The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-26

raising. Secretary of State Foster will be
engaged for two years under President
Cleveland as agent OF the Boring sea arbi-
tration. He has been one of the attorneys
for the United States government. After
the expiration of this work he will repre-
sent Mexico and Spain as agent and attor-
ney In this country. Secretary Elkins
will return to New York and engage in
various railroad enterprises. Postmaster
mammoth store. Secretary Charles Fos-
ter will look after his manufacturing IN
terests in Ohio, and Secretary Noble will
resume the practice of raw in st. Louis.
Secretary Eikins. Mr.. Wanamaker and
Secretary Charles Foster are the only
members of President Harrison's cabinet
who are regarded wealthy. Secretary
Tracy has some money, but he is not
nearly as well OF as the other gentlemen
named
To turn for q moment from the outgoing
to the incoming administration. 1t must
be said that all indications point to o re-
markably gay season here. To begin with,
Mrs. Cleveland is in the be st of health and
spirits. She IS young and charming and
will bring about her some of the loveliest
of our American women. The death Of
Mrs. whitney, once so prominent In
Washington City society. has thrown q
shadow of gloom over the city, but Mrs.
Whitney would not have been so promi-
nent i'll Washington City during this adj
ministration as she was when her husband
was secretary of the navy. Mr.. Cleveland,
too, Is anxious that his administration
shall be brilliant socially as well as politi-
cally. He has been honored as no other
American was ever honored before. He
never was more independent of political
bosses or managers than now. He can
and will do as he pleases. If his admins
VS foil et,nf 0Vvl &xrtfl h
and not that OF any one else. and there is
no doubt that the coming four years will
De as brilliant socially as any in the his
tory of our government.
One thing which strikes the visitor of
today Is the earnestness with which DEM
ocrats from all over the country go into
the inauguration preparations. Democrats
are arriving here by every train. They
are coming from every city and state in
the Union. The wise ones have hotel
quarters engaged. The foolish ones will
have no place to lay their heads. There is
a notable increase among the visitors of
the wives and daughters of Democratic
visitors. They are all anxious to see Mrs.
Cleveland. and after that, the next thing
of absorbing interest is the Inauguration
bail. how they shall get there and what
they shall wear. 1t is expected that fully
10000 visitors will be here by Inaugural
ton morning. There will be delegations
from every state In the Union. coming in
special cars and in delegations. The
hotels have made arrangements certainly
much better than four years ago for the
comfort and convenience of visitors. The
rate per day at each hotel will be S. per
person. and no room will be rented for
less than five persons, making total for
each room of SIS. An average of five
people will be put in each room. Smaller
rooms will not have SO many, and larger
rooms will have more. The big hotels
will therefore accommodate quite 1900
guests each, who will pay the handsome
sum Of about $4,000 for the privilege of
being here.
The committee of public comfort
promises to look after all those who cam
not find accommodations at the hotels,
ana many visitors coming here who
have not made arrangements for quar-
tiers will be met at the various hotels by
representatives of this committee and
assigned to respectable and comfortable
boarding houses. Ii the weather is fine
on inauguration day the ceremonies will
be worth making q long journey to see,
and the Inauguration ball will be worth
going to, even if one is almost crushed to
death, for the crowd will be enormous.
The ball is being prepared ON a scale of
ppplecedented grandeur. As four years
ago. the ball will be held In the pension
building. Those who were present on
it. There was no roof on the building
then, the weather was cold, and ladies in
evening dress shivered and tried to look
happy. Now the building 10 completed.
the arrangements are in the hands of COM
petent men. and while there will be an
enormous crush there is no doubt that
1t will be the gayest Inauguration ball
seen in Washington City in many years.
The entire floor will be in charge of Man
ager Edwin B. Hay. who will have q
committee of 500 men at hio service.
The door will be divided into sixteen Sec
tons, SO many men having exclusive jurs-
diction over a particular section. Directly
in front of the orchestra stand Manager
Hay will have his place. and he will be
in telephone communication with his
deputies all over the room. As the bali is
TO take place on Saturday evening, it will
begin early and end promptly at II CLOCK.
President and Mrs. Cleveland will arrive
about 10 o'clock. One room will be re-
served for the president and his party.
There will be q raised stand seating about
300 people, and to this the presidents party
will be conducted. 1t is the custom for
the president and his wife to spend an
hour or so in promenading among the peo-
pie and making the acquaintance of those
presented to them. There are no patron
esses of an Inauguration ball, and with
the exception OF the raised stand for the
presidents party. there will be nothing
else to indicate that Mr.. and Mrs. Cleve-
land are any better than Mr.. and Mrs.
Smith Of some small town in Georgia 1t
will be thoroughly Democratic bail in all
respects. Tickets for the bail cost So each,
and all moneys received after the payment
of bills go 10 the benefit of the poor of the
District of Columbia. At the last inaugu-
ration SIS. 900 were turned over to a COM
mittee TO distribute for the benefit OF the
poor 1t is settled that the decorations
will be largely made up Of flowers, but. of
course, the stars and stripes Will be promi-
nent.
1t may interest some readers to know
that while there is no rule governing the
dress of men or women at an Inauguration
bali, men are expected to appear in even
ing dress and ladies without bonnets, al
though there IS nothing to prevent the
wives of Democratic statesmen from wear
ing their bonnets if they please. The
caterer who has charge of the supper guar
antees to provide comfortably for 5000
people, and unless ali indications fail there
should be good deal OF enjoyment at the
bali There Will be an abundance of good
dance music, and after the strains of
Home, Sweet Home" at the close of the
bali, the inauguration ceremonies are con-
sidered over and in twenty-tour hours the
capital will become depleted, and Mr..
Cleveland and mis- advisers will take up
the reins OF the government
FOSTER CoATEA