The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-05
N'KIHLEV TAKES HIS OFFICE
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When the president and vice presi-
dent had quilted the scene to take
their places at the head of the pro-
cessiOn. the soldiers stretched across
the place where the multitude had
been. their bright uniforms. gay stand
ards and accOutrements of brass and
gold and sucn showing no bad effects
OF the bad wetting they had received.
The procession wound down the hill
and up the broad. rain-drenched ave
nue., through a living lane of people.
ne crowds had waited patiently
through the rain rather than lose their
places, and when the parade appeared
their ardOr seemed undampened. The
cheering rose and fell and rose again,
swept up the avenue. around the treas
ury and on through the court of honor
to the White House. The regularS-in-
fantry, cavalry and artillery-the jack
tars and marines, the sOmbrero cow
boys, 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 which escorted the
president and vice president back to
the White House.
The eye and mind were alike dis
tracted by the simultaneous bursts of
music. the clatter of horses hOofS, the
flashing of SabTeS. the nOdding plumes,
the rumbling Of artillery and the blare
of bands. From one end of the ave-
nue. to the other the troops, keeping
step to the rhythm of the martial mu-
sic, rolled on like pillows of the sea,
their banners and guidOns and steel
completely filing the vision.
over all were the continuous rOars of
voices greeting the presidential party.
In advance rode a platoon of the
mounted police, followed by the famous
Governors Island band, playing Hail
to the Chief" Behind these there
broke upon the spectators view the
grand marshal. General Francis V.
Greene, and his dashing staff
Presidents Personal Escort.
Then the handsome city troop of
Cleveland. in p,renadier uniform, the
president s personal escort. rode by,
their plumes rising and falling to the
movement of their coal black chargers.
But their claims TO admiration were
sighted in a large measure. The cram
ing, eager crowds had eyes only for
TIE open barOuChe, drawn by four
Senator Hanna, chairman of the COM
mittee on arrangements, sat. The eX-
plosions of applause which greeted the
chief magistrate were redOubled as
Vice President Roosevelt, in another
carriage. drawn by two horses. came
in view. He received, if anything, a
more fiattering ovation than the presi-
dent himself. Both acknowledged these
cheers by bowling right and left
A detachment of the Twenty third
Ohio, the presidents own regiment
during the rebellion. battered and griz-
bled by time, trudging along on foot in
the wake o. the carriages, testified to
the loyalty Uf the presidents old com
rades of the civil war. The military,
as whole, attracted unbounded ad-
miration-
The brilliant pyrotechnic display
scheduled for the night was postponed
on account of the weather, but at the
beautifully decorated pension building
fair women and their escorts danced
and passed the hours until the early
hours of the morning.
The prices of window seats in the
houses and stores along the line OF
march reached an almost fabulous rate
It is reported that one wealthy senator
paid $500 for a single room for the day
in a hotel near Pennsylvania avenue
and Fifteenth street, while ordinary
second-story windows have been regu-
larly held at from S25 10 $50 and single
chairs in store windows at from IS up