The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-03-09
President Roosevelt lnaugurated.

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Washington in gala attire. Great enthu-
siasm attended the ceremonies. The
Maine visitors have good time. Gov.
Burleigh and the Maine appropriations.
Correspondence of The Journal
WASHINGTON, D. c., March6. Although
the throngs have departed, all Washington
Is still talking of the inauguration of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. 1t was a banner Inaugural
ton In the enormous number of visitors
and in numerous other important par
ticulars. By the middle of the week the
city had becOme.well filed with visitors and
by Friday afternoon the principal streets
were so crowded that pedestrians moved
along with difficulty. For a mile along
Pennsylvania Avenue, between the Treas
ury Department and the White House
grounds, the sidewalks ON both sides held a
solid mass of people, almost day and night.
1t was difficult to tell where the people
came from and whittier they went. There
was also great enthusiasm, the greatest ever
known at an Inauguration. 1t bespoke the
great popularity of the young President,
now entering upon four years term.
The Maine visitors had most enjoyable
time. The locomotive that puffed into the
Pennsylvania depot with the Federal Ex-
press on Thursday forenoon before the inau-
guration bore Gov. and Mrs. Cobb, the Misses
Cobb, Ex-Gov. John F. Hill, Gen. Charles
E. Davis, Lieut.. Col. Robert Ii. Crockett,
and Maj Edward II. Kelley, of the staff.
They were three sOldierly looking men, in
spick and span uniforms--so soldierly, in
fact, that one could hardly distinguish them
from the officers of the regular army. Ex-
Gov. Hill had been hidden to the hospitable
residence of Senator and Mrs. Hale. He
found Mr.. Pitman Pulsifer, clerk of Senator
Hale's committee, at the depot to welcome
him and take him to the Senator's residence.
The governors party went at once to the
New Willard Hotel, built on the site of the
historic old Willard, where apartments had
been engaged for them in advance few
weeks ago by Adjutant General Farnham.
They were very pleasantly situated on the
Fourteenth Street side. This hotel was the
center for all the distinguished inaugural
visitors. In the magnificent lobby one
touched elbows with notables from every
State in the Union. There were nearly 1900
guests at the hotel, practically all of them
people of prominence in their respective
localities.
Almost as soon as they arrived and be-
came settled in their quarters most of the
governors party started out sightseeing.
The Governor had been in Washington
many times before, and it was not altogether
novelty for him; but his little daughters
were in for the happiest time of their lives
and he and Mrs. Cobb found great pleasure
in showing their offsprngs the sights of the
city. Then, of course, there were official
calls to make. The governor went to the
White House, accompanied by Ex-Gov.
Burleigh, where the President gave them
to see Maine people and has a keen admira-
ton for the people of the Pine Tree State.
AS soon as the Governor and his party
reached town they We're invited to dinner
Thursday evening with Gov. and Mrs. Bur-
leigh at the Raleigh hotel Al. Washington,
it should be borne in mind, has dinner in
the early evening. A table, beautifully dec
GRATED with flowers, was set aside for the
dinner, where Gov. and Mrs. Burleigh, aid
ed by their daughter, Mrs. Byron Boyd, dis
pensed characteristic Maine hospitality.
The occasion was specially enjoyable one,
being followed at O'Clock by box party
at the National Theatre, where Maxine e.
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day evening, after the inaugural festivities,
practically the same party dined with Sen
ator and Mrs. Hale, who always enjoy en-
tertaining Maine visitors and whose home
is one of the most hospitable in Washing
ton.
The Maine officials held prominent
place in the inaugural proceedings. Gov.
Cobb was everywhere greeted with acclaim.
Gen. Davis and Maj. Kelley, who were des-
ignated as aides to Grand Marshal Chatfee,
rode superbly and looked the military part
/ to perfection. The most trying ordeal Of a
ride along past the cheering thousands is to
ride an untried nag. Only the wise old
army horses are safe and reliable on such
occasions, with banners flying, bands toot-
ing, and the multitude in ecstacies of en-
| thusiasm. But the Maine aides held firm
grip on the bride and it would have been
difficult to tell them from the regular army
officers who have actually smelt power on
the firing line.
Legislative matters have well nigh passed
| out Of mind, with the exuberance that at
tends an Inauguration. But the Maine
Senators and members did heroic work in
the closing hours of the session. Senator
Hale, as the leader at that end of the Capt.
i tOl in the absence of Senator Aldrich,
closed out the legislative programme in
better shape than had been known before
in many years. He had all the approLria-
ton bills piloted through safely by Thurs
day night, which was an unusual achieve
ment. 1t was all the more so, because the
Swayne impeachment trial had confscated a
lot of the Senate's time and it seemed at
the beginning of the last week as though
the Senate was confronted by the greatest
legislative blockade it had known since the
Civil War.
Gov. Burleigh was generally congratu-
lated for the results he achieved in secur-
ing appropriations for his State. While
the economy programme retarded much of
T.. a.