Imperial Valley press., 1913-03-04


coiored lights. 500 batteries, $4,000 can
dies, 1900 bombs, SO balloons, SO aero
planes and thousands of other pyro-
technics.
CAPITAL is FILLED
Extraordinary facilities of Washing
| ton to handle mammoth crowds, and
special preparations for 100000 visitors
expected were put to severe test
today. A reception committee of 1000
citizens was in charge, assisted by 1000
police and detectives.
Public comfort stations at every i'm
portant intersection along Pennsyi-
gantic union station was the center Of
congestion. Its 40 tracks have been
unloading a train of visitors almost
every three minutes since yesterday.
In the terminal yards were dozens of
special trains, which military and civic
tells
Bureaus of information were estab-
liSned by the citizens committee in all
public places in the city. They are
operated day and night. High school
cadets and a small army of uniformed
guides, Boy Scouts and others piloted
visitors to hotels and boarding houses.
Despite precautions, prices SCARED
IreDtitiOusly. Visitors bid against each
other for their services; also for rooms
and cots. Sleeping quarters were at a
premium. Every room in every hotel
had been engaged long in advance.
state organizations, political and
Open house" was kept by many Dem
ocratic clubs.
Large private and public halls, va
cant stores and even barns were com
mandeered to care for the crowds. AL
most everybody in Washington had
visitors or "boarders." Hotel corridors
were jammed with cots and lounges.
Three and four persons occupied rooms
intended only for one. Hotel parlors,
even, We're utilized as lodgings.
Militia, soldiers and sailors were
quartered in public schools, the Dis
trict of Columbia court house. and vari-
Gus municipal buildings. Many slept
in the halls of the state, war and navy
department building.
Because Of the Suffra gette pageant
Yesterday the large part of the visitors
came here earlier than in previous
wears; But they plan to leave, earlier
tonight. because of the abandonment
Of the inaugural ball
BIG PATRONAGE LIST
In keeping with the time respected
adage, ITO the victors belong the
spoils," 100000 federals, Republican
officeholders, today were placed at the
mercy of their captors-the leaders of
the newly inaugurated Democracy
and pleaded for protection from the
horde of hungry, stampeding patron
age hunters which seeks to turn them
out of office.
President Wilson, as the Democratic
leader, has an immense amount of pat
ronage to give his followers. Roughly
estimated. it has been valued at $780,
100000. OF course, much depends on
how rigidly he construes the civil ser
vice laws and much depends upon his
stand against the on-rushing horde
which insists, in direct opposition to
nis EXPRESSED view, that even the meri
torious office holders be ousted and
Il to fa,t l. hA
stalled.
Never before have the Democratic
lob seekers been so insistent or so hun
cry. Even in the Cleveland admins
tration, when they made life miserable
for their chieftain by their persistent
cries for pie" they We're of smaller
day they are in greater force. The gov
ernment has expanded and grown since
the Cleveland regime and this is. their
increased possibilities.
Many Of the Democratic leaders eX-
pressed their belief today that Presi-
the civil service laws as far as possible.
AS to minor offices. they predict ed,
Wilson will replace Republicans with
Democrats as the terms Of the incum-
rush about it. Only in the instances
where ambassadors, ministers, high
federal officials and appointees for the
more important posts are to be made
is it expected that immediate shifts will
be made.
This policy, it is admitted, will not
satisfy the insistent Democrats who de-
mand immediate reward for their po-
litical affiliations during the campaign.
They will inaugurate a move to have
the president make quick general re-
organization of the executive depart
ments, the place where the pie" is
stored, and furthermore will request
that former President Tafts order,
classifying about $4,000 fourth class
Oostmasters, be rescinded and these
places opened to them. The consular
service also will be attacked in an
effort to discover further places of
abode" for the Democratic prospectors.