, 1889-03-05
HARRISON IN.
Immense Crowds Witness the
Inauguration.
The Pleasures Somewhat MARRIED
by D~rizzIing Rain.
A Procession of 40 O O Pay
Homage TO the New Chief.
The Grand Pageant Reviewed by
the President.
A Brilliant Ball With Thousands of
A Brilliant Ball With Thousands of
Happy Dancers.
THE OPENING CEREMONIES.
Benjamin Harrison and Levi p. Nor.
ton Take the Oath of Office.

March with SIM
ple and solemn ceremony in the
presence of all wisdom and au-
thorlty embodied in the CO ordinate
branches of the government and sur
rounded by representatives of all the
great nations on the face CT the globe.
Benjamin Harrison was to-day indicted
into the highest office within the gift OF
the American people. Never was such a
crowd in Washington before. 1t is esti-
mated that half a million strangers
camped in the city last night, filling
every inch OF the hotel and boarding
house and accommodation and drawing to a
full limit on private hospitality. Even
then many were forced to sleep on floors,
some on billiard tables and even the well
come recess Of an occasional bath tub was
not despised.
A great army surged around the CAPT.
tol this morning. The rain had ceased and
there was a prospect of a good day. Many
came provided with lunches and umbrel
las and took places on the porticos and
other eligible stands to witness the events
of the day. The capitol was the objective
point of most of the strangers arriving and
they poured in a ceaseless stream up and
down the approaches. About $50 a. m.
a fine penetrating ram began to fall. The
work of the decorator presented a fine
effect. Sixteen large Corinth columns
supporting the arched roof of the portico
were draped with large American banners.
From the top OF the six central columns
two large flags of the United States hung
down and were gathered over the pass
ageway through which the president
walked from the enate chamber to deliver
his address. Above this passage in the
space made by the looping of the flags
was a large blue silken banner stretching
from column to column, an eagle plumed
. for flight and in his claws an olive branch
and bundle of silvery arrows.
In the apex OF the root a huge Ameri-
can flag was run out from three parts.
Numerous penants OF the nations OF the
world were strung one above the other
from ropes stretching far upwards to the
first balcony of the cone of the capitol
The court of the new pensions building
is undoubtedly the largest and grandest
interior of its kind on this continent, and
in respect OF Symmetrical beauty 1t has few
superiors in the world. The area of tes-
tesalated tile floor is about 30, 900 square
feet or very nearly an acre.
Harrison. accompanied by the inaugu-
ration committee, was taken 10 u closed
carriage drawn by four grey horses to the
white house about 1920 O'Clock. Rain
was pouring down in torrents and drove
many of the streets and made sorry work
of the decorations. Arrived at the white
house, Harrison vas received by Cleve
land and his cabinet in the blue parlor,
where they were soon Joined by Morton.
At IL o'clock Cleveland, Harrison and
Morton took carriages for the capitol.
The first carriage was an open landau and
contained Cleveland. Harrison, Hoar and
Cockrell; the second Morton and Cullom.
Mrs. Cleveland witnessed the departure
from a window. Then the carriages moved
out and with the Indiana veterans forming
a guard of honor amid a mingled torrent
of rain and applause.
At two minutes before noon Cleveland
and his cabinet entered and took seats as
signed to them. Then Harrison, on the
arm OF Senator Hoar, appeared at the
door and walked to a seat aG Cleveland i
right, the audience rising. The same
ceremony was repeated with Morton.
Before taking his seat he was sworn in
by Ingalls,. AT l1:5S President Protein.
ingalls, rose and closed the fiftieth con-
gress. Then Vice President Morton
called the fifty-frst congress to order in
special session.
Alter swearing in the new members the
vice president announced that without
further preliminaries the senate would
proceed to the platform at the east
front of the capitol to witness and parti-
cipate in the ceremonies of %inaugurating
the president. The procession then
moved.
As the ceremonies in the senate cham
Der concluded to-day came the most SOL
emn and imposing event of the day.
When the chief magistrate of the United
States, chosen by his fellow countrymen
was in their presence to take the oath of
office and swear to defend the constitution
and laws of the land, the crowds in the
streets kept up a constant cheering,
shouting the name Harrison and four,
four, four years more. 1t was nearly |
o'clock when the procession from the
senate appeared at the doors of the
rotunda. President Cleveland and Presi-
dent-elect Harrison walked side by side
and took places in the small rallied enclo-
sure erected OF the center in front OF the
stand, with members of the senate,
diplomatic corps, and house of represen-
tatives and a number of officers OF the
government as cared to brave the rigors
of the elements. They came on in a body.
When the crowd saw the president
there arose a tremendous uproar. The
cheering was renewed again and again
and it was not until President Harrison
had several times raised his hand for
silence that order was restored. When
the cheering had partially subsidized, Chief
Justice Fuller, barring his white locks
to the rain, held a bible inlhis right hand