Evening star., 1897-02-20
The Parade Win Have Some Hand
some Features.
NOTICES RECEIVED BY COMMITTEES
Preparations for the Supper at the
Ball.
I N A q G U r AL NOT e

Additional notifications are being received
from clubs and organizations that propose
taking part in the Inauguration parade. and
when the procession moves 1t will be found
to be unusually attractive in its military
and civic features. If Gen. Porter's in
tention to have the marchers pass a given
point at the rate Of 12.O09 an hour is sue
cessfully carried out, 1t is probable that the
parade will not occupy over three hours.
and this will be a very gratifying improve
ment over former parades, which were SO
long drawn out that they became tiresome
alike to participants and spectators At
the last two inaugurations many of the
civic organizations after making long and
expensive journeys to Washington stood all
the afternoon at their places of formation
on Capitol Hill and finally disbanded there
despairins of a chance to march,
This will not be the case this year. az the
number of paraders will be less and their
management will be easier, while, as said
before the features presented will be more
attractive. Inquiries for accommodations
snow that very substantial sort of a
crowd will come to the inaugura ton There
is a greater dmand for high-class quar-
ters than there is for the cheaper variety
and the Dig hotels and boarding houses re-
port this character of inquiry from all
over the country.
The committee on street decorat ations has
decided to adorn the approaches to the
avenue on either side of the Peace monu-
lnent IN very attractive manner the plans
1or which are now being completed.
baltimore Honest Money Democrats
Three hundred to five hundred men repre-
senting the Honest Money Democratic
League the Wage Earners' Democratic
League, the Wage Farmers Railroad
League and the Law and Order CONNER
Ne
Baltimore city, will march in the inaugura. /.
parade. In a letter to Vice Chairman Tom
c. Noyes of the civic committee relating to
the representation, Mr.. w. o. Becken-
baugh of 51o Mosher street, Baltimore.
writes follows:
These men will be the representatives of
the bone and sinew of honest money demo-
Gratis. who made it possible for the great
victory in Maryland to be won and will
no doubt. be the only democrats in line
We will bring one band and march with
banners flying"
The OricI Social Club of Richmond. Va.
will have sixty men in line. under COM
mand of ]. l.. B. Forester. They will
wear black clothes, silk hats and white
over-gaiters.
The Blaze of Glory Train
The Dl Page County Republican Club
and the Chicago Republican Club will
bring nine hundred men to participate in
the inaugural parade. They will come by
the already famous Blaze of Glory train of
the Chicago Republican Club over the
Pennsylvania road. which is promised to
be the most magnificent and brilliant train
ever run on any railroad. The arrange
ments include transportat alton, sleeping car
accommodations and meals en- route and
while III this city.
One hundred mem bers of the oripipa, C,ol
ored Mems Mckinley Club of Illinois will
march In the parade. under command of
Richard Allen Daw son. They will wear
steel gray ulsters. lavender ties ard gloves
black silk hats. and will carry umbrellas
Ihey Will accompany the 9th Battalion of
cclored troops of the Illinois National
Guard, and will come over the Baltimore
and Ohio road.
The Spring Hill Club, No /, a colored Or
ganization Of Ash Grove. Va. will have 100
men in the Inaugural parade, under COM
mand OF Charles Dean. They will be head
ed by band of fifteen pieces, and will
wear dark Alpine hats, black trousers, blue
shirts with sailor collars. belts and leggins
The public order committee at its meet
ing last night assigned members to duty at
the hotels and deDcts for March 1 to in
elusive, and to the east CAPITOL stand. the
Peace monument and along the line of pa
rade on inauguration day.
The Terrapin mt the SINNER,
Caterer Carl Essner reached Washington
today from Philadelphia, and will remain
hSiC Soh uouSly until dIteF C0e Dali sup
erintendfng the arrangements for the sup
per. He promises an entertainment un-
equaled on similar occasions, and will Lave
the tables elabora tely decorated, and supply
each guest with handsomely engraved
menu card. bearing portraits of Mckinley
and Hobart. Considerable amusement has
been occasioned for the caterer by the pub
lished articles relating to the cornering of
diamond-back terrapin, and other caterers
have been similarly entertained by the
same novel innocence displayed over the
question. AS there are not and have not
been for years a sufficient number of dia-
mond-back terrapin caught in any season
to supply the demand for private dinner
parties, 1t can be readily understood that
counts' have never been counted on as
participants In the inaugural supper to any
extent. Like the pen. the Slider in the
hands of a cook entirely great Is almost as
toothsome as the diamond-back.
War and Navy Stand.
superintendent Baird of the State, War
and Navy Departments has arranged to
place stand. with capacity of 1.SOO per-
sons. on the north front of the War De-
partment for the berefit of the employees OF
those departments on Inauguration day.
NO CHANCE FOR BIG RACE,