Arizona republican., 1913-02-03
Despite Abandonment of Plans for Inaugural Dance and Capitol Reception, Other Features Promise to Fill Void.
FIREWORKS NEVER
 BEFORE EQUALLED
Pictures of Wilson and Marshall Will Be Wrought In Fire While 1O1 Guns Will Roar Out National Salute.

Salute.
 WASHINGTON. Feb. 2.-With plans
 for qn inaugural ball and capitol re-
 ception finally abandoned, the great military and civic pageant, the fire
 work. display and the night illumina-
 ton remain as the picturesque and
 purely American features of the in auguration of President ttobe Wilson.
 The calling off of the ball an event
 which has been linked with every in
 augur ltion since James Madison was administered the oath Of office as
 president of the United States. Marcn f. 1909 has not discouraged Chairman Eustis or the members of the inaugu- rai committee. To q man the com
 mittee members are of the belief that the elimination of the ball will result in making the rest of the inaugura- ton more spectacular and attended by greater enthusiasm Thousands of persons who would have heen cooped up in the pension building. attending this social func- tion, they point out. now will flock ro the Flipse. south of the White House. where a fireworks display will be an attraction for two and q quarter hours The pyrotechnical display is planned on mammoth scale and | easily will surpass anything of it's kind given in connection with former interpretations.
 As the fireworks display will have no competition in counter attractions it is expected to draw an immense 1 crowd and produce d scene of festiVitN 1 and euiety that will be an innovation in the capital at the close of q day ! marking the inauguration of a presi- | dent or the United States.
 i The program prepared by the fire works committee. of which Isaac Cans | is chairman. will open with the firing | of the national salute of 1Q1 guns from steel mortars. A special President Vii son bomb and q special Vice President | Marshall bomb will be included. Thefe will be pictures of Wilson and Marshall 1 and a huge American flag wrought in 1 fire.
 | Other features of the program in- 1 cIude 1900 rocket bombs. HOO colored | lights 500 batteries. 15,000 candles l 1900 bombs. 50 balloons. 50 deroplanes. 1 20 geysers. 100 mines, 800 flashes 1Oe l tIrbiIlions and 900 aerolites. The dis 1 play will be brought to close with 1 Good night" and Ecu de Joie' in six ] foot black letters. surrounded by glory 1 fires
 l From the Ellipse the big inaugural crowd, at the conclusion of the fire works display, will pour into Pennsyl- vania avenue. This broad thorough 1 fare. which extends in. a straight line l between the capitol and the treasury 1 building will be the scene of enthusi- asn that will continue unabated until well past midnight. The illumination | committee. under the chairmanship oi | William F. Guide, plans to make a
 great red way of Pennsylvania avenue i by burning red fires at short distances along the street The committee is ar ranging for the illumination of the city 1 generally on an elaborate scale. | Not only is the inaugural committee | bending it's energies toward making 1 the fireworks display and the illumina- 1 ton the finest of their kind ever seen 1 in Washington. but equal attention is i being paid to the plans for the inaugu- | ral parade
 We intend to make the military
 section of the parade model for other
 nations" said General Wood. U.S.A.. chief of staff, who is chairman of the 1 committee on military organizations. Applications have been received from a dozen states for places in the line of march for the national guard or ganiZationS New Jersey. with an en- thusiasm born of long association with the president o-be has notified the l inaugural committee that the whole military organization of that state will
 be in line Pennsylvania expects to have 20O00 men in the parade. and most of the other Atlantic seaboard l states will have from four to five regl- ments or separate organizations in Washington on March f.
 ] General Wood has been informed of
 ficiaIiy that the following states will be represented New Jersey, Pennsyl
 vania. North Carolina. Delaware
 Maryland. Georgia. Maine Rhode Is land. South Carolina, Missouri and Connecticut Nothing definite has vet
 been heard from New York but that state will certainly be represented
 States considering the question of rep
 reSentaton are Ohio. Tennessee Flor ida and Oklahoma Plans have been
 made at the war department to bring
 the entire corps of cadets at the West
 Point military academy to Washing
 ton to participate in the parade with
 out asking congress to make d specla