The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-05

| fame at San Juan Hill, received much | attention. The crowds went wild ovel the section of Rough Riders, which participated with the President in tho wilderness sof the rush and joy of vic tory at Santiago.
 The scouts from the Philippines ant the Porto Rico battalion excited intense
 interest and they will never forget their welcome.
 Grandson of Jackson.
 The brigade of cadet batallions from
 many States organized by General Chaf- fee, attracted universal attention and received unbounded applause. Those from the South recalled that sad bu, most brilliant fighting at Newmarket
 where the cadets of the Virginia Milf tary Institute were called into the field under Stonewall Jackson. With the Georgia cadets now marched a grandson of Stonewall Jackson. As a whole it was column that took fair rank with the perfection of West Point and Annapolis. Being arranged alpha betically by States, the high school reg
 iment of Washington, a thin battalion organization, ten companies strong. and
 it's separate battalion. colored, came
 last in the brigade.
 The civic grand division of eight brigades in three divisions made up of
 over fifty organizations, was in every respect better organized than ever be- fore and so, like the whole column,
 more interesting. There were Cover nors and their gorgeous staffs, many noted political clubs from East and
 West. college and university men, high
 school cadets from North and South, Roosevelts neighbors. anthracite min
 CTS, rail spiltters. Italian clubs, Span iSh Veterans societies hnUc'
 brigades, newsbOys, drum corps, bugle corps, church societies, cowboys and clubs in great variety. It was a col
 umn in mosaic, fairly representing ev- cry prominent element of American civic life. Though strictly civilian, B. H. Warner, It's committee organizer had given 1t a semi-military character by appointing quartermaster and com missary generals, inspector generals and every other brand of office of high rank, and adjutant generals and aides sufficient for an army corps, with Gen erals Howard and Joe Wheeler as lead ing military features.
 The whole column. military and civic
 under General Chaffee and his staff
 marched with a steadiness and celerity hitherto unattained, and like every sec
 ton of this unrivaled inauguration, it's
 praises are on every tongue.
 Turning from the pageant of the day,
 the doubled population of the city dis
 posed itself for the three imposing
 spectacles of the night, the promenade at the pension office, misnamed ball; the fireworks on the White House lot
 and the dazzling street decorations.
 The attendance at the ball was lim- ited to twelve or fifteen thousand, which the building would hold. The street decorations were viewed by a solid marching column filling the wide pavements of the avenue, and the street itself, reaching for two miles and a half.
 Brilliant Scene.
 No such brilliant scene of decoration and illumination was ever witnessed before in this country, or in any other for here electric effects had their
 origin and have their greatest deveI- opment. The dome of the capitol stood white against the darkness illuminated by searchlights from the top of the Washington monument and the monu- , ment itself by the same method was | made visible for many miles The fireworks exceeded all previous dis plays. There were no ordinary pieces Rockets with their dangerous sticks of large dimensions-such as a wheel more than hundred feet in diameter | a Presidential piece 200 feet in length and a national flag 300 feet long car ried up thousand feet by balloon, and there developed in the sight of the city beyond.
 The decorations of the ball room | most successfully conformed to the agreement that every inauguration ] should exceed all previous efforts. All that could be effected by extended
 masses of color. spreading up and over the immense room and its galleries with miles of evergreen vines, car | loads of cut flowers, flags in artistic combination. electric lights by the thousands upon thousands and electric pieces, large and small, with one of un-
 rivaled proportions carrying 5000
 lights of various colors woven into a
 most beautiful design.
 The instrumental music and the
 trained orchestra of 500 voices filled
 the vast building to it's remotest re- cesses with its perfection of musical attainment. In deference to the Sab
 bath all ceremonies stopped at mid
 night but it was well toward morning
 before the lights were turned down on
 the most brilliant spectacle that Wash ington had seen in its long line of
 notable occasions. Till long after midnight the gathered thousands walked. wondering and enthusiastic on
 Pennsylvania, through long reaches of fairyland. With the small hours the lights faded and the citizens rested
 from their months of labor. Grandly
 had the district of Columbia enter