Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-04

Washington, March 4-More thar
10000 marching. men participated to-
day in the great military and civic
pageant, which constituted the prin-
cipal spectacular feature of the presi-
Dental inaugural ceremony. Approx
mately $4,000 of these were soldiers
sailors and marines of the military es
Establishments of the United States
bodies of the national guard of many
states. with large contingents of spruce
cadets and midshipmen from the ma
tional military and naval academies
The remaining 5000 were citizens from
all parts of the United States, banded
together in commercial and political
organizations, many of them distinct
lively uniformed campaign clubs.
Of Distinctive Quality.
The parade today. had a distinctive
and impressive quality. which no sim
each state represented sent the cream
of it's citizen soldiery and the finest
of its civic organizations to do honor
to William Howard Taft and James
Schoolcraft Sherman, the new pres
ident and vice president of the United
States.
Lining Pennsylvania avenue, from
the capitol to the White House. We're
immense stands for spectators and
every seat was occupied. Every vantage
point in window and on housetop was
taken when the head of the magnifi-
cent column of ,thirtyodd- thousand
men swung around the curve at the
peace monument and Strengthened out
for its more-than-a -mile-long march
to, thru and beyond the brilliant court
of honor. The avenue was a great lane
of streaming white and vivid green, the
official colors of this, the most pict-
uresque of inaugural ceremonies.
Flags on Every Hand.
Almost every person among the
scores of thousands that damned the
sidewalks and thronged the buildings
along the route of the parade carried
miniature star spangled banner, at
tached to a golden staff. These We're
waved with right good will and no bet
ter evidence of the patriotism of the
American people and the popularity of
the. new president and vice president
could have been afforded than the re-
ception which greeted the organiza-
tions as the procession swept between
the throngs which lined the great
avenue on both sides.
After Maj.-Gen. j. Franklin Bell, the
crp>Q n MOI -f1o1 of
panied by his brilliantly uniformed
staff, had passed and been accorded i
vociferous greeting, the crowds settled
down with fine discrimination. to APP
plaud those organizations which ap-
pealed most distinctly to them.
Cadets in Evidence.
In previous inaugural parades, the
from the Naval Academy
at Annapolis and the cadets from the
Military Academy at West Point have
won the greatest popular approval To-
day they We're no less favorites than
formerly among both residents and Wis
itors; but in heart interest they Were
eclipsed by the detachment of $500
sailors from the great fleet of Anleri-
can battleships now anchored in the
waters of Hampton Roads just re-
turned from their world encircling,
epoch making cruise of fourteen
Tanned these 1nen were by
tropical suns. 1.-THE, active and hard
as nails thru the rigidity of their work
and discipline, and as they marched
down the fag-fiecked lane, with the
sailor mans quick, active step, to the
accompaniment of inspiring music
from their won bands, the throngs be-
came nearly hysterical in the mani
festation of their appreciation. AS they
swung along in lively, happy fashion,
accustomed now as they are to the
adulation of thousands, they were evil
IDENTIFY pleased with the deep chested
roar that greeted them from the open
Threats of a hundred thousand Amer
lcans-their fellow-countrymen In this
way did the American people. as rep
resented in the nations capital express
their pride in the men who, in time of
peace, had Won undying fame in far
off countries
Cuban Veterans March.
These men behind the guns" fur
nished merely one of the interesting
features of the parade Eighteen gov
errors OF as many states. who had
iourneyed to Washington to do honor
10 the nations chief executive. APP
peared in the pageant surrounded by
handsomely caparisoned staffs. Silk
hated, frock-coated and dignified, these
men, chosen beyond their fellow citi-
zens, We're accorded everywhere a cor
dial reception by the cheering crowds.
There was tremendous applause, too,
FOR all organizations, civil and military,
in the line. Among them several regi-
nents of Shaki-clad soldiers of the
United States army. only recently re-
surned from Cuba, and other regiments
hat have won honor in wars and in
plains fighting with indians, attracted
Notable attention. Among the state
roops Were detachments of the Nation
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