The herald., 1897-03-05
countless tasks which will test its
strength. H. BOYNTON.
THE DAYS EVENTS
Details Of the Ceremonies Of William 1cKin-
iey's Inauguration

Details Of the Ceremonies Of William r1cKin-
iey's Inauguration
WASHINGTON, March A sound
nights lest put Mr. Mckinley in per-
feet condition for the exhausting func-
tions of the day. The president
is an early riser, and few hotel guests
were awake when he opened his door
at $3.50 and called greeting to Messrs.
Dsugherty and Gardner, New York de-
tectives, who have watched his every
move since the train arrived from Can
ton. Abner Mckinley dropped in for a
few moments chat. Then the president
elect turned his attention to some per-
sonal mail. Breakfast for Mr.. and Mrs.
Mckinley was served in their private
sitting room. While breakfasting the
president-elect admitted his family
physician, who expressed qualification
at the excellent condition of the patient.
The first official caller was Chairman
Bell of the Inauguration committee.
After breakfast the president-e
came down to the corridor of the hotel
for a few minutes. He greeted pleasant
ly a few persons, including newspaper
men, and an irrepressible German who
insisted on shaking hands with the pres
ident of the United States. The presi-
dent-elect met his mother in the corri-
fectionate terms inquired after her
health; then led her gently to the sit
ting room and placed her in warm cor
ner on a soft lounge.
At $3.50 o'clock Clarence Chaplin, the
barber, shaved the president-elect. In
the meanwhile callers began to increase
in number although few were admit
ted to the reserved portion of the house.
A great bunch of American beauty roses
a q on a "a fnr Mrs MCKINLEY
was received. At 1855 Senators Sher-
man and Mitchell of Wisconsin of the
Senate committee, appointed to con-
fduct the Inauguration, appeared and
announced that they had come to escort
the president-elect to the capitol.
STREET DECORATIONS.
The center of interest of decorations
of the city is the avenue, Pennsylvania
avenue, stretching for an unbroken
sheet of asphalt $50 feet broad and a
mile long, from the capitol to the foot of
the treasury and thence after the short
break at Fifteenth street, for another
mile and half past the north front of
the treasury, past the White House and
the state, war and navy departments, to
Washington Heights. There the inaug-
ural procession turns on it's backward
march past the reviewing stand Of the
grand marshal on X street.
The great trough of buildings from the
capitol to the treasury is wealth of
bunting. There are flags of all nations
waving from the windows or floating
from every available Flagstaff. Probab-
ly every flag in the international code Is
represented from the Stars and Stripes
and the blue cross of st. George to the
white elephant of Siam and the black
and yellow dragon flag of China.
Except in the center Of the street
where the police have cleared a way,
there is a solid mass of humanity con-
stantly shifting, a veritable human car
pet for the great avenue through which
the flood of the inaugural procession is
to roll.
The decorations of the avenue may be
divided in sections from the capitol to
the Washington citadel.
From the foot of the capitol to Seventh
street. the decorations are much the
same. This is the old avenue, the Sec
ton which in the days Of Webster, Clay
and Lincoln was the fashionable board
ing house section.
There the residents have decorated
each after his own inclination with
flags from the ridge poles, banners on
the second story windows and printed
banners of welcome to the incoming
administration naming Mckinley. and
Hobart personally as the "people's
choice" and the advance agents of
prosperity"
At Seventh street. one of the great
business arteries of the city, the stands
commence. The reservations on each
side Of the avenue have been occupied
by grand stands bannered and embat-
\ tied with canvas frohts, painted in imi-
tation Of brown stohe, which tends to
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