The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-03
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.
Governors and Politicians Who Have
Arrived at the Capital.


hotels are crowded with visitors and the
capital generally has a holiday appearance.
Governors, generals and men with one title
or another. past or present, continue TO ar
rive with each train. so that it is no longer
risk 10 address with some title almost
any one who may be met about the hotels
or public offices. OF the prospective new
CABINET, there are now In the city Messrs
Sherman. Gage, Alger. Gary and Wilson.
besides McKenna is expected tonight or
Tomorrow, and possible Cabinet officer
in j. j. McCook. of New York. who ar
rived during the day. OF Governors OF
States there are already here Governors
Black, of New York; Tanner. of Illinois,
Grout of Vermont; Lowndes. of Maryland: :
Scofeld, of Wisconsin; Hastings. of Penn
sylvania: Griggs. OF New Jersey. and Bush
nell. of Ohio. Governors Drake, of Iowa,
and Pingree, of Michigan, will be in Wash
ington by noon tomorrow. The picturesque
chief executive of the Wolverine State sent
word to-day that he was coming, and Gen
Porter assigned him and his staff to the
head of the Third Brigade. Second Division
commanded by Governor Groat They will
be placed in the Column ID. rear of the
Illinois National Guard. Other arrivals of
note included Senator-elect Foraker. of
Ohio; III. Clay Evans, of Tennessee, and
Col. +. A. Buck, of Georgia. The incoming
of so many visitors of note started the So
cial activities of Washington to-day, and
there were innumerable dinners and recep-
tions in the fashionable parts of the city
in honor of inaugural sojourners.
Grand Marshal Porter kept hard at work
at his headquarters arranging for the big
parade on Thursday. A rough total OF the
number of regular and militia soldiers and
sailors who will be in line shows an aggre-
gate of II, 600 to L. coo. The escort of Presi-
dent-elect Mckinley when, In accordance
with custom he rides down the avenue to
the Capitol to take the oath of office. will
number about five thousand. The civic or
ganiZationS vary so greatly In strength that
1t has has been found absolutely impossible to
men they will have in line but IL Is eSti-
mated at about IL. 900.
NO FANCY DRILLS.
Supplemental orders issued by General
Porter to-day announced that Capt. James
II. Sands, of the cruiser Columbia, will
command the battalion OF 500 United States
seamen who will represent the navy. Other
changes place the regiment of marines in
the First Brigade under Lieutenant Colonel
Huntington, in place of Lieutenant Colonel
Higbee; assigns Company b. Second Battal-
ion Virginia Volunteers, Capt Peter Shep-
herd, jr., to position with the other Vir-
ginia troops. and announces that the pro-
visional battalion, Second Brigade, New
York National Guard, will be commanded
by Lieut.. Col. A. l.. Kline, and will be COM
posed of the following: Company A. Forty
seventh Regiment. Capt. Harvey {. Lyon;
Company G, Fourteenth Regiment, Capt.
Thomas Harvey; Company i, Thirteenth
Regiment. Capt William. y. Turpin; Com
pany X, Twenty-third Regiment, Lieut.. w.
j. Travis Crack marching bodies, am
bilious to display their tactical skill in the
parade before the largest audience they
ever have faced. will find pigeon wings and
other fancy maneuvers barred, for during
the day General Porter directed, in official
orders, that commanders be carefui TO keep
their organization in the middle OF the
street and prevent obiQuing at any point
in the line of march. on a past occasion
the procession was stopped for about ten
minutes while a crack fiambeau club per-
formed evolutions that brought down the
crowd and likewise an aid from the COM
manding officer.
The occupants of the reviewing stand and
vicinity doubtless will rejoice in the order
that Hail to the Chief shall be performed
by no band except that at the head of the
column. Several hundred bands, IL may pc
stated will be in line. Another direction 10
the band leaders is that in the civic organ
izations where they will be unusually thick
bands following each other in column snail
play alternately.
AS the day wore on the depots clogged
with the rush of incomers and there was
a constant succession of loaded trains bear
ing individuals. military bodies and clubs.
the crack military company of Cleveland.
which will form the personal escort TO the
President. Troop A.. Ohio National Guard
They have complete new uniform and
outfit for the occasion and. mounted on
the eighty coal-black chargers for the OF
ficers and men and two snow-white horses
for the trumpeters. expect to make nne
showing Their mounts were carefully Sc
lected for the occasion and brought on with
the men. who are in command OF Capt
Russell Burdick
The first military organization reaching
here over the Baltimore * Ohio came IN a
special train that pulled in Just ahead OF
the Hobart special, and ii bore the New
port OR. ID. Artillery Company, lUl men,
commanded by Col. A, "A. Barker, and Com
Volunteer Militia, sixty men, commanded
by Captain Lombard With the militia
were Garrett's Bugler Corps OF Boston and
the Cambridge Manual Training School
Band.
At the Pennsylvania and Baltimore &
Ohio stations it was estimated that 1000
men had been brought to Washington 10
attend the Inauguration and the Baltimore
6 Ohio officials said their bookings were
larger than on any former occasion.
CANNON SIGNALS.
Arrangements have been perfected by
which each important stage in the out
door ceremonies will be announced by the
booming of cannon. national salute of
twenty-one guns will be fired when Presi-
dent Cleveland leaves the White House in
company NltH MT. MCKINNEY lot lnc tdIitOl
and another salute of twenty-one guns will
announce that they have entered the Capt.
tol One gun will be fired when Mr.. Nc
Kinley takes the oath of Office, a national
salute of twenty-one guns al the conclusion
of the inaugural address. when President
Mckinley and Mr.. Cleveland begin their re-
turn march to the White House and the
same number or guns when, the tour
made President Mckinley enters the
White House or the reviewing stand.
Locally the all-important question now
is the weather, but the weather shark
fight shy and ask time for mature delibera-
ton and the further development of me
teorological facts before haZarding pre-
dction. One thing they will announce. and
that is that the temperature Will be entire
ly comfortable. Snow is out of the ques-
ton. Whether it will rain or not is an
open question. There Is a wet area out
West and gathering showers in the South.
but though there has been some gathering
cloudiness around the District OF Columbia
and a growing haze which II takes longer
each morning for the sun 20 dissipate, there
is a persistent high barometer that brings
clear skies long before noon on the whole
the indications favor showery weather and
possibly rain just before or just after in
auguraton day. with prospect that that
day itself may escape, and indeed. that the
showers may be either light or forced in
another direction.
Wilson Calls Morton.
WASHINGTON. March 2.-Mt James
Wilson. the next secretary OF agriculture.
called on Mr.. Morton. the outgoing secre-
tary at the deparfment to-day Thav