The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-01

the neutrality-suspicious. That Are
Being Made For Next Wednesday
Great Event.
ESPECIAL TO IKE PREsS1
Washington, February 27.-The capital
oity IS now in all the hustle Of prepare
ton for the Inauguration On every hand
are signs of thu coming event. Pennsyl-
vania avenue, from the White House to
the Capitol. is about mile in length.
And when the parade moves along this
will be one immense parquet, in which
the audience will number many thons-
apds. Wherever there 10 an open space,
n mark. a vacant lot or other facility, a
great grand stand, with benches or
opera chairs rising in tiers, and capable
of seating several hundred, has been
erected. These grand stands are covered
and will be quite comfortable in any
weather. Seats sell at about SO each, al
though the prices fuctuate as the day
approaches, according as fair or foul
weather is portended.
Moreover, nearly every store window
on the avenue where the location is at
all eligible, has been filled up with three
or four tiers of seats, which cost from 81
to $40 each.
On the second, third and fourth floors
the front rooms are let right out. A good
front room over a store has been let as
high as $500 for the day, while third
floor room has been snapped up at 5000.
One may stand on the sidewalk for
nothing, however, and thousands will do
this. II the weather is threatening it
will probably break the price of tickets
TO the grand stands, so that good seats
may be sold as low as dollar or fifty
cents. But if the weather is mild and
fair prices will remain high.
Most of the grand stands are of very
simple construction. But the one in
front of the White House, constructed as
a reviewing stand for the President. has
considerable architectural adornment.
Across the avenue from this is a hugh
public stand, occupying Lafayette park.
The treasury clerks have at their own
expense erected large stand at the south
front of their building. 1t will afford a
magnificent view of the marching hosts
on the avenue.
Soiourners who come here havo found
that the hotels have uniform plice for
ordinary accommodation. No rooms are
let iey shorter time than from February
2G to M.rch 5, and the rate for room and
board for two people is ten dollars day.
OF course the very small hotels and
boarding houses afford more reasonable
rates.
The parade will be well worth viewing.
There will, III fact. be two parades: an
escort Of the President (from the White
House) and the President-elect (from the
of the new President from the Capitol
back to the White House.
When it ia remembered that the aids of
Chief Marsha! Porter nun Der about 300,
it will BIS seen how difficult it is to give
many details of thelparade. Five SONS or
grandsons OF Presidents will De included
in the list of aids, Ulysses S. Grant (3d),
Webb @. Hayes, Harry A. Garfield,
Chester A. Arthur and Russell Harrison.
MAJOR Albert g. Rollins, of Portlsnd, is
one of the 300 aids.
The escort of the President and Presi-
dent-eleot to the Capitol will consist of
division Of two brigades, organized as
follows:
Platoon of Mounted Police.
Governors Island Band.
Grand Marshal.
General Horace Porter.
staff and Aids.
FIRST DIVISION.
General Wesley Merritt, U. S. A.,
Marshal.
Staff and Aids.
FIRST BRIGADE.
Battalion of U. s. Engineers.
Seventeenth .. S. Infantry.
U. S. Artillery (foot).
Regiment q. s. Marines.
Battalion U. S. Seamen.
U. S. Light Artillery.
U. S. Cavalry.
Troop A, of Cleveland, Ohio.
Personal escort to the President-elect.
TIE President and Vice President-elect.
Detachment of Veterans of the 23d Ohio
Volunteers.
The Vice President-elect and the Senate
Committee of Arrangements.
Members of the Cabinet.
The Major General Commanding the
Army.
The Senior Admiral of the Navy
SECOND BRIGADE.
Colonel Cecil Clay, Marshal.
District of Columbia National Guard.
The return of the newly inaugurated
President from the Capitol to tine White
House will be the occasion of the second
and great parade.
PEOPLE ARE GATHERING.
The Old Administration Extends Courte-
sizes to the New.
Washington, February 27.-The streets,
"a hnfalc tha Ea,ni+oI nrd tho danart