platforms, ofcapaci.
ty TO seat twenty thousand or more
spectators.
Fireworks have been planned on
a very elaborate scale. The mana.
gers promise the finest display
ever seen in this country. The
fire display will he in the monu.
ment grounds but can beseen from
any part of the city.
Tho inaugural ball, however,
will be the chief entertainment Of
the eycnining. visited the ball
room this morning, aud have never
beheld a more animated scene.
Along the wide stretches Of the
great hall were engaged groups of
busy artiaans, carpenters, uphols
terers, gasfittters, decorators, etc
II reminded me Of the babel Of the
early days of the Centennial expo
Sition, But Cosmos is emerging
from Chase. Much of the work Of
decoration iscompleto. The splen,
did columns ia the center Of the
building have beeng hung with
muslin and twined with gaTlanGs
Of smilax. Shields, decorations,
festoons and various designs have
been fixed in place.
The spacious rooms entering the
main hall en- the first floor have all
been assigned to different purposes.
One is for the President and his
friends, one for the Diplomatic
corps, one for the press, others for
the committees, Still other rooms
will be used for cloak rooms, sup
per rooms, etc, There will also be
commodious toilet and retiring
rooms. The supper rooms will &C
commodale 500 people at a time
and it is thought they will not be
crowded. A iro company will be
placed at each end of the hall and
a force of police will be in The
building. The Chiefs Of Police and
Of the Fire Department will be in
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