Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-03-02
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lean navy and plans of the defense of
Fort Monroe, New York harbor and 9TH
er points, were found in his possession,
as we'll as considerable correspondence
with agents of the Spanish government.
He was confined to the guardhouse at
the Washington barracks and heavily
ironed, but in some mysterious manner
the spy managed to commit suicide be-
fore he could be brought to trial. 1t is
contended that he received help from the
outside.
There will be marked, too. on the spot
where John Wilkes Booths fellow con-
spirators in the assassination of Presl-
dent Lincoln were executed, and on the
homes of John Quincy Adams, Henry
Clay and Daniel Webter; on the house
in which the French patriot, Lafayette.
stopped while In Washington on Ms last
visit to this country and the building in
which Abraham Lincoln lived before his
first Inauguration.
Other Interesting Places
other interesting locations that can be
viewed by visitors during the lulls in
the inaugural ceremonies will be the
site of the camp of the Washington ar
tillery of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and
the Allen rifles of Allentown, Pa, part
of the first detachment of volunteers to
reach Washington when war was de-
clared in 1861. Also apartments in the
United States cepitol, where the Fifth
and Eighth Massachusetts, regiments, the
Twenty fifth new York and Ellsworth's
New York fire zouaves, were quartered.
An interesting place is the Kenmore, on
North capitol street, where George
Washington began to build a residence
for himself, but never completed the
house.
The committee has marked off some Of
the battlefields in the vicinity Of the cap
! ital. They include Fort stevens where
General Early, with his graycoated Con-
| federates made their famous advance on
, Washington, and where the fight &C.
Cured July II and Il, 1864. On a time
worn parapet of Fort Stevens, which will
be designated by one of the o1ficial mark
| ers, is the spot where President Lin
| coin was under fire for the first ana
| last time during the civil war.
| Another place of interest on this bat
| tlefield is a raVine in which the Sixth
corps formed before the charge which
compelled the Confederates to retire from
| in front of Washington. In the engage
ment that followed the commanding Of
fcer of every union regiment taking part
was either killed or wounded. Nearby
will be marked a Confederate outpost,
where the men in gray made their near
est approach to the nations capital dur
| ing the war, and which has been desig-
mated as the ''high-tide" mark of the
| on-to-Washington movement. During
Early's attack on Fort Stevens the men
of this outpost annoyed the gunners by
their "sniping." The Confederates at
| this outpost were Mississippi riflemen,
| famed as dead shots, and some of them
were armed with the long-barrelled squir-
rel rifles, such as, in somewhat more
ancient form, Davy Crockett and other
prominent pioneers carried.
Inaugurations Have Changed
| A vast change has taken place in the
inauguration plans since Washington was
| indicted into office. Undoubtedly the
| least ostentatious ceremony of this kind
was when Jefferson on March 4th. noun
| ted a horse and rode up to the white
house, where he hitched his animal to
| the fence and walked in to receive the
oath of office. His only escort was a
| small group of cavalrymen.
In 1917, President Monroe was satisfied
with an escort of citizens on horseback
and the performance was repeated at
! his second inauguration. But when An
| drew Jackson was inaugurated, in 1929
washington had it's first glimpse of the
popular enthusiasm, the patriotism. the
sympathy and the hospitality that woulo
be the occasion for great great Pennsyl-
vania avenue pageants in the future. OF
| JdCkSOh NNASA' 0@-AO@
said:
'sNeyer has such a crowd been seen
here before There must have been fully
| 5000 people along the line of march.
Persons came 500 miles to see the presi-
dent inaugurated.''
Van Buren,, in 1887, had splendid es-
cort" for those days and 10000 spectators
stood along the line of march. And the
carriage in which the president rode at
| tracted almost as much attention as he
did himself, for it was made out of wood
taken from the old hull of the victorious
| American frigate, Constitution-Old Iron
sides-and built at the expense of the
| New York democracy for presentation to
the president.
Inc Parade of IS4I
The parade on March 4, 1S41, was prob
ably the most interesting up to that time.
1 General Harrison, the president-elect
rode on horseback to the capitol and came
back in a coach presented to him by the
| Wings of Baltimore. Hundreds of LONG
cabin flats were displayed in the parade
and among his escort were members OF
the Harrison convention and veteran sol
diers who had fought under the president
| at Tippecanoe. Seventy-five thousand
spectators attended to do General Harri-
| son honor.
President Polk was rather fond of dis
play and his tastes not particularly mill
tary, consequently his inaugural escort
was more mixed than any other up to
that time. 1t included a number of mill
tary organizations, veterans Of the Revo-
| lutionary war, members of his cabinet,
the clergy of the District Of Columbia and
the professors and students of Georgetown
college. His carriage, both to and from
the capitol, was f1anked by the Fairfax
cavalry a kid glove Virginia regiment,
recruited from among the gentlemen
planters of the Old Dominion.
| In 1S49, March fell on Sunday, and so
! General Zachary Taylor was inaugurated
at 9 o'clock Monday morning. That old
fighter liked to do things In style and
the carriage in which he rode to the CAPT.
toll was drawn by four prancing grays,
! and his escort, almost exclusively mill
tary, was particularly large and imposing
for those days.
There was nothing of the holiday spirit
in evidence when President Lincoln was
inaugurated on March 4, 1861. 1t was true
that he had large escort, but 1t was ex-
| clusively military and every soldier OF
the many that marched before and behind
and beside his carriage had his musket
loaded and cooked and ready for instant
use. Many spectators lined the side
walks. too, but nine-tenths of them were
! soldiers as we'll, some in their regimentals
| and others in citizen dress, but all armed
and on the watch for the ever present
| danger that threatened the chief execu-
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