The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-03-10
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Those from the South recalled that
sad but most brilliant fighting at New
market when the cadets of the Vir-
ginia military institute were called
into the field under Stonev-all jackson.
With the Georgia cadets now marched
a grandson of Stonewall Jackson. AS
whole it was.a column that took fair
rank with the perfection Of West
Point and Annapolis.
The civic grand division of eight
brigades in, three divisions, made up
of over fifty organizations, was in
every respect better organized than
ever before, and so, like the whole
column, more interesting. Though
strictly civilian, B. H. Warner, it's
committee organizer, had given it a
semi-military character by appointing
Gen. Howard and Gen. Joe Wheeler as
leading military features. In all its
parts it was an attractive spectacle,
worthy of the notable occasion. The
whole column, military and civic, un-
der Gen. Chaffee and his staff, marched
with steadiness and celebrity hitherto
unattained.
Dazzling Scenes Of the Night.
Turning from the pageant of the
day, the doubled population of the
city disposed itself for the three i'm.
posing spectacles of the night, the
promenade at the pension Office, mis-.
named a ball; the fireworks on the
White House lot and the dazzling
street decorations. The attendance
at the ball was limited to the twelve
Of fifteen thousand which the building
would hold. The street decorations
were viewed by solid marching COL
umn filling the wide pavements of the
avenue and the street itself and
reaching for two miles and a half.
No such brilliant scene of decoration
and illumination was ever witnessed
before in this country or any other,
for here electric effects had their orr
gin and have their greatest develop.
ment. The dome of the capitol stood
white against the darkness, illumina.
the Washington monument, and the
monument itself by the same method
was made
Visible for Many Miles. =
The fireworks exceeded all previous
displays. There We're no ordinary
pieces. Rockets, with their dangerous
sticks, were discarded. The set pieces
were of large dimensions-such as
wheel more than a hundred feet in d.
ameter, presidential piece 200 feet in
length and a national flag 800 feet long
carried up thousand feet by balloon
and there developed in the sight OF the
city and beyond.
The decorations of the ball room
most successfully conformed to the de-
termination that this Inauguration
should exceed all previous efforts. All
was accomplished that could be<effect-
ed by extended masses of color,
spreading about and over the immense
room and it's galleries, with
Miles of Evergreen
vines, carloads of cut flowers, flags in
artistic combination, electric lights by
the thousands, and electric pieces,
large and small, with one of unrivaled
proportions carrying 5000 lights of
varied colors woven into a most beau
tiful design. The instrumental music
and the trained chorus of 500 voices
filled the vast building to it's remotest
recesses with the perfection of musical
attainment.
In Difference to the Sabbath all Ger.
emonies stopped at midnight, but It
was we'll toward morning before the
lights were turned down on the most
brilliant spectacle that Washington
had seen in it's long line of notable &C.
casions. Till long after midnight the
gathered thousands walked, wonder
ing and enthusiastic, on Pennsylvania
avenue, through long reaches of fairy
land. With the small hours the lights
faded and the citize1s rested from
their months of labor. Grandly had
the District of Columbia entertained
the nation.