Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-03-02
PLANS PERFECTED
FOR INAUGURAL OF
TAFT AND SHERMAN
President-E1ect and Mrs. Taft
VIII Be Guests Of President
Roosevelt March Sd, At
White House.
ROOSEVELT TO LEAVE
WASHINGTON AT ONCE
is OFFICIAL PLANS
Inauguration Committee Has Plan
ned To Entertain at Least One
Hundred Thousand Visitors-The
Program Outlined.
BY Ralph Smith


WASHINGTON. March 1.-Mr. and Mrs
Wilnam Howard Taft will move into the
white house on March 3rd. They Will
spend the night of that day in the exec
utive mansion as the guests Of President
and Mrs. Roosevelt. This establishes an
other Roosevelt precedent
Mr.. and Mrs. Taft will occupy the guest
chamber. the large sunny room on the
southwest corner of the building ON the
second floor This was the favorite room
of "OId Hickory Jackson. 1t commands
MAGNIFICENT view of the Potomac river
and the hills of Virginia beyond. II Is
regarded as the most comfortable room IN
the white house The Tafts will have
breakfast with the Roosevelt family on
the morning of the Fourth and then will
leisurely spend the time until the hour
arrives for the real serious ceremonies
of the day.
Shortly after eleven o'clock the presi-
dent-elect and Mr. Roosevelt will step in
TO the waiting carriage, drive out of he
white house grounds and head for the
capitol They will be followed by Vice
President Fairbanks and Mr.. Sherman
In n second carriage. They will pass be-
tween the long lines Of spectators and
get the plaudits due them. The official
function at the capitol will occupy less
than an hour.
The vice president-elect will take the
oath of office in the senate chamber, az
ter which all the holders of admission
tickets will proceed to the platform, COW
erfng about an acre of ground. erected
at the east front of the capitol Out there
in the weather, whatever 1t may be, the
president-elect will take the oath OF OFFICE
administered by the chief Justice OF the
supreme court, and will then deliver his
inaugural address.
Returns To White House
The formal doings at the capitol over.
rhe new president will be driven back to
the white house for luncheon, while Mr.
Roosevelt, private citizen, takes the train
for New York.
In the meantime the parade-and the
paraoe is the thing on inauguration day
will have started from the rendezvous
on Capitol hill. BY the time the new
president has finished his luncheon the
head of the parade will be nearing the
court of honor in front of the white
house From stand directly in front Of
the white house the president viii review
the marching men.
The national capital is almost fully
dressed for the big fete. The local COM
mittee on arrangements has expended
something like $4,000 in providing for the
event 1t will be disappointed If at least
100000 visitors do not come to enjoy the
spectacle. But few, If any, innovations
are to be introduced. They day will come
on with Pennsylvania avenue roped off
and cleared of all traffic and with 1900
or 100000 persons lining either side of the
thoroughfare from the white house to the
capitol.
General Bell, chief of staff, who will
command the marching column, estimates
that it will take it six hours to pass a s
given point, and this will occupy the en-
tire afternoon. The military section OF
the parade will interest those persons who
like the spectacular. All the regular
troops in the east. infantry, cavalry, and
artillery, have been ordered to march;
seven or eight states win send national
guard troops, a large detachment of ma
rines and midshipmen from the battleship
fleet now lying at Hampton Roads will
participate, and the cadets will be here
from the naval school at Annapolis and
the army school at West Point.
Many Civic Organizations
About sixty civic organizations from
the District of Columbia, Georgia. ILL
nois. Kentucky, Maryland, Massachu-
sets, Minnesota. New Jersey, New York,
Ohio. Pennsylvania. Virginia and South
Carolina have asked for places in the pa
rade Among these civic organizations
will be several Republican clubs Of ma
tional fame, such as the Hamilton club.
of Chicago the Republic Club of. New
York city; the Citizens Taft club, ot Gin
cinnati. and the American club. of Pitts
burg. In the evening will be the recep-
ton and ball at the pension office and
fireworks display on the white lot.
The local committee has struggled hard
in an effort to think up some interesting
stunts to entertain visitors. They find
II a difficult task to present many nov
elites. However, IT has been decided to
call public attention to the various points
~ historical interest in and about Wash
ington by means of little placards. while
a catalogue of the various places has
also been prepared. The famous houses
of Washington, made notable by the oc-
cupancy of American and foreign states
men. jurists and fighters have been pla-
carded with little signs giving brief his
tories of the buildings.
Points of Interest
For instance around the corner from
the house where Abraham Lincoln died
a little sign announces the location Of
the Beaver house. This is quaint lit
tie structure, in which was held the first
meeting of the Spanish war veterans at
the close of the war with Spain. The
preliminary meeting held there resulted
in the formation of the nucleus upon
which was erected the present widespread
organization, with many hundred camps
in the United States and its colonies
the United Spanish war veterans.
Around the corner from the old Deaver
house is a quaint little structure which
was a boarding house in 1898 and in
which was captured the first spy taken
during the Spanish-American war. The
first of the battles of the Cuban cam
paign had not been fought when secret
service detectives located the spy and one
night several of Uncle Sans sleuths.
accompanied by squad of regular sol
diers, made a descent upon the house ana