The Washington herald., 1913-02-25
RAILROADS READY.
FOR HUGE CROWDS
At INAUGURATION
Officials Estimate 10000
Visitors viii Be Brought
to Washington.
HUNDREDS OF TRAINS
Committee Arranges Final Details Of
Wilson Smoker at New Willard
Monday Night.
HUNDREDS OF TRAINS

The vanguard of the inaugural hosts
has begun to arrive in struggling num-
bers. and yesterday active preparations
We're made at the Union Station for the
reception of the crowds that will be
coming into Washington by the end OF
the week.
The first organization to reach WASH
ington will be the Georgia Military
Academy Cadets, according to the sched-
uie of incoming and outgoing trains made
up by Chairman Keppel OF the commit
tee on terminal facilities. The cadets will
reach the city on special train from
Atlanta. Ga. at $50 o'clock on the morn
ing Of March !.
1t is estimated at this time that the
special trains that are already booked
will bring to Washington between 100000
and 10000 passengers. but the railroads
expect more visitors, as many will come
on the regular trains. 1t Is anticipated
Il, 900 and 1000.
The main ingress will occur on March
and 4. The railroads and the inaugural
committee figured yesterday from their
advance advices that during those two
days there will be between 200 and 500
trains OF ten cars to the train coming in
There will be a big movement from
Baltimore. Seventy trains are scheduled
to leave that city on the morning OF
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tween 1900 and 1900.
The special tickets issued in the West
ern New England and Middle Western
States are good between March l and
March S, thus landing the passengers
from those States in Washington on
March and } and the visitors from the
Southern and Southeastern States VIII
get in March ! and 2.
All of the visitors except the troops
will be handled at the Union Station.
All of the troops coming from the South
ern States and those coming in over the
Pennsylvania Railroad will be detrained
and entrained on their departure on the
Pennsylvania tracks at Pennsylvania
Avenue and Seventeenth Streets South
east, and the troops travelling over the
| Baltimore and Ohio will be handled at
\ New York Avenue and Z Streets North
| east
Chairman Keppel and the other officials
| AT the Union Station are busy on the
plans for accommodating the extra force
| of baggagemasters, ticket examiners and
! other employees that the inaugural work
/ will necessitate. over 800 OF these men
all experts in their special lines and I'M
ported from every part Of the country
will be on duty at the Union Station.
They will be lodged and boarded In
the Union Station and their accommoda-
| ton is now engaging the attention OF
the officials. The men will be lodged In
the office rooms in the upper floors OF the
station. OF which there are consider
able number. and several OF these rooms
will be turned into a restaurant
The report from which the above
figures are taken will be distributed to
| the employes OF the railroads this morn
ing for their study.
| In order that inaugural visitors will
have concise information as 10 locations
! OF public buildings and points OF In
terest reached by car lines. the Wash
! ington Railway and Electric Company
| has had issued for distribution a four
page pamphlet containing general in
| formation and n map of the city.
| This folder will be ready for distribu-
tion Thursday. and all incoming visitors
| boarding the cars of the company at
Union Station will be handed one.
All available cars will be put in serv-
| Ice and reserve crews of conductors.
motormen and track men arc now being
especially instructed in the methods en-
| ploved TO keep cars moving
| The final details for the smoker that
will be held at the Willard on the night
of March by the local alumni associa-
tIon OF Princeton in honor Of President
elect Wilson were made public yester-
day.
| Henry Clay Stewart. of the Supreme
| Court. will form committee to meet
the Governor at the Shoreham Hotel
after the Wilson family dinner. and es-
cort him 10 the hotel for the smoker.
This will be held in the ballroom. and
there Mr.. Wilson will be met by the
members of the reception and smoker
committees acting as a floor committee.
| There arc no set details to follow the
simply ceremony of greeting President
elect Wilson. because OF his explicit re-
quest that all formalities be omitted. Mr..
Wilson will merely mingle with the men.
many of whom he knew at college. With
the exception of the representatives of
the press no one will be admitted to
the smoker except graduates of Prince
ton and the members OF the faculty OF
the college.
Tho chairman OF the committee having
the arrangements in charge for the smok-
er is Frank b. Fox, of the class of 1905.
Henry Clay Stewart is chairman OF the
reception committee; Max c. ]. Wiehle.
of the committee on decorations; Edmund
Brady, of the committee having IN charge
THE Princeton seats IN the Lafayette
stands. and Newton X. Fox, of identified
ton and registration Of applicants for
cards Of admission to the smoker.
Medical AID Ready.
| Mai. Sylvester. chairman Of. the public
order committee. through the suocomrnlt'
tee on ambulances and hospitals. OF
which DR.. D. Percy Hickling Is chair
man, Is preparing to take care OF the
emergency cases that may be incident
to the inaugural crowds, There Will bt
three field hospitals in the White Lot
and one at the Union Station. one, II
Lafayette Park. one at the east end oi
the Capitol, and one at Fifteenth Street
and Pennsylvania Avenue. in addition tc
the fifteen frst-aid stations along the
line of march of the parade.
Thirty-dve ambulnnces will be in com.
mission, twenty being army ambulancef
and about eleven patrol wagons being
pressed into service.
There will be a meeting Of Maj. Syives-
ter's committee Thursday at the New
Willard, at which the final plans will be
mapped out and all the loose ends of the
preparations drawn together.