Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-02-22

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floral decorations was placed in the hands
OF J. H. Small & Sons of this city, who
decorated the ball room on the occasion
of President Mckinley's first Inauguration.
This year the effect, it is promised, will
be even more striking than it was four
years ago.
The flowers that will be utilized in ball
room. banquet hall, retiring apartments
and approaches are now being carefully
nurtured and developed in a score of hot
houses. Great bushes of American beauty,
bride, liberty golden gate and other ex-
quisite roses are taking on buds which are
to burst into bloom for the ball. Rare
orchids of exquisite hues and quaint forms
are gaining shape and color. Carnations,
pink and red and white and the vari-hued
bradts; lilies of the valley, mignonette,
hyacinthS and -crocuSes, graceful Easter
lilies and the chaste calas, all the fragrant
and exquisite productions of the flower
world in a word, are being brought to full
ness of maturity for the occasion, while
farleyense and maiden hair and other deli
cate ferns. smiiax and the greens that &C
centuate the blooms when used with them
are being cultivated for the occasion. There
will be foliage plants, well, in the scheme
of decoration in the apartments, palms of
various kinds and rubber plants, and bloom
ing aZaleaS, hyacinthS, crocuses, crimson
trailing roses, and other exquisite beauties
will burst from window recesses, cover
msntels, and seem to grow in every part
where convenience will permit them to be
planted.
The Presidents room will be a surprise in
the sense of its floral adornment. No one
save the contractors knows what is to he
effected in that room, and the secret will
be theirs until the afternoon of March 4,
when they will proceed to carry out their
ideas.
The Inaugural Traffic
The railroads entering this city are max
ing extensive preparations for handling the
immense inaugural traffic which is expect
ed Temporary stretches Of tracks, sidings,
etc. are being laid along the lines of the
Pennsylvania railroad and its southern con-
nections in Southwest Washington while
the Baltimore and Ohio is also taking ad-
vantage of the special act of Congress to
lay temporary trackage at different points
near It's terminus. Many special trains will
be run into the city bringing the military
part in the inaugural parade as well as
large parties of sightseers simply.
1t is expected that as early as Saturday,
March 2. extra sections Of the regular
trains will be necessary to accommodate
the travel to Washington. These trains
will grow longer and more frequent during
Saturday night and all of Sunday, while
many contemplating the trip to the capital
will not arrive until the morning of the
ceremonies.
The passenger officials all say that indica-
tions point to the heaviest travel in years.
In this connection Chairman NJ l. Weller
of the committee on public comfort esti-
mates that there will be fully 132, 900
strangers in Washington March 4. The
average stay of visitors such an occa-
sion is q little more than three days each.
The attendance at President McKinley's
first Inauguration was about 200 and at
Cleveland's second inaugural in 1893 about
49, 600
AS many trains as possible will be
brought Immediately into the regular pas
senger stations of the Baltimore and Ohio
and Pennsylvania railroads, but it is prob
able good percentage of the arriving Wis
itors will have to disembark from their
trains at nearby and convenient streets,
where they viii find the same facilities for
reaching their stopping places as at the
regular depotS-h
Roping Penney lvania Avenue.
The prepare tons for roping Pennsylvania
avenue the day,of the parade have already
progressed far toward completion. The
arrangements are being carried out on
permanent basis, special appropriation
having been madesfpr the purpose by Con-
Sylvester, the fkintendent of police and
chairman of the inaugural committee on
public order. Heavy iron pipes being
driven into the paXement next to the curb
line to such a depth that their uppermost
point is flush with the street level Until
the days wheH-it is desired to rope the ave-
nue. the base pipes will be fitted with plugs
so that their presence is not noticeable.
March next. and al all subsequent times
when a parade of Importance is to pass
along the thoroughfare, the caps will be
removed and stanchions inserted. To these
iron uprights the wire cable will be at
tached by unique device. The barricade
thus made will be very effective, it is be-
ueved, even against the greatest strain of
crush
The committee on public order will meet
this evening in the rooms of the Board of
Trade In The Evening Star building. The
meeting was originally called for this even
ing. but Chairman Sylvester afterward de-
cided to advance 1t one day. so that it
would not fall upon Washington's birthday
When he had reached this decision, how
ever the original notices had been sent out,
so it was determined to let the call stand
for this evening.
Lieut.. Col. j. L. Chamberlain, United
States army, has been appointed chief of
aids on the staff Of Grand Marshal Greene,
vice Maj. Henry A. Green, United States
army, resigned.