The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-03-06

the Republic last year had prepared the
city to receive aud accommodate crowds,
but no such vast concourse as this over
before gathered in the nations capital
Every foot OF standing room along
the route oil the procession, fully two
miles in length, was occupledi windows
commanding q view OF the parade
brought fabulous prices and advantage
Gus seats on the public stands com,
mandedprices ranging from - up ana
down,
Capitol Hill, lar as the eye could
reach from tho eastern front OF tho cap
itol, was an uIdulating
MASS OF HUMANITY,
assembled to witness the administering
OF the oath OF Office to the new Presl-
dent by the chief justice Of the United
States and to hear, as many OF them as
could get within earshot, the inaugural
address, The picturesque and thor
oughly republican practice OF taking
the oath OF office and delivering the in
augural address in the open air IN the
presence OF the people was begun by
Zachary Taylor in 1919.
TIE PARADE
was greater in numbers and moro i'm
posing in military and civic display
than that OF any previous inauguration.
Gen. Martin +. Mcmahon, OF New
York, the grand marshal, carried out in
tho organization OF procession the
same admirable methods OF assembling
his forces which made his management
OF the Columbian parade in New York
city last October 30 successful, With
military aagaCity he recognized the
fact that it takes many hours to march
forty or fftylthousand men past given
point, even under tho most iavoring
circumstance OF broad and vol paved
streets and instead OF ordering all the
organized bodies to be ready to fall in
at one and the same time, he allowed
sufficient intervals between the hours
OF assembling TO prevent rs far rs pos.
sible fatiguing waits, and SO arranged
tho assembling places on contiguous
side streets that the men werc able to
form and drop into line without delay
and without crossing the line OF march,
In all these matters he was ably assis'
ted by his adjutant general, COL II. Q.
Corbin, U. S. A,
THE EsCoRTING DIVISION,
Composed OF artillery, cavalry and in
iantry OF the regular army, drawn from
tho garrisons OF Fort Monroe, Fort
Miner and Fort McHenry, and the ma
rines from the Washington navy yard,
with the admirably well drilled ma.
tional guard OF the district; the High
School cadet regiment and other local
organizations assembled in the neigh
borhood OF tho white house and the war,
state and navy building, and formed in
columns OF sections OF twelve each
promptly at 1880. They marched
down the avenue. accompanying the
Presidential party from the white house
to the capitol prior to the inaugura-
ton. All the rest Of the parade as.
sembled below the capitol and marched
from the capitol up the avenue after
the inauguration ceremonies were over,
distance of fully two miles, to the
point of disbandment, Washington cir
Gle, near Thirty-third street. For more
than half tho day the city looked like
VAST MILITARY CAMP,
the almost interminable marching past
OF regulars and the numerous and well
equipped militia forces OF tho states
being broken in upon only in part by
the visiting governors in their civilian
costumes riding past in the order that
their states were admitted into the
union, and accompanied by their brill
liantly uniformed stats. Then, with
an intervening interlude Of Grand
Army and union veterans, came tho
civic half of the parade, fully as numer-
GUS and rs interesting as the military
display.
THE CIVIC PROCESSION,
under the marshalship OF Colonel Will
liam Dickinson, was in six divisions
and numbered good many moro than
10000 men and number of lady
equestrians. Tammany, with its
gorgeous new banners and badges, held
tho right Of line. Tho second division
was assigned to Pennsylvania; Massa-
chusetts, New Jersey and Delaware held
the third divisions; Maryland the
fourth; the Gt.h was tho western
division, and tho sixth was made up OF
the late arriving organizations. The
bicycle clubs Of Washington and Balti-
moro brought up the rear.
FEATURES OF THE GREAT PARADE.
A detailed and itemized report OF the
great parade is impossible, when q
mere enumeration of the various regi-
ments, companies, posts and civic or.
CARNATIONS participating occupies four
newspaper columns. But some OF the
notes and incidents OF the parade are
picked up at random. Among the
Observation-Disclosures special aides
who rode behind Grand Marshal Nc.
Mahon and his chief staff, Gen. W. D..
Whipple, were representatives from
every state and territory in the union.
The guard Of honor OF President Glove.
land consisted Of 100 members OF the
Now York Business Mems Cleveland
and Stevenson Association, representing
fifteen mercantile organizations Of the
Empire City.
The passage OF the President along
the avenue was ono continual ovation
Of the most enthusiastic kind. The
steady tramp Of tho superbly drilled
bRttalons OF regulars under tho com.
lnand OF Gen, Braoks forming his cs.
cort; tho suggestive rumble of the gun
carriage, but soidieriy bearing OF
tho young cadets, all helped to keep
the enthusiasm alive.
A feature distinctively novel was in.
troduCed into tho parade by the en-
cheering corps. This was tho releas.
ing OF tho number OF carrier pigeons