The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-01-09
THE INAUGURATION WILL
Be SIMPLE
OF Pesident-EIect Wilson. Plans For
The Event Are Being Outlined.


The Event Are Being Outlined.
Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood, chiefaof
staff, has been named as chief marshal
Of the approaching inaugural parade.
has begun to outline his plans for a
military, naval and civic demonstra-
ton.
The selection of General Wood to
undertake this task is In line with
precedent which, for the last several
administrations, has led to the selec-
ton of the senior army officer ON the
active list in Washington, regardless
of political utilization.
General Woods purpose is to make
the Wilson inaugural parade as well
balanced as possible in the matter of
the representation of the cavalary, in
.antry, and artillery of the army, blue
jackets and marines of the navy and
adequate and liberal representation of
the National Guard and a well-propor-
toned displayed.
Consultations have begun between
Gen. Wood and the ranking officers of
the army and navy now in Washing
ton and spondenee has been in
stituted between the chief marshal and
the governors and acknowledgement
of the various states and territories in
regard to the participation OF the
militia in the Inauguration. One of
the features of the plan is to gather
in Washington several thousand troops
from the various army posts, probably
as far west as Chicago and south to
Atlanta as we'll as the entire cadet
corps and nidshipmen battalion FROM
their respective academies.
Jeffersonian simplicity Is to mark
the coming Inauguration of President
-lect Wilson. There probably will be
the greatest outpouring of people that
has ever marked the Inauguration of
any President, but according to Chair
man William G. Eustis of the COM
mittee there Will be no ostentation.
He contends that true Democracy de-
mands there be no display and he is
upheld by Thomas Nelson Page, who
is quoted as saying:
President Jafferson's act of riding
up Pennsylvania avenue on horseback
has been derided but the people who
have studied history have realized
that he did 1t in a dignitied manner
and that his inauguration had at least
as much real dignity and true SIM
plicity as that of any President"
The $150,000 subscription fund for
the inaugural affair is growing fast,
Notwithstanding the Christmas season.
Miniature rogues' galleries In hotel
lobbies, railroad and steamship sta
tons and other places where the
Presidential inauguration crowds will
be heaviest, are the latest innovations
to be proposed by Major Richard
Sylvester, chief of the Washington
police, as a means of protecting Wis
itors against thieves and confidence
men, next March.
Major Sy lyester proposes to have a
gallery of about 500 pictures OF pick
pockets and other criminals, recently
arrested, in different sections of the
country. These Photographs will be re-
produced so that complete galleries
may be maintained at many different
points where the public can study the
features of questionable persons VINO
may be mingling in the big crowds
which gather for President Wilson's
induction into Office.
The idea of displaying the rogues'
gallery to the public has not been
tried before at Inauguration times
Major Sylvester ID in correspond
ence with chiefs OF police OF many
cities, from whom pictures will be re-
ceived up to the time of the Inaugural
ton. In addition. during the week
OF March 4, many detectives from out
side cities, who are familiar with the
countenances OF criminals OF their own
locality Will aid the local police.