Evening journal., 1901-03-05
INAUGURATION OF M'KIALEY
MARRIED BY HEAVY SHOWERS
Despite the Rain, The Inaugural Parade Which Followed
Was the Most Imposing Pageant Ever Wit
messed on Similar Occasion

ter, got an even more enthusiastic re-
ception. He never looked better and
never seemed more graceful and at
ease.
When the ceremony in the senate, a
little tedious despite its brilliancy, was
over, the floor and gallaries emptied
into the corridors, through which the
people jostled and squeezed into the ro-
tunda and out onto the great platform
erected from the east portico of the
Capitol building. Upon it were to be
seated the senators, representatives,
diplomatic corps, supreme court and
some of the invited guests. Flanking 1t
on either side were other stands black
with people, while the steps to the
house and senate wings were precipi-
tous hillocks of humanity. Overhead
on the lodges of the facade, and even
on the gallery surrounding the dome,
we're others still, as IL a great tidal
wave Of humanity had been dashed
against the front of the Capitol and re-
ceding had left many people clinging
TO the dizzy projections. Below the
multitude filed the plaza and beyond,
down the diverging avenues, patches Of
color and myriads of points of steel
the eye could reach.
Sworn In In Rain Storm.
AS the first of those from the senate
appeared a fine drizzling mist began
falling, which changed quickly into a
pelting rain. Soon it was a veritable
downpour The forbidding aspect drove
some back into the rotunda, but many
handsomely gowned women, most Of
the senators and representatives, ev-
cry member Of the supreme court and
the entire bespangled 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. The
diplomatic corps suffered most with
their bedraggled chapeauX. ostrich
plumes and court finery. The presi-
dent and vice president, Mrs. Mckinley,
the chief justices and several others
IN the rallied and covered enclosure jut-
ting out into the crowd were protected
from the storm. There, in the presence
of 10000 and in the sight Of twice that
number of people standing in spank
ing rain, the president took the oath
of Office and delivered his second in
augural. The hushed multitude waited
breathlessly to see him kiss the Bible,
and then. despite the rain, they awak-
ened the echoes of Arlington across the
Potomac with their applause. Hardly
had the inaugural been finished when
the rain abated, turning into a driz-
zing mist again and later ceasing al
together.
When the president and vice presi-
dent had quilted the scene to take their
places at the head of the procession the
soldiers stretched across the plaza
where the multitude had been. The
procession wound down the hill and up
the broad rain drenched avenue
through a living lane of people. The
crowds lfad waited patiently through
the rain rather than lose their places
and when the parade appeared their
ardor seemed undampened. The cheer
ing rose and fell and rose again, swept
up the avenue around the treasury
building and on through the court OF
honor to the White House.
The regulars, infantry, cavalry and
artillery, the Jack tars and marines
the sombreroed cowboys, the darb
skinned Porto Ricans in the American
uniform, the militia of % states and
the political clubs of the civic division
swelled the great procession which es'
corted the president and vice presi'
dent back to the White House. The
eye and mind were alike distracted by
the simultaneous bursts of music, the
clatter of horses hOOfs, the flashing oi
sabers, the nodding plumes, the rum
bic Of artillery and the blare of bands
From one end of the avenue to The
other the troops, keeping step to the
rythm of the martial music, rolled OF
like billows of the sea, their banners
and guidons and shining steel com
pletely filling the vision. over all wal
the continuous roar of voices greetin:
the presidential party In advance rod
a platoon of mounted police, followed
by the famous Governors Island band
playing "Hail to the Chief" Benin,
these there broke upon the spectators
view the grand marshal, Gen. Franci
V. Greene, and his dazzling staff.
Welcoming the Leaders.
Then the handsome City Troop o
! Cleveland, in grenadier uniform, tn,
presidents personal escort, rode by
their plumes rising and falling to tn
movement of their coal black chargers
But InelI " AcNiOn Wei
slighted in a large measure. The Gran
ing eager crowds had eyes only for tn
open barouche drawn by four horses il
which the president and Senator Han
ma. chairman of the committee Of ar
rangements, sat. The explosions Of ap
plause which greeted the chief magis
trate were redoubled as Vice Presiden
Roosevelt, in another carriage draw
by two horses, came into view. Tn
hero of San Juan received. If anything
more fiattering ovation than tn
president himself. Both acknowledge
) the salutes of the vast crowds tha
cheered them by bowling right and left
! A detachment of the Twenty-thir
Ohio. the presidents own regimen
during the rebellion, battered an
grizzled by time trudging along on foe
in the wake Of the carriages, testiiie
to the loyalty Of the presidents oil
; comrades OF the civil war.
The military. as a whole, attracte