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Plans
For The Inauguration About
Completed
Structure For The Camera
Men Is Enlarged
And Other Details Given The
Finishing Touch

Washington, Feb. pa coat OF
white paint applied today to the square
reading desk. from which Woodrow
Wilson will deliver his inaugural ad.
dress March 4 constituted one Of the
real finishing touches" to the great
temporary structure that has gone up
on the east front Of the Capitol in pre-
paration for inauguration.
Across q stretch Of asphalt pavement
carpenters still are working on the
rampart.like stand from which q bat.
terry of cameras and motion picture
machines will be trained upon the in
augural scene, but the managers Of af-
fairs at the Capitol promise that
week before the day Of action practic-
ally every detail Of the arrangements
at the Capitol will have been complet-
| ed.
Demands from photographers for
space on the camera stand have re-
suited in the extension Of the struc.
ture Provision now is made for at
least so cameras.
These will be trained upon the
square center platform rising few
feet above the outside edge Of the i'm
mense S,OOO-seat stand. which stretch
es back in gentle rise to the doors Of
the Capitol.
On every available corner of the
Capitol and from the tops Of House
and Senate wings of the building sup
Elementary stands have been reared
looking down upon the main structure
and affording perches for Capitol en-
ployees and others who cannot be &C.
commodated on the main structure.
Days and nights Of labor by the
Joint Congressional Committee, Of
which Senator Craine il Chairman.
and by e. l.. Cornelius. Sergeant at
Arms Of tho Senate; Elliott Woods.
Superintendent Of the Capitol, and ar.
my officers representing the General
inaugural Committee. have resulted in
the arrangements Of most of the de-
tails for the event still II days away.
Under the reading stand. at which
Governor Wilson will stand to address
the crowd after he takes the oath Of
office, is q concealed gate that will
swing open to allow him to descend to
his carriage for the return to the
White House without passing through
the crowd on the stands.
President Taft and President-elect
Wilson will pass into the Capitol up
the broad steps OF the Senate wing
and will 60, after the ceremonies In
the Senate chamber through the CEN
trail door of the Capitol to the inaug-
ural stand.
The entire area of the> Capitol
grounds will be policed on inaugura-
ton day by the regular washington
police. The Capitol police will be with
drawn into the Capitol Building for
protective purposes.
The doors of the Capitol, to which
admission may be had by special card
only, are to be turned over, however,
to strange doorkeepers, so that old
friendships and official prestige may
have nothing to do with breaking down
the strict rules Of the day.
| Sergeant-at.Arms Cornelius Is fol.
lowing the same method In handling
the Senate gallery for the ceremonies
| attendant to the Inauguration of Vice
Preside dent-elect Marshall. Head ushers
from the theaters Of Washington have
i been engaged to handle the seating Of
/ guests, SO that ofSicial pressure may
not be exerted on the regular capitol
employees. With only 796 seats In the
| galleries extreme methods are some
. times resorted to by those anxious tc
witness the spectacle In the Senate
chamber.
In front Of the inaugural platform
!, fianked on the one side by the mid
. shipmen from Annapolis and on thu
other by the cadets from West Point
viii be Major General Leonard Woot
and his stan guarding the space be
tween Wilson and the camera ram
part. As he begins his inaugural ad
dress these guards will draw in to
ward the stand, SO that the crowd be
hind may come within range Of hi
voice.
After some difficulty provision ha
. been made to get Wilson's persona
guests, who will number 200, off tn
inaugural stand and up through tn
crowded streets to the White House
the official review. Special stairway
in the rear OF the stands and feet Q
/. motor cars will be used.
T.. A special invitation to attend til
n ceremonies today was sent by the II
n augural. Committee to 2b Indians no
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