Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-02-21
MARsHALL's CAVALRY TROOP TO
EQUAL WILSON'S IN PARADE
OF INAUGURAL DAY.
BLACK HORSE FROM INDIANA
Elimination Of the S-1Ss,d Ball Really
a 6lessing-PIans Are Announced
for the Elaborate illumination Of
the Capital City.
az GEoReE cliMToN-

United States, yice-president-elect
is to be escorted to the capitol by a
cavalry troop forming guard of hon
or in size and appearance the equal
of that which acts as mounted es-
cort to the president-elect Thomas
Riley Marshall, the next ysce-presi
dent of this country, will be the pre-
cedent smasher, his escort consisting
of black horse squadron from In
diana.
Some of the members of the com
mittee on inaugural ceremonies did
not take altogether kindly to the plans
of Mr.. Marshall's friends to make Sec
end place equal to first place, bat
Woodrow Wilson, hearing Of the OPP
position, said his partner on the ticket
and In Office should be allowed any
thing and everything In honors that
MS friends saw fit, and so it was that
the parade managers withdrew all OBJ
Jections to the appearance of the
Hoosier black horse squadron which
viii 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 a 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 Iur the subordinate. This
year, however, there will be two es-
oorts of honor and a division of the
acclaim of the people along the route.
The clettled chargers which viii pre-
cede, flank and take up the rear of Mr..
MarshalI's carriage are the property
of a private military school in the
Hoosier state and they will be bestrid-
den by husky cadets trained. it 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
bail is very much of 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 disappointment to the mem
bers of the committee personally, they
"a fol ino ha II NH ~
is a blessing
Perry Belmont, who is a member of
the inaugural committee. has said:
The figures which I have compiled
after digging out the statistics since
Harrison's inauguration in 1889 con-
yinces me that an inaugural ball is a
vastly over-rated function. About -.
600 persons attended the bali when
Harrison was inaugurated, and since
that time the attendance has de-
creased steadily. At the Taft affair |
little more than 5000 people went |
10 the ball and of these only 500 |
bought supper tickets. The decrease
In attendance at the balls has gone /
hand in hand with an increase in the |
size of the crowds which have come
to Washington"
Parade a Cavalry Affair.
The evident intention is to make the
Wilson inaugural parade, to as great
an extent as possible, a cavalry az
fair" The Essex troops of New
Jersey and the black squadron from
Indiana will have places of honor. but
they dwindle away to the proportions
OF a cavalry corporaTs guard when
compared to the overlooking ranks OF
the other mounted organizations
which viii follow the leader from the
White House TO capitol
There are to be 1000 mounted fox
hunters in the parade drawn from
the various hunt clubs of the coun-
Try, all of which the proponents of
democratic simplicity tell us in the
typewriting of the press agents are
exclusive organizations" Aristocracy,
therefore, on horseback and wearing
red coats and shining silk hats" will
preeede the boys of Tammany If it can.
and follow them If 1t must.
The governors "colonels," or at any
rate the Democratic governors col
ohels, are to have chance to ride
Inc governors are coming and with /.
them their stats. The word Is that
several Of the states chief magistrates
nave ordered their subordinates to ap-
pear IN brand new uniforms" As for
me governors. they viii ride froek-
coated and silk-hatted.
The inaugural committee promises
nat during the four days which co7er
ne period Of the visitation cf
strangers" Washington win be tle
'est lighted city In the world. The
emi-sosthern sun viii do its duty by /
lay, but at night between dusk and 4
Midnight, which is supposed to be- .
turning in time. 10000 b
nulti-colored incand ascent lamps b
trung in festoons between the capitol
nd the treasury will illuminate the :
road thoroughfare Of Pennsylvania a
venue The capitol is to be fIlumi. h
iated. One search light win throw 4