The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-03-07
HOSTS SEE The
INAUCURATIO
Wilson and Marshall Are In
Quoted into Office.
JUST HOW 1T ALL HAPPENED

HS thOH9S ny SutCi SsiHtC
and Delivers Simple Address-WiId
and Jubilant Crowds Line PennsyI-
"ania Avenue, Jam Stands, Dot Win
dows and Lean over Roofs as Elab-
orate Procession Passes.
Washington, March Am the pres
ence of the biggest crowd that ever
packed and damned itself into the great
plaza at the east end of the capitol,
surrounded by high civil and military
dignitaries, diplomats and statesmen
of his own and foreign countries,
Woodrow Wilson, erstwhile governor
of New Jersey and president-elect,
took the oath of office that made
him the twenty-eighth president of the
United States.
Less than an hour before, with sol
emn ceremonial, Thomas r. Marshall,
the vice president-elect, had been in
Quoted into his office in the senate
chamber before the members of both
houses. Somewhat earlier still Presi-
NSAL dlL, IuC anu VIZ PAOoA
dent-elect, with their respective guards
of honor, the Essex troop of Newark,
N. J., and the Culver Black Horse
troop of Indiana, had swept down
Pennsylvania avenue on their way to
the capitol between row on row OF
cheering, shouting thousands.
Crowds Gather Early.
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the crowds began to gather along
Pennsylvania avenue and in front of
the great platform that had been erect
ed for the inaugural exercises at the
eastern end of the capitol. Long be-
fore noon every available inch of space
was taken.
AS the august procession, which pre-
coded the inaugural ceremony filed
out of the capitol and wound its way
across the platform a hush fell over
the crowd. Mechanically many un-
covered their heads.
The sergeants-at-arms of the senate
and house, followed by the marshal Of
the supreme court and the marshal of
the District of Columbia, made up the
vanguard of the procession of high dig
nitaries. Behind these last came Chief
Justice Edward d. White of the SUI
preme court, whose duty it was to adj
minister the oath of office to the presi-
dent-elect and the associate justices,
followed by the committee on arrange
ments.
Then came the president and the
president-elect, and at their rear a
distinguished following of ambasa-
doris, governors and other dignitaries,
including the newly sworn vice pres
ident.
Chief Justice Administers Oath.
When the procession paused every
ear strained attention to catch the
words that would usher into the chair
of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln
, the first Democrat to gain that high
place in a score of years.
Solemnly and distinctly, though most
of the waiting thousands hanging on
the event of his words could not even
see the motions of his lips, the chief
justice administered the bath of office
to the president-elect.
An instant the waiting host stood ST.
lent. Then it became shrieking, leap
ing mob, roaring a pandemoniac well
come to the nations new executive and
all but smothering the saluting can
non which first gave notice that a new
president had been inaugurated and
a new administration had begun.
From the crowd in the square and on
the platform the other massed multi
tudes that lined the broad sides of
Pennsylvania avenue took their cue,
and it was many minutes before Pres
ident Wilson could begin his brief in
augural address. Even then so great
was the clamor that only those nearest
to him could distinguish what he said.
Immediately after the address was
finished President Wilson, accompa-
MED by the ex-president, fastened to
the Pennsylvania avenue side of the
capitol, where carriages awaited to
take the party to the luncheon in the
executive mansion.
The Great Parade.
Next to the Inauguration, so essential
to the rest of the days celebration,
the great military and civic pageant
in the afternoon held the public's in
'terest. Considered purely from a
spectacular viewpoint, it was not only
by far the greatest feature of the in
auguration, but in many respects sur
passed anything that Washington has
seen in long series of Inauguration
spectacles.
The decorations were unique anG
attractive in character. Pennsylvania
avenue from end to end of the line OF
march cleaned with green and white
the color scheme adopted by the city
officials
The stand from which the presi
dent reviewed the parade, erected on
the White House grounds, followed out
the same general decorative idea
though here the architect had chosen
to weave into the stands design the