The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-02-20
MARsHALL's CAVALRY TROOP TO.
Equal WILSON'S In PARADE
OF INAUGuRAL DAY.
BLACK HORSE FROM INDIANA
Elimination OF the Grand Bail Really
Blessing Plans Are Announced
for the Elaborate illumination Of
the Capital City.
Ry GEORGE CLINTON.


United States, q vice-presid
IS to be escorted to the capitol by
cavalry troop forming guard Of hon
or in size and appearance the equal
of that which acts as a mounted es-
cort to the president-elect. Thomas
Riley Marshall, the next vice-presi-
dent of this country, will be the pre-
ccdent 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
ond place equal to first place, but
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
his friends saw fit, and SO it was that
jections to the appearance of the
Hoosier black horse squadron which
will do honor to Marshall of Indiana.
The vice-president-elect ordinarily
rides from the White House to the
capitol with the outgoing vice-presf.
dent or the president pro tenn of the
senate, as the case may be, in a car
rage 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 for the subordinate. This
year, however, there will be two es-
corts of honor and division Of the
acclaim Of the people along the route.
The mettled chargers which will pre-
cede, flank and take up the rear of Mr..
Marshalls carriage are the property
of private military school in the
Hoosier state and they will be bestrid.
den by husky cadets.
Omission of Ball Blessing.
The members of the committee of ar
engagements 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
ball is very much of blessing. This
might appear to be simply a matter
of putting good face on a disappoint-
ment, but while the loss of the ball
may be disappointment to the mem
bers of the committee personally, they
are telling the truth when they say 1t
Is blessing.
Perry Belmont, who is member of
the inaugural committee, has said:
1.-THE figures which / have compiled
after digging out the statistics since
Harrison's Inauguration in 1889 con-
vinces me that an inaugural ball is
vastly over-rated function. About 49,
900 persons attended the ball when
Harrison was inaugurated, and since
that time the attendance has de-
creased steadily. At the Taft affair
a little more than 5000 people went
to 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 Cavalry Affair.
The evident Intention is to make the
Wilson inaugural parade, to as great
an extent as possible, a cavalry af-
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 cavalry corporars guard when
compared to the overfiowing ranks of
the other mounted organizations
which will 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
of the press agents are
exclusive organizations" Aristocracy,
on horseback and wearing
red coats and shining silk hats" will
orecede the boys of Tammany il it can,
md follow them if it must.
The governors "colonels,'' or at any
.ate the Democratic governors col
oneis, are to have a chance to ride.
The governors are coming and with |
hem their stats. The word is that I
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several of the states chief magistrates
lave ordered their subordinates to ap-
,ear in brand new uniforms" AS for
he governors, they will ride frock-s
coated and silk-hatted.
The inaugural committee promises
hat during the four days which cover
he period Of the Visitation of /
strangers" Washington will be the
Jest lighted city in the world 4 The I
'emi-southern sun will do its duty by
lay, but at night between dusk and /
midnight, which is supposed to be
turning in time, 10000 /
nu1ti-colored incand escent lamps |
strung in festoons between the capitol
md the treasury will illuminate the
,road thoroughfare of Pennsylvania
lvenue. The capitol is to be Hlumi-
,ated One search light will throw
is rays upon the dome bringing out
he Goddess OF Liberty into proper
'elief while another will make the