The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-04


 continuous line of rope and wire win have been stretched from end to l end of the line and an army of police
 men will be patroling within the lines to keep the crowds back outside of the walks '
 There was an immense throng at the White House today, including Rough Riders and cowboys. Many of | them were friends of the President of years standing and were given a hearty welcome. Mike" Donovan, the
 former pugilist, who gave Mr. Roose-
 welt boxing lessons at one time. was
 another caller. ,
 Among those received by the Presi-
 dent and Mrs. Roosevelt were Cover
 nors Higgins of New York, Bell of Yer mont, Herrick of Ohio. All of them
 were accompanied by their staffs. The traffic today was very large on all railroad lines entering Washington. Many of the minor trains discharged their passengers at points far distant from the stations. Among the host of arrivals were members Of the Tennes- see legislature. The steamship Arcadia with Porto Rican troops aboard which passed in tho Chesapeake Capes yester. day is reported hung up in the foe at Matthews Point, some distance down the river. Two naval tugs havc been sent to the assistance and she Is ex- pected to arrive here this evening.
 Italian skies seldom covered a more beautiful scene than that on which the newly inaugurated president VIII gaze as he enters his panoplied box tomorrow night, formally opening the inaugural ball. He will find himself in an Italian garden, surrounded by two stories arcade hung with festoons of laurel and southen smiiax and baslx- cts of gaily coIored orchids and pink azelas. Flowers bloom everywhere and stately palms from the tropics stand here and there amid the golden columns of the arcade, with it's ivory facades. Growing the gallery of the second arcade are seventy-six columns supporting as many globes, on each of which stands an American eagle with outstretched wings. Festoons of ivory coiored drapery connect the columns and back of each rises q fir tree, the tops almost lost to view in the dim view of the sky. At the other end of this wonderful garden behind a bank of blue bougainvilleas is small ann phitheatre almost surrounded by huge palms. these flowers and the palms conceaiine the Marine Band from view.
 This is what has been done with the pension building. where every inau- eural ball since President Cleveiand's inauguration has been held. Never be- fore have the decorations been on such a bold and lavish scale. Instead of gwaddIing the immense court of the pension building with bunting and flowers and palms. the committee un- dertook to improvise an Italian gar-, den.
 Green and gold are the predominating tones in the decorations.
 Largely to the accurate detail with which the illuminating scheme has been worked out is due the harmony with which the flowers and palms the bunt- ing and flags, the trees and the golden columns of the arcade are blended with the dim blue overhead.
 The flowers both In number and rarity exceed any floral decorations ever used at former inaugural balls. Four car loads of eversreens were brought here from Alabama and 1000 palm leaves from Porto Rico. Five thousand yards of laurel roping and 500 wreaths have been used in decorating the arcade. The hundreds of bougainvillea plant which stand in front of the band were brought from the Philippines. and soc fr trees were brought from Massachu. setta In the garden and around the