Evening star., 1897-02-26


| Thursday in the shape OF the most memoir
| able celebration of all inaugurations on
| record The expenses of the celebration
| will be very large, but it IS confidently ex-
| pected that tine receipts from the sale of
| privileges, ball. supper and concert tickets
| and souvenirs, after the ball is over, will
| be sufficient to meet the cost and permit
| the return of the guarantee fund to its
| subscribers Some idea of the expenses to
| be met and the receipts that will be proba-
bly, secured may be gained from the state
| ment of the finances of the last Inaugural
ton, in 1893. 1t was as follows:
S.,lrantee qua, fund 80 10
| sale Of ball tickets. eis............. 81 115 O0
| Receipts from suIper Observation-Disclosures. 2,..W u
sale OF promenade concert tickets n,-ss 10
Receipts froll sale of old material. .... IS s.
| ,tio5 81
| EXPENDITURES
| Gt neral committee. Observation-Disclosures. AS n
Executive committee. e................... 3,715 OF
%mIiee on bail tickets and invitations s,sss - %
Committee on ball ticket dstrputirs.... SIS 80
Committee on ball room dacorl tions $3.50 90
Committee on bill room illumlni ton. 43O2 IL
committee oil banquet ut ball. 1850 oo
| Committee on badges ges................. l,6S1 10
| Committee on carriages Observation-Disclosures. $50 IS
Con nitce OIL civic organiza tions. S3l ~
Committee comfort at the bal, room. 1.sl3 IS
| committee on fiIH.nce. Observation-Disclosures. II II
| codnllii tee on nilit:ry organization and
grand marshal Observation-Disclosures. 62S 36
| Committee on music ic......-.......... 5,974 IL
| Committee On parks, reservations and
| privileges ....................... 36O4 80
| Committee prTeI.'le concerts. ...... 713 So
Committee en- printing Observation-Disclosures. 1011 W
q tmniittee public order. ........... $40 -
Cen mittee ON public comfort. 114O -
Committee cn street decorations. 175 81
| Committee street illumination and
| hreworss .-..----.-.. 46l3 0o
Floor and prom, n:de committee. ...... IL 80
Expenses 1t pension building LOIS 62
Guarantee fund 'return4d to subscribersl. .2 90
Money Given to Charity.
| There was big surplus left over. and by
resolution of the executive committee it
was donated as follows:
| Conta .ious Diseases Hospital .......s $500 90
Emergency Hospital. Observation-Disclosures. 500 90
The Children's Hospital. Observation-Disclosures. 5,,0 90
Washington Home for hncurables. ......... 500 OO
National Homeopathic Hospital. .......... 80 GO
Aged ""nienS Home Observation-Disclosures. 100 OO
Church orphanase Association of ST. Johns
Parish ....-.-.................. 100 90
Cniidrens Country Home. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 100 10
,ierilin orphan Asylum ............-.--. 100 10
Home for the Aged-Little Sisters of the
National Association for Destitute Colored
Women and Children. Observation-Disclosures. 100 90
ST. ANN Infant Orphan Asylum. ......... 100 %
st Jostph's Orphan ASYLUM. ............ 100 UO
81 vincent : Female Orphan Asylum. 100 90
Washington Asylum fer Fourdlinss. ....... 100 UJ
washington tIty Orphan Asylum. 100 W
Young Woman's Christian Home. ........ 100 %
The sale of ball tickets so far this time
has been greater than ever before at
pellou anu II Is cOnnQent1y 0X-
pected that the returns will reach a larger
| figure from this source than they did in
1s.s'. There We're four concerts last in
auguraticn, three being given on Monday
and one on Tuesday following the 4th of
March. There was no concert on Sunday
| March =, Secretary Noble declining to al
low the use of the pension building for
| the purpose. Thousands of visitors left
| the city Sunday afternoon and night, who
| would have attended such a concert. This
| time there will be no interim between the
| inauguration and the concerts. and it is
| believed tie receipts from them will be
| extremely large.
| Public Comfort Committee Work.
The books of the public comfort commit
| tee have been closed as far as the regis
| tration of rooms is concerned. enough hav-
| ing been offered for all the visitors that
| are expected.
All quarters registered have been CLASH
| fled as to price and location and from noon
| of March j some members of this commit
| tee with two clerks will be on duty at each
| depot with list of quarters and corps of
| messenger boys night and day until noon
| of March to assign and direct visitors to
1 quarters engaged
| The office of the committee at 1419 f
| street will also be open night and day
| with secretary in charge with messenger
| boys in attendance. for the purpose of
| procuring quarters for visitors and as a
| bureau of information. The record to da tie
i
| istered for 3S.420 persons anG that places
| where meals only can secured by II, 762
| people have been reported Four hundred
| and nnety-seven windows and twenty
| seven balconies whence views of the pa
| rade may be secured have been listed.
! Agent Mahony has secured 206 horses for
| use in the parade. selecting them with ex-
| cellent discrimination from 1,421 offered.
| Part of the Presidential Party Arrives
| Mr.. William Mckinley Osborne national
| courier of the President-elect Mrs Os-
borne, Miss Osborne. Miss Marguerite Os-
borne, Mr.. Glidden Osborne, Mr.. A. w
| Pope and wife, Mr.. David I.oring and wife
| and Miss Loring. all of Boston. arrived at
| the Ebbitt House last night and were as
| signed to rooms in the apartments reserved
| for the immediate personal party of the
| President-elect, of which they form a dis
| tinguished part.
| Arrangements were completed today for
| the accommodation of the Army Engineer
| Battalion from Wilets Point. N. Y, and
West Point. N V, which has been ordered
| here for the Inauguration. The battalion,
| numbering $40 men, under command of
| Major ]. ID. G. Knight. Corps of Engineers
will be quartered in the west and central
corridors OF the first floor of the War De-
| partment. The men will sleep in the halls
| General Wilson, chief of engineers, and the
| other engineer officers on duty at the War
| Department. Lieuts. ]. S. Sewell and j. j.
| Morrow, Corps of Engineers. stationed
| here, have been ordered to report to Major
| Knight for duty with the battalion during
| the Inauguration ceremonies. The battalion
| will arrive here the afternoon Of the 3D. and
| leave here the morning of the 9Th.
Arrangements at the Hall Room.
Chairman McCauley has also selected the
| ai,!s to be in charge Of the various sections
| at the ball room and has issued directions
| to be followed by them. All special aids
and aids In charge of sections will repor,
to him personally at 7:45 pm. March 1,
ir the committee rooms over the G street
| entrance. Members of the floor and prom
| enade committee will report to the aids in
charge of the sections to which they are
| assigned at the same hour. The ball room
floor will be divided into twelve sections.
| numbered from to IL. and the first gallery
into two sections, numbered l3 and H.
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