The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03
Simple Plans to Welcome
President-elect Ready; In
augurati0n Details Are
Complete
|M'ADOO AND M'COMBS
REACH WASHINGTON
Capital Gaily Decorated and Thou
sands Arrive for Event Tomor-
row-Bryan Arrives Today.
Wilson Visits Tafts
Tonight

Washington, March 2.-washington to-
night awaits the coming of Woodrow
Wilson, next President of the United
States. Simple plans to welcome him to-
morrow afternoon are ready and every
detail is complete for the inauguration
ceremonies and the attendant military
and civic demonstration Tuesday.
No Presdent-elect ever found the cap
jtal of the nation whose destinies he is to
guide more brilliantly arrayed or more
abundant with enthusiasm than Woodrow
Wilson will ind It tomorrow. Flags and
streamers from every staff and building
will wave him welcome and cheering
thousands assembled in the spacious
esplanade of the union station approach
| and the streets through which he will be
driven to his hotel will stir the patriotism
of his heart
"One of Mr.. wilson's last acts as a
private citizen will be to call. with Mrs.
| Wilson. upon the President of the
United States and Mrs. Taft. Arrange
,nents for this were made tonight The
President elect and Mrs Wilson, soon
after their arrival, will receive Col.
Spencer $. Cosby, chief aid to tho Presi-
dent, who will escort them to the White
| House in the Presidents AUTOMOBILES
President and Mrs Taft will receive
them in the blue room where ambas-
sadors, chief justice and Justices of the
supreme court and visiting princes
meet the chief executive of the nation.
All the military and naval aides to the
President in regalia of their office will
be present, but none of the cabinet will
attend. The meeting, 1t Is planned, viii
be brief. and the President-elect and
Mrs. Wilson will return to their hotel
to family dinner.
Among the arrivals in Washington
tonight were Governor Sulzer of New
York and his staff. With them was
William G. McAdoo. who is to be Sec
retary OF the Treasury according 10
unofficial announcements. The New
9crk executive was the recipient of
congratulations, it being the governors S
first visit since his Inauguration. Mr.
NIcAdoo received congratulations upon
a cabinet appointment modestly with
out betraying any condolences as to his
William Jennings Bryan and Josephus
Daniels, generally accepted as the new
Secretary of State and Secretary of the
Navy, respectively, left Raleigh, n c.,
late tonight and will reach Washing
ton early tomorrow. A committee will
meet them at the train.
Hope for fair inauguration weather
was extended tonight. by. the weather
bureau. Cold and clear weather tomor
row in this section will be followed
Tuesday by higher temperature, the
prediction is, and this brings relief from
fears that the blizzard which swept in
the administration of four years ago
might be repeated.
The sun shone brilliantly today, though
high wind made flags and bunting strain
and tug at their fastenings. For tomor-
row moderate winds and fair weather
lave been promised. If nature smiles
Tuesdays inaugural will present a his
toric spectacle that probably never has
been outdone.
Wilson Arrives Today
President-elect Wilson and his family
VIII arrive at the union station at a:45
o'clock tomorrow afternoon. With them
IN special trains will come students from
Princeton university who will form a lane
from the train shed to the Presidents
room In the station. where the inaugural
reception committee of senators. repre-
sentatives and citizens will await the
Wilson family. Thomas Nelson Page
chairman Of the committee, will greet the
rarty at the train and escort them
through the lines of students to the re-
ception room.
The ceremony at the station will be
brief. The President-elect and his family
Will then be driven to their hotel without
military or other escort The plan to
have the Princeton students or Essex
troop Of New Jersey follow to the hotel
was abandoned. Early in the evening
the Wilson family, will dine privately with
Joseph Wilson Of Tennessee. brother Of
the President-elect, and John Wilson Of
Pennsylvania, his cousin, who will be
host At the dinner. Later in the evening
Mr.. Wilson will be the guest at smoker
Tuesdays Programme Approved
Col Thomas II. Birch, military aide
to Governor Wilson and members of the
inaugural committee late today reviewed
and approved the programme for Tues
Gay. In the morning of that day Eena-
tors Crane. Overman and Bacon and Rep
resentetives Mckinley, Rucker and Gar
i rett. comprising the Joint congressional
committee ON the Inauguration will call
at the hotel for the President-elect and
Vice President-elect. They will be driven
to the White House escorted by the Es-
rex troop and the Black Horse troop of
the SuiNer Uiltary academy through
lines of students from Princeton UNIVERSE
ty. and the University OF Virginia. Presi-
dent Taft will await them and the whole
party will proceed to the Senate cham
Der at the capitol, where the ceremonies
will begin at noon with the Inauguration
of the Vice President and swearing in Of
Eenators-elect. Then will follow the pres
fdertial inauguration. The return to the
White House, where the retiring Pres
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