The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-03-05
the INAUGURATION.
Continued From First Page.)

president in little side room was sign.
ing the bills which the dying congress
was sending to him. The galleries were
already filed tier on tier with hand
somely gowned women and men con-
spicuous in every profession of life The
diplomatic corps headed by the ambas-
sailors, marched in, glittering with gold
and alive with ribbons. The admiral OF
the navy and the general Of the army
stiff in gold braid, had taken their
places.
The judges of the supreme court. in
their satin gowns the speaker and
members of the house, the governors of
the states were all there when the bril-
| Misunderstanding felt an electric thrill as
the vice president-e.ect was announced.
The greatest curiosity existed to see
this man who has been so much in the
public eye for several years and in
stantly all eyes were turned toward
him. He halted a moment before the
clerk, drew himself up until he seemed
a foot taller and marched down the
aisle erect and with the bearing of a
soldier. He acknowledge the round of
applause that greeted him and smiled
up at the gallery where his wife and
children sat The president was last to
enter got an even more enthusiastic
reception. He never looked better and
never seemed more graceful and at
ease When the ceremony in the senate
was over the floor and the galleries
emptied into the corridor, where the
people joStley into the rotunda and out
on to the great platform erected from
the east portico of the capito. building.
Upon it were to be seated the senators,
representatives., diplomatic corps, SUI
preme court and some Of the invited
guests. Thanking it on either side were
other stands black with people, while
the steps to the house and senate wings
were precipitous hillocks of humanity
Below the multitudes filled the plaza
and beyond. down the diverging ave-
nues, patches of color and myriads of
points of steel indicated the assembled
soldiery far az the eye could reach AS
the first of those from the senate APP
peared a fine drizzling mist began fall
ing, which changed quickly into pelt-
ing rain. Soon it was a veritable down
pour. The forbiddng aspect drove
some back into the rotunda, but many
handsomely gowned women, most of
the senators and representatives, every
member of the supreme court and the
entire bespanged diplomatic corps
braved the elements. They stood on
the platform in huddled groups, most
of them without umbrellas, with the
rain trickling down their backs.
ba
Mrs. Mckinley. the justices and several
others in the rallied and covered enclos-
ure jutting out into the crowd were pro-
tected from the storm. There in the
presence of 10000 and in the sight of
twice that number of people standing
in soaking rain the president took the
oath of office and delivered his second
inaugural. The hushed multitude waited
to see him kiss the Bible !
and then, despite the rain, they awak- |
aned the echoes of Arlington across the |
Potomac with their applause Hardly
had the inaugural been finished when |
the rain abated, turning into a drizzling
mist again and later ceased altogether.
When the president and vice president |
had quilted the scenes to take their
places at the head Of the procession the
folders stretched across the plaza |
where the multitude had been, their
bright uniforms, gay standards and ac-
of brass and gold and steel
showing no bad effects from the wet
ing they had received. The procession
wound down the hill and around the
venue through living lane of people.
The crowds had waited patiently
trough the rain rather than lose their
places, and when the parade appeared
heir ardor seemed undampened
The regulars, infantry. cavalry and
the Jack tars and marines, the
ombreroed cowboys, the dark-skinned |
Porto Ricans in the American uniform,
he militia of twenty-five states and the