Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-02-25
PREPARING FOR MARCH 4.
LARGEST CROWD IN HISTO-
RY WILL ATTEND.
One Week From Today Theodore
Roosevelt Will Be 1naugu-
rated As President.

and persons are expected TO be III ths S
city to witness the Inauguration OF
Theodore Roosevelt as President of
the United States. This will be the
largest crowd that has ever witnessed
such an event Tangible prepara-
tions for the great event are now in
evidence on every hand.
The great grand stand along the
front of Lafayette Park, fencing the
reviewing stand of the President. is
almost completed. 1t will seat 5000
persons. The Presidents stand, which
will accommodate 1000 presons. is
also virtually completed. Windows
fronting on Pennsylvania avenue are
bringing hundreds of dollars for q
single day. In the great procession
which will follow President Roosevelt
from the Capitol to the White House
there will be about 50, 900 persons.
Seven thousand of these will be regu-
lar United Safes troops, marines, mid
shipmen from Annapolis and cadets
from West Point.
Fifteen thousand militia will be in
line. The other twelve or fourteen
thousand will Consist of political and
civic organizations-rough riders,
boys, Indians. etc. There will be
bands in plenty, a great multitude of
them. The South. II is confidently
stated, will be better represented at
this Inauguration than at any previous
inauguration of Republican Presi-
dent. AS for the event itself it will
follow the lines OF other inaugura-
tions. The Congressional committee
on arrangements. consisting OF Sena.
tors Spooner, Aldrich and Bacon and
Representatives Crumpacker, ofIndiana
and Williams, of Mississippi, Will call
at the White House early. and with
President Roosevelt will leave that
point for the Capitol at TO- 80 O'Clock
in the morning.
Veterans of the Civil and Spanish
wars will act as escorts on this jour
new. The President will be taken TO
the Presidents room in the Senate
wing of the Capitol, where he will re-
main until the stage is set, SO TO
speak, in the Senate chambe This
must be done by 30 o'clock. The
stage dignitaries will include House
members and judges of the United
states Supreme Court. former Speakers
of the House and a multiplicity OF
others who have the floor privilege for
the day. The Supreme Court judges
will take their places at H. so O'Clock,
and Immediately afterward the Presi-
dent will enter the chamber and sit
Immediately in front of the desk of
the President of the Senate. Presi-
dent of the Senate FRYE will declare
the Senate of the Fifty eighth Con-
gress adjourned, will swear in Vice.
President Charles W. Fairbanks and
hand the gavel over to him.
m. - .l-sa 1lnn ri in
auguraI address, after which the pro-
eession will move to the east front OF
the Capitol, and there, on the stand
prepared, President Roosevelt will
take the oath of office, administered
by Chief Justice Fuller, of the Su-
preme Court. The President will give
his inaugural address. He and the
Congressional committee will enter
carriages and head the procession back
to the White House. About fifty of
the Rough Riders and Squadron A,
of New York. will act as personal es-
oort on this trip. The military will
come next, and civilians will fall in
behind. General Chaffee will be
grand marshal of the parade. 1t is ex-
Dected that the President on his re-
turn trip will reach the White House
at Q O'Clock. He and his committee.
with possibly friend or two. will
have hurried luncheon together, and
they will hurry out Immediately at
terward TO the reviewing stand, where
the President will review the parade.
General Chaffee, General John NJ.
Wilson, chairman of the local commit
tee Cabinet officers, Governors and
their stats. few Senators and Repre-
= 4 nf fhn
President will occupy the reviewing
stand Only the guests of the Presi-
dent will be admitted 1t is expected
that the procession will keep on NOV
ing until nearly O'Clock in the even
ing As soon as it has passed the
President will exchange his black
froek and other morning dress for all
evening suit and will get a hurried
dinner He Will appear at the grand
ball in the Pension Office building at
9. 80 o'clock President Roosevelt will
lead the grand march, and after that
is over will make a programme for
himself Since it will be Saturday
night, the BALL will close promptly at
midnight. Then the inaugural will
have become history.
At the hotels it is stated that no ad-
vance in rates has been made on &C
count of the Inauguration, but the
leading hostelries are taking guests
for no less than a week. The advance
guard of visitors is already putting in
an appearance. Not the least con-
suicuous among those already on hand
are the multitude of street fakirs who
are gathering from New York, Phil
adeIphia and other cities in antici-
patton of reaping a harvest. Owing
TO the extraordinary precautions taken
bv the Washington police, in conjunc-
ton with the detective departments of
the chief cities of the country, it is
axnacted that few of the light fingered