The San Francisco call., 1896-11-24
ELABORATE PLANS
FOR INAUGURATION
Already the Hotel Business
in Washington Is
Booming.
Portions of Three Floors OF the
Ebbitt House Secured for
Major Mckinley.
Merchants at the Capital City Sub
scribe Liberia ly for the Ex-
tensive Festivities.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 25.-Ex-
tensive and elaborate plans for the IN
auguration of Major Mckinley as Presi-
dent are already under way. The selec-
ton of rooms at a hotel for the President
elect was left to Abner Mckinley, a
brother of the PresidenI-elect. Mr.. Nc
Kinley's party will occupy portions OF
three floors of the Ebbitt House. On the
second floor there will be reserved for Mr..
McKinley's owE use three suites of rooms,
two double bedrooms and q large private
parlor, all overlooking F street. On the
third floor all the rooms on the Four
teenth- street side of the building will be
occupied by the party and similar rooms
on the fourth floor will be reserved for
their use These rooms include the suite
that was occupied by Mr.. Mckinley when
he was a member of Congress. The rooms
which were occupied by Vice-P President
Stevenson when he came to Washington
four years ago are also included in the
suite.
Eight hundred applications for rooms
had been received up to Saturday night at
the Ebbitt House. At the Arlington,
Manager Bennett said the mum her of ap-
plicstions is greater than was ever known
here at this period of the year, and leads
him to the conclusion that the number of
persons who will visit the city to witness
the inaugural ceremonies will be unpre-
cedented.
AS soon as the com nIittees who will
have charge of the inaugural ceremonies
have been organized, an effort will be
made to secure an agreement from hotel
men regarding rates and accommodations.
CO efa toll IN
secure anything like uniformity of prices,
and several of the hotels, it is alleged, are
not advancing rates, but are insisting that
rooms be engaged Tor a period of week
or ten days,
Every Washington business man ex-
poets an enormous crowd of visitors, and
arrangements for their reception and en-
tertainment will undoubtedly. be more
elaborate than ever before.
The announcement that S. w. Wood
ward is to be placed at the head of the in
augural com mittee while occasioning some
surprise, because Mr.. Woodward is a
sound-money Democrat, has generally
elected favorable comment. Mr.. Wood :
ward is a well-known business man and
has had great deal of experience in con-
nection with the work of former inaugural
com mittees.
In all recent inaugurations expenses
have been paid by the receipts from the
sale of ball tickets and privileges. The
forthcoming event will be no exception to
tile rule.
The business men of the city are so cer-
tain of getting their money back that
there is seldom any trouble in securing
generous contributions. 1t is probable
that the fund raised to defray the ex-
penses of the coming inaugural will be
larger than ever before and that the pro-
gramme of entertainments will be at
tractive to an unusual degree. There is
already some talk of holding the inaugu-
raj bail in the rotunda of the new library
building, instead of in the court of the
pension building. The rotunda. however.
would hardly be large enough to hold the
crowd, for the reason that the proceeds of
the ball will be used to refund all contri-
buttons to the inaugural fund. There will
be no desire upon the part of the man.
ager to limit the nun Der of the tickets.