The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-04
ASSIGNMENTS OF ROOMS.
Plans for the Inaugural Exercises at
the Pension Building.

! ton of Major James E. Bell and of the
Inaugural Committee on Comfort at the
Ballroom, of which he is Chairman. A
! greater number of rooms than at any
previous Inauguration have been placed at
| the disposal of the Inauguration Commit
| tee. All of the rooms that surround the
| ground hall. which will be used as the
| ballroom, on the floor, all of the rooms
on the first gallery and half of the rooms
on the second gallery will be cleared OF
furniture and applied to whatever uses
| the Inaugural Committee may see MT for
the inaugural ball and succeeding con-
| certs
! Considerable progress in the selection
of rooms for the purposes of the cere-
monies has already been made by Major
Bell and his committee, to whom the task
has been delegated by the Inaugural Com
mittee.
| The rooms which will be used by the
| President and Vice President as reception
| rooms have already been selected on the
| first gallery floor, and the plans for all
| of the rooms on the first floor have been
| agreed upon.
On the extreme east end of the south
side of the first gallery floor, the two
rooms now occupied by the Commissioner
| of Pensions as his office, and the one room
! d0JOiEl1lS on lNe west sue, Ottupltu ~
| the chief clerk, have been assigned TO the
use of the President and his party. The
| enclosed room within the southeast corner
! room will be applied exclusively 10 the
use of Mrs. Mckinley as retiring room,
where she may seclude herself and rest
| from the arduous task of receiving guests.
The room adjoining that used by the Com
missioner on the south side of the gal
| lery will be given over to the Vice Presi-
dent and his party.
The guests will file in at the entrance
TO the west room, saluting the President
| in the south room. proceeding into that
used by the Vice President, and issuing
onto the gallery. 1t is probable that the
| Presidential banquet will be served in the
same rooms in which the reception Will
be held.
On the first gallery floor rooms will also
be selected for the use of the Diplomatic
Corps. for the visiting Governors OF
States. and for other distinguished guests.
| No assignment of rooms for these pur-
poses has yet been determined upon.
The main entrance to the building is
| from Street on the south side. Arriv-
ing guests will proceed toward the west
ern end of the building. Gentlemen ac-
companied by ladies will find cloak and
hat rooms in the west end OF the south
| side. An innovation in the arrangement
of the hat and cloak rooms. instituted for
the coming occasion, permits the use of
| these rooms by both ladies and their es-
corts, where wraps and bonnets can be
! placed in one box together with the coat
| and hat of the gentleman. In all of the
| rooms on the west side of the south front,
with the exception of one small room
near the south stairway hat boxes will be
| placed. In the most westerly of these
rooms a lobby will be left free of OBJ
| struction, where gentlemen may wait for
| the ladies whom they escort. The rooms
on the south half of the west side will be
used as ladies' retiring rooms Hall
/ racks providing mirrors and seats, will
| be placed in these rooms, where ladies
| may adjust their toilets on arriving or
whenever so disposed. Ladies' maids will
be stationed in the retiring rooms to at
| ford skilled assistance in adjusting the
| intrieacies of feminine toilets. The re
| firing rooms open not only upon the main
| hall, but also into the cloak room, which
will be used as lobby for gentlemen.
| All of the rooms on the south half of
| the west side, and all but one of the
! rooms on the west half OF the north front
of the building will be utilized as gentle
mems hat and coat rooms. The enc room
| excepted on the north front will be used
as a barber shop. Boot-black stands will
be placed in the east end of the gentle
mems cloak room, and half of the same
| room will be used as a storage room for
water By local ice company, which has
| volunteered TO provide gratis the icewater
| for the occasion. The doorway into the
main hall will be arranged as a distribut-
| ing point for the ice water.
The G Street entrance is on the north
| side in the middle of the building. Next
| to the entrance and east of it is the stair
/ way About and under the stairway is a
room which will be used for the Police
! Department. A corresponding room about
the south stairway. Immediately west of
the F Street entrance will be given over
TO the Fire Department.
With the exception OF the Police De-
partment room, all OF the rooms on the
east half of the north side and all but
| one of the rooms on the north half of the
/ east side. Will be made into sitting rooms.
! The floors will be covered with suitable
| carpetings and settees. and chairs will lie
| placed for the convenience of the general
patrons Of the bali. who may desire TO
/ retire for rest The smaller room in he
northeast corner will be used the head
! quarters of the inaugural Committee dur
ing the ball.
The possibility of accidents having been
! learned from a number of cases Of faint
ing or Illness of other character which
! were the experiences at former inaugural
balls. the Inaugural Committee has pro-
1 vided means for the care and medical
| treatment of such may require II. The
| room on the east side. Immediately north
! of the entrance viii be used as a hospital
or emergency room. Cots for the pa
tients will be provided and the hospital
corps of the District of Columbia National
Guard will be on hand to offer their SER
/ vices trained fer emergencies of sickness
The Committee on Ambulances. a sub
! committee of the Committee on Public Or
der will provide a staff of well-known
physicians. who VIII have charge of the
( hospital room.
Two rooms will be provided for the use
of the press. one on the east side, and
the adjoining inner room in the south
east corner
on the exterior CT the Pension Building
extending the entire east end on the
south side from the Street entrance, the
spacious temporary banquet hall will be
erected. All OF the rooms on the interior
in this part Of the building on the frs
floor, VIII be used as entrances or exits
to the banquet hall. excepting in three
rooms which viii not be used for ball
purposes.
Beginning from the Street entrance
the two adjoining rooms are furnished
| with four windows which viii be used by
guests to enter the banquet hall from The
! ball room. The two windows in the room
! adjoining on the east will he used as
exits from the banquet hall. leading bach
to the ball room Two windows in the
next room will not be used, but the three
windows in the last two rooms. save the
room in the southeast corner. on this side
will provide other means of entrance To
the banquet hall.
COULD NOT FACE DISGRACE.