The age-herald., 1901-03-03
SECOND INAUGURATION
 OF PRESIDENT M'KINLEY

i1OuSe IO the CAplLOl. DurlnS the H. | augural ceremonies the military bodies | will be assembled on Capitol Hill and | the civic organizations along the | streets at the foot of the hill.
 The parade will include a battalion | Of Porto Rican troops numbering 250 | men, the cadets of the West Point Mil | itary Academy and the Annapolis Ma val Academy. college students, and a delegation of Indian pupils from the Carlisle school.
 The Navy Department has issued or ders for four large vessels to come to Washington to participate in the in auguration ceremonies. They are the
 stxie, which Is now en route to Pensa
 1la the Lancaster, which recently
 lied from Curacoa for the Potomac
 : way of San Juan; the Hartford,
 hich has just left Point-a-Pitre, and
 ae Topeka, which is now at Barbados.
 he Lancaster and the Hartford have
 or some time been at La Guayra, Ven ezuela, near the scene of the asphalt controversy.
 All the vessels carry several hun dred landsmen in addition to their crews. These men, it is proposed, shall form part of the naval pageant.
 The inaugural committee has great | expectations as to the novelty of the | Court of Honor, and has assigned $2500 | | for the special purpose of effecting a | grand illumination of this attractive | structure. Among the features of the | illumination, aside from the semi | Cassie impression to be produced by | great flaming bowls of iron elevated on pillars, are effects from search 1 lights of 10000 candle power, con cealed in the cups of eight pylons, whose brilliant flame will shoot into the sky through openings above the place where the lights and the men who operate them will be placed. From these eight classic columns streams of starry brilliancy will sweep the heay- ems, striking on the passing clouds and lending unparalleled grandeur and beauty to the scene. The artistic effects will be aug | mented by curling clouds of white smoke which will rise from the metal basins on the summits of the 'pylons, breaking the black circle of shadows, around which will play the white beams from the big reflector below. Novel features of the fireworks will be 8 Message from Mars" which is not fully described in the programme, but is noted as new, thrilling and marvellous" and a balloon ascension. In the latter an Italian aeronaut will ascend with a balloon, carrying a great stock of rockets, etc. He will descend with parachute, setting oil the fire works as he comes down from a great height.
 1t is estimated as part of the plans of the inaugural committee in prepar ing for the grand inaugural ball on the nuaninO nf Morrh thof tho nf $42, ,O00 will have been expended by the time the opening chords of the grand polonaise resound through the lofty court of the monster pension building, which, according to previous customs, will be converted into scene of fairy-like splendor by the most sl1illful decorators and florists of New York and Washington. The committee will expend $18,000 for dec | orations, electric light effects and floral designs for the interior of the ball room. The music will cost $6000. The same amount will be expended on the historic souevnir containing the history of the Presidents from Wash ington down, printed on heavy book paper, with steel engravings and bound in undressed leather, which will be given to each purchaser of a $5 ball | ticket. The further sum of $75O6 has been authorized for the banquet, and a balance of $5200 will be applied to the construction of exterior ap- breaches, public comfort in connection with the ball room, carriage arrange ments and officers pay.
 It is intended to make this the most elaborate social function in the nature of a public ball ever given in the city Q ITa ny. .f,,nr nr&4 Inc Mo ~4n pn nf seventy pieces and an orchestra of 125 men have been engaged for prome- made concert and ball music. In all, nearly two hundred musicians.
 Among the features of the entertain ment of visitors during inauguration week are five grand concerts by the United States Marine Band of seventy pieces. These concerts will take place in the spacious court of the Pension building. where the inaugural ball will be held on the evening of March 4. | Twelve thousand persons can be seated in this hall
 The series of five concerts will take l place March 5 and 6. On the day suc- ceeding the inauguration three con- certs will be given and on March | two more. A genuine musical treat Is promised by the committee on arrange ments. Besides the Marine Band, the famous Republican Glee Club of Co lumbus, O., 110 voices, will be fea- ture of the programme on the after noon and evening of March D. On the night of March 6 a mixed chorus of 800 voices, under the direction of Prof. Percy Foster, will aid the Marine Band in rendering programme Of excep- tional musical interest
 | rJl- -f, oY1o ad tU n to provide entertainment to the visit ing guests and to comply with wide
 spread desire of enabling those pre-
 vented from attending the inaugural
 ball to inspect the magnificent and
 costly decorations, produced at an out
 lay of $1S,O00, under the same favor
 able circumstances as on the night of
 the ball. MARIE B. SCHRADER.