The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-02-28
BIC PREPARATIONS
FOR INAUGURATION
Indian Band TO Lead the Pa
rade March a.
TAILORS MAKING PINK COATS

Part--1o,ooo Maps of Washington
Printed For the occasion--Big Dele
cation From South Expected-Col-
Ieees to Send Men.
An Indian band and 200 cowboy rid
ers will form wild west" section of
the Wilson inaugural parade March f.
The westerners are going to Wash
ington in a special train as the repre-.
sentatives of the Democratic central
committee of Maricopa county, Ariz,
with headquarters in Phoenix. They
have informed the inaugural commit
tee that they will take their own bri
dies and other riding equipment, so
that they can present a realistic pic
ture Of early frontier days when they
appear on Pennsylvania avenue as a
part Of the escort to President Elect
Wilson. This division of the parade
will be headed by an Indian band COM
posed Of students attending the Indian
school at Phoenix.
Washington tailors already are being
swamped with orders for pink coats
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hunt clubs, who will have a section
Of their own in the parade. The hunt
club entry list Is growing daily and
includes the names of prominent social
leaders Of Washington, Philadelphia,
New York, Richmond, Va, and other
cities.
Chairman Harper, who is to be grand
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parade, is prepared to send out final
call to civic orga nizations to participate
In the inaugural ceremonies Several
political clubs and other societies have
had the matter Of acceptance under
consideration for some time, and it is
hoped that the list of organizations
which are to take part in the parade
can be completed within week or ten
days.
| Housing Accommodations Arranged.
The public comfort committee, of
which M. l. Weller is chairman, has
arranged housing accommodations for
all troops of state militia that have
definitely announced that they will par
ticipate in the ceremonies. 1t was stat
ed that the members of the Fifth Mary
land infantry will be quartered in the
Washington courthouse. Members Of
the First and Fourth regiments of the
Maryland militia will be provided with
accommodations In sleeping cars to be
stationed in the B. and o. freight yards
-Four hundred men, composing the
First infantry and Battery B, First
field artillery, Minnesota national
guard, will participate in the parade,
according to announcement.
A big representation of PENNSYLVANIA
militiamen in the parade is assured In
line will be Company A, engineer batal-
hon, of Scranton; First infantry of
Philadelphia; Fourth infantry, to which
will be added Company X, Eighth in
fantry, of York, and Company I, Thir-
teenth infantry of Easton and the
Tenth infantry.
10000 Maps of Washington Printed.
Ten thousand maps Of Washington
have been printed by the public COM
fort committee and will be distributed
among inaugural visitors. Chairman
Cans Of the fireworks committee ap-
pointed subcommittee, which will be
in charge of the ellipse south of the
White House during the mammoth
pyrotechnical display on the evening of
March 4.
Big delegations of southern business
men are going to Washington for the
inaugural ceremonies. Dr. Clarence j.
Owen, managing director of the south
ern commercial congress, has invited
the trade organizations of all the prin-
cipal cities south of Mason and Dixon's
line to participate in the parade, and a
number have accepted. Atlanta, Ca;
Mobile, Ala, and Houston, Tex, are
among the cities that will send COM
mercial delegations. Adolph Boldt of
Houston, president of the Southern As
sociation of Commercial Executives,
and about 1000 Houston business men
are going In a special train and will
take their own band, according to
advices received. Colonel Harvey Jor-
dan will head another big delega-
tion that is going from Atlanta AL
bert p, Bush of Mobile has informed
the inaugural committee that 500 busi-
ness men of that city will be among
the southern representatives in the pa
rade.
Colleges to Send Delegations.
One days mail brought encouraging
reports to the intercollegiate commit
tee Of the Inauguration, which has in
vited the principal colleges and uni
versities of the United States to send
delegations of students to Washington
to participate in the inaugural cere-
monies. The Ketnucky State university
of Lexington will send 300 cadets.
The medical college of Johns Hopkins
university OF Baltimore and Columbia
university of New York are consider
ing accepting the committees invita-
ton. as are also the University OF Vir-
ginia and Yale university. Washing
ton college of Chestertown, Nd, and