The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-02-18
PREPARATIONS FOR
lNAuGURhTlNG WILSON
CBy Bmes, O. walker)

(Man Special 10 The Adycrtiscr)
WASHINGTON, January si.--Grcat
piles Of plank strcw the curb on Penn
sylvania avenue. These extend ~ far
up as Seventeenth street, which IL Just
beyond the white House. Dealers de-
posted the lumber In ABOUT day.
Forthwith carpenters with hammers
and saws appeared. II was all the first
visible evidence that Inauguration IS
not far away.
In other words the reviewing stands
for the great parade are now under
construction. Washington is beginning
to get into her inaugural dress. II is
lust about four weeks TO the Tuesday,
when Woodrow Wilson win take his
oath Of office and enter upon his occu.
patton of the White House. While the
reviewing stands, stretching along the
way whenever there is vacant rescr-
walton for over mile, are being erect.
ed, business men are preparing to dec
crate. The prevailing colors viii DO
green and white as those are the colors
of the City of Washington. But Stars
and Stripes will predominant, as they
always do in any decoration scheme Mt
the federal capital.
| Many thousands OF dollars will be
spent in preparing the historic thor
oughfare for another administration s
advent The Inauguration committee is
using some of its money for that pur-
pose and the business men. particular
" along the north side, are spending a
lot of their own money TO the same
end Even the south side of the ave-
! viii oil, with
and stores and is far less prosperous
than the north side of the avenue, re-
spends periodically.
Climax at White House.
But the magniicence of colors comes
to n climax in front of the White House
where the principal stands for specta-
tors and the reviewing stands are locat-
ed The military and civic organiza-
tions put on their best front as they
swing past the treasury and come to
this part of the line of march. And
tn construction work always begins
there a little earlier, because the plans
are more elaborate and all the seating
space is "roofed in.' That is against
the contingency of inclement weather.
1t is one of the hugh jokes at Wash
ington (good year in and year out for
Tour years at stretch) that inaugural
day is bad day. In weather way,
to mention inaugural day in the Dis.
trict of Columbia, means snow and
sleet or the worst that the weather Du.
reau can command at that particular
season. Willis Moore, tn chief of the
weather bureau, is butt of ridicule
because he has to issue a forecast OF
inauguration Day. weather and does
not always hit it right He prophesied
fair weather four years ago the night
before and all Washington and the in
augural hosts within its gates awokt
to see six inches of beautiful snow up
on the ground and more falling as fas
as could be. That Inauguration, O.
course, is one long to be remembered
There was a veritable blizzard all III
and down the Atlantic seaboard. Tele
graph lines were down, trains were de
layed, and some of the marching organ
izations did not land in the Union sta
= ton till several hours after inaugura
tion was over.
The Day an Omen.
= Much superstition reigns at Washing
l ton about inaugural weather and tn
s outcome of the Taft administration ha
a encouraged it. The blizzard inaugurs
. ton Mr., Taft had was regarded at tn
time as an evil omen, and there is n
gainsaying that, as President, he ha
Q had hard time of it. For did he nc
h come into Office with one of the yer
d largest votes ever given to an Amer
e can President and is he not going OF
= after most disastrous defeat in hi
d campaign for reelection
o There is scepticism Just now aboU
It the kind of inaugural day Mr.. Wilso
will have. Wiseacres at the Capltoi al
n prophesying gloomy and overcast da,
II with uncertainty in the moInin
S whether it Will rain or shine. The
r say the sun may burst through IL
e clouds now and then before it dndgt
st below the horizon and out of sight
4 the Washington monument. Someho
d or other nobody is expecting cold an
/ chilly weather and light overcoats, O.
n cept for thDse who come up from IL
II sunny South, will be comfortable fl
e street wear
But Others there be who cOnter
l. that the decidedly open winter While
h Washington has been enjoying wi
% continue INTO March ana that one u
N those midwinter June days, such Il
Is have been coming occasionally all wi
u ter, will beam upon the tens of tho
If sands who assemble in the city by I'll
n Potomac ON March 10 hail the nJs
ID and bid farewell to the o1d.
.: Congress Is Helping
= Congress is already doing Its pa
- toward the inaugural. 1t has compile
a ed its organization Of a committee
a. have charge of the Capitol exercis
:, and the senate sergeant. at-arms
~ making ready to buiid the enormol
- platform I'm the east front. This laa
form is little nearer the senate ;tha
- it is TO the house and the noise of .haI
n mer and sow on the platform structu
n is apt to annoy fussy senator's A
:, cOrdingly the construction work Is ii
II layed there as long as possible IN
:, done as munh as may be when the no
~ ate is not in session. However, the ia
- ate has been so lazy and dilaaory tn
20 year that ii must soon be working owe
~ time, holding long daily sessions an
. perfOree, alsS working into the nigh
- Consequently IT Is inevitable that son
- nervous senators will nearly go cra7
while carpenters are building the pla
= form ON the Fast front.
2 Multitudes on the Way.
2 II seems "A fOregOne conclusion ih,