Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-15
Only SIS Places Remain in the
Court of Honor Stand.
SALE OFFICE REMOVED
No Reservation of Tickets After
February 20.
COMMITTEE MEETING CALLED
Local Members on Inaugural Recep-
come Notables at Station.

The local members of the reception COM
mittee of the inaugural committee are 20
meet next Wednesday afternoon at Z 80
O'Clock in the New Willard Hotel to So
lect subcommittee 10 welcome govern
ors OF states and territories and other dis
tinguished men who are coming TO Wash
ington for the Inauguration
Or. Thomas Nelson Page is chairman
of the committee These subcommittee
will meet the distinguished visitors AZ
the Union station and escort them to
their hotels. will see that they receive
the seats which have been reserved for
them at the various ceremonies. aud will
care for them while here.
One hundred high school cadets OF this
city will act as guides for visitors March
]. and .. ii was announced at schooI
headquarters. in the Franklin buildine.
today. For this service the boys will
each receive 81 per day They will serve
under the direction Of the public comfort
committee. NJ /. Weller chairman. 1t
was explained that no service will be
required OF cadets that will interfere
with their participation in the inaugural
parade. High school cadets have acted
as guides for visitors coming to the
inaugural ceremonies for several years
past The 100 guides will be chosen
ton to the cadet enrolment of each.
Tickets Selling Fast.
With the exception of 900 seats, all
those in the Lafayette Square stand
have been disposed OF, il was announced
at headquarters today. The tickets have
been moved from the New Willard Hotel
to an office in the Bond building No
reservation OF tickets will be held after
February 20. Very few of the tickets III
this stand were to be sold for So and 81
and all of these have been disposed OF,
leaving only five-dollar seats unsold.
Each seat will be carefully marked,
and only the person holding the coupon
for that seat will be allowed to occupy it,
the committee announced. Competent
theater ushers will be on hand to seat the
ticket holders.
c. H. Merryman, who has the contract
for furnishing the evergreen trees to
decorate the court of honor in front OF
the White House grounds, and also the
plaza at the Union station, arrived here
yesterday with barges laden with about
500 of the trees. Four huge cedar trees
are to be placed, two at each end of the
court of honor. They are fifty-six feet
tall. The other trees to be used to form
a background for the court, about JOp IN
number, are twenty-eight feet tan ABOUT
800 more trees will be placed about the
Union station plaza and they measure
fourteen feet in height. All of these trees
are being brought from Maryland
Mounted Troops Escort.
According to revised plans there will be
no foot troops i'm the escort of the Presi-
dent and President-elect and the Vice
President-elect from the White House To
the Capitol for the formal inauguration
Of the new officials. As now arranged by
Gen. Wood, grand marshal Of the parade.
after consultation with the other officials
in charge of the general inauguration
ceremonies, the entire presidential party.
including the congressional committees
will make the trip to the Capitol in car
riages, according to the custom OF pre-
vious inaugurations, and not in automo-
biles, as had been suggested as an inno-
walton for the coming Inauguration. The
column Of escort will be composed of 4
squad OF mounted police, the grand mar
shall and his staff. all mounted, and the
Essex Troop of Cavalry, escorting the
President-elect, and the Culver Troop OF
Cavalry, escorting the Vice President
elect.