The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-03-08
Washington Celebrates the In
auguration of the Nations
Chief Magistrate.
PARADE A MOST BRILLIANT AFFAIR
President and Vice President En-
Enthusiastically Welcomed.
Composition Of the Line OF Marche-'s-
Some Of the Notabies in line
Part Taken 10y the Vet
erans-The Ball.

Washington, March o--W llllah NC
Kinlnv was ushered into his office yes
terday in a city ablaze with more ana
finer decorations than ever have grac6d
the holiday-loving national capltaL
whose streets resounded to the tread
of more marching soldiers and sailors
than ever have participated III a IKE
function, and had as witnesses TO the
ceremonies n vast multitude, Wnlch
cheered frequently whenever he or his
vice presidential colleague was visible.
There has been better weather on III
auguration days and there has been
much worse than that which attended
Yesterdays ceremonies. Ihe Gay III
the early forenoon gave promise or pe-
ing a golden spring day, such as Pro
fessor Moore, the chief Of the weather
bureau, Sunday night very confidently
and with much emphasis predicted, put
the weather was in capricious MOOD,
and by noon a slow driZZle had begun
that lasted with some intermlsslons
and an occasional lively down-pour un-
till late in the afternoon.
CAPITAL Dressed Like b ide.
Washington had decked herself as
never before for the second Inaugural
ton of MCKINLEY and the induction
| into the vice presidency of Theodore
Roosevelt. Yesterday she was dressed
like a queen. The committee in charge
had insisted upon uniform and har-
monious decorations. The scheme was
superb and it was admirably executed.
The gem of it all was the Court OF
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| the parade. Guarding the entrance
were gigantic white pilons surmount-
ed by bronze urns for the Greek-fiTe
| at night. Doric columns, like meas
! ured sentinels, stood before the white
| rooted stands in which the distin-
guished personages were seated, while
other columns ran in a semi-circle
| through the White House grounds.
WATCHED HIM KISS THE BIBLE.
| And Then 3rc.se Out in Wild Applause
Great Parade.
Tt was a hushed thrOng which, stand
| ing in puddles and covered with UNI
| brellas, watched the president as, aft
| CT taking the oath. he kissed the Bible.
| Then it awakened the echoes OF Ar
lington, across the Potomac, with its
applause Next came the inaugural
address and all this time the rain came
down. but as Mckinley concluded it
turned into a driZZlfng mist, and later
ceasing altogether When the preSl-
dent and vice president had quilted
the scene to take their places at the
head of the procession the soldiers
stretched across the place where the
multitude had been, their bright unS
forms, gay standards and accOutre-
ments of brass and gold and such
showing no bad effects of the wetting
they had received. The procession
wound down the hill and UP the broad
rain drenched avenue through lane
of people. The crowds had waited
patiently through the rain rather than
lose their places, and when the parade
appeared their ardOr seemed undam-
pened. The cheering 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, infan-
try, cavalry and artillery the Jack
tarS and marines, the sombrero cow
boys, the dark skinned Porto Ricans
in the American uniform, the militia of
twenty-five states and the political
clubs of the civic division Swelled the
great procession.
In advance rode platoon of mount
ed police. followed by the famous Gov
ernor's Island band, playing Hail to
the Chief" Behind these came the
grand marshal, General Francis V.
Greene, and his dashing staff Then
the handsome City Troop, of Cleve-
land. in grenadier uniform, the presi-
dents personal escort. Then in an
open barouche drawn by four horses
came the president and Senator Han
ma, chairman of the committee on ar
engagements. The explosions of ap-
>plause which greeted the chief magis-
trate were redoubled as Vice President
Roosevelt, in another carriage drawn
by two horses, came into view The
hero of San Juan received if anything.
more fiattering ovation than the
president himself. Both acknowledged
the salutes of the vast crowds that
cheered them by bowling right and
left
A detachment of the Twenty-third
OHIO, the presidents own regiment
during the rebellion, battered and
grizzled by time, trudging along on
foot in the wake of the carriages. tes-
titled to the loyalty of the presidents
Old comrades of the civil war. The
military as a whole attracted unbound
ed admiration. The regulars, who in
the old days before the Spanish war
would have received scant attention
got an ovation from one end of the
ilne to the other The crowd fairly
rose at the Jack tars rolling along with
their sword-bayonets like thicket of
steel above them Admiral Douvoy
General Miles, General "Joe" Wheeler
and many other officers who came info
prominence during the Spanish war
were lionized
COMPOSITION OF THE PROcFSsION
With Commanders Of the Divisions and