, 1889-03-10
SEEING THE SIGHTS.
Washington City the DayAfter
Inauguration.
The Committee Found a Way to
Rake in the Dollars.
Belva Got Left, but She Still
Smiles Serenely.
Special Correspondence of THE LEADER.

optSlhi SoiItspOhu6nCt Ol lhE LEADER
WASHINGTON, March 5.-To the coun-
try visitor bent on seeing the sights of
Washington in a limited time to-day
afforded a much better opportunity than
yesterday with the big show of the inaug-
uration in progress. Every place of in
terest in the city was crowded. Pennsyl-
vania avenue, which yesterday was packed
and damned with a mass of dripping PEG
pie roped out of the middle of the street
to make room for the miles Of political
clubs, military and civic organizations and
Denver cowboys, was to day swept clean
and dry by a west wind and presented a
gay appearance. The draggled bunting of
yesterday was dried out and iuttered in
the wind; hundreds of carpenters we're
pulling down the immense stands which
fronted the treasury, state and other de-
partments; militiamen of every style of
uniform stood about d~isconsolately with.
nothing to do or formed gangs to raid the
restaurants. There were scores of parades
formed by regiments of militia marching
to the depots vr political clubs headed for
the white house to shake hands with the
new president. Famous bands like Cappa's
7th regiment, the Pennsylvania Sd bril-
gade, Goth New York regiment and others
could be heard. Swell political clubs like
the Americans of Pittsburg, the j. d.
Cameron of Philadelphia, the Alpha OF
Baltimore had little parades of their own,
their silk hats and white overcoats looking
rather the worse, however, for yesterdays
all day rain.
The militia men from Pennsylvania as
tonished the town. This afternoon a reg
ment of them, the Eighteenth, with
quarters in the Patent Office building,
formed a Gordon across the avenue. Every
negro who came along was captured and
not released until he was tossed up Wig
orously in a blanket. At one time fully
forty colored brethren were going sky
ward from blankets, while thousands
lined the streets and enjoyed the fun.
AT the various points of interest to
visitors the crowds were enormous. AT
the Corcoran Art gallery over sixty
thousand people crowded through. admir-
ing the works of art. AT tie Washing
ton monument the elevator worked
steadily all day, carrying up full loads OF
fifty people every trip. At the white
house the line of people waiting to see the
president extended across the entire front
of the grounds, through the gates and
away into the avenue. Even the immense
capitol building was crowded. Although
none of the members OF either house were
on the floor, yet the galleries were filled
with people. This afternoon the floors of
the senate chamber and house of repre-
sentatives were opened to visitors.
In the senate chamber a long line of
people walked over the presiding officers
stand, and each one sat down in his chair
for about a second. 1t may not have
been funny, but | thought it was.
The industry of the Inauguration com
mittee in Its raking in of every stray dol
lar is talked of everywhere. They sold
tickets in unlimited quantities. Our A.
ID. Kelley's number was IL ,3l9, and they
sold several after that. This, at IS a
ticket, netted a good sum. To-day they
got up a series of promenade concerts in
the hall where the inaugural ball was held.
Tickets were fifty cents, and as everybody
wanted to see the decorations at least
twenty or thirty thousand people went to
the concerts. The flowers and banners
making up the decorations of the ball
room were intact, the music was
that of the Marine band under
Donea uIcctoTsnipi 30 that the
Democratic crowd got about as much for
their fifty cents apiece as the patricians
did the night before for their S..
l saw Belva A. Lockwood coming
down the steps of her residence this
afternoon. The success of one of her
rivals doesn't seemed to have soured her
disposition as she looked very complasant-
ly at a delegation of politicians marching
down the street with a big banner with
Harrison's picture on it. Among Wyo-
ming people taking in the town are A.
d. Kelley, J. d. Freedom, E. Maggie and
George East of Cheyenne and DR.. Wat
kins of Buffalo.