Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1913-03-06

fully turned over the suzerainty tha
had been hers for the past four year
to the new mistress of the Whit
House. Soon afterward Mr. and Mrs
Taft quietly left through a rear er
trance to take the 3: 05 train from tn
Union station for Augusta, Ga. Her
they will spend several weeks befor
going to New Haven, where Mr.. Tai
will take up his work as professor o
law in Yale university.
Wilson'S Official Day Begins.
President Wilson's official day be
gan at 10:30 this morning. At tha
hour delegation of the COMPRESSION
al committee waited upon him at thu
ShOreham to escort him to the White
House.
A similar delegation waited upor
Vice President Elect Marshall at the
same hotel, where the new vice presi
dent will make his home during the
coming months.
At the executive mansion the incom
ing president and vice president were
greeted by Mr.. Taft, and a few min.
utes later the fateful ride to the Capi
tol was begun. The president and
president elect occupied the first car.
riage with two members of the con
gressional committee.
In the carriage following were Vice
President Elect Marshall and three
members Of the committee, there be-
ing no retiring vice president. After
them strung along the carriages of a
host of cabinet officers and other high
dignitaries of military and civil rank.
On the way to the Capitol President
Taft occupied the seat on the right
side Of the carriage, this position be-
ing reversed after the inaugural cere-
mony and the new president having
the seat of honor on their return to
the executive mansion.
Arrived at the senate wing OF the
Capitol, the president and president
elect went to the presidents room.
Vice President Elect Marshall repair
Cd to the vice presidents chamber.
Short Delay Occurs.
Here there was-a short delay owing
to some hitch in the proceedings, but
1t was sOoE over. The committee on
waited on the president
and president elect and escorted them
to the senate chamber, where they
were given seats reserved for them in
front of the vice presidents desk.
The same committee also escorted
the vice president elect to the senate
chamber. where the members of the
house and of the supreme court were
already seated.
Then on the eve of the senate's ad-
journment the president pro tempore
the oath that made Gov
ernOr Thomas r. Marshall of Indiana
vice president of the United States.
thereafter the senate ad-
|ourned.
Following the adjournment Vice
President Marshall delivered his inau-
yural address, after which he admin
stered the oath of office to the sena-
.ors elect.
At the conclusion of these impress
sive ceremonies within the senate
chamber all those assembled there
'ormed procession, marching through
he rotunda of the Capitol to the plat
:orm at the east end of the building,
where the big event of the day, the
actual swearing In of the president |
elect, took place.
The Great Parade.
Next to The great event, so essential |
% the rest of today's celebration, the
,reat military and civic pageant this
afternoon held the publics interest.
purely from spectacular |
it was not only by far the
.iggest feature of the Inauguration,
,ut in MANY respects surpassed any
hing that Washington has seen in
ong series of inaugural spectacles.
The head of the first grand division
vas almost abreast of the White
1ouse when President Wilson first
hOwed himself in the glassed in sec
ion Of the reviewing stand that had
een reserved for him. His appear
nee was the signal for wave of ap-
'lause that swept all before it, drown
ne the music Of the bands, as it
oiled toward the Capitol.
Soon after the cheering that greet
d the presidents entrance to the re-
ieWing stand died away far down the
venue arose another tumult that con-
aimed a deeper note.
Swiftly the swelling voices rolled
carer, reached the stand and passed
inward and then far down the avenue /.
here came into view the faded blue
of the Grand Army OF the
.epublic.
They were only handful OF the
ost that tramped down the same ave-
ue nearly fifty years ago in the grand
eview before President Lincoln, ana
hey did not step forward with the
nap and elasticity that they did ln
lie bright spring sunshine OF 1860.
There were many in the crowd VINO
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