The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-22
Managers Promise TO Have
Arrangements Complete
Week Before March 4
NUMEROUS STANDS
BEING CONSTRUCTED
On Every Available Corner Supple
mentary Stands Have Been Built
Many Details in the Plans
Are Complete

Washington, February I.-A coat OF
white paint applied today to the sauars
reading desk from which Woodrow VIII
son will deliver his inaugural address
March constituted one of the real "hn-
ishing touches" to the great temporary
structure that has gone up on the east
front of the capitol in preparation for
Inauguration
Across a stretch Of asphalt pavement
carpenters still are working on the ram
part-like stand from which the battery
of cameras and motion picture machines
will be trained upon the inaugural scene,
but the managers of affairs at the cap
itol promise that week before the day
of action practically every detail of the
arrangements at the capitol will have
been completed.
Demands from photographers for space
on the camera stand have resulted in ths
extension of the structure. Provision Is
now made for at least 50 cameras These
will be trained upon the square center
platform, rising few feet above this
outside edge OF the immense 5000 leat
stand. which stretches back in a gentle
rise to the doors of the capitol.
Numerous Stands Reared
On every available corner of the cap
itol and from the top of the House and
Senate wings of the building, supple
mentary stands have been reared. looking
down upon the main structure and afford
ing perches for capitol employees and
others who cannot be accommodated on
the main structure.
Under the reading stand at which Pres
dent Wilson Will stand to address the
crowd after he takes the oath of office
is a concealed gate that will swing open
to allow him TO descend to his carriage
for the return to the White House with
out passing through the crowd on the
stands.
President Taft and President-elect VIII
son will pass into the capitol up the
broad steps Of the Senate wing. and Will
go after the ceremonies in the Senate
chamber through the central door of tne
capitol TO the inaugural stand.
The entire area of the capitol grounds
will be policed ON inauguration day by
the regular Washington police. The capt.
tol police will be withdrawn into the capt
tol building for protective purposes. The
doors of the capitol, to which admission
may be had by special card only, are 10
be turned over, however. to strange door
keepers SO lnat old friendships ana or
ficial prestige may have nothing to do
with breaking down the strict rules of
the day
Marshalfs Inauguration
Sergeant at Arms Cornelius is Following
the same method in handling the senate
gallery for the ceremonies attendant on
the inauguration of Vice President elect
Marshall. Head ushers from the theatres
of Washington have been engaged to
handle the seating of suesrs so that Of
fieial pressure may not be exerted on
the regular capitol employees. With only
796 seats in the galleries. extreme methods
are sometimes resorted to by those an
Xious to witness the spectacle in the SEN
ate chamber
In front Of the inaugural platform.
thanked on the one side by the midship1
the cadets from West Point. viii be Major
General Leonard Wood and his staff
guarding the space between Wilson and
the camera rampant. As he begins his
inaugural address these guards will draw
In toward the stand so that the crowd
behind may come within range of the
Presidents voice.
After some difficulty provision has been
made to get President Wilson'S personal
guests who Will number nearly POO off the
inaugural stand and up through the
crowded streets to the White House to
the official review. Special stairways in
the rear of the stands and fleet of
motor cars will be used.