The Washington herald., 1913-02-05
lighting AWARD
CAUSES PROTEST
Retail Merchants Association
Wants Inaugural Contracts
Let to District Firms.
TRAFFIC RULES FRAMED
State Legislature Of Delaware to At
tend Inauguration in a
Body.
TRAFFIC RULES FRAMED

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nue. March to q Baltimore electric
company may be the means, II seems,
of stirring up 4 hornets nest of trouble
| about the ears OF the inaugural commit
tee A letter protesting in strenuous
| terms against placing the contract out
| side the District was received yesterday
by Chairman Eustis from the Retail Mer-
| chants Association. and II is understood
that the association Is exerting every
| energy to bring pressure to bear from
other quarters to have the work given
| to local contractors.
There are two other contracts still to
be awarded for the lighting of the streets
and stands for the inauguration They
are the contracts for the Peace Monu-
ment and the Court OF Honor. They have
not yet been closed by the committee
and the whole matter will be taken up at
the meeting Of the general inaugural COM
mittee tomorrow morning for a final
settlement.
The members of the committee on il
Elimination yesterday stuck to their asser-
ton that the award of the contract to the
Baltimore electricians was the only course
open when 1t meant the saving OF prob
ably 5000.
Adopt Tranic Rules.
The District Commissioners. in session
yesterday, adopted a set of police regu-
lations specially compiled for the protec-
ton of life and property during the In
auguration. The regulations will become
effective February IS, and remain in force
until March 10.
They are directed as much against
rowdyism and crimes Of a minor nature
as against the moro serious offenses.
Confetti. the "tickler," and all devices
for producing loud noise are frowned on
by the regulations. and will be forbidden
on the streets. The new rules also look
toward the control OF street peddlers and
"cabbies" to see that eNtortion Is not
pra cticed against visitors.
Much of the attention Of the Commits
sioners yesterday was directed to the
regulation of traffic on March l. Where
two or more vehicles of any kind come
together the police are given the author
ity to dictate as to the course and time
OF departure for such vehicles. The
regulations state that taXicabs and mo-
tor vehicles with meters to register the
distance travelled when Stationed at ho-
tells are to be regarded as private con-
veyances for the use of the guests OF
the hotel, but when such vehicles are
stationed at public stands on the streets
they are to be considered as being at the
service of the general public and as such
are to be subject to the rates established
by the present police regulations.
Inc maintenance VI TlSill Va
way for the parade was also given at
tention and the regulations stipulate that
no person shall place any sort OF OBJ
struction. box. barrel, or anything else.
in any street or alley within sixty yards
Of the line of the parade. or within any
roped-off space at the intersection OF
the streets.
The street cars and herdics are not
exempted by the new rules and the po-
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coming and going OF the street cars so
that they will not in any way interfere
with the progress of the procession, or
otherwise violate the terms of the reg
ulations.
The regulations prohibit the post
ing of hand bills OF any kind on the
stands, and provide that any one Of
fering his services as a guide must OBJ
tain from the captain of the precinct in
which he wishes to work a certificate or
good character. Proper sanitary condi-
tions in buildings rented as lodging
houses during the inauguration are also
provided for. and violation of the regu-
lations will mean a fine of not more than
500. or. in default OF payment OF this
fine Imprisonment in the workhouse, as
provided in the resolution OF Congress
approved January IS. this year.
Legislature Coming.
President-elect Wilson will take the
oath of office on a little stand, about
twenty feet square, in front OF a much
larger stand, seating about $500 persons,
including Senators. Representatives, and
other notables. After the President has
been sworn in, he Will descend thirteen
steps to the pavement. where he will step
into his carriage and be driven to the
White House. WOrkmen yesterday be-
gan constructing these stands.
Sixty-five members of the State Legis-
lature of Delaware will attend the inaug-
uration in body. This is an innovation.
The solons will come with 400 of the State
militia. This news was left in the office
of the public comfort committee yes
terday by Gen. /. p. Wickersham, adju-
tant of the State, who was in Washington
looking up lodging places for the troops.
The request from the adjutant generals
Office OF Minnesota that an open place be
reserved for the troops of that State TO
camp in for five days of inaugural week
caused a ripple of amusement in the
public comfort committee rooms yes
terday, and Chairman Weller wrote Col.
Earl ID. Luce, adjutant, that. while camp
and dry northland, the scheme was hard
ly feasible in Washington, especially
during March. Seven companies of in
fantry and a battery of artillery will
come from Minnesota.
Indians to Participate.
An Indian band and two hundred cow
boy riders will form a wild west sec