The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-12
Everything in Readiness
 For Event. 5000 TROOPS TO TAKE PART Grand Military Pageant to Precede
 Ceremony. Only Two Companies of State Guard win Be Unable To Take Part Arrangements Are Elaborate.
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Preparations for the inauguration of Governor elect B. B. Conner were cori1- pleted yesterday. when the Commit tee on Arrangements, of which Cap tain A. G. Forbes is Chairman, finish ed the few details that had by neces- sity been left undone
 All is now ready for the ceremonies which are expected to be the most elab- crate and the most impressive seen in Montgomery since the war. The arr rangment of the three thousand troops who are to form the larger part of the procession. and of the carriages con- taining the Governor and the other civil officers of the State, the appointment of committees which are to have charge of the reception and the ball given m honor of the Governor. and the select. ion of places of review and of a line of march. were made yesterday.
 The apointment of comittees was one of the most important features of yes- terday's transactions by the general committee. which met in the Commercial Clubs rooms on Bibb street. under the presidency of it's Chairman, Captain Forbes The Committees on Reception and on Floor were named, and the aides of Hon. Bibb Graves, grand marshal oe the parade, wore announced.
 The reception committed, with M. Paul LeGrand as Chairman, will con sist of a delegation representing the city and it's civic organization. the Com mercial Club, in welcoming the visitors to the public reception and the pan Monday night. The Floor Committee. charge of the ball MT. Graves will have general supervision of the inaug- ural parade. General Louis " Clark. of Birmingham, will command the troops.
 The program of the inauguration Will begin with the military parade at noon:
 The troops will form on Church street and after receiving Governor Conner in- to the line at the corner of Church and catoma streets. will proceed down chqPeh mehcn fsom street this fS pont % be along Lee to Tallapoosa, to Commerce, to Court Square, thence to the Capitol on Dexter avenue.
 In the procession will be fully three thousand men in military uniform; Captain Forbes yesterday requesteo that Governor Wm. D. Jelks ask his personal staff to act as escort or non, uniformed cadets of the Alabama Poly technic Institute at Auburn will be m line and will probably have a place or honor near Governor Conner
 The State troops which will be in line with the number of men. are as follows:
 Colonel R. B. DuMont and Staff. ten
 First Regiment Infantry. officers and % Colonel c. R. Bricken and Staff. ten
 Second Regiment Infantry. officers
 Major V, B. Atkins and Staff. five
 First Squadron Calvary. officers and
 Major S. T. Wescott and staf, five
 First Battalion Artillery (Not advis- ed)
 Second Regiment Band. twenty-two
 Third Regiment Band. thirty-two
 One hundred men from the. Mobile Military Institute will be in line. and Howard College, of Birmingham, US expected to send two companies. Pres ident A. P Montague, of Howard, yes terdav advised Captain Forbes that the matter had been placed before the faculty, and there is little doubt the State school in Abbeville will be pres ent. To thes and all other cadets In uniform the railway companies grant a rate of one cent for each mile traV- elled.
 Two Companies Cannot Come.
 There are only two commands in the whole Alabama National Guard that will not attend the inaugural They Infantry, at Florence, and Company K, the Eufaula Rifes of the End Regiment, Capt. K. B. Mckenzie.
 The latter company is unable to at tend because of the fiat refusal of the Central Railway of Georgia to trans- port the troops free. It is believed Company B of Florence can not come because the railway company which would furnish free transportation. would have to carry the troops into Tenne essee before they reached Mont gomery, and would in this way violate the Federal railway rate bill The inauguration will take place up f on a dais raised before the Capitol ] steps and so constructed as to permit i eevry person in the vast assemblage to witness the ceremonies, an extension l being built out from the main part o1 the platform On this the Governor and | the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court will stand when the oath of office Is ad' minitsered and repeated.