The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-02-28
MARsHALL'S CAVALRY TROOP TO
EQUAL WILSON'S IN PARADE
OF INAUGURAL DAY.
BLACK HORSE FROM INDIANA
Elimination of the Grand Ball Really
Blessine-Plans Are Announced
for the Elaborate Illumination OF
the Capital City.
Ru GEORGE CLINTON.

is to be escorted to the capltol ny
cavalry troop forming a guard OF non
or in size and appearance the equa'
Of that which acts as mounted eS-
cort to the president-elect. Ihomas
Riley Marshall, the next vlce-presl-
dent of this country, will be the pre-
cedent smasher, his escort consisting
of a black horse squadron from IN
diana.
Some of the members of the com
mittee on inaugural ceremonies oiu
not take altogether kindly to the plans
Of Mr. Marshall's friends to make sec
ond place equal to first place, out
Woodrow Wilson, hearing of the op'
position, said his partner on the ticket
and in office should be allowed any
thing and everything in honors that
his friends saw fit, and so it was that
the parade managers withdrew all oD-
iections to the appearance OF the
Hoosier black horse squadron which
will do honor to Marshall Of Indiana
The vice-president-elect ordinarily
rides from the White House to the
capitol with the outgoing vice-presi-
dent or the president pro tenn Of the
senate, as the case may be, in car
riage following the one occupied by
the president-elect, but with sufficient
distance and enough people In be-
| tween the two to make it known that
the escort of honor Is for the chief
| and not for the subordinate. Thls
year, however, there will be two es-
corts of honor and division Of the
acclaim of the people along the route.
The melted chargers which will pre-
cede, flank and take up the rear of MI
Marshalls carriage are the property
j of private military school in the
Hoosier state and they will be bestrid-
den by husky cadets trained, 1t Is said.
along cavalry lines like unto those
followed at West Point.
Omission of Ball a Blessing.
The members of the committee OF ar
rangements for the Wilson and Mar
shall doings seem to have reconciled
themselves to the loss of the inaugural
ball and to the turning down OF the
grand public reception" plan. They
are busy now letting the country know
that the elimination Of the inaugural
ball is very much of a blessing. This
might appear to be simply a matter
OF putting good face on disappoint'
ment. but while the loss Of the ball
may be a disappointment to the mem
hers of the committee personally, they
are telling the truth when they say II
is a blessing.
Perry Belmont, who is member Of
the inaugural committee, has said;
1.-THE figures which I have compiled
after digging out the statistics since
Aarrison's Inauguration in 1889 con
vinces me that an inaugural ball Is
vastly over-rated function. About II
600 persons attended the ball whel
Harrison was inaugurated, and sine
that time the attendance has dc
creased steadily. At the Taft anal
a little more than 5000 people wen
to the ball and of these only 50
! bought supper tickets. The decreas
in attendance at the balls has gon
hand in hand with an increase In tn
size Of the crowds which have com
Il to Washington"
+ Parade Cavalry Affair.
= The evident intention is to make tn
Wilson inaugural parade, to as gres
: an extent as possible, a cavalry a
\ fair" The Essex troops of Ne
] Jersey and the black squadron fro
| Indiana will have places of honor, b
| they dwindle away to the proportion
| Of a cavalry corporal's guard whe
| compared to the overfowing ranks
| the other mounted organization
| which will follow the leader from Il
White House to capitol.
There are to be 1000 mounted fl
hunters in the parade drawn fro
the various hunt clubs of the cou
try. all Of which the proponents
Democratic simplicity tell us in {
typewriting Of the press agents a
exclusive organizations" Aristocrat
therefore, on horseback and weari
"red coats and shining silk hats" W
precede the boys Of Tammany II it CO
and follow them IL 1t must.
The governors "colonels," or at a
rate the Democratic governors C
onels, are to have a chance to ri,
The governors are coming and W
them their stats. The word is Il
several Of the states chief magistra
have ordered their subordinates to
pear in brand new uniforms" AS
the governors, they will ride fro
coated and silk-hatted.
The inaugural committee promi
that during the four days which CO.
the period of the visitation
strangers" Washington will be
best lighted city in the world.
semisouthern sun will do its duty
day, but at night between dusk +;
midnight, which is supposed to
Washington's turning in time, 10,
multi-colored incand ,scent lar
strung in festoons between the cap
and the treasury will illuminate
broad thoroughfare of Pennsylva
avenue. The capitol is to be illu
mated. One search light will TIL
it's rays upon the dome bringing