Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-05
SCENE is
IMPOSING
Magnifcence Marks
the Ceremony
Oath Is Administered by
Chief Justice Fuller
Celebration Unequaled
in Nations History
Demonstration, as Showing National
Respect for the Executive Office,
Transcends Anything Ever
Seen In Washington
BY Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, March 4.-The most
brilliant Inauguration ever held here
has passed into the history of the re-
public.
President Roosevelt did not ride to
the capitol, hitch his horse to shade
tree, enter the building and take the
oath of office booted and spurred. The
traditional Jeffersonian simplicity was
replaced by pageant which has not
been surpassed in the annals of the
nation.
For week the District of Columbia
has been the host of the Union. Term
after presidential term here citizens
without regard to party have prepared
a celebration that shall fttingly show
forth the national respect for the ex-
ecutive Office. For the unparalleled
demonstration of today the sole credit
is due to these conditions, the Of
ficiais of the war and navy depart
ments and the officers of the army and
navy.
Those Who Managed Affair
Gen. John Wilson of the army, chair
man of the inaugural committee, was
ably assisted by vice chairman, George
Truesdell, and Commissioner West and
the inaugural committee of seventy
five citizens, with Lieut. Gen. Chaffee1
at the head of it's military affairs and
C. C. Glover responsible for it's finances.
These perfected and carried through an
Inauguration which for variety of de-
tail, completeness of every part and
splendor of the whole stands without a
rival among it's notable predecessors.
1t was the first national Inauguration
since the Civil War. The south sent
UP its warriors and it's state officials
Men who fought together in the war
with Spain and under one flag; execu-
tive officers of the states who upheld
the stars and bars and those who stood
fer the flag of the nation, marched
together in review before their COM
mon president, also soldier Of the re-
public.
Fully 100000 visitors gazed with Won
der and enthusiasm at the districts
handiwork for honoring it's president.
City Mass of Color
The whole city was a garden bios
soming with flags. For week great
waves of color have been sweeping
through all it's streets Not only was
the line of march artistically decorated
to a degree never before attained,
but no street in the city was without
its national colors. Acting under
suggestion from the inaugural commit
tee, the board of education had re-
quested its 10000 school children to
see that each one of their homes dis
played a flag. 1t was a request re-
sponded to by an army of children.
This apotheosis of the colors was one
of the most striking elements Of a gi-
gantic scheme for expressing the ma
tional respect for a president.
Committees on decorations, street
illumination and parks and reviewing
stands worked together with artistic
taste and transformed two miles and
half of the city's noted avenue into
fitting highway for the nation in its
countless representative bodies to
march as an escort to its president.
Every square yard that was not black
with people banked high above the
pavement, crowding all windows and
fringing all roofs, was brilliant with
the national colors.
Stands Were Artistic
The light and airy stands conforming
everywhere to elementary architectural
rules as to construction, painting and
decorations, supplanted the huge and
unsjghtly lumoer piles which were
formerly tolerated as outlooks for the
c.owds. The scene by day was magni-
icent by night, under the brilliant IL
lumibation, ths tremendous crowds
wandered in fairy land.
i. The presidents reviewing stand, in
front Of the White House, was the CEN
ter of the court of history, which ex-
tended two long blocks from Fifteenth
street Along each side Of the avenue
were noted historical figures in great
numbers from the ST. Louis exposition.
This triumphal pathway along
which the kings of the world might
deem It an honor to be conducted. was
cleared and closed to cars and vehicles
at an early hour. The police manage
ment was perfect 1t was a royal
highway upon which the president
early entered and proceeded to the
capitol
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