The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-03-07
GREATEST INAUGURAL
IN NATIONS HISTORY
100000 VISITORS IN CITY OF
WASHINGTON. -
City Garden Blossoming With
Flags-Brilliant and Impos-
ing Parade.

The most brilliant and imposing in
auguration which the citizens Of
Washington have ever prepared pass
ed into the history of the Republic
on Saturday, March 4. tn"odore
Roosevelt did not ride to the Capitol,
hitch his horse to a shade tree, enter
the building and take the oath of Of
flee booted and spurred The tradi-
tional Jefersonian simplicity was re-
placed by a pageant which has not
been surpassed in the annals of the
nation.
1t was the first national Inaugural
ton since the civil war The south
sent up its warriors and its state Of
iicials. Men who fought each other
for years under different flags; men
who fought together in the war with
Spain under the one flag of the Un-
ion marched together in review be-
fore their common president, a SOL
der of the republic. With these, to
illustrate our new nationality, came
marching representatives from the
Philippines and Porto Rico, lands
where the sunset, fading from the
flag in the far Pacific. is the sum
rise on it's folds along the Atlantic
horizon.
Fully 100000 visitors saw the presl-
dent The whole city was a garden
blossoming 3yith flags. For a week
ever advancing waves Of color have
been sweeping through all its streets.
Not only was the line of march art,s-
tically decorated to a degree never
before attained, but no street in the
city was without its national colors.
Acting under a suggestion from the
inaugural committee, the board Of ed
ucation bad requested $4,000 school
children to see that each one of their
homes displayed the flag. 1t was a
request responded to by an army of
children. This apotheosis Of the COL
ors was one Of the most striking ele-
ments of a gigantic scheme for ex-
pressing the national respect for a
president.
The Streets Transformed.
The committee on street decora-
tions, street illumination and parks
and reviewing stands worked togeth-
er with artistic taste and transformed
two miles and half Of the clty's not
ed avenue into a fitting highway for
the nation in is countless represen-
tative bodies to march as an escort to
its president. Every square yard(
that was not black with people, bank
ed high from the pavement, crowd
ing at the windows and fringing all
roofs, was brilliant with the national
colors.
The scene by day was magnificent,
by night, under the committees S
scheme of illumination, the tremen-
dous crowds wandered in fairy land.
Heretofore the decorations Of The
avenue have been chiefly flags,
streamcrs and burting. To these to-
day were. added palms of large
growth and in endless abundance, by
carloads from the south and ship
loads from Porto Rico.
The presidents reviewing stand, in
front of the White House, was the
centre of
The Court of History.
which extended two long blocks,
from 18th street. Along each side of
the avenue were noted historical fig
ures. in great numbers, from the St.
Louis exposition.
This triumphal pathway, along
which the kings OF the earth might
have deemed it an honor to be con-
Quoted. was cleared and closed to
cars and vehicles at an early hour.
The police management was perfect
such as Washington has long been