The record-union., 1897-03-04

tunda. President Cleveland and Presi-
dent-elect Mckinley leading. On this
stand the oath of office will be admins
tered to President Mckinley by Chief
Justice Fuller. President Mckinley
Will then make his inaugural address.
On concluding he will return to the
Presidents room in the Senate wing of
the Capitol, and from there will be es-
corted to the White House by the in
augural parade, which will begin to
move from the Capitol, it is understood,
at o'clock
The parade will move from the Capt.
tol by way Of Pennsylvania avenue,
west to Washington Circle, thence east
through K street to Vermont avenue,
where the organizations will be re-
viewed by Grand Marshal Porter and
dismissed. From a stand in front of
the White House the President will re-
view the parade.
On the return TO the White House,
which President Mckinley will reach
ahead of the main body of the parade, a
luncheon will be hastily served for him
before he goes to the reviewing stand.
AT this time he and Mrs. Mckinley will
take leave of ex-President and Mrs.
Cleveland, who will at once leave, the
former probably going down the river
on a trip, and the latter to Princeton,
New Jersey.
At night there will be an illumina-
ton and display of fireworks in the
Washington monument grounds, begin
ming at 1:45 o'clock.
The inaugural ball will be held in the
pension building, the doors being
opened at s o'clock, and the ceremonies
beginning at 9 o'clock.
There We're a large numbers Of call
ers at the Ebbitt House, but compar-
atively few of them saw the Presi-
dent-elect. In the evening he dined
With Colonel John Hay, who will be
the new ambassador to the Court of
St James, and then retired early.
Vice-P President-elect Hobart spent
more of the day meeting his Senatorial
associates and learning the rules and
customs of the Senate under the tutel-
age of Vice-President Stevenson.
The members of the outgoing Cab
met We're busted with clearing up their
desks. Their designations are at Mr..
McKinley's service, and most of them
successors, who are all here for the
inaugural, save Governor Long of
Massachusetts.
OF the social events of the evening,
the dinner given by Colonel John Hay
to President-elect Mckinley was the
most important, the attendance in
Guiding many of those who will take
prominent parts in the work of the
new Administration. Those invited to
meet the President elect at the dinner
We're Speaker Reed, Senators Hale,
Cameron, Aldrich, Frye, Davis, Ell
kins, Mcmillan and Wetmore; Sena-
tors-elect Foraker, Hanna and Platt;
Representatives Grosvenor, HIT
Wadsworth, John Addison Porter. c n
eral William Osborne, Horace Porter,
Russell A. Alger Lyman J. Gage, Hen
ry A. White, Assistant Secretary Rock
hlli and Mrs. A. S. Hay.
Mrs. John "A. Logan gave a dinner
to General and Mrs. Alger at her home
or Clifton street. Judge McKenna was
expected to be present, but was de-
layed. Among those present were
General and Mrs. Alger, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lyman ]. Gage, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Wilson, Judge and Mrs. Gary, Gov
ernor and Mrs. Bushnell, Mrs. Gov
ernor Hastings, Governor and Mrs
Tanner, General and Mrs. Miles, Colo
and Geenral Dodge.
Prominent among the arrivals in the
city during the day We're Hon. Joseph
McKenna of California, who is to be the
Attorney General of the next Admins
tration, and Russell b. Harrison, son
CT the ex-President, who is to be a
special aide on the staff of General Hor-
ace Porter.
Hon. H. S. Pingree, Michigan's Gov
ernor, accompanied by his staff and a
number Of prominent citizens, arrived
tonight.
OUTDOOR INAUGURATIONS.
1t was Andrew Jackson, a man of
stern and rugged mold, who first con-
ceived and executed the idea of being
inaugurated in the open air on the
bleak east portico of the Capitol, in the
eye of the people whose idol he was. In
the execution of a fixed purpose he
cared little for storm or sunshine, and
in this he set an example that few of
the successors to his high office have
cared to disregard. To the citizens of
Washington and TO the thousands of
people who every four years find their
way to the Capitol this decision means
much; an indoor inauguration to them
is fiat and depressing. True, there are
the soldiers and the bands of music,
and the variously attired civilian clubs,
and the street decorations, but an in
augural procession without it's grand
preface-the vast gathering on the
eastern crest of the Capitoline Hill and
the actual presence of the newly in
Quoted President, and the delivery in
open air Of the promise which he holds
out of the future administration-is like
the play of Hamlet" with Hamlet left
out Yet this omission has followed in
some instances, when Presidents less
robust than Jackson, or more inclined
to listen to prudent advice, have de-
clined to undergo the terrible ordeal of
a bare headed exposure for nearly an
hour in the midst of winter storms
Hence Washingtonians for their own
sake, as well as for that of their myr-
lad guests look in apprehension to the
heather conditions of this day, and
strive to forecast, if they may, what
is TO follow on the 4th of March
There is grave reason, too, for this
anxiety. In this latitude the season is
one of great vicissitudes. Lying mid
way between the sunny South and win
try New England, here is the battle
ground of the changing seasons A
week of snow and sleet and one sue
oeeding of balmy spring, and then
rapid changes day by day from one ex-
treme To the other is the rule. The ap-
proach of the spring equinox bears
stronger tidings each day of the COM
ing spring, but lingering winter makes