Evening star., 1909-03-01
CR0WD|NG To CAPITAL
Inaugural Visitors Arriving
From All Directions.
BUSY SCENES AT STATION
Special and Regular Trains Taxed
to Their Capacity.
MANY COME FROM THE SOUTH
Military. Organizations Arrive This
Morning From Atlanta, New
England and Elsewhere.
MANY COME FROM THE SOUTH

There has been plenty doing az the
Union station today, for the first corners
OF the inaugural hosts have begun to ar
rive in earnest The station has not been
taxed TO its capacity at all. for it can
take care of a tremendous crowd, but the
evidences of the arrangements made TO
meet people are to be seen at every turn.
ne red badges of the public comfort
committee are conspicuously worn by the
members on duty there, and already the
willing workers are being bOmbarded With
Questions on every subject under the sun.
The station officials have adopted
novel scheme to announce information re-
Sarding incoming trains that seems TO be
gratifying to the people who go there to
meet visiting friends. y great canvas
sheet has been spread high above the CEN
ter of the iron railing which divides the
concourse from the train sheds. and on it
are thrown stereopticon bulletins of the
movements of all trains, specials resu-
lars. The guards at the gates will in this
way be relieved of answering innumerabe
questions.
At the information booth there is a
typewriter synopsis of every train that
Will enter Washington, giving the time of
arrival. the organizations which will
Detectives on the Watch.
Minsling with the crowd at the station
are one hundred and twenty-fiv special
policemen, brought here from nearly
every large city in the country to watch
out for the faces of pickpockets and other
crooks who may be lingering about to
relieve the unwary of watch, pin or
pocketbook
Around the vacant lots near the station
force of men are a. work placing ever
green trees so that tie ugly wastes will
not be conspicuous.
Among the first to arrive in the city
this morning were 200 cadets from the
Georgia Military Academy who came on
a special train from Atlanta. The boys
lost no time in getting breakfast after
they set foot In the city, and then hired
half a dozen sight seeing automobiles for
spin around the city.
The New England Coast Artillery
Corps, 500 men, arrived in two trains,
reaching the Union station at L. noon
and 12:1J. They are quartered in various
localities. The Sd Company marched to
ll3 ID street northwest. Battery T, Il
heavy artillery company, Went to Pythian
Temple. An hour later the Now and Then
Club, a marching organization of. sew
enty-fiye men, came in
The Saratoga Bag Club, travelling in a
special car attached to regular Penn
sylvania train, arrived this afternoon. At
tIle ln1Ofmdtlon DoOtn there was Il memo
randum for inquirers that Pennsylvania
train No. 80 would run in two sections
This train comes from the east and
brought in passengers from as far as
Boston.
Heavy Trains From South.
The Atlanta trains arriving today and
which will arrive tonight are all very
heavy. Southern passengers are getting
here early. Extra sleepers are attached
To the Atlanta trains which viii arrive
here tonight.
a large number of Pittsburgers and
people from that part of Pennsylvania
will arrive this afternoon and tonight
The Pittsburg train which arrived today
at 12:4O carried three extra sleepers.
Many of the organizations will not pass
through the Union station, as they have
chartered their trains for their exclusive
during the inaugural period and will
use the cars as a hotel Company f of
the 1st Minnesota Regiment, National
Guards, is one of these. One hundred and
seven members. with Capt. Earl Luce in
command, arrived here this morning and
will be quartered in their cars at 18th
street and Maryland avenue southwest.
This organization is called the "crack
company of the northwest" It's MEM
bers have brought plentiful supply of
buttons bearing the words Minneapolis
makes good"