The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-03
All Preparations for Inaugural of Will.
 fam H. Taft Are Complete.
What it Will Cost to Attend the lnauqu
 ral Ball.
City is Crowded to the Limits, Prices for Everything Have Jumped -Organiza. liens to Appear in the Parade Have Arrived - Only Mild Weather and Sunshine Now Needed for the Great Event.
Special from United Press,

Washington, March 3-with nearly all Of the eighteen governors who are
 to appear in the inaugural parade,
 either safely arrived or on the way to
 the capitol; and with most of the big
 military and guardsmen's organiza-
 tions comfortably quartered in the
 city little remains undone that can be
 done for the great festival except to
 watch the weather and pray for sum-
 shine.
 The decorations are all in place on
 the Court of Honor and Pennsylvania
 Avenue; the committeeman have sold
 almost all the ball tickets they are
 likely to dispose of at $5 each, Supper $1.50 extra per plate, consisting main ly of chicken croquettes and salmon), and Grand Marshal Bell and his assist ants have issued their orders for the form-up of the military units of the procession.
 Speaking of the ball and supper some of the careful calculators have discovered it will cost a young man the cabalistic sum of $23 to take his best young lady to the function. It will cost him $10 for the ball tickets, S3 for the supper and $10 for the carriage. At other times of the year he could hire a carriage for half of s1o, but in order
 to bring the total up to s23 and give the victims good cause for remarks, the liverymen have doubled their tar if: The S23 by the way does not in- clude flowers for the girl which under present conditions will cost an addi- tional S5.
 A dense fog enre1oped the city at daybreak to-day and for an hour or so visitors and residents alike were in despair. The weather bureau had forecasted "unsettled' conditions for inauguration day and put an addition al gloomy sign out to-day. 'I'Il bet o1 <1 a Texas visitor to friend in the lob by of the Willard to-day. "Tll take you; make it two tines," retorted his friend. The money was paid to a third osftion said: 'I'm doing this for Taft. Every time I make bet on any prop osition under the sun I lose.
 The prices of seats and windows from which to view the parade have jumped about fifty per cent. within the last A hours. So have the prices for rooms in boarding houses and cots in the hotels. One man advertised in one of the local papers to-day that he had four choice seats in the stand at the Court of Honor which he would dispose of at the reasonable price of $40. The seats in that stand when first sold cost s3 to s5. If he sells his pasteboards he is certain to make 100 per cent. on his investment.
 The record price for a room has been paid by John Hayes Hammond, president of the League of Republican Clubs who "gave up'' S700 for a sec ond story front, corner Fifteenth and F streets, opposite the Treasury Build ing.
 With every incoming train crowds of sa1esmen arrive with their wares, adding to the gayety of the crowd.
 The governors who have arrived are: Hughes, of New York; Prouty, of Virginia; Harmon, of Ohio; Had ley, of Missouri: Fort, of New Jersey; Penniwill, of Delaware; Quinby, of New Hampshire; Sanders, of Louisi- ana: Stuart, of Pennsylvania; Draper, of Massachusetts; Noel, of Mississip- pi: Deneen, of Illinois; Fernald of Maine Most of the governors are ompanied by their military staffs.
 Among the famous military organ izations that arrived to-day was the Black Hose Troop A. of the Ohio Ma tional Guard of Cleveland which will act as the governors personal escort During their stay here the members of this troop will be quar- tered in the Pullman cars of the Penn sylyania road. Other Ohio organiza- ions arriving to-day were the Colum- bus and, Dayton Glee Clubs both of which are to be featured in the 1nau- ! yural concerts Friday and Saturday.
 Fair and cooler weather for in ! day in Washington, is pre- l licted by the official forecaster- The | at II o'clock this morning | vas 43. Showers are predicted for this 1 afternoon with clearing and cooler to- night.