Evening star., 1897-01-22
IMPOSTORS AT WORK
Chairman Wright Warns House.
keepers Against the Frauds.
CHARGING FEESFOR EXAMINING ROOMS
SteadyProgress in the Preparations
for the Inauguration.
VIEWING STAND PRIVILEGES

Col L. P. Wright was very indignant
this morning when The Star reporter en-
tered the public comfort committee room
at heaquarters.
Il want The Evening Star" he said, "to
warn housekeepers and others against a
set of impostors who are going around
Washington representing themselves as in
spectors from the public comfort commit
tee, and charging fees for examining ac-
ccmmodations and the pretended registra-
tlon Of them. Several reports have reached
me of this sort of thing, and the parties
engaged in the fraud seem to have been
particularly active on Capitol Hill. hope
that any person who receives q visit from
any one representing themselves an
agent of our committee and who demands
pay for his service will call in the police
and have the party arrested for obtaining
or attempting to obtain, money under false
pretenses. 1 will attend to the prosecution
of such people. you may rest assured.
There Is no necessity" continued Col
Wright, for any one who has accommoda-
tions to offer during the Inauguration to
pay single cent for the registration or in
spection of their rooms or other accommo-
dations. We record everything here free of
charge, and when inquiries from prospec-
tive visitors are received we seek to secure
what the inqufrers want as soon as possi-
bic. I'd like to catch and make an example
OF the fellows who are robbing people in
the way have described"
The report of Col. Wright today showed
acc ommodations registered for 24,9S1 peo-
served to 1OO65 people, and 273 windows
and IA balconies whence unobstructed
views of the inaugural may be obtained: !:
1.2o6 horses have been registered for hire
ir-ar t{N,, I,.x- IL.
modations have been secured for 524; 45
horses have already been assigned to va
rious staffs and stables secured for 40
horses that will be brought here by partici-
pants in the parade.
Designs for Street Decorations.
The committee on street decorations of
which Vice Chairman Louis D. Wine is
chairman. will hold a meeting tonight and
definitely decide upon the design to be
followed in the adornmcnt of the viewing
stards. A report, including the recon-
merdations on the subject. will be submit
ted to the executive committee tomorrow
night.
The Unconditional Republican Club of
Albany will have $50 men in line, with a
will be black clothes high silk hats, tan
gloves. patent leather shoes, and canes
will be carried. The club Will sleep in it's
special cars
cinrati states, through it's officers. that it
intends being the best and most elegantly
uniformed club that takes part in the
parade. The uniform will consist of black
overcoats, suits and silk hats; canes will
be carried. The league will arrive March
4, In the morning, over the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad.
The Union Republican Club of the twen-
ty-fifth ward of Philadelphia will march in
conjunction with the Union Republican
Club OF the eighteenth ward. There will he
2O men In line altogether, attired in light
colored mackintoshes with velvet collars
high silk hats and dark trousers. A band
Will head the marchers. The clubs will be
quartered at the Howard House.
High Prices for Halls.
Criticism is freely indulged in by the rep
resentatives Of organizations coming to the
Inauguration about high prices asked for
the rent of halls and similar places during
the limited Inauguration period. Many
nails, Tor instance, that usually rent for
from 80 to $50 day are being held for
lraugurat ton visitors, 1t is asserted at fig
uies -FOUR or five times larger. Those who
are actively interested in making the inau-
gura;ion celebration a success deplore very
much the fact that there Is any cause of
complaint, because, they say the visitors
TO the Inauguration leave a great deal of
money IN the city, anyhow, and 1t will do
washington great deal of permanent in
Jury II there is any disposition shown on
the part of its people to be extortionate in
any respect.
and reservations committee will receiv,
offers for the privilege of erecting viewing
s1aLds on the reservation south of Penn
sylvania avenue directly east of 9th street
and IN front of the Botanical Gardens for
which proposals we're not received in the
regular bidding which closed yesterday
Good Prices for Privileges.
Bids were opened yesterday by the COM
mittec on parks and reservations for the
privilege OF erecting reviewing stands
along the line Of the parade. The highest
proposals received were as follows: Lafay-
ette Square. 8. u. Chase. $2.555.55; Penn
sylvania avenue and 9TH street, c. Thomas
Son, $551; Pennsylvania avenue, west of
18th street, north side, c. Thomas & Son.
$6ol: pennsylvania avenue, west of 9th
street. south side, A. J. Barker & Co. $7J;
Pennsylvania avenue, west of 7th street
south side, A. J. Barker & Co., 500: Penn
syivania avenue, west of 7th street, north
side, 300; Pennsylvania avenue, east Of
7th street, north side. 500.
NO one offered to pay anything for the
privilege OF erecting stands on the south
side OF Pennsylvania avenue, east of 9th
street, or along the front of the Botanical
Gardens. The total amount offered for the
privileges, which reached A,532S is
nearly fifteen hundred dollars more than
the sums received for the same PRIVILEGES
The committee on parks and reservations
will present its conclusions on the subject
of these bids at the executive committee
meeting tomorrow night. At the same time
report will be made recommending the
adoption Of a design for the reviewing
stand to be erected in front of the Presi-
dents house.
Proposals for Inaugural Music.
The executive committee of the commit
tee on music will meet tomorrow morning
at 10 o'clock for the purpose of opening
the proposals for furnishing band and or
chestral music for the Inauguration ball
and the succeeding concerts. The full COM
mittee will hold a meeting at o'clock to
consider the subject Of awarding the con-
tract. so that a report on this important
matter may be made to the executive COM
mittee tomorrow night.
Indians I'm Line.
The proposition made by the executive
committee Of the committee on civic
organizations to get the government
to bring representatives Of various
trites Of Indians to Washington to
participate in the inaugural parade, and to
also have in line representatives of the In
dian students now at the Carlisle and
Hampton schools, Is meeting with VARY