The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-05
RUSH TO CATCH TRAINS.
Inauguration Visitors Start for
Home Soon After the Parade.

Not long after the last OF the llduS VI a
| ton pageant passed up the Avenue the
| depo:s presented an animated scene
Thousands Of people who had come in
over that road to witness the parade
made a wild rush for the stations in order
| to secure comfortable seats in the cars
for their return home. AS the multitude
| crowded into the depots the cries of the
| employees directing where trains for Ger
| tain places were located, the blasts OF
the escaping steam from loco motives, and
/ the innumerauIe other noises that attend
a busy railroad station. combined to make
I the occasion one of excitement and con-
| fusion.
Forty minutes later the railroad officials
at the Baltimore and Ohio depot mad des-
patched eight heavily laden trains for
Baltimore and other northern points. The
first organization to depart over this line
was composed of two carloads of United
States troops bound for Fort Mcfenry.
| These got away at $50 p. m. They were
! followed by the provisional battalion OF
| Brooklyn. N Y, under command of Lieu
/ tenant Colonel Click, at 5:45 p. m.
/ From that time on until . o'clock this
morning military and civic organizations
/ were constantly departing. The hrst oil
| the latter to leave was the Merchants and
/ Manufacturers Club, of Baltimore Ills
( body got away at 9 o'clock last night. The
! Columbia club, of Baltimore, occupying
! seven coaches. left at 10 o'clock. The st.
! ,!ohn's - e:se students, from Annapolis,
| left about the same time, and the New
York Naval Reserves departed thir
| minutes later to take a train for their re-
turn trip home The First Corps. New
! York National Guard, got away at mid
night. Squadron a, of New York, whose
uniforms attracted so much attention
while the men were. in Washington,
/ occupying five Pullmans. with hVe car
loads of horses, left at 2 o cioef TINS
! morning.
| parted at 5 O'Clock this morning. Three
/ coaches were required to carry then
| while their mounts required seven Arms
| Palace horse cars.
| PENNSYLVANIA National Guard are sched-
. uled TO leave at O'Clock this morning.
| The battalion of Porto Ricans. under COM
mand of Col. Eben swift, I. >. A, eNpeeIs
| to get away at $50 o'clock this morning,
while the Morgantown. w. Va, CadeS
! will depart at 10.
Never before has there been such crowd
! ing at the Pennsylvania Station as was
| seen there last night. From early in the
evening until midnight the waiting rooms
were the scene of struggling masses OF
/ humanity. one-half of which apparently
wanted to move in one direction and the
| other in exactly the opposite. The greater
part of the crowd was composed OF eNcur-
| sionists. who came to the city yesterday
morning, and after witnessing the lnaug-
| uration returned to their homes last night
| But few of the military organizations
which participated In the Inauguration
parade were seen about the station; as me
| different commands which left the city
| over the Pennsylvania Railway took pas
| sage at either Seventeenth and c Streets
| southeast or at Ninth Street and Mary
| land Avenue southwest.
| The majority of the troops which left
| for home last night departed from the
| Ninth Street and Maryland Avenue sta
| ton. Here the First Fourth. and Fifth
| Regiments of Maryland disembarked soon
| after midnight. A short while before they
| left the Third Pennsylvania Regiment
| boarded the train at the Seventeenth and
| c Street station. The Thirteenth New
York was the only organization of troops
| from that State to leave over the Penn
sylvania Railway last night.
short while- before 10 O'Clock the mem
! bers of the Union League OF Maryland as
| sembled at the Maryland Avenue station
| preparatory to returning to Baltimore.
| They We're accompanied to the station by
| many of their Washington friends The
Secopd Provisional Regiment, which came
| from Trenton, y. j.. left the Maryland
| Avenue station at midnight on their re-
| turn home.
The Washington Infantry. of Pittsburg,
| Pa, will leave Washington for the Smoky
| City today about noon. The cadets from
| the United States Military Academy VIII
| leave via the Pennsylvania: Railway at
| 1870 a. m. today.
The two hundred school children
\ brought from Chicago by the Chicago
| American to witness the Inauguration
are still in the city. They are at the Ma
tional Hotel. According TO the programme
| arranged for the pleasure of the children
| they Will start for their home tomorrow
| afternoon. One hundred school children
from Atlanta. who attended the Inaugural
| ton through the courtesy of the Atlanta
| Journal" will also remain in the city to-
| day in order to view the places of interest
| in and about the National Capitol. They
will leave for the Georgia metropolis this
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