Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-04
GREAT FLAG DAY.
GORGEOUS SPECTACLE AT The
INAUGURAL CEREMONIES.
The FINEST IN OUR HISTORY
MAGNIFICENT CAPITOL CITY Is
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GAY WITH BUNTING-VAST
CROWDS IN STREETS.

Washington, March 1.-The city of
Washington today surpassed itself in
the lualtN and quantity of it's street
decorations in nonOr of the second in
auguratlun of President William Me-
Kinney. No -aia event in the city's his
tory has seen such fine and general
decoration.
Along the Line of march from the foot
OF the caplto! to the point of dismissal
at THE upper end of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. ulefe was scarcely a house front
tha' was not almost hidden from view
by red. white and blue bunting. The
Stands that had been erected. from
which to review the parade We're more
hiShly finished taan OF any previous oc-
casion. BE ing the work of the inaugural
committee, they We're uniform in char
acter and their White FRONTS and yellow
facing acted as foil to the bril- liant dis,
pay OF the national co.ors on the house
Fronts around them. The whole route of
the parade was GENEROUSLY patriotic
Sight. But it was az the court of honor
constructed on Pennsylvania avenue,
between Fiftee nth and Seventeenth
Streets that the decorators fairy sur,
passed in pretty and effective deccra-
tion anything ever before seen here in
street ornamentA:ion ON "a large scale.
carnival display in the era of the Med.ci.
No other public thorcughfare in the
world of equal length lent itself moro
to decoration than this street, stretch
Ing from the treasury to .itile war and
navy department. buildings. Almost a
quarter of Il mile the ma gnificen stretch
or asphalt runs stra 3i.lc aus AN arrow
due east and west. The 15O- foot road
way is pa~alleled by stone sidewalks, al
most half as wide again, shaded by
magnificent trees, whose planting ante
dates 'the civil wa" On the south side
OF this coult its Geng,h is shared almost
equally by the gray Old treasury build
ms. massive ANA imposing in it's severe
Simp icI.y the executive mansion, half
hidden, but cleaning snow white
tErCugh the surrounding t,reas, and the
state. war and navy buildings, an
artistic pile Of granite, with row upon
row of ba,varjes ana columns towering
above all rha surrounding buildings On
the north side of the court .twO-thirds
of ITS length is occupied by IIafayeitt
square, with it's equestrian statue of
Jackson set as the central figure in d
mass of Shrubbery ana towering trees.
Within this generous setting the deco
ratcrs hai wrought a Transformation
Along each side from end to end War
erected II tOlN.lTuOCS Mne OF covered
stands With ter aces and seats rising 80
feet above the level of the roadway
and transforming the court iEI.o a great
amphitheater. Through which the pro-
cesson was to move. The roofs of the
stands were supported by slender white
columns. While in 'front.' of the lower
Ter of seats ran a la.tice-work y, ling
or White, backed by o!i gold Cloth that
tent q touch of color to the general
effect.
Along the Line of March.
The setting of the court dAi not stop
with the stands. The roadway was
thanked on each side With a row of col
umns between which the troops were to
move. Eight massive pillars four on
either side. marked off the coul'. In equal
lengths. These We're copies of the dec
ORA lions of the AleXandrian bridge at
the Ptlis exposition, and consisted of a
pedestal ten feet on the base and bear
ing a square pillar. the whole 40 feet
high, the top of each stlrmounlted by a
bronze urn. At each angle of the square
pillar was imposed a small Ionic column
of tlc same height. the Whole topped
by a vupo.a that carried the ornamental
urn. Between the pillars on the north
side We're interspersed IA smaller COL
umns of Ionan design, with Tuscan Gu
po.as. ~ similar row of columns thanked
this, whole of the ,anette i'm front of the