The sun., 1889-03-04
INAUGURATION CROWDS.
A CHRERLESs DAY FOR DRENCHED AND
BEDRIGGLED THOUSANDS.

gishtscers at the Capital Enduring Terrible
Discomforts-T The skies Frowu Upon
Them, and Washington Sharks are Rob.
bIng Them Right and Lert-Bonrdirg.
house Keepers Renting Chairs co Weary
ST. angers Many Republicans Angry
Over the eCabinet-Nnrrison'so Quiet Day
Many Callers Morton-The Pro-
Ernmmo or the big show To-day.
WASHINGTON, March 3-The most inter-
estne thing In the United States to-day was
not what Cleveland did or Harrison suffered.
1t was the horrible experience OF the crowds In
Washington. Tho rest can be dismissed in a
sentence like this:
1t was regarded as decided that Rusk and
Partner Miller are In the Cabinet. which is now
complete with this octet Blaine. Window.
Proctor, Tracy, Wanamaker, Noble. Rusk.
Miller.
Butthe condition OF affairs In washing gton can
scarcely receive justice at the hands OF the
English language. Thousands upon thousands
Of men and women will remember to-day all
the rest OF their lives as the most miserable
twenty-four hours they ever spent. The
Cabinet politics. triumphant Republicanism.
and detected Democracy are things OF subor-
dinate interests to all Americans as compared
with tho suferinGs Of tho people who have been
iured to Washington by tho lying notices sent
broadcast over the land declaring that there
would be plenty Of room for all in what every
woll-informcd man knows is the poorest hotel
town Of its size in this country except Buffalo.
In tho first place, it has rained here since last
Wednesday. II has rained and rained until
every body feels wet and cold In the bones,
until all tho bunting and printed cotton dec
orations look like drowned birds, until nobody
but Noah could possibly appreciate the sodden.
saturated. watcry. bedraggled sloppy, Spattcr-
ing, splashing, soaked state of everything.
from the human mind down to tho pools Of
water dragged into all the hotels and public
resorts by the soaked trousers legs und dripping
petticoats of the multitude.
In tho second place there is such crowd OF
strangers here, and the citizens are so greedy,
that thousands who came to get rooms have
scarcely tho money to pay for cots, and many
and many hungry soul slept on the ground
last night under the spectators stands along
Pennsylvania Avenue. Some boarding houses
rented chairs in their dining rooms last night.
With no sleeping place at all or with nothing
but a cot to go to and call their homes the
people have stayed out OF doors walking In the
rain all day. 1t would have been that mercy
which falls unstraned from heaven IL there
had been some man with authority enough to
open the vast acres Of granite where the Gov
ernment does It's work TO let the multitude in
out OF the rain. But the public buildings were
all kept closed. except the Capitol. and the
enormous structure was packed like o hay
press in autumn. AS for the ground floors of
the hotels they were so jammed that it was
hard for the boarders to get In their rooms.
We said the other day that no philosopher
who sees the people crowd like sheep to every
public show would waste any sympathy on
such crowds. because they expect to be robbed
right and left but when that was written no
one knew what was coming to pass They all
know now that there never was such an eXhi-
bitlon Of greed and inhumanIty in the United
States before as this town Is showing. St.
Paul and Montreal will hereafter take back
seat The only consolation is that those two
towns killed themselves as show places.
The moral here Is the same as it
is everywhere. Those who have money have
got dry backs and plenty Of comfort. Gen. Tracy,
the shining light Of the new Cabinet. was con-
tent with cot in Franklin Woodrulrs little
1 by bedroom in the Arlington until his
daughter. Mrs. Wlmerding. telegraphed that
she was coming Full as the town Is. it did not
take this wealthy man half m hourto secure
Bumptuous apartments for her and himself in
the Arno. the smallest hotel in the place.
Tho scenes at the Baltimore and Potomac
depot. whore the New York trains como and
go. will ever be remembered. Ali the trains
have been two or three hours late. and all are
bringing persons coming to meet friends and
relatives whose addresses they don't know.
The result has been a bedraggled crowd Of
anywhere from 1000 to 5000 persons. anxious.
weary, hungry. confused. and nervous oil
packed together. waiting for the tardy trains.
This is the first Sunday any barkeeper can
remember when the saloons were opened.
Washington is usually as dry as a cork after
midnight every night and always on Sunday.
but to-day nearly all the gin mills we're open.
They had to open The strain and pressure Of
such IL crowd would break great deal stronger
thing than an excise law. Many Of the restau-
rants calmly and in cold blood raised their
prices from % per cent. to so per cent
seemed to have eot the JOB that the darkios
have been hanging around the streets waiting
were all at work. hep ping to squeeze the last
nickel out of tho strangers There was a
door a line OF other colored men with whisk
brooms and palms outstretched for tips. The
bsorn ESP all baa ady for The st
for each customer, one to shave him and the |
others to lucEle with his hat, coat. um brella.
All day long and far into the night the trains
that arrived we're almost as continuous as one
would be- Each train threw its quota of hum |
dreds of new. people on the heap OF victimized |
and poa sSs
Of from loo to 1000 men that there was a con- |
slant ianfaronnde Of brass bands in tho air.
lnE men in the muddy, ool,frescoed streets.
men in tho ranks but how under the sun the |
thousands OF men and women who came trust
Ing to chance We're to bo provided tor no finite |
could fathom.
GEN. HARRISON AND HIS CABINET.
Gen. Harrison did not go to church to-day.
II was given out that he was going to keep
sunday That meant that mono of the small
Try could see him The big men Of the party
Visited him as on other days. The seal OF
secrecy appeared to be removed from every
one's lips. and by noon every one knew .doA-
ntely the members OF the next Cabinet. They
again:
Secretary OF State-James G. Blaine OF Mano
Secretary of the Treasury-William Window
of New York and Minnesota.
Secretary Of War-Redleld Proctor OF yer-
mont.
:, Secretary OF tho Navy-B. F. Tracy OF New
York.
Secretary Of tho Interior-John W. Noble of
,, Postmaster -General-John Wanamaker Of
Sn, rat IN nf A.,.,t d, IL,