The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-03-20
TOOK PART IN THE INAUGURAL.


Lowell l.. Turkey, son OF Mr.. aud
Mrs. :. Il. TURKEY, formerly Of this
county, Is IA student at Culver Mill
tury Academy, Culver, Ind, and be-
longs to the Black Horse Troop of
that institution, which consists OF
about ~ troopers. This troop at
tended the Inauguration Of Presi'
dent Wilson at Washington, and
acted as personal escort to Vice
| President Marshall. Lowell writes
his parents good account of their
/ trip. He says:
/ II sure had IA swell time ut Wash.
/ iugtun; was doing something all the
| time; did not get To write as much rs
! | wanted To, We were compelled to
20 on the sightseeing trips, and
TINT took good deal Of the time.
"March 4th, the day of the inau.
guratiOn, we were in the saddle
twelve hours. We did not get IA
chance to get OIL until about four
O'Clock that afternoon, and that was
about an hour and half Will" tn"
parade was passing by. We did not
have any dinner 50 when We did
get of we bought every ratablc in
the uoighhorhood
although "" had a great deal to
undergo | would not have missed
In" trip Tor am amount Of money.
"" certainly did draw the crowds
All the high army officers said We
never heard 50 many compliments
paid to on" body IN my life. Every
one said that "" were simply fine.
1--WE went to Mount Vernon one
afternoon on Ia" street car. Il wae
fine ride and also a fin" visit.
snw all the first division 81 tn" pa.
rudr and part of III" second. The
first division consisted OF the West
Point and Annapolis cadets and the
soldiers and National Guards from
I all over the United States. ! saw
! thousands and thousands Infantry
| cavalry, artillery, hospital corps,
| bands, marines aud engineers pass
| hy. They came in from most all Of
| the States. At the head of each
/ States troops usually rode the Gov.
ornOr Of the State from which they
| came.
The second division was com.
posed of the military schools of the
| United States. our Culver infantry
was in this division; they looked
better than any of the others in their
class. our troop was u good deal
better than the troop which acted
as escort for President Wilson.
They were not rs good at drilling
rs "" were. General Wood, who
was Grand Marshal uf the parade
said that we were certainly fine.
our Colonel had the honor of eating
at the White House.
1.-The guide showed us about tn"
acoustic, in the dom" of the CupI.
| tol, Of which You wrot" me.
walked to III" top, il3 steps, "A,
counted then. 1t was certainly Il
| fine view. did not get To see the
| two most Important and interesting
/ buildings, In my miud-thc Treasury
and the National Museum. The
! battalion saw the Treasury while We
wer" unloading our horses, and the
/ Museum while We were loading fol
! the return trip. You know they hac
! the regular up " date baggage stock
ears for tn" hOrsrs-H PARTITION be-
tween each horse. ! had n time get
| ting mine in; he reared and pitched
around pretty hnd, but we finally
backed him in. He bumped hi,
head against the top OF the ear sew
eral times, SO guess i've thought II
was about time tn be conquered.
~ am sending you one Of the
| niCkels that was issued the first day
We got there by the treasury. II IL
direct from the Treasury building
/ aud the first ones ever made of this
kind II you keep it, they might be
recalled, aud you can get couple oi
| hundred dollars for it Notice right
under the in 1913, you will find Il
small +. don't know what il
stands for. The + is the iHltial ui
the engravor of the die - Editor.
"When we got back to Culver
about T. o'clock Thursday night, the
/ ground was about foot deep ID
| snow. You can imagine how tree
we were, but have about reCuperateC
now. We took dinner, or rather
supper, at the Fort Pitt Hotel II
| Pittsburgh on our way over anC
! breakfast there coming back; the
other meals ON the train were bO>
lunches fixed up by the school. AT
ter breakfast in Pittsburgh we gave
little parade of four or five blocks
There was 81 much snow and ice or
the streets that we could hardly
stand up That certainly Is II smoky
dirty city. 1t looked ns II it was
built 100 Il. G."