Evening star., 1913-02-17
Belt Chief of Staff.

Robert \. Harper, chief marshal of the
civic organizations division of the in
augural parade, as his chief Of staff.
Mr.. Harper today received word from
the lroquois Club of san Francisco that
1t VIII participate in the parade and
VIII wear handsome costumes
Mr.. Harper is authority for the state
ment tlat no decision mas been reached
in regard to shifting the line of march
and the positions for forming the vari-
Gus sections of the parade SO that the
occupants of the Capitol stands may
see the whole procession. A protest has
been made because the occupants or
the stands, under the present arrange
ment, VIII not see all the parade. Grand
marshal of the parade, Maj. Gen. Leon
ara wood, L. >. A., and Mr.. Harper
have taken the stand that the civic or
Sanizatlons. composed of men who Tor
Inc most part are unaccustomed 10
marching should be given as short a
line of march as possible hence orders
have been issued for formation in the
streets west of the Capitol.
Plans of Marine Corps.
The United States Marine Corps will be
represented in the inaugural parade by a
regiment of LOCO Marines commanded by
Col Joseph II. Pendleton, commanding
the marine barracks at Portsmouth, n
H.. with Capt Harry Lee as adjutant and
Capts. Charles r. Sanderson and Russell
b. Putnam as aids. The tentative organ.
ization of the regiment is as follows:
First Battalion Ito be formed at Phila-
George c. Reid. First Lieut.
William c. Powers, jr., battalion adju-
tant. Company A, Capt. Bearss. Lieuts.
Willing and McIlvain: Company b, Capt
Feland. Lieuts Mcneil and Brewster
Company c. Capt Bishop, Leuts. Drum
and Erskine; Company ID. Capt. Meade,
Lieuts. Sturdevant and Blair. Second
Battalion 1.-TWO companies each from An
napolis and Washington)-Maj.R Robert II.
Dunlap, irst Lieut.. Harold +. Wirgman.
battalion adjutant. Company f. Capt.
Lay. Lieuts Smith CIV. D. and Riner;
Company F. Capt. Rhea, Lieuts. Davis
and Tebbs: Company G. Capt. rar-
quharson Lieuts. Robbins and Emory;
Company III. Capt. Westcott, Lieuts.
Ito be formed al Norfolk)-Maj. Charles
B. Hatch. First Lieut.. William c. Wise,
jr.. battalion adiutant. Company l,
Capt. Day, Lieuts. Brainard and Sin
clair: Company X. Capt. Taylor. Lieuts.
Lee and Clarke; Company L. Capt
Beadle, Lieuts. Miller &C. J.) and
Voeth; Company NJ, Capt. Underwood,
Lieuts Lutz and Morrison.
Crusade on Migrants.
1t is probable that the population Of the
workhouse at Occoquan, Va, will be ma
terially increased in the near future, Maj.
Sylvester having announced that he is 60
ing to start a crusade to get vagrants off
the streets.
1t is highly probable that some unde-
sirable citizens from other places will
period. Maj. Sylvester says, and the police
will have more time to devote to them if
the local undesirables are disposed Of.
For the information of the police and
i'll
vagrancy act. Maj. Sylvester has incor-
porated the terms of the law in the PAM
phlet containing the inaugural laws.
Detectives and policemen from other
cities who came here to do duty during
the inaugural period will be acquainted
with the provisions OF the law and will
be instructed to arrest all known crooks
they find here. Maj. Sylvester hopes the
combined force of considerably more than
900 men will be able to give the people
of the city and strangers ample protec-
tion during inaugural week.
Excursions on the River.
Managers of the steamboat lines plying
between this city and the river counties
of Maryland and Virginia are now map
ping out schedules to bring to this city
the large throng from that section that
will wish to visit here to see the inaugu-
ration. Under the present schedules the
boats from points below Colonial Bcach
arrive here Sunday afternoon and night,
but ii is understood that II Is proposed to
bring the people from the Potomac river
territory here Monday. and to take them
away on Tuesday night or Wednesday.
As yet the schedules have not been COM
pleted and it will be about a week or ten
days before they are announced.
AS President-elect Wilson will be the
first democrat to fill the office in many
years, the Virginia and Maryland demo-
Gratis are not going to miss the show and
about Inauguration times Charles and St.
Marys county, Md, and Strafford, King
George, Westmoreland and Northumber-
land counties i'm Virginia, which border
on the Potomac. will be deserted by
large number of their inhabitants for
several days.
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