Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-29
BAL |M0RE IS INVITED
Asked to Come Over and
Celebrate Inauguration.
GREAT TIME Is ASSURED
Commissioner Mcfarland Bearer of
Message at Banquet.
PUSHING COMMITTEE WORK
Chairman Stellwagen Receiving
Favorable Reports From All
Directions.
GREAT TIME is ASSURED
PUSHING COMMITTEE WORE

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liam Howard Taft, which will be the fin
est ever held in Washington, and help us
celebrate the increasing return Of pros
perity.''
The foregoing invitation was extended
to Baltimore in particular and the wide
world in general by District Commission
err Henry B. F. mcfarland last night
while responding to the toast The Capt.
| tai of the United States at the. banquet
of the merchants and manufacturers in
| the Monumental city.
In common with the Inauguration COM
mittee and the rest of the citizens of the
District Mr.. mcfarland is impressed
| with the arrangements thus far made for
the inaugural ceremonies, which bid fair
| to eclipse any similar event in dignity Of
detail. elaborateness and its general pic
turesuue features. Edward ]. Stellwagen,
| chairman of the Inauguration committee,
! is in daily receipt of reports from the
| chairmen of subcommittee, which indicate
| the thorOughness of the arrangements
down to the most minor detail. Mr.. Stel!
wagon is much pleased with 1.-THE progress
! OF the vast work, Notwithstanding the
| shortness of time before March 4.
A meeting of the executive committee
of the public comfort committee has been
called by Chairman NJ /. Weller for 7::O
O'Clock this evening at the committee
headquarters in the Merchants and Me
chanics' Bank building, 10th street and
pennsylvania avenue.
Parking for Cars.
Chairman A. NJ. Keppel of the commit
tee on railroad terminal facilities is kept
busy solving the problems of receiving the
many visitors, the civic and military or
CARNATIONS that will pour into this city
nd nf ti,,rv
congestion. He said today in reply to an
inquiry that the parking of the chartered
cars tor troops and other organizations
that come here over the Pennsylvania and
Baltimore and Ohio railroads will be
handled by those lines. The Chesapeake
and Ohio. Atlantic Coast Line, Sea boa rd
Air Line, Washington Southern, Rich
| mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac and
the Southern Railway companies will
have to make arrangements for the park
ing of their chartered cars with the Penn
sylvania and Baltimore and Ohio COM
panies.
The Terminal Company will not under
take to park any chartered cars for &C.
cupancy, Mr.. keppel said.
1t is understood the chartered cars on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad will be
parked in the New York avenue freight
yards of the company. The Pennsyl
vanla company may park it's cars in its
freight yards near the Pennsylvania
avenue bridge southeast.
Supt. keppel has arranged to double
| his force Of Union station employees
during the Inauguration time. He has
assigned to the Red Cross, through Mai
Sylvester, a building Just outside the
fence at the east end of the station,
which is said to be admirably adapted
| TO the purposes of an emergency station.
The structure was originally intended
as a ticket Office.
kilbourn Gordon was today added to
the committee on fireworks by Chairman
CunO III. Rudolph.
~, The ia authorities 4,I,ie Of the Wilberforee
Indian school, at Carlisle, Pa, are in
correspondence with Gen. Bell, grand
| marshal of the inaugural parade, in re-
gard to having the cadet battalions of
those institutions take part in the COM
| ing inauguration ceremonies. The ex-
pense of transportation is the only thing
| that stands In the way.
No Inauguration "Gouging."
| The recent statement made on the floor
| SIMS of Tennessee intimating that the
hote, and boarding house keepers of
Washington would practice extortion upon
| their guests during the Inauguration
period has been replied to by the inaugu-
ration committee. A news letter that
| has been widely circulated says:
| The problem of feeding and housing
the thousands who will journey to Wash
| ingtOn to witness the ceremonies attend
ing the Inauguration of Taft and Sher-
man March is being successfully solved
| by the committee on public comfort of
which NJ. !. Weller is chairman. This
| Is the largest of several inaugural SUBJ
committees, and Mr.. Weller has been
| its head in several Inauguration periods
There will be no 'gouging' or eXtortion
| practiced by the keepers of hotels and
boarding houses, Notwithstanding the re-
cent statement on the floor of the House
| of Representatives by Representative Sims
of Tennessee.
with windows looking out on the line of
parade to be considered in the arrange
mcnt for quarters, the Washington no.
tells have not advanced their rates for the
! time when the New President and Vice
President will he indicted into office
Windows along Pennsylvania avenue arc
being sold at scale of prices extending
J from so upward
| Chairman Weller. In discussing the gen.
eral proposition OF caring for the inau-
| gnration visitors said the hotels here
| cannot accommodate 10 per cent Of the
people who will come to Washington
| Therefore, he added. lit will be neces-
| sary for the boarding establishments and
| private houses to care for so per cent
of the strangers. But we will have ac-
commodations a-plenty because at previ-
Gus inaugurations we have always had
have to walk the Streets
| The Washington hotel proprietors will
| be under much extra expense during the
| Inauguration week. as they will have to
pay higher wages for help. and will have
| to employ increased forces of servants.
| The hotel men also lose in many cases
| where rooms are reserved for visitors in
| advance Of the inauguration. Many apart