The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-05
Roosevelt Departs s..
 From, Washing
Goodbye and Good Luck" He Shor Enthusiastic Thousands Pleased Witt
 Speech of MT. Taft,

the United States" was the laughing remark of MT Taft this morning as h, looked out of the White House win dows on one of the prettiest winter pictures ever seen. The snow, clingini to trees and shrubbery. had trans formed the White House grounds in to a veritable fairyland of dazzling white and fantastic forms
 It was 9 o'clock and Mir. Taft ha, just finished his breakfast. He hal spent the earlier hours of the morn Ing going over his inaugural address eliminating paragraph after para graph, which he intended to omit il reading the document today. The ad dress for publication he allowed tt stand in full.
 MT. Taft said that he had never fell better in his life and personally the terrible weather was not a hardshir to him, but he regretted exceedingly the conditions that confronted the men of the militia and the marching clubs who had traveIed so many miles tc have a part In the pageantry of the inaugural parade.
 President Roosevelt. who has al. ways chosen stormy weather for his most strenuous riding and walking ex- petitions. greeted his successor with rare good humor as they met at break
  between the two friends who played today such important roles In the new ly written chapter of American his tory.
 Joke On Weather Man.
 With the break of day this morning the Weather Bureaus prophecy of fair and somewhat cooler" was found to be but an empty dream.
 The parade planned for the afternoon was curtailed so as to spoil what prom ised to be one of the most splendid spectacles of marching men ever seen on Pennsylvania Avenue.
 Washington Is filled with a record breaking throng whose disappoint- ment today knew no bounds. owners of revolving stand privileges and tick ct speculators lost thousands of dol lars.
 Todays storm the worst Washing ton has known in ten years-followed weather which for a time on yester- day was suggestive of late April Fog was followed by heavy showers. and ming played about the city in the af- ternoon and then with the coming night snow began to fall.
 The Weather Bureau had sent out a definite promise of fair weather for today. however. and as the wind has shifted from the east to the north and west Washingtonians were inclined to smile at the snow as calculated sim ply to send cold shivers down the backs of the Governments optimistic proph- cts.
 At midnight in spite of the conttn- uous fall of snow and the whole GOV ering of the strsets. the Weather Bu- reau adhered to Its prediction and pro- claimed anew that the day of Mir. Tafts Inauguration would be ideal, Prof Willis L. Moore, in charge of the weather service, sent a message to Mir. Taft at the White House last night, assuring him through the vale Of blinding snow that he would take officc under cloudless skies with a flood of sunshine and a temperature of about forty degreeE,
 Downtown Washington was deserted this morning during the hours in which previous inaugural years have wit messed the struggling of thousands for places of vantage along the sidewalks $ of the route of the big parade. Street car traf afffc was so uncertain that few people in the residential districts cared 10 venture forth. Hundreds who on yesterday had paid fancy prices for