Evening journal., 1905-03-04

alarms. so that the galleries readily
kept posted on their Identity. The formal
announcement. however, was due to no
such charitable Incentive. but was in
tended solely 10 lend poinp to the oc-
casion. Most OF The reserved spaces were
now filled. ana all that was left was
quickly gobblod up, when. at ten minutes
20 twelve, preceded by the jauniy figure
OF "Unole Joe" the House OF Representa-
tives appeared
Then the President was announced.
Leading his Cabinet and ushered to his
seat OF honor to the right OF the presid-
ing officers desk by. the -connlitteo Of Sem
ators and officers OF the Senate. tho
President. frock-coated and stockys
bowed TO the assembly which had risen
70 greet him before tnlsing his place.
Al noon Senator Frye, President pro
tenn. hammered the marble desk and an-
nounced IN set formula that the Senate
of the Fifty-eighth Congress was adj
iourned sine die: then he Immediately
called the extraordinary session Of the
Senate of the Fifty-ninth Congress 10 or
der.
Mr.. Fairbanks was forthwith ushered
into the chamber. the Senate members
of the Inaugural Committee acting as his
escort. He proceeded 20 the rostrum.
where Senator Frye administered the
usual oath. The new Vice-Presidents
first official act was TO call upon the Sens
ate's chaplain. the Rev. DR. Edward
Everett Hale who offered prayer.
The Vice. Presidents Inaugural.
Mr.. Fairbanks then delivered his in~
augural address. and. at its conclusions
! Co.
! Presidents proclamation comvening tho
extraordinary session OF the Senate.
Next the new Senators were called ID
the Secretary's desk and took the oath,
This somewhat tedious business finish~
ed, the Vice President announced:
''The sergeant-at-arms viii eXecutd
the order for the Inauguration ceremon>
les"
President Roosevelt was then escorts
led back to the Executive chamber, add
: joining the marble room, preparatory
to going to the east portlco. himself to
take the oath of office. The other dis
tinguished visitors filed out of the
chamber in the order Of official prece-
dence. and went TO the seats assigned
them for the Presidential ceremony.
Parade Was Imposing
I with standards waving, guidona
whipping in the breeze. and regimenta1
colors haunting. infantry cavalry, ana
artillery tramped, pranced and rumbled
this afternoon through historic Penn-
sylvania avenue.
The somewhat mediocre buildings
which for the most part line this broad~
est thoroughfare I'm the country wera
hidden by tui-colored bunting that flut~
tered and bnlowed from roof to pave-
lment all the way from Peace Monuments
Ito Seventeenth street. Sidewalks were
: jammed. Every window on the avenue
many rented for the day at prices rang-
| ling from $40 to 500 apiece. framed
eager faces. Balconies held perilously
; crowded parties and from end to END
of the route of march the roofs CONF
peted with the pavements in accommo-
dating men and women willing to risk
a fatal misstep to watch the passing
legions.
When Captain L'Enfant. the French
military engineer, mapped out WASH
ington city. he must have had Pennsyd-
vania avenue in mind for the accom-
mediation of such pageants as today's.
The diagonal intersections of cross
streets make elongated triangular park
ings, and supply additional width at
each such point TO the general pros
pect. These parlings today gave room
for substantial grandstands. in which
every seat was taken. The rough tim
bers out Of which the stands were con-
structed were swathed in bunting, and
ON their roofs tail stats carried long
strearners of red. white and blue.
There are 100000 visitors In. Wash
j. ington today. With the resident popu-
; latiOn. the parade was seen by nearly
p half a million people.
Procession of $4,000 Men
Experienced observers say that the pro-
cession beat all its predecessors. even
that of McKinleys second inauguration.
Not since the review OF the Federal Army
after the Civil War has the Avenue seen
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