Evening star., 1909-03-03
BARELY ELBOW ROOM
IN NATIONAL CAPITAL
Greatest Inauguration Throng
in Twenty Years.
MANY GOVERNORS ARRIVE
Every Train and Boat Adds Hun
dreds to City's Population.
SOUTH IS WELL REPRESENTED
Streets Echo With Music of the
Bands and Tramp of Marchers
Arriving for Ceremonies
Tomorrow.

With every prospect of good weather
with all preparations complete and with
each incoming train and boat adding TO
the numberless hosts gathered here from
far and near, the nations capital awaits
the coming of the morrow, when William
H. Taft will be inaugurated President OF
the United States.
So great is the congestion in the streets,
at the hotels and everywhere, except at
the vast Union station. large enough to
house standing army, the ordinary
routine of Washington life has been tenn
porarily suspended
The largest crowd of visitors to Wash
ington in twenty years-the largest assem-
bly, from the south for the ceremonies at
tending the installation of any republican
President, and as large any from
Dixieland, except when Cleveland was first
inaugurated, is In the capital. And the
parade tomorrow will be the greatest ever
held here.
The time-honored inaugural parade.
which a greater number will be enabled 10
witness. is claiming more interest than
the inaugura tion ceremony itself. The
latest estimate of the number of men who
will march is placed at $4,000, not the
least of which will be the governors of
fourteen states, each accompanied by his
staff.
State Executives Here.
Among the state executives already here
are Cows. Wilson of Kentucky. Carroll of
Iowa. Hughes of New York. Prouty of
Vermont Harmon of Ohio. Hadley OF
Missouri. Pennewill of Delaware, Quinby
of New Hampshire Sanders of Louisiana.
Stuart of Pennsylvania, Noel of Mis-
sissippj and Deneen of Illinois.
Having encircled the= globe with the
battleshfp fleet, three thousand bluejack-
cts are here to take part in the parade
Marching clubs. arriving from every
direction will form a conspicuous fea-
ture Of the parade. Probably the largest
Of these delegations will be composed of
the one thousand members of the New
york County Republican Club. which
will have the distinction of esccrting the
retiring President to Union station be-
fore falling in line in the inaugural
parade.
pennsylvania avenue. the line of the
parade, bore a martial appearance all
day Troops and organizations, IN
mingling colors and bedecked with flags,
TO the accompaniment here and there OF
patriotic airs marched. Thousands OF
spectators tramped the streets and side
walks.
Union Station Thronged.
The Union station was almost solid
jam. The great concourse there was
filled with the arriving hosts and their
welcoming friends
Long lines were formed at each sta
tion gate. The inpouring army had to
run the guntlet in the forced passage
way formed through the crowd from
gateway to exit
Trains as specials, trains extras.
trains as many sections running on the
same schedule. extra cars. every possi-
BILE facility, brought the crowds into
Washington.
Boats brought a great crowd from
Maryland and Virginia towns on the
Potomac river and Chesapeake bay on
The route to Baltimore and from Norfolk
and Old Point Comfort There were
many distinguished visitors among the
arrivals. and military organizations and
civic bodies were constantly coming in.