Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04

court. and the balustrade here has also
been masked with green, forming solid
band Of color all around the hall. Resting
at intervals all along this balcony rail are
white sculptured columns, surmounted by
ball on which is poised an eagle with
toutstretched wings. The columns are
linked with each other with gar
lands of flowers, and behind each rises
the tall thin form of a yew tree, bringing
the white column before it into vivid re-
lief. From this second balcony the blue
drapery rises overhead and close against
the high roof, almost in shadow so distant
is 1t from the floor. 1t is a brilliant and at
the same time soft and effective picture.
There yet remains at each end of the
hail an almost separate and yet harmonf-
Gus picture. The great band stand is de-
signed to accommodate a band of seventy
pieces. an orchestra of 125 and chorus of
10 voices. The back of the stand termi-
mates in i series of panels designed to act
as sounding boards. reaching TO the second
balcony, and set against a great banner
Surmounted by halo of electric lights in
soft tinted globes. This banner is enriched
at the upper corners with American flags.
and the whole picture framed in a setting
OF immense palms, the largest that can be
procured, reaching forty feet from the
floor.
At the other end of the court stands the
Presidents box, fanked with Porto Rican
palms, whose leaves are about twenty-five
feet in length. The box itself is embedded
in American beauty roses, orchids and
trailing and Towering plants. The Presi-
dents private room has been given the eff
feet of artistically decorated parlor,
lined and festooned with roses, orchids and
lilies The Vice Presidents room is only
less intricately decorated. but in the same
general way and with the same flowers.
A special effort has been made to have
the diplomatic rooms as nearly in keeping
as possible with the countries from which
the various representatives are accredited.
Flowers typifying every country and cline.
nave been Secured from the broom and
heather of the united Kingdom to the Or
chidS and ferns of the tropics. One OF the
plants that has served to tighten the deco
ration to a considerable extent, and which
is new to this country, is the bougainvil-
lea of the Philippines, light blush purple
flower growing in long thorny sprays, and
which will be Well remembered by the Of
fcers and soldiers who have had to cut
their way through its dense and beautiful
but treacherous masses in LuZon and The
islands to the southwark.
Supper Room Decorations.
The supper room is decorated with vines,
arbutus and asparagus, but the flowers are
principally reserved for table decorations,
and in the Presidents supper room, where
covers will be laid for about sixty guests,
the small tables are each a work of art.
To those who care for figures it may be
interesting to say that there have been
used in the decorations four carloads of
evergreens from Alabama, 1000 of the royal
palm leaves. brought especially from Porto
Rico; 5000 yards of laurel rOping, 800 laurel
wreaths, 90 of the Omphoion or Roman
wreaths, 800 yeW trees, carload of the
white pine from the mountains near LenoX.
Mass, 1000 American Beauty roses, 1909
smaller roses, 800 blooming aZalea plants.
500 genestas and about 100 bougainvillea
plants from the Philippines.
Program of Arrangements.
The arrangement of the pension office for
tonight's ,.all is shown on the accompany
ing diagram. Covered ways have been run
from the four entrances of the building on
F and G and 4th and 9th streets. All the
entrances will be available for pedestrians,
but for those driving they divided as
follows: The 4th street entrance is for au-
tomobiles and the 9TH street one for pri-
waite carriages and twO-horSe public con-
veyances. The + street entrance is for
public one horse vehicles, and that on G
street for pedestrians The President ac-
compan;ed by the chairman of the inau-
gural committee and Mrs. Roosevelt will
drive from the White House and arrive
about $50. The Presidents entrance will
be in the 9TH street end behind the pres
idential box 1t had been intended at first
that the President should lead the grand
march from the west end of the hall, pass
ing between the main pillars on the south