The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-05
GROWING TRIUMPH OF
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Imposing Ceremonies Attending the Inauguration
of President
Pageant Most Gorgeous and Brilliant in the History of the
Naon-NaiOna Capital Thronged With Thousands
of Visitors

livered brief inaugural remarks and
repeated the oath Of Office after the
presiding officer, Senator Frye
When the strike of noon put an end
to the session little was known be-
yond the fact that no important appro-
priation bill had failed
Packed Like Sardines.
Then began the formal organization
OF the new session in the senate cham
Der Packed like sardines in the re-
stricted space of the little chamber
were the official visitors, the president
and cabinet in plain clothes; the am
bassadors and ministers, gorgeous in
gilt braid and decorations; the SUI
preme court IN deep black; the army
and navy in silver and gold and
swords; and last of all the members
of dead house of representatives
banked about the walls or crowded
into cloak rooms. Each OF these
grand divisions of official life or Of
fetal death was announced and
saluted by the senate rising. Ali this
prolonged form with it's solemn pro-
gress and weighty dignity was pre-
liminary to the ceremonies outside,
and the march at once began to the
immense platform where the president
was to deliver his inaugural address
and take the oath of office. Here the
great pageant for the benefit OF the
Even the Windows Crowded
The windows Of the capitol were
crowded; there was a deep fringe of
spectators along the roofs of senate
and house and the dome. The trees of
the park were loaded with boys and
men; the broad acres of the park itself
were crowded with thousands upon
thousands. Back of this the windows.
roofs and porches Of the library of
| congress accommodated a multitude
and every residence fronting on the
park added to the imposing scene.
Surrounding the plaza in front of the
presidents platform were the forming
lines of the main parade, while from
the adjacent streets everywhere pro-
1ected heads of columns, military and
| civic, waiting to fall in their places on
the line
With the appearance of the president
from the senate chamber, the shouting
began, swelling into a roar like
Niagara, rising to cyclonic effects and
continuing while the senate and mem
| bers of the house. the cabinet. the
supreme court. the heads OF the army
and navy, ambassadors and ministers,
representatives OF every subordinate
branch of the government and a great
| company of guests filed out of the
| senate doors and filled the immense
| platform.
Oath Administered.
At length all was ready for the
browning ceremony The sea of
humanity was stilIed. The president
advanced to take the oath of office
With his hand upon the Bible held by
| the chief justice he reVerently re-
| peated the oath, kissed the book at
| the end and Theodore Roosevelt be-
! came president He then delivered his
inaugural. which surprised his hearers
! by it's breVity. As the ceremony
| closed he was again greeted by the
roaring cheers of the immense throng-
Accompanied by his escort and fol-
! lowed by troops and civilian paraderS
/ he started for the White House 1t
/ was the most perfect column that ever
marched in an inaugural parade,
| though its numbers were less. Cen
! eraI Chaffee had insisted that
| brigade of the National Guard from
| each state should be the maximum
| representation. Never had there been
| so perfect a regular army column in
any previous national pagent-
Grand Military Feature.
| While the whole military column was
! a marvel and a delight, as indicated by
! the continuing tornado of cheers where
/ it passed, there were elements of spe-
/ ciaI interest The Ninth cavalry, that
! splendid colored regiment, received
1 marked attention. The crowds went
wild over the section of Rough Riders.
! The scouts and the Porto Rico bat
| TALON excited intense interest. The
4 brigade of cadet battalions from many
| states organized by General Chaffec,
| attracted universal attention and re-
| ceived unbounded applause.
| The civic grand division of eight bril-
/ gades. in three divisions, made up of
! over fifty organizations. was in every
| respect better organized than ever be-
] fore.
| Turning from the pageant of the day,
/ the doubled population of the city dis
| posed itself for the three imposing spec
! tacles of the night, the promenade at
/ the pension office. misnamed ball; the
| fireworks on the White lot and the daz-
zling street decorations The attendance
| a the ball was limited TO 1900 or 49,
/ 600. The street decorations were viewed
| by solid marching column, filling the
| wide pavements of the avenue and the
street itself and reaching for two miles
1 and a half.
Decoration and illumination.
| No such brilliant scene of decoration
! and illumination was ever witnessed
! before i'm this country or any other