The Washington herald., 1913-03-05
Weeks OF HARD
WORK PRECEDE
INAUGURATION
Continued from Page SIX.

and regulate trafflc during the parade
and the good order that has been main
tanned SO far is due to the efforts OF
the committee.
The committee on hospital and am
balances has worked in connection
with Maj. Sylvester's committee, under
DIR. d. Percy Hickling. as chairman
The streets along the line OF march and
in the places of tho greatest congestion
have been provided with efficient hos
pitaI service where doctors and trained
nurses are constantly in attendance In
order that this may be. the physicians
and nurses Of Washington have given
unstintingly Of their time and energy.
Reception Committee Busy.
The reception committee. under DR..
Thomas Nelson Page, has been kept
busy in the last few hours. Not only
has IL been the duty of the members
of this committee to meet President and
Vice President-elect but also to greet
the Governors of the various States on
their arrival. but a subcommittee met
Gov Wilson at Union Station yesterday
on his arrival from Trenton. and es-
corted him to the Shoreham. The COM
mittee is still busy welcoming the
State executives, some of whom are
arriving this morning.
The credit for the organization Of the
large contingent Of college and univer-
sity men that will take a place in the
parade to-day in due to Joseph r. Trues-
dale, chairman of the intercollegiate
committee. and the men he has surround
ed himself with.
Mr.. Truesdale was secretary of the
Wilson and Marshall College Mems
League, of New York, and while in that
position made such record of achieve
ment that he was selected to bring the
colleges and universities into line for
the Inauguration. Frank B. Fox, secre-
tary of the local Princeton Alumni As
sociation, was made secretary and
treasurer of the committee.
Invitations Are Extended.
The duties of the intercollegiate COM
mittee were many and difficult. In the
first place. 500 invitations Were sent to
the various colleges bidding the student
bodies through their presidents to attend
the inauguration and join in the parade.
These invitations were accompanied by
blanks to be filled in by the colleges
showing the number of men each intend
ed to send. the colors of the college and
the uniform that had been selected.
These letters brought in a deluge of
answers and it was then up to the COM
mittee to approve the uniform suggested
by the students and place them in COM
munication with the committee on public
comfort for reservation of lodgings.
But the work did not cease when the
last college was booked and its uniform
approved. The burden of the work will
come to-day for the marshaling of the
collegiate forces in the parade is up to
the intercollegiate committee in a large
degree. There will be thousands of col
lege men in line and each institution will
have to be placed in the position. as
signed to 1t. ~
Press Committee Active.
While the work of preparing for the
Inauguration was going on in Washing
ton there were several hundreds Of
papers in other cities throughout the
country that wanted to know of the |
progress of the work and a press COM |
mittee was one of the first necessities |
to the general inaugural committee. !
Thomas J. Pence was appointed to the |
Craftsmanship of this body. but found |
it impossible to take up the RESPONSE |
bilities ii brought. He resigned. and |
Earl Goodwin was induced to head the |
committee. His active assistant in the |
inaugural press bureau has been John |
L. Martin.
The general press committee is made |
up Of several hundred of the most promi- |
nent newspaper men in Washington. and |
while Mr.. Goodwin and Mr.. Martin have |
themselves handled the inaugural news !
that has been sent out from the bureau |
the members of the general committee |
have helped in many ways outside the |
Office. Among those who have been |
most active at the Capital have been |
Fred Emory and James c. Preston.
In the office of the press committee, |
an office force has been kept busy send
ing out the news that was demanded by |
the papers outside of Washington.
lasl rr-SI L
since the first of the active inaugural |
Every night 200 copies Of |
this story had to be prepared for the |
200 correspondents representing the pa
pers throughout the country. The COM |
mittee had mailing list of about the |
same number. To each paper on this !
list a daily story of the progress of |
things had to be sent.
The press committee, like most of its
sister committees, had its stormy times. |
Following the fight between the cores
pondents and the inaugural committee
the allotment of seats for |
the parade, the country was pretty gen.
orally flooded with stories that were cal
culated to put a damper on the inau-
gural In these stories the words lex
tortion," fleece" ''harpoon." and kim
dred terms alleged to be descriptive of
the plans of the Washington merchants
and hotel keepers for the reception of
visitors occurred frequently.
and it became the duty of the press
committee to defend the situation in
Washington against the slander
But now the press committee. like the
others of the twenty-odd committees, has
its task and is able to look
back on the work that has brought what
- generally pronounced to be the most |
successful inauguration that Washington
has ever seen.
Street illumination Plans.
One of the busiest of the committees
has been that on street illumination.
On this body fell the task of first con-
ceiving the scheme of illumination for
use along the line of march of the pa
rade for the nights of March 5. 4, s. and
5. and then of seeing to its installation.
This was no small project for the entire
length of Pennsylvania Avenue, the Capt.
tol, the Peace Monument, and Washing
ton Monument, and the Court of Honor
mad to be lighted.
The committee on illumination is head
ed by w. F. GUIDE. Its vice chairman is
John Dolph, and its secretary, Frank
Wisner. A large part of the active work
has fallen on the subcommittee Of
Thomas ]. Fisher, jr., Major Powell, c.
3lemm, and Edward s. Smith are men,
bers. This committee has prepared
plans and specifications for the lighting
md has awarded the various contracts.
In the bids of contractors the committee
'eels it has been particularly fortunate
md has saved several thousands of
iollars.
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