The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-05
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many hours today, the day Of the in
auguratlon Of William Howard Taft as
president Of the United States, by
raging snow and sleet storm Of the
greatest severity ever known in a blz.
zard here.
At 4 o'clock this morning every tele.
graph and telephone wire out Of the
city had been carried down in the
storm and for many hours not a word
could be sent out Of the city.
The storm ragged all night around
Washington Wet snow was driven
into a furious blizzard by a tremen.
dous gale
This morning the snow turned to
sleet adding even more to the dis
comfort of people here for the inaugur-
alton ceremonies.
And This of All Days.
There was dramatic and tragic in
tensity in the fact that Washington
should be cut off from all communica-
tion with the rest of the world on this
of all days, when a great inaugural
was at hand.
Inauguration Plans Killed.
Plans for the Inauguration cere-
monies out of doors on an elaborate
scale were disarranged and practically
annuled in every detail as a result of
the binding storm.
Trains scheduled to arrive in Wash
ington this morning, bringing thous-
ands and thousands of visitors for the
Inauguration day program, were snow
bound in most cases and someOf them,
owing to paralyzed telegraph and tele-
phone service have not yet been
found
Newspaper Reports Pile Up.
Literally hundreds of thousands of
words of telegraph matter that the
hundreds of Washington correspond
ents were frantic to get to their pa
pers, were piled up in a mass in the
local telegraph Offices and for hours
not word could be clicked off to the
papers of the world regarding this, the
greatest day in Washington of seven
years.
When a wire was restored at last, it
was given over exclusively to sending
out the inaugural address, which was
delivered, inside, shortly after noon.
Details of the Parade.
The eliminating feature of the In
augural ceremonies will be the ball in
the pension office, President Taft and
Mrs. Taft, Vice President Sherman
and Mrs. Sherman and every one else
will attend the ball, and the presi.
dents reception will be one of the
leading features. He will be on pub
lie inspection. for the ball is open to
all who have been able to pay s.
| apiece for tickets. The reception com
mittee, composed of prominent citi.
zens of all the states, will present to
Mr. and Mrs. Taft the visitors from
their respective states. The ball will
probably last until midnight. Tomor.
row and the next day there will be
concerts, instrumental and vocal, in
| the pension Office to wind up the in.
auguration week.
Leading the great parade are the
regular troops, including the West
Point cadets. Then come in turn the
marine corps and the jackies or the
navy, the latter including the men of
the battleship fleet which circumnavi.
gated the world, After them come the
militia organizations, and the civilian
bodies wind up the procession. For
several days the paraders have been
! pouring into town by thousands. To
days parade is declared to be by all
odds the biggest that ever marched
up Pennsylvania avenue. Every fea.
ture of it is receiving generous ap.
plause from the people who pack the
sidewalks of Pennsylvania avenue and
I'LL every window on that historic thor
ouRhtare.