Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-03-13
Veterans of North and South, and Distant
Isles Tramp in Great Parade
Pomp Replaces Old American SimpIiciVin
Induction of Roosevelt and Fairbanks
Every. Feature Sets a New Record Over
All Preceding Similar Functions

Washington, March 6.-The most
brilliant and imposing inauguration
which the citizens of Washington have
ever prepared has passed into the his
tory of the republic. Theodore Roose-
welt 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 a pageant which has not been sur
passed in the annals of the nation.
1t was the first national Inaugural
ton since the civil war. The south
sent UP its warriors and it's state Of
ficials The men who fought each
other for four years under different
flags; the men who fought together in
war with Spain under one flag; the ex-
ecutive officers of the states who up
held the stars and bars and those who
stood for the flag of the union
marched together in review before
their common president, a soldier of
the republic. With these to illustrate
representatives from the Philippines
and Porto Rico, lands where the sun
set fading from the flag in the far Pa
Cific is sunrise on it's folds along the
Atlantic shores.
Thousands Witness Ceremonies.
Throughout the week Washington
has been the Jerusalem of the nation
to which its tribes were crowding from
all its borders. Saturday fully 100000
visitors have gazed with wonder and
unbounded enthusiasm at the districts
handiwork for honoring its president
in all it's multitudinous forms and large
proportions as it was successfully un-
folded during the day and night. The
whole city was a garden poisoning
with flags. For week every advanc-
ing wave of color has been sweeping
through 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 it's
national colors Acting under sug-
gestion from the inaugural committees,
the heads of the educational system had
requested its $4,000 school children to
see that each one of their homes dis
played the flag 1t was a request re-
sponded to by an army of children.
This apothesis of the colors was one Of
the most striking elements of the gil
gantic scheme for expressing the ma
tional respect for president Two
miles and a half of the city's noted
avenue was transformed 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 on the pavement, crowd
ing all windows, and fringing all roofs,
was brilliant with the national keys.
The scene by day was magnificent. By
night. under the scheme of illumina-
ton. the tremendous crowds wandered
in fairyland
Elaborate Decorations.
Heretofore decorations of the ave-
.aue have been chiefly of flags, stream
ers and bunting. To these yesterday
were added palms of large growth and
in endless abundance, by carloads
from the south, and shiploads from
Porto Rico.
The presidents reviewing stand in
front of the white house, was in the
center Of the court of history and ex-
tended two long blocks from 18th
street.
Along each side Of the avenue were
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bers from the st. Louis exposition.
This triumphal pathway, along
which the kings of the earth might
have deemed it an honor to be con-
Quoted, was cleared and closed to cars
and vehicles at an early hour 1t was
a royal highway upon which the pres
ident early entered and proceeded to
the capitol to sign such bills as con-
gress might pass in it's closing hours.
Grand Army Acts With Escorts.
General Chaffee had provided per-
feet cavalry escort which could have
rapidly passed over the line. But the
grand army, as is it's habit, insisted on
acting with this escort, and the presi-
dent, sharing the universal apprecia-
ton of its past deeds, yielded, and his
rate of progress to the capitol was re-
duced to the pathetic pace of men who
were fast approaching the scripture
limit of life. But the delay had it's
compensations. Many thousands had
opportunity to see and greet the presi-
dent as his cortege slowly passed
along from the white house to Capitol
hill. For three hours this national
femnIe was the vortex of activity. Leg