The herald., 1897-02-15
Rapidly Assuming a State of
Completeness
DISPLAY WILL BE LAVISH
But All Spectacular Effects Will Be
Carefully Avoided
II VIII Cost Five Dollars to 90 to the Ball
and No Other Invitation Is
Needed
Associated Press Special Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-The ar
rangements for the Inauguration of
President-elect Mckinley two weeks
from next Thursday are rapidly nearing
completion, and the indications are that
in brilliancy and attractiveness the cere-
monies, the decorations and the festivi-
ties incident to inauguration week Will
be more lavish than those of former
years. In the decorations of the ball
room finer results are expected than
ever before All spectacular effects will
be avoided and more artistic and har-
monious arrangement of flowers, lights
and bunting will be secured. About
$4,000 will be spent by the inaugural
committee in decorating the main pail
room and theprivate rooms set apart Tor
the use of the presidential and vice.
presidential parties. The great height
of the court of the pension building,
where the ball will be held, will be over
come by bunting festoons from each or
the three divisions of the court, to the
top of the second gallery. The bare
walls everywhere and all the smaller
pillars will be covered with bunting as
a BACKGROUND for the flowers and greens,
! which will be prominent features OF
the decorations. The bunting ana
thousands of tiny electric fairy lamps
will be used principally TO bring out IN
greater relief the floral designs. Ihe
president and vice-president with their
families will attend the ball, and will be
in charge of a reception committee OF
which Major General Nelson A. Miles
is chairman. The cost of the tickets to
the ball has been fixed at 50 for each per-
son and 81 extra if supper is desired
In answer to many inquiries at head
quarters it may be stated that no lnVl-
tations to the ball are necessary TO Sc
cure tickets, and none are issued except
to foreign ministers. Tickets are now
on sale and may be had by anyone at
the price named.
The promenade concert will consist
OF six selections and the dance program
contains twenty-three numbers
The ball will be held on Tuesday night.
and in addition series of five inaugural
grand concerts will be given in the ball
room on the following Friday and Satur-
day. The ball decorations will remain
in place The first concert will be given
at 1920 Friday morning, in honor of the
United States army. represented by
General Miles and staff. AT the con-
cert the Republican glee club of Column
bus, O.. will sing a number of patriotic
| airs. At o'clock on Friday afternoon
a concert will be given in honor of the
| United States navy, represented by
| Rear Admirals Walker and Ramsey.
| and at night concert will be given in
honor of the states of the union, repre-
sented by governors OF the states and
their staffs. The concert on Saturday
will be in honor of congress, represented
by the president of the senate and the
speaker of the house. The last concert
Saturday night, will be in honor of the
people of the United States, and will
consist of music by the Twenty-second
Regiment band and a chorus of 500
voices admission to which concert will
be so cents
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Pennsylvania National Guard finds it
impossible to attend the Inauguration,
the probabilities are that,the parade will
be very large. General Horace Porter
of New York. with the gentlemen of his
staff, IS busy with the details of ar
ranging the divisions. General Porter
will act as grand marshal, and will have
as his chief of staff, Mr.. A. Noel Blake
man of New York city, Col. Fl. c. Cor
bin of the UniteL States army as chief
of staff, with Captain Lln. Edward
Horton of the District of Columbia Ma
tional Guard special aid and military
secretary.
The parade will be organized in two
grand divisions, one civic and the other
military. Gen. Grenville NJ. Dodge will
be chief marshal of the first grand
division. to be composed of military or
ganizations. He will have as his chief
of staff, Gen. Huidkoper of New York,
and Col. ]. P. Sanger of the United States
army adjutant This military grand
division will be subdivided into three
separate divisions. The first division
will organize into two brigades, the first
comprising United States troops as well
as naval battalions. The first brigade
will be commanded by Major General
Westley Merritt, L. S. A. The second
brigade will be composed of the Ma
tional Guard of the District Of Colum-
bia, 1900 strong, and the Washington
high school cadets, 400 strong, all under
command of Gen. Cecil Clay of the Dis
trict of Columbia atNional Guard. The
second division of the military grand
division will be composed of the national
guards of the various states, headed
by the governor and staff of each state.
and arranged in order from front to rear
in the order in which the states entered
the union. The third division of the
military grand division will be composed
of all veteran organizations, including
the G. A. r., the Loyal Legion, The
Union Veterans union, the Regular
Army and Navy union, etc The third
division will be commanded by Gen. o.
Howard, Gen. s. S. Burdette, past COM
mander-in- chief of the G.. A. r., as his
staff. The civic grand division will be
commanded by B. H. Warner of this
city as chief marshal, and will be made
up of civic clubs of all descriptions.
Prominent in this grand division will be
the National league, of which D. D..
Woodmansee of Cincinnati, is presi-
dent, who will act as marshal
1t is estimated that there will be from
10000 to 1000 people in the parade, and
in order to move SO vast an army in the
space Of time allotted they will be so
formed that they can be marched past
a given point at the rate Of II, 900 an hour
Conspicuous among the civic organiZa-
tions will be a delegation of about 200
students from the Indian school at Car
Isle, Pa. Gov. Bushnell of Ohio will
command a military division
The United States regular troops Of
the military grand division will be COM
posed of one battalion of engineers
from Willetts Point, n. Y; two regi-
ments of infantry, the Seventeenth,
from Columbus barracks, and the Ninth
from SackettS Harbor; one regiment Of
cavalry, four troops from Fort Meyer
and four from Fort Ethan Allen; twelve
batteries of heavy artillery, marching
as infantry, and two light batteries. The
represented in the parade by several
raer ny,t, ;,,1.