The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-13

Washington, Feb. 12.-(special)-- Edgar s. Wilson, United States Mar shal for Mississippi, who is here on Federal referee business. is enthusias- tic over increasing signs of prosperity in the State.
 'The population" he said today at the Riggs. "is growing in every part of the State. and many manufacturing plants are being established. The city of Jackson has more than doubled It's population in the last five years. tric railways. with five miles more soon to be constructed, Q $100,000 ho- tel which has just been opened. the completion of a $1.00O,0 capitol build ing, after decreased taxation and without the issuance of bonds, and the prospect of 8 $250,000 union station. are some of the features of our prog ress. Natchez. Vicksburg, Meridian and Gulfport show marked advance ment. The people all over the State are working together for the progress of both town and country. The farm CTS are prosperous and are turning to- ward a more scientific agriculture. The shipment of our products north is con- stantIy increasing. We are looking forward to the building of the Nica- ragua canal with keen expectation that 1t will make our State double even trebIe--in wealth and population by the time of the completion of the great isthmian waterway"
 Preparing for Inauguration.
 From the amount and variety of preparations which have been in prog rsss here daily for weeks the inaugu. ration of President Roosevelt will be by far the biggest and most spectacu- lar event as regards pageantry of a. miscellaneous sort and attendant fes- tivfties ever seen at the national capt- tai on similar occasion. There will be tremendous military demonstra- ton, embracing all branches of the regular service and every arm of the war establishment, with such another display of citizen-soldiers as has not been seen here since any event other than one connected with actual war times.
 The civic end, notwithstanding the promised great size of the military parade. will. according to plans under way. be the biggest end of the pro- cession which make Pennsylvania Ave- nue the finest spectacle of animated humanity in its best attire of impress sive color and order ever witnessed in the republic. Lending picturesque variety to the street pageantry will be a division of southwesterners from Oklahoma, Indian Territory, New Mex leo. Arizona and Texas, including cow boys, typical rough riders, Indians. half-hreeds, snake dancers and some- thing representative of all the peculiar peoples who inhabit the great South west. They intend to do most of the whooping up of the occasion in honor or the Rough-rlder President and his long-ago manifested fondness for Western men and things. Much jubi- lation will be imported from Oklahoma. and Indian Territory as a special cell ebration of the promise of early State. hood for the sister territories
 The grand avenue will be lined with sightseeing stands and the spacious plaza fronting the east, or Senate, wing or the capital will be amply provided with seats for the multitude There will be music in superabundance and an exceeding amount of blowing, toot- ing and general fanfare. A trained chorus of 500 voices will warble pat rlotic songs composed for President Roosevelt's special delectation. The great old red brick structure pointed out as the biggest architectural blot upon the symmetry of the fair face of Washington, the Pension Building. will have its interior transformed into a huge bower of bewilderingly beauti- tul eRects in green and flowers, bunt- ing, banners and monster flags. Here 1z'OOO dancers are expected to trip 1t to the music of numerous bands which are already practicing sundry new vo. luptuous swells of frisky harmony lately imported from royal European capitals.
 Rivers and HarbOrs.
 There seems to be danger in the air Tor the Rivers and Harbors appropria- ton bill and sinister rumors, scarcely defined, but sufficiently ominous to cause disquiet in the bosoms of the friends of important projects contin- uing and provided for in the measure to be newly undertaken. One rumor has 1t that Senator Allison, the power behind the money throne of the Sem ate, Is averse to the passage of the Dill at this session. The dearth of money in the treasury, the heavy ex- penditures necessary for the isthmian canal. the Philippines and the army and navy budget Is making the old appropriation wiseacres unusually shy this session. Ere long a fight promises to be preoipitated of the liveliest kind on the naval appropriation bill. Chair man Burton of the Rivers and Harbora Committee, who at the close of tho last Congress vigorously inveiRhed against the comparative extravarance Of appropriations for the army and navy, at the expensa oP intarnoY 1