Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-02-22
INAUGURATION DAY.
A Graphic Account of the Prep
aratiOnS For the Event.
A Big Parade, With Unlimited Dec
orations and Fireworks.

NOUtHLSTCtuC
vivid account Of what may be expected at
Harrison and Morton's Inauguration ON
March f.
The arrangements for the coming inaugu-
ration, now nearly completed, have required
the constant attention Of Chairman Britton,
an executive committee composed OF thirty
two of the leading citizens of the District of
Columbia, twenty-one sub committees
the aggregate membership Of which Is
1GOO-and corps Of clerks continuously oc-
cupIed since last November with the letters
and other communications received daily
from all parts Of the country. The expense
of the inauguration will be at least $50, 900.
Some of the biggest bills which the commit
tee Will have to settle are, $lO, OO0 for decOrat
ing and Illuminating the great hall Of the
pension building, in which the inaugural ball
will be held; $500 for the music for that
occasion; $1,000 for the supper; $1,000 for en-
CRAVING and printing the inaugural souvenir,
$4,000 for miscellaneous printing: $1,000 for
fireworks and street illumination; $1,000 for
carriages; $500 to be awarded to members
OF the various tiambeau clubs participating
In the prize drill, and $4,000 for clerk hire and
stationery.
1t Is expected that the expenses of the ball
will be more than met by the sale of tickets
for that event. There have been but two in
stances in the past when the inaugural ball
was not a source of revenue. The first was
on the occasion of the inauguration Of Presi-
dent Polk in 1916. when the tickets were
ball given in honor of President Grant in
1878, when the tickets sold for $50 each. In
the latter case the committee obliged to
make up deficit of $4,000. 1t is said that
President Harrison and Vice-President Nor
ton will be the only persons present at the
next inaugural ball who will not have paid
S. for a ticket.
Perhaps the greatest feature of Inaugural
ton day will be the parade. There will be
nearly $4,000 men in line. Thus far the
largest representation of militia promises to
be from Pennsylvania. Some of the civic
organizations will bring with them 1900 men
and others 1000. The number from New
York State will be more than 5000. Penn
sylvania will probably send the next largest
civic delegation and New Jersey will rank
third.
Governor Beaver, the Grand Marshal of
the parade, has decided to divide the line into
six divisions as follows: First Division, United
States troops and the National Guard of the
District Of Columbia, numbering about five
hundred men; Second Division, 5000 Penn
sylvania troops, under the command of ex-
Governor Hartranft; Third Division, the
remaining military organizations, represent
ed by 10000 men; Fourth Division veterans
of the Grand Army and their sons, mar
shaded by General William Warner, of Mis-
souri,. the COmmander-in-C Chief of the Order,
and Fifth and Sixth Divisions civic organi-
cations.
General Harrison and e-Presdent-elect
Morton will stop at the Arlington, within
sight Of the White House. If President Cleve-
land follows the precedent which has been
established, he will send his carriage for
General Harrison, and escort him from the
White House to the Capitol. The journey
from the Executive Mansion to the Capitol is
the first ceremony of the day. General Har-
rson will be accompanied in this journey by
his old regiment, the Seventeen Indiana,
two companies of cavalry, two batteries of
artillery and two companies of militia of the
District of Columbia. After the oath of
Office has been administered on the steps of
the Capitol, President Harrison will be
driven back to the White House, occupying
place in the procession directly behind the
grand marshal and his staff, and will thus be
able to reach the grand stand erected for
him in front of the Executive Mansion in
time to review the entire parade. The COM
mlttee on street decorations reports that the
stores and houses along the entire line of
march will be deliberately and elegantly
decorated.
The events of the evening will be the in
augural ball, the display Of fireworks and the
prize drill Of flambeau clubs. The ball will
be given in the vast hall of the new pension
building. In the decorations the American
coors will be the prevailing feature. Silk
ornaments will be used. The fronts
of the three galleries which completely
will be festOoned with flags and the
coats-of- arms of the States. The great col
umns, which support the roof of the hall,
will be almost hidden by projecting flags.
in height, with shields above them Bunting
will be suspended from the ceiling, running
in all directions, and forming an intricate
network of brilliant cOlors. The most pictur-
eSuue feature of the decorations will be Chi
nese pagoda to be erected il the centre of the
room directly over the fountain. 1t will be
artisticaly decorated, the dome being COM
posed Of gas jets, arranged in the form of
stars, shields and CreScents. The first story
will be fourteen feet above the base of the
fountain, filed in with evergreens and flow
ers making q delightful grotto or retreat for
prOmenaders On the next or second floor,
will be an orchestra of 100 performers, and on
the third floor, fourteen feet above Them the
full marine band. Twenty calcium lights are
to be placed in the top gallery and 1000 in.
candescent electric lights along the sides of
the ball ROOM
The floral decorations are to be on scale
never before attempted The same New
York florist who furnished flowers for Presi-
dent Clevelands inauguration will supply
them on this occasion. It will take 5000
yards of laurel festoOns, six inches thick, to
party enters the hall, at the west
end Of the building. it will pass under
a floral ball, fifteen feet in diameter.
Somebody will pull string, and the
ball will open and a shower of cut flowers
descend upon the party. At the same time
dock of canary birds and paroQuets will be
released from the ball. A ship of state, thirty
flowers ever made-will be suspended from
the ceiling: The galleries and supporting
columns will be decorated with garlands of
laurel and SmilaX. Laurel and palm leaves
VIII be used to ornament the large
centre columns From the lower gallery
seven panels of cut flowers, each ten by
fifteen feet, and bearing floral has relief of
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