The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-05

Washington, March 4.-More than S0,0O0 marching men participated to- day in the great military and civic pageant, which constituted the princi- pal~spectacular feature of the Presi- dential inaugural ceremony. Approxi- mately 25,000 of these were soldiers, sailors and marines of the military es- tablishments of the United States, bodies of the National Guard of many States, with large contingents of spruce cadets and midshipmen from the National 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 distinc- lively uniformed campaign clubs.
 Numerically, the inaugural parade today was not so large as that which marched along historic Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House, when Grover Cleveland the only Demecrotic President of the United States since the Civil War, was inducted into the office the first time. The parade today, however, had a dis tinctiye and impressive quality, which no similar pageant ever possessed. This year. each State represented sent the cream of it's citizen soldiery and the finest Of it's civic organizations to do honor to William Howard Taft and James Schoolcraft Sherman, the new President and Vice-President of the United States.
 Avenue Is Lined.
 Lining Pennsylvania Avenue, from the Capitol to the White House, were immense stands for spectators and ecery' seat was occupied Every want age point in window and on house-top was taken when the head of the mag nihcent column of thirty-odd thousand men swung around the curve at the Peace monument and strengthened out for its more-than "a -mile-long march to, through and beyond the brilliant Court of Honor.
 Almost every person among the scores of thousands that damned the sidewalks and thronged the buildings along the route of the parade carried a miniature Star Spangled Banner, at tached to a golden stan. These were waved with right good will and no better evidence of the patriotism of the American people and the popular ity of the new President and Vice President could have been afforded than the reception which greeted the organizations as the procession swept between the througs which lined the great avenue on both sides.
 After Major-General J. Franklin Bell, the grand marshal of the parade. ac- companied by his brilliantly uniformed stan, had passed and been accorded vociferous greeting. the crowds settled down, with fine discrimination to ap- plaud those organizations which ap- pealed most distinctly to them.
 In previous inaugural parades, the Midshipmen from the Naval Academy at Annapolis and the Cadets from the Military Academy at West Point have won the greatest popular approval. Today they were no less favorites than formerly among both residents and vis- itors; but in heart interest they were eclipsed by the detachment of $500 sailors from the great fleet of Ameri can battleships now anchored in the waters of Hampton Roads. just return ed from their world -encircling, epoch making cruise of fourteen months. Tanned, these man were by tropical suns. 1.-the. active and hard as nails through the rigidity of their work and discipline, and as they marched down the flag fecked lane, with the sailor mans quick. active step, to the accom- paniment of inspiring music from their own bands, the throngs became nearly hysterical In the manifestation of their appreciation. As they swung along in