The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-05
HARRISON IN POWER
NE Oath Taken and Inaugural Read
in a Rain Storm
Half a Million Strangers
in the City.
THE MORNING NEWS,
ESTABLISHED E 1SsG ls PpesGent 1865

Constant Cheers as the New and Old
Executives lode Through the Streets
Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Folsom
Not in Attendance on the Ceremo-
ptes-Everything Dampened Except
the Enthusiasm-Morton Sworn In in
the Senate in the Presence of a Dis
tinguished hering-Fifty Thou
sand Men in the Inaugural Process
sion-The Harrisons in the White
House-The Ball at Night.
WASHINGTON, March with simple
and solemn ceremony, in the presence of all
the wisdom and authority embodied in the
coordinate branches Of the government,
and surrounded by representatives Of all
the great nations on the face of the globe,
BENJAMIN Harrison was to-day indicted
into the highest office within the gift Of the
American people. Gathering up the reins
of power as they fell from the grasp of his
predecessor, he took the oath which bound
+ him to the service of his country, and
charged himself with the destinies of 90, 000,-
/ 900 people, and so it was that Washington,
the capital city, was to-day the Mecca
land They were here in countless thou
sands. Weeks ago little rivulets of
humanity began to flow in, almost IN
/ noticed. AS the day drew nearer the
| streams increased to rivers, rivers combined
| in foods, and to-day a veritable ocean of
| fervent life surges through the city.
EVERY STRUCTURE GRAINED.
It has filed all of the hotels that form
regular channels, it has overlooked tie
| clearinghouse byways, and, finally, it has
permeated the sacred Businesses of private
| homes. There never was such a crowd in
Washington. Train men could not begin to
otmate the number of the incoming pas
sengers. The boats on the river were laden
with human freight and the roads leading
in from the country saw professions of
wagons filled with family parties, all COM
/ ing to see the President inaugurated. Every
available room in the hotels had been en-
gagged weeks i'll advance. Boarding houses
had changed their halls into dormiUories. A
great army of soldiers had camped in the
public buildings Poor, indeed, was the
private family that did not accommodate
It's country cousins.
REIGN OF THE COT.
A myriad of cots sprang up like mush-
rooms over night and filled almost every
place that boosted roof and walls as shelter
| from the keen March weather. 1t was a
reign of the cot, it whitened every floor and
appeared in every shape from the humble
crOss-legged army couch to the new
tangled, two-storied variety which some
are genius invented to help out the city in
UGH emergencies as these. In all of its
lany forms 1t was welcomed and not de-
sised by vast majority Of the 100000 Of
fee American sojourners in Washington.
SLEEPING IN BATH TUBS.
sreat numbers of them had not even this
comfort and we're forced TO content them
elNes with a mattress thrown on the floor
" Uneasy slumber on billiard table, while
lisa matter Of record that more than one
7lllage magnste reposed last night in state
the cool embrace of the copper sides of
Jath tub. Many other persons
90, more unfortunate, disregarding
he kindly precautions of the hard worked
committee on public comfort, came at late
lour Yesterday to the city and strayed from
he over-crowded railroad stations, wand
RED about the streets at night seeking for
helter and places to rest their travel worn
iodies. In some cases where intel
lgence was shown in the quest,
hanks to the interchangeable efforts
the public spirited committee
laVng their comfort in charge, some sort
Of shelter was found, and it may trurhfully
De aid that Washington successfully accom-
pi saed the hercllean task of receiving and
caring Tor an army OF strangers twice as
numerous as the population of the city.