Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-03-10
ROOSEVELT INAUGURATED.
Rough Riders, Governors, Fill
pinos. Indian Chiefs in Parade
Of 10000 Men.


Of 10000 Men.
Theodore Roosevelt last Saturday
the Presidency in his own
light. The Inauguration ceremonies
from the ride to the Capitol, where
The oath of Office was administered,
10 the concluding brilliancy of the
inaugural ball, were characterisi tic
Of the man being indicted into Office.
high color and unexpected con-
trasts gave brilliant spectacular effect
and marked the ceremonies as MIR.
Roosevelt's own. He coined the ex-
preston president in his own right"
as distinguished from the Presidency
held by succession, and the impress
of individuality was upon this ntire
days proceedings. Theodore Roose-
welt was not an. official being pas.
sively indicted into office. The
dominant quality of bis character
was felt in the intense regularity and
gorgeousness of military pomp and
in the easy swagger of cowboys of
the PLAINS. The startling contrast
was characteristic, and be seemed to
be equally in sympathy both with
the pomp and with the easy indiffer-
ence of the ranchmen.
In his honor people were assembled
today from every part of the United
States and from the remote islands
which represent acquisition by ex-
pansion of national empire. The
North, the South; tie East and the
west %sre represented in the impos.
ing parade which marched before
him to salute the President of the
United States. Democrats and Re-
publicans, Confederate soldiers and
Union soldiers, Indians and pale
faces, Filipinos and Porto Ricans,
cowboys and fellows of the great in.
situations of learning, civilians in all
walks Of life, the most distinguished
military and naval commanders and
the Governors of sovereign States
were here to DO honor to the occasion.
In magnificence of display this
inauguration has not been surpassed,
and the 100000 persons coming
from all directions to witness the
ceremonies talked, and acted and
cheered and shouted as if, somehow,
they felt themselves to be peculiarly
close to the man they were seeing to
the White House for a term in bis
own right.
The President reviewed the grand
parade from a beautifully con-
structed stand in front of the White
House, facing the Court of History,
the chef d'euvre of the feast of
beauty, which was the acme of the
decorative scheme, occupying the
street for about four blocks. Here
were assembled the allegorical figures
of heroic size and the portrait statues
brought from the Worlds Fair, and
the bamboo masts, each crowned
with laurel wreath and all con-
nected with graceful festoons of
green and electric bulbs, lifted their
slender and graceful outlines 30 feet
IN the air. The most striking thing in
the whole ceremony was the all.per-
vading personality of the President.
Amid all the crush and confusion of
the enormous crowd, the ceaseless
strains of music from a hundred
bands and the military and civic dis
play there was a psychic something
which made the ceremony different
from any other and marked it with
the stamp of Roosevelt.
The oath of Office was administered
at o'clock by Chief Justice Fuller.
The ceremony was simple, but i'm
pressive, and Mr.. Roosevelt spoke
the oath. very deliberately and de-
terminedly, emphasizing each word
and laying special stress upon the
word Constitution" Mr.. Roose-
velt then delivered his inaugural
address using fewer gestures than
usual and speaking slowly and
deliberately.
At the conclusion of bis address
the President rode down the avenue
to the White House at the head of
the most striking parade that has
ever been witnessed at an Inaugural
ton. AS he advanced, guarded by
platoons of police and a score of de-
tectives, and escorted by the Rough
Riders and regular military, he was
greeted all along the line with a
tumult Of cheers. A wave of sound,
rising above the music of the mill
tary bands, rolled from threats of
the multitude of spectators, who
were banked in an immovable mass
along the full extent of his line of
progress and blocking each side
street for the distance of square.
The cheering indicated his progress
toward the White House like the
rush of wind goes ahead of storm.
The ceremony concluded with q
night scene Of great splendor. The
heavens were illuminated with fire.
works, 100000 spectators being as
sembled at every point of vantage to
view the gorgeous spectacle. Build
ings were Illuminated along the ave-
nue. and vicinity, and the brilliant
electrical display, the gay streamers
and sweeping American flags, now
lowing into the glare of the light,
disclosing their bright colors, and
now falling back into the shadow,
produced bewildering effect of
color. light and motion that made
the air seem to palpitate with bril-
liant rainbow tints like the fiarlng
magni6cence of an aurora borealis.
The climax of splendor was
reached at the inaugural ball, which
the President opened at 9 o'clock.
The magnificent ballroom glowed
with light and the senses were
almost overcome with the odor of
howers. The scene was that of
tropical garden, to which the
American tropics and the Southland
contributed the richest Of their floral.
at the sound of the bugle's salute to
ROlnra tho Drao:1ank Al