The Washington herald., 1913-03-06
CITY BECOMING
NORMAL AGAIN
Inauguration Now Only a
Memory Nearly Every One
Gets Back to Earth.
CROWDSLEAVE
Stands to Be Razed at Once and
the Lumber to Be
Sold.

After having arranged and staged what
is generally conceded to have been the
most successful Inauguration on record.
the task that now confronts Washington
is to bring order out Of chaos that was
left In the wake Of the great parade and
to see the inaugural visitors of to their
homes. This work was started before the
parade was fairly over, and it Is promised
that by the middle OF next week the
stands will be down, the decorations all
removed, and the city presenting its nor
NAL appearance.
There is q vast amount OF work still
to be done in connection with the in
auguration. The end of the parade and
the installation OF President Woodrow
Wilson in the White House did not mean
the end.
There are countless odd jobs on the
calendar, work that will be done quietly
and out of sight of the public, but the
| inaugural committee hopes to have its
work completed by March Is.
The headquarters of the committee in
the New Willard is still open, and prob
ably will be until March Is, and yesterday
presented almost as busy a picture as It
did before the inauguration
The bills are beginning to come in now.
They have to be audited and paid. and
n
ceipts from the sale of seats in the off,
cial stands have to be put in order, and
the $500 medals have to be distributed to
the committeeman.
A general report has to be compiled by
the chairmen OF each committee. 1t is
expected that these will be in by Satur-
day, and then there will be meeting,
the reports submitted. acted on. and the
business of the committee formally closed
up.
The departure of the organizations that
took part in the parade started directly
after the marchers disbanded at Wash
fngtOn Circle. The troops from Fort
Myer returned Immediately. and the West
Point Cadets and middies from Annapolis
went back Tuesday night.
Governor. Go Home.
Most of the State troops left yester-
day, but ny of the Governors and their
STATS remained in Washington Yesterday
TO pay Official visits and relax a bit
after the work of the Inauguration.
Gov Miller. of Delaware. and Gov.
Tener. of Pennsylvania, left has night,
and Gov. Sulzer. of New York, will go
to-day There will he general exodus
to-day. Yesterday was devoted 10 fun
seeking by the visitors. number OF
the bands were still in the city and the
raded from place 10 place. The Cook
County Democratic Club. of Chicago.
with its band. came to the Willard and
serenaded Roger Sullivan and the other
delegations that were in evidence. The
members of the Democratic National
Committee are still in Washington and
will be for several days.
The work of razing the stands was
commenced yesterday all along the line
of Of
stands along Pennsylvania Avenue were
down by night and others We're shorn OF
their decorations and looked haggard
and weak in a condition of partial de
struction. The sidewalks We're Uttered
with splintered wood and bent nails. and
signs lumber for sale were numerous.
The salvage will not approach the cost
of the lumber that went into the con-
struction, but every little bit helps at
such a time.
The Court of Honor will begin 10 melt
under the sledge hammers and wrenches
OF the Workmen this morning bright and
early. Yesterday was devoted to getting
the chairs stacked up and counted for
shipment. The official stands will he
torn down by the contractors that con-
structed them and whatever can be made
on salvage will go to them. This item
was figured on in making the bids.
Washington awoke yesterday morning
with bad taste in its mouth and signs
OF revelry everywhere. The streets were
full of litter dropped by the care-free
crowd. At O'Clock a small army of
street cleaners turned out and soon
Pennsylvania Avenue was clean again.
but there were enough holiday people
In the city that by night the litter had
reappeared and the white wings have an
other job in sight this morning.
The temporary hospitals will be aban-
doned by the doctors and nurses this
morning al o'clock