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cleaned. Should the weather prevent the
carrying out of the above program in all
details, such steps will be taken as will
place the streets in as good condition as
possible under the existing circumstances" /"
Police Arrangements.
Unless the Senate confirms the nominal
ton Of Henry E. Davis to be district at
torney, OR the President signs the bill which
provides for the temporary appointment Of
such an officer, the District will be in a
bad fix during inaugural week. By Monday
there will be six hundred additional pri-
Yates on duty to assist the police, and
these, with the seyenty-five expert detec-
tives, said to be the shrewdest in the
United States many noted arrests are GER
tain to follow. With no district attorney
to represent the interests OF the govern
ment, matters will be more complicated
The additional force of policemen for
duty at the Capitol will he sworn in at po-
lice headquarters tomorrow at noon The
specials throughout the city will be sworn
in as follows: Those in the first and fourth
precincts at station No. l at II o'clock
Monday; those In precincts number three
and seven at station No. :: at noon; those
in the second and eighth precincts at sta
tion No. : at ] PM, and those in precincts
SIX, nine and five at station No. 6 at m
All police officers will be furnished with
neat card, reading as follows:
METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPT.
District of Columbia
For the information of members of the
1orce. persons privileged to cross the lines
on March 4, inauguration day. will be-:
Members of the executive COMMITTEES
Members Of the public order committee.
Members of the press, with local badges
or card credentials.
office. '''" VI
Photographers and others. with dulv an
thentlcated permits from this department.
W. g. MOORE,
Major and Supt. Metropolitan Police.
Progress of Street decorations.
Chairman Wine Of the committee on
street decorations still has suppIy of
nags ON hand which may ne secured by
persons along the line of the parade for
use IN adorning their houses. Many build
ings have been already decorated. while
from others the flags f1oa ting on extended
staffs add to the already picturesque ap-
pearance of the street. General commen-
dation is expressed at the style being fol-
lowed IN the decorations of the cornices
OF the roofs Of the viewing stands, The
arrangement of national colors and en-
blems is being carried out with really ar
tistic taste, and when the work is finished
the stands will be pretty features instead
OF being the rough and unsightly struc-
lures they have been on former inaug,-
rails.
Coming of the Vice Presidcnt-Elect.
vice PTesident-elect Garret A Hobart will
leave his home in Paterson, ". J., Tuesday
next to take part in the Inauguration cere-
monies. He will come to Washington over
the Jersey Central and Baltimore and Ohio
railroads. Mr. Hobart will be accompanie
by his wife and sen. Garret, jr; Governor
Griggs and his wife and daughter. Col.
VIM. Barbour and Mrs. Barbour, and the
entire military staff of the governor. There
tSn hn
officlals, but the party has not yet been
completed. Upon arrival in Washington,
the entire party will go to the Arlington
Hotel, where the Vice Presdent-elect has
engaged quarters for the time he will re-
main In Washington during the extra ses-
sion Of Congress-