The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-07
TALES 0F OTHER
 NEGOTIATIONS
incidents That Marked the Day
 in Former Years.
WASHINGTON'S OATH-TAKIMG
New York Scene of His Induction Story of Jefferson's Simplicity a Myth-"PeopIe's Day" When
 Jackson Took Office.
By E. w. PACKARD.

By E. w. PICNARD.
 Woodrow Wilson is the twenty-sev- enth man to be inaugurated president of the United States, but the twenty fifth to be inaugurated in Washington. George Washington took the oath of office in New York and John Adams in Philadelphia. Moreover, the Fa- ther of His Country was not .inaugu rated on March 4.
 Arriving at Elizabethtown Point, N. J., on April 23, he entered a barge rowed by 12 pilots clad in white, and passed through the Kill von Kull into New York harbor, which was full of all manner of craft gaily decorated and loaded with cheering crowds. The Spanish man of war Galveston broke out the colors of all nations, and fired salute of Is guns, to which the American frigate North Carolina re- sponded.
 Arrival at New York.
 AS Washington stepped ashore at Murray's wharf the guns of the Bat tery roared out their salute and Gov. George Clinton and many members of congress saluted the first president. He was taken to the residence of Samuel Osgood, and for an entire week there was revelry throughout the city.
 Finally, on April 30, all was ready for the inauguration. Washington was escorted to Federal hall, then the capitol, which stood on the site of the present sub-treasury at Wall and Broad streets. The streets had been filled since sunrise with waiting crowds, and the enthusiasm was in- tense. In the senate chamber Wash ington was joined by Adams, Knox, Hamilton, von Steuben and a few oth- CTS, and all of them appeared on the balcony. Robert R. Livingston, chan cellor of New York, administered the oath and cried Long live George Washington, president of the United States" whereupon there broke out mighty tumult of cheering, bell-ring- ing and the noise of cannon. Re- turning to the senate chamber, Pres ident Washington read his inaugural address and the history of the United States under the constitu- tion began.
 Myth About Jefferson.
 If you are a good Democrat, no doubt you believe that Thomas Jeffer- son rode unattended to the capitol on horseback, tied his horse to the fence, and was inaugurated with less ceremony than would attend the talk ing of office by keeper of a dog pound Such is the old story, but it is pure myth and is first found in a book of travels in the United States written by John Davis, an Eng lishman. Davis asserted that he was an eyewitness of the simple ceremony which he described, but it has been proved that he was not in Wash ington at the time.
 The inauguration of Jefferson, which marked the defeat of the Federalist party of Hamilton, Washington, Adams and Jay, was the first to take place in Washington. The newly es- tablished national capital, then but few months old, contained only 5000 inhabitants, many of them negroes; the houses were mostly huts and the streets muddy roads. The big event was thus described in the Philadelphia Aurora of March Il; 1901:
 At an early hour on Wednesday, March 4, the city of Washington pre- sented spectacle of uncommon ami nation occasioned by the addition to it's usual population of large body of citizens from the adjacent districts. A discharge from the company of Washington artillery ushered in the day, and about one o'clock the Alex andria company of riflemen with the company of artillery paraded in front of the Presidents lodgings. At 12 o'clock Thomas Jefferson. attended by a number of his fellow citizens. among whom were many members of con- gress, repaired to the capitol. His dress was, as usual, that of plain citizen, without any distinctive badge Of office. He entered the capitol un- der discharge from the artillery. AS soon as he withdrew discharge from the artillery was made The remain der of the day was devoted to pur- poses of festivity, and at night there was pretty general illumination"
 Jackson Almost Mobbed.
 When Andrew Jackson was elected in the fall of 1928 the people of the west and the radical elements of the