Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-27
nit of the emptying Of several vehicles
at one time.
Trees Surround Station Plaza.

LIES SldI1OA 1NEo'
Visitors arriving at the Union station
for the ceremonies in the city next
week will have to pass through m'nia-
ture forest of evergreens before they
reach Washington proper.
Perhaps they. may think that the sta
ton was erected in the heart of a piece
of virgin timber land. If they do they
will err, for the trees that appear to be
growing in a triple row all around the
outer edge of the plaza in front OF the
station are only a decoration put up TO
hide the unfinished ground beyond.
The trees were all imported from the
country roundabout They have been sim
ply stuck up in the earth to a height of
about ten or twelve feet and in "A row
three feet deep extending around the
plaza.
Workmen are rapidly getting the new
plaza electric lights in place and it is
expected that by next Thursday the main
line, directly in front of the station, will
be ready for use. Other gangs are clean
ing up the roadWayS and walks for the
thousands that are coming.
In order to aid pedestrians going to the
nearby streets a sx-foot boardwalk has
been built from the south end OF the plaza
across the filled ground to New Jersey
avenue and c street
Instructions to Floor Committee.
Special instructions for the members of
the floor committee for the ball have been
printed in the form of a circular and dis
tributed to the members by Chairman
Gist Blair today. Attached to the instruc-
tons is an explanation of the division of
the committee into twenty eight sections,
with the members in charge of each, and
a map of the ball floor showing the ar
rangements.
Committee members are expected to re-
port at the rooms of the committee in the
pension building not later than I:oo
o'clock the evening of March 4, and there
will receive badges and a white oouton-
Mere (carnation) to represent their MEM
bership. Those in charge of sections Will
wear pink carnations.
Aids from the states will have special
badges and will wear deep red bouton-
niereS.. Vacancies in the committee lists
will be filled at SIS o'clock. if members
fail to appear.
Those in charge of the sections are in
structed to form their assistants into
double line, according to the plan of the
ball, and be prepared for the coming OF
the President. 1t is requested by the
chairman that all members of the COM
mittee who are officers of the army. navy
or Marine Corps wear full dress uniforms
Civilians will appear in full evening dress,
with white gloves and vest.
The committeeman are urged to do
everything I'm their power to promote the
comfort Of those attending the ball.
Plans for Illumination.
Chairman Bernard r. Green of the
committee ON. illumination has submitted
his report, which provides:
Illumination of Pennsylvania avenue
and 18th street from the Peace Monument
to New York avenue by means of fes-
toons of electric lights.
Private illumination of buildings along
occupants. g
Illumination of the dome of the Capitol
with searchlights.
Outlining the architecture of the Treas
ury building with electric lights.
Illumination of the municipal building.
Fountain showering the Peace Monu-
ment at the east end Of Pennsylvania
avenue.
Each of the festoons of the avenue will
be in quadruple, having three peaks, the
middle one about thirty feet above the
pavement. They will be about fifty in
number hung squarely across the ave
nue., therefore parallel to each other and
about 80 feet apart.
About twenty or thirty of the principal
buildings along the avenue will be pri-
vately decorated with electric lights on
the solicitation of the committee.
The municipal building will be illumi-
mated by six S-inch theatrical spot lights,
SO disposed and set as TO beautifully re-
veal Ms white marble architecture. The
effect will be enhanced by the District of
Columbia officials lighting all the front
rooms.
The Peace Monument will be made a
fountain by means of jets of water,
which will shower it in such way as to
give beautiful strong and changing col
ored light effects, produced by three L.
inch search lights symmetrically located
around it. 1t is expected the fountain
will be continued throughout the days as
we'll as the nights.
The plan provides for the continuation
of the various Examinations from dark
until midnight on each of the four nights
from March to March 6.
Medals and Badges.
Several large boxes filled with souvenir
medals are piled in the Office of Edward
j. Stellwagen, chairman of the Inaugural
ton committee. The medals reached this
city yesterday from Philadelphia. There
are 5000 of them. Three of the souvenirs
are of gold, one for Mr.. Taft, one for Mr..
Sherman and the other for Chairman
StellWagen. The fifty silver medals will
be distributed among the new cabinet
officers and other officials. The remainder
of the souvenirs are of bronze and are
intended for the members of the several
commit tees
The Inauguration medals are different
from those of previous inaugurations, in
lief of Taft and Sherman, and on the
other side the names of the two men, with
suitable legends concerning them At
the last Inauguration the bust of Presi-
dent Roosevelt alone appeared on the
medallion.
The original design of the mccall was
furnished by II. n. Brooke, chairman of
the committee on medals and badges. To-
day when the medals were exhibited
among the committeeman Mr. Brooke
was complnented OH the artistic design.
Chairman Brooke and his committee
also designed the several committee
badges. Those for the reception and floor
committees are of white with gold fringe
and lettering. The other committee
badges are as follows: Public comfort,
red: street decoration. green; ballroom
decoration, green: finance. gold: historic
sites, gray; comfort at ball, rose; fire
works. red: civic organizations, blue. The
committees on illumination. legislation,
souvenirs and tickets, military organiza-
tons, printing. railroad terminal facili-
ties. press, reviewing stands, trans
portation and public order are. al,
maize colored like that of the music COM
mttee, and auditing committee gold.
Officers of committees are designated by
gold braid All the badges have gold
| lettering and fringe.
Germans in the Parade.
AT a mass meeting to be held in Saen-
gerbund Hall tomorrow afternoon at .
o'clock final arrangements will be made
for what promises to be the largest turn
out of Germans on Inauguration day ever
witnessed in this city. 1t will be the first
time the organized German societies of
c of ha ficip cd TN, ny,