Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-25
THE NATIONAL SHOW.
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pected to number not less than, &c, 900 men,.
Already places have been assigned to 49, 900
and quarters have been engaged for their
accommodation while they remain in the
city. OF these.about one-third are military
and two-thirds are civic. The Grand Mar
shall of the parade will be General James A.
Beaver, of Pennsylvania, with General
Hastings as Chief of staff The Pennsyl-
vania National Guard will be 5000 strong
in the procession, and will have division
all to ITSELF There will be six divisions in
the parade.
First-united States troops and National
Guard of the District of Columbia
Second-National Guard of Pennsylvania.
Third-All other military organizations.
Fourth-G. A. R. and other veteran or
CARNATIONS
Fifth and sixth-Civic organizations.
The rendezvous for the parade will be
east of the Capitol grounds. The Presi-
dent will be escorted to .the Capitol
before Inauguration, as we'll as from the
Capitol after he has taken the oath. On
the way to the Capitol the escort will con-
sist of only a single division. About II
o'clock, or perhaps little earlier, on the
4th Of March President Cleveland will
send the White House carriage over
to the Arlington Hotel for Mr..
Harrison. When the carriage returns to
the White House Mr.. Cleveland will get in
beside Mr.. Harrison and will sit on the
right-hand side of the back seat. The front
seat will be occupied by a couple of Sena-
tors who will be delegated by the United
States Senate to conduct the outgoing and
the incoming Presidents to the Capitol.
Having escorted the Presidential carriage
to the Senate end of the Capitol, the escort,
consisting of the United States troops and
the National Guard of the District of Co.
lumbia, will take up its position at the
southeast corner of the Capitol grounds and
after the Inauguration will march westward,
escorting the outgoing and the incoming
Presidents again, as the first division of the
great inaugural parade from the Capitol to
the Executive Mansion.
THE OUT AND THE IN.
When Mr.. Cleveland and President Har-
rison get into their carriage again and start
at the head of the procession westward to-
ward the Executive Mansion, President
Harrison will occupy the right of the seat
and Mr.. Cleveland will occupy the left the
reverse of the order in which they rode from
the Executive Mansion to the capitol.
Having reviewed the procession from the
stand in front of the White House, President
Harrison and Mr.. Cleveland will enter the
Executive Mansion. where they will take
luncheon together. This is a part of the pro-
gramme which is never omitted. Whether
Mr.. Cleveland or President Harrison is the
host on that occasion is question which
the casuists have not yet determined, and
until the question has been authoritatively
settled it may serve the purpose to regard
that ceremonial luncheon in the light of q
Dutch treat" 1t is. the last point at
which the old Administration and the new
meet. After the luncheon the outgoing
President leaves the White House behind
him and starts for home, and the new Presi-
dent is left for the first time in possession of
the official residence of the Chief Executive
of the United States.
The Inauguration ball will begin at
o'clock and last till probably 2 or in the
morning. Usually the President and his
friends reach the ballroom about $50
o'clock. The President may join in the
dance if he has mind to, but as general
thing he is kept too busy, in talking and
making new acquaintance, to devote any
time to dancing. He may stay all night if
he feels like it or he may retreat for home
as soon as he begins to feel tired. The SIS
ball ticket will admit to any part of the
building. You may go on the floor among
the dancers, or you may climb up to one of
the galleries which run around the hall and
play the part of mere spectator. Supper
will be served on the ground floor.
CARRIAGE ARRANGEMENTS.
The arrangements for the management of
carriages at the inaugural ball are excellent
The committee on carriages will have all
the hacks of Washington as completely un-
der its control as if 1t owned them. They
will be allowed two or three times their
regular fare, but the scale of charges has
been fixed by arrangement between the cab
owners and the committee, and beyond the
scale no avaricious cabman will be allowed
to go. Here is the scale of charges from
to ballroom and back again:
Herdic cab, S.; coupe, 81; hanson cab. s3:two-
horse conveyances, according to agreement,
but not TO exceed Sl0
There are several thousand young men,
who are either already in the city of Wash
ington or will be on the 4th of March, who
are now engaged in figuring on the expense
of taking their "best girls" to the inaugural
ball. What will it cost? If the young
man has plenty of money he will of course
own a dress suit, which, according to the
ball ticket, is required" A frst-class
carriage will cost $40; tickets, for two. $40;
suppers, So; 81 for hat checks, and heaven |
only knows what for flowers. The young
man who wants to send his girl dozen !
jack roses for her .corsage will have to
pay about $40 for them. Indeed, he will be
lucky if he can get them for that amount.
A great many other young men will take |
their girls to the ball for less money. Some |
of them have no dress suits, but there are |
half dozen tailors in the city who have i'm |
ported from New York several hundred |
dress suits, which will be rented at S. each |
for the inaugural ball. The economical |
vounp man can ride to the hall with his pirl |
in hanson cab. which is really not so bad, |
BY the plebeian horse car. With most of the |
Washington girls it will be case of "any-
way to get there"
BOARD AND LODGING.
Chairman Britton expects much larger |
influx of people to Washington this time
than came to witness any previous inaugu-
ration. Not less than half million of
people will come here to swell the ranks of
the quarter of a million who live here. The
Committee on Public Comfort has done an
immense amount of work in engaging board
and lodging for all who have applied. 1t |
has secured pretty nearly all the rooms in
almost all the hotels in town and has Or
yanized the boarding houses and private
private residences of Washington into one
large lodging for the accommodation of the
strangers. So far arrangements have been
made at prices that are very moderate and
fair, but anything like the same arrange
ments it would be utterly impossible to
make to-day.
Whatever is left anywhere in town in the
way of lodging is now worth many times
the regular rate. Generally speaking, there
is nothing left in the hotels at any price,
/, nd the boarding house keepers and those