The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-05

/ ury building, with its severe classic
facades and columns, 20 the state, war
and navy building, with its imposing
Italian renaissance architecture, COM
prising the stretch in front of the eX-
ecutiYe mansion.
Guarding the entrance were gigantic
white pilons, surmounted by bronze
urns for the Greek fire at night Doric
columns, like measured sentinels stood
before the white-roofed stands in which
the distinguished personages were seat
ed while other columns ran in a semi
circle through the White House
grounds 1t was as beautiful as the
setting in a, theatre.
Too Many for ALI to See.
Only a comparatively Insignificant
portion Of the vast multitude saw
ceremonies at the capitol The great
unnumbered thousands were content
to wait in the avenue below to see the
two men on whom the mental attention
of the world was fixed today and the
great procession which followed them
The brilliant and impressive scene in
the senate when the vice president
elect was indicted into Office was re-
! served for "a few hundred. The pub
lie had no part in it. While the dis
/ tinguished audience was gathered in
/ the senate chamber, the president, in
a. little side room, was signing the bills
{ which the dying congress was send
/ ing TO him.
The galleries were already filled, tier
on tier. with handsome, gOrgeOuSly
/ gowned women, and men in every ave-
I Iue of life. The ambassadors corps, as
! the personal Representatives of their
/ European sovereigns marched in, gilt
/ tering with gold and aflame with rib
/ bOns. The admiral of the navy and
/ the general OF the army, stiff in gold
/ braid, had been given their places.
The judges of the supreme court, in
! their som Der gowns, the members OF
/ tie house. the governors of the states
were all there when the brilliant as
! semblage felt an electric thrill as the
] vice president-elect was announced
4 The greatest curiosity existed to see
] this man who has been so much in the
/ public eye during recent years. and in
/ stantly all eyes were turned toward
/ him as wheat in a field is all blown
/ one way in a gale.
! He halted a moment beneath the
/ clock at the entrance, drew himself UP
/ until he seemed a foot taller. and
! marched down the aisle erect and with
/ the bearing of a soldier He acknOwl-
/ edged the round of applause that
] greeted him. and smiled up at the gal
/ lery where his wife and children sat.
! The president, who was the last tC
/ enter, got an even more enthusiastic
( reception. He never looked better, and
I AlCN EI SttAlEQ IlOIe BIdLtAul anu d
| ease. When the ceremony in the SEN
ate, a little tedious. despite it's bril-
/ liancy. was over, the floor and galleries
| emptied into the corridors, through
which the people jostled and squeezed
/ into the rotunda and out on to the
platform erected from the east porticC
of the capitol building.
Inauguration Of President.
Upon it were to be seated the sena-
/ rlffix-pC dinIoTs1 a ff. f.Cr-rae
| supreme court and some of the invites
| guests. Thanking it on either side
| were other stands black with people
while the steps to the house and tbs
senate were precipitous hillOcks of hu
manity.
Overhead on the lodges of the facade
/ and even on the gallery surrounding
/ the dome were others still, as if grea
! tidal wave of humanity had beer
! dashed against the front of the capitol
| and receding, had left many people
| clinging to the dizzy projections. Be
! low. the multitudes filled the plaza, anC
/ beyond, down the diverging avenues
! catches of color and myriads of point.
! # steel indicated the assembled sol
! diery as far as the eye could reach.
As soon as those from the senate ap
peared, fine drizzling mist began fall
! ing, which changed quickly into a pelt
! ing rain. Soon 1t was a veritabl
dOwnpour The forbidding aspec
drove some back into the rotunda, bu
many handsomely gowned women
most Of the senators and representa-
| ives. every member of the Suprem
court and the entire diplomatic corp
| oraved the elements. They stood OF
| he platform in huddled groups. mos
| 4 them without umbrellas, with tn
| -ain trickling down their backs.
! he diplomatic corps suffered most
| With their chapeaus. ostrich plume
and other finery. The president an,
vice president and Mrs. Mckinley. tn
hief justice and several others, fOun1
heller, and were protected from tn
| storm.
/ There, in the presence of 5000, an,
in the sight of twice that number 0
9eople standing in a soaking rain, tn
| president took the oath of Office ant
delivered his second inaugural
The multitude waited breathlessly &
ee him kiss the Bible. and then. de
pite the rain. they awakened the ech
es Of Arlington, across the Potomac
with their applause Hardly had tn
inaugural been finished when the raj
abated turning into a drizzling mis-
again, and later ceasing altogether.