Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-03-03
WASHINGTON IS READY
For the Inauguration Of Taft sixtieth
Congress Will Die Tomorrow.
Other Interesting Notes.

For the Inauguration of Taft-sixtietr
Congress Will Die Tomorrow.
Other interesting Notes.
Special to the Herald.
Washington, D. c.. March 3.-Wash
ington today is in readiness for to
morrow's Inauguration of President
Taft.
The inauguration crowd, according
to all outward signs. is the largest OF
record The streets, and especially
Pennsylvania avenue, are thronged
with the incoming host of visitors
One of the remarkable features OF
the crowd is the unusually large mum.
Der of southerners. Every state OF
the south will be well represented at
the ceremony tomorrow, a number OF
them by their governors and staffs
and companies of militiamen.
The immense street thorngs are
variegated with uniformed soldiers
of every hue, and the civic hero is
present clad in motley costumes in
yolving every color known to the
spectrum. Some are in purple, some
in bright yellow, and others appear in
shades of blues and browns and
greens multitudinous.
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BY tomorrow morning the entire
city. will be in holiday attire The
task of placing myriads of decora-
tons until hardly anything except
flags and bunting is visible was far
advanced today. There is no building
from the capitol to the state, war and
navy building that does not bear some
token of the joyous salute of the
country and of the people of Wash
ington to the president-elec
The electrical display eclipses any
thing of the kind ever undertaken
here before An incalculable number
of electric bulbs serve to make Penn
sylvania avenue almost as bright
after. dark as on the sunniest May
day. The great buildings are outlined
in lines of electric lights, as if some
mighty artist had drawn picture in
flaming light on the black page of
night. From the peace monument to
the western end of the court of honor
Pennsylvania avenue is a gorgeous
rainbow of. color The ground work
of the decorations. which show to
equal advantage by day as well as by
night. is white cloth, topped with
green Many evergreens are used.
From thousands of poles, staffs and
lines the national red, white and blue
is seen fluttering in the breeze, CIV.
ing Washington's principal thorough
fares a highly animated and attract
i've appearance.
The great inaugural parade is
scheduled to start promptly at 1:15.
p. m. tomorrow. The committee esti
mates that between thirty and thirty
five thousand men will be in line.
The majority of the marchers will be
regular troops of the United States
army, marines and bluejackets of the
Atlantic battelship fleet. cadets of
the military and naval academies,
and troops of the National Guard rep
resenting score of states. Twenty
five governors and their staffs will
be in line, together with political
marching clubs from many parts of
the country. Major-General ]. Frank
lin Bell will be the grand marshal
The start of the parade viii be
made parallel to the east front of the
capitol north to B street: west on b
street to First street northwest; south
along First street to the peace monu-
ment; west along Pennsylvania ave-
nue. to and passing the east front of
the treasury department on Fifteenth
street; thence along Pennsylvania
avenue west to Nineteenth street,
where the marchers will be dismissed.
The marching troops and civic organ
izations will be reviewed on Pennsyl-
vania avenue, about Eighteenth
street, by General Bell and his staff,
after they have passed in review be-
fore the presidential party on the re-
viewing stand in the court of honor
A small army of florists and deco
rators were at work today putting
the finishing touches to the interior
embellishments of the pension build
ing, where every inaugural ball since
President Cleveland's administration
has been held For months the deco
ration committee has been working,
and the result of its labors will be
seen tomorrow night. Never before,
it is said, have the decorations been
on such bold and lavish scale.
Mr.. Taft's last day as private citi-
zen, for four years at least, was
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